Don Antonio de Chiquito was contentedly munching an empty oat sack, doubtless impelled thereto by the lingering flavor of its former contents, when on the following morning Bill accosted him.

The elephants were placidly munching their chana (bait, or food), and occasionally giving each other a dry bath in the shape of a shower of sand.

He silently munched the biscuits.

" He sat and munched gloomily, until presently Goodenough joined us, looking, what with that monocle and one thing and another, as if he had just stepped out of a band-box.

Gravely munching it, Jimsy proceeded to interrogation.

Then it was that Sergeant Corney came to a halt, and, taking the corn bread from his pocket, began to munch it greedily as he said to me, speaking indistinctly because of the fulness of his mouth: "I reckon, lad, we've passed the Britishers' lines, an' can begin to circle southward from this point.

As hopefully you munch

" He opened the bottle with the corkscrew on his pocket-knife and watched her munching hungrily at the rye-bread.

But in four minutes she had eaten the bacon and drunk the scalding tea, and in five she had carried all the breakfast-things into the kitchen, where Florrie was loudly munching over the sloppy deal table.

" After this no man spake more, but each munched away at his bread and cheese lustily, with ever and anon a pull at the beer.

The children did not cry, but mechanically munched the dry bread given them by their parents.

The colonel of a volunteer regiment camping in Virginia came across a private on the outskirts of the camp, painfully munching on something.

But she munched reflectively, and when she had swallowed: "If all your arguments are as convincing as your fare, then you and I shall never disagree," she said.

And so Jo drifted into that sad-eyed, dyspeptic family made up of those you see dining in second-rate restaurants, their paper propped up against the bowl of oyster crackers, munching solemnly and with indifference to the stare of the passer-by surveying them through the brazen plate-glass window.

The chauffeurs munched solidly, making cockney jokes out of full mouths and abolishing all distinctions of caste by their comradeship in great adventures when their courage, their cool nerve, their fine endurance at the wheel, and their skill in taking heavy ambulances down muddy roads with skidding wheels, saved many men's lives and won a heartfelt praise.

In spite of her satisfaction at having gained her point, Mrs. Bold felt somewhat remorseful for the tactics she had employed; and her husband stolidly munched his bread and bacon with a solemn, not to say gloomy, countenance.

In his right fist he held a great piece of brown crust at which he munched sturdily, and every now and then he thrust his left hand into the pie and drew it forth full of meat; anon he would take a mighty pull at a great bottle of Malmsey that lay beside him.

Something of the seriousness of the occasion must have communicated itself to the others, for they crowded round him, mumbling and munching sympathetically.

I looked at Desmond, who was munching toast abstractedly.

Racey Dawson rode away westward munching pie.

And sipping tea and munching bubliki, we looked out upon all the sights of the bazar.

Twenty miles from the pulpería he draws rein, dismounts, wipes his bloody knife on the grass, and slices off a collop of charque, which he munches composedly for his supper.