She will look back at you with stony misunderstanding, and her new lover Reality will sharply box your ears.

When Therese returned home that evening she had her ears soundly boxed for her pains.

" "The money Mr. Stockwell is going to give me," resumed Ned, "will be enough all but sixpence; and I have a new sixpence, you know, in a little box upstairs, that my aunt gave me last June, when I went to spend the day with her; so when I carry him the fruit, I shall take that in my pocket, and then when I come home in the evening I can bring the cloak with me.

"The next morning I called for the snuff-box, when we resumed, quite eagerly, the conversation of the preceding day.

Scrubby forelands set with cedars, shadow-flecked paths under the scrub oak, meadows where water glimmered, white sails off Center Island and Cooper's BluffCooper's Bluff from the north, northeast, east, southeast, souththis they painted with never-tiring, Pecksniffian patience, boxing the compass around it as enthusiastically as that immortal architect circumnavigated Salisbury Cathedral.

It may come about that some day something will be found which will prevent a complete and incurable mental breakdown...." Thus did I, as revealed by these rather crude, unrevised quotations, somewhat prophetically, if extravagantly, box the compass that later guided the ship of my hopes (not one of my phantom ships) into a safe channel, and later into a safe harbor.

It proved a dismal, crowded hole in which we were quartered like so many cattle, it being merely a small space forward, hastily boxed off by rough lumber, the sides and ends built up into tiers of bunks, the only ventilation and light furnished by the open hatch above.

As they drove home in the high-boxed wagon, the twins endeavored to keep up the breezy enthusiasm that had characterized their letters.

She watched him while he bought the tickets and then a box of caramels from the candy stand inside.

broad,the inner fire box being dished sufficiently outward at that point, and the outer fire box sufficiently inward, to enable a circle of rivets 3/4 of an inch in diameter passing through the copper ring and the two thicknesses of iron, to make a water-tight joint.

Claude Duval is seen at Ranelagh, still in his boots, where he makes fierce love to his young lady, and exchanges snuff-boxes (literally) with a duke.

Do you not see how badly it looks for a grown man, and far more for a famed champion and a potent sorcerer, to be pouting and scowling and kicking your heels about like that, and having no patience at all?" "Yes, I suppose it does look badly, but I am Manuel, and I follow" "Oh, spare me that," cried Alianora, "or else, no matter how much I may love you, dearest, I shall box your jaws!"

"Old miss used to box me over the head mightily and the colored folks used to hit me over the head till seem like I could hear a bell for two or three days.

The boxes aboard, our lines were cast off and Gadabout moved on up the James.

See a light come down th' box 'n a minute.

The blue slates and the gray stone are sworn foes to the picturesque; and though I do not, for my own part, dislike the interior of an old-fashioned hewed and galleried church, with its little family settlements on all sides, the square box outside, with its bit of a spire like a handle to lift it by, is not an improvement to the landscape.

The trees are of a small size, principally box and bauhinia.

But rats, and they who catch them, badgers, and they who bait them, cocks, and they who fight them, and, above all, men with fists, who professionally box with them, come under the category of the Fancy.

A square box with a domed top figures prominently at the fair.

Accompanied by Chuck, the Ramblin' Kid went directly to the entry offices of the Rodeo, which were roughly boxed-up compartments under the rear of the grandstand.

The beloved little aeroplane had been safely boxed again and was making the homeward voyage in their company.

There are five pairs of rollers in the machine in Fig. 15, and all the rollers are securely boxed in, and the wheels fenced.

Why?" "Well, I understand that you boxed her ears shamefully.

At last I couldn't stand it any longer, and bouncing up, I boxed both their ears smartly, and kicked them down stairs.

The more common baits to entrapby bringing pictures mysteriously boxed, grandly baptized, and liberally decorated with aristocratic seals and eloquent with academical certificates, anointed with refined flattery and obsequious courtesyhaving failed, his Eccellenza being too knowing to be seduced into buying the ostentatiously furbished-up roba of shops, they set about to accommodate him with originals from first hands.