" The captain walked forward to the forecastle, from where he descried what appeared to be a large square-rigged vessel standing directly for them, with her port-tacks aboard.

If he went on the stand the next afternoon he'd have to make up all sorts of fancy details, and Hogan would have his skin neatly tacked to the barn doors for keeps.

You see a girl's good pointsif she has any," she tacked on demurely.

Part (c).Four consecutive jump-turns to connect downhill tacks on a slope of breakable crust at an angle of about 30 degrees.

Her mind, her body, and clothes are parcels loosely tacked together, and for want of good utterance she perpetually laughs out her meaning.

Meantime the Belgians tack upon our rear, And raking chase-guns through our sterns they send: Close by their fire ships, like jackals appear Who on their lions for the prey attend.

58 Now pass'd, on either side they nimbly tack; Both strive to intercept and guide the wind:

I have not met with the work from that time to this, but I remember it consisted of Old Testament stories, orderly set down, with the objection appended to each story, and the solution of the objection regularly tacked to that.

An evenly balanced mind could never have thought of them, and why they should he specially tacked to churches is a mystery in accordance with neither King Solomon nor Cocker.

The king put again in force the edict of Amboise of 1563, suppressing all the restrictions which had been tacked on to it successively.

The best arrangement for this purpose is a wooden frame to which a square of cheese-cloth has been tightly tacked, upon which the macaroni may be laid in such a way as not to touch, and afterwards covered with a cheese-cloth to keep off the dust during the drying.

His nose would lower to the ground, and sometimes he tacked back and forth, uncertainly.

Such was the state of things when, just as the lugger was preparing to enter among the shoals, the Proserpine unexpectedly tacked and seemed to bestow all her attention on the coasters, of which three or four were so near that two fell into her hands almost without an effort to escape.

The walls were decorated chiefly with miscellaneous clothing suspended from nails, a few maps and blue prints tacked up askew.