The violence of his tone and gesture made her feel as though the fluttering strips were so many lashes laid across her face, and a rage that was half fear possessed her.

The strip was their price.

To-day, Oklahoma extends right up to the southern Kansas line, and the Cherokee Strip, on whose rich blue grass hundreds of thousands of cattle have been fattened, is now a settled country, with at least four families to every square mile, and with a number of thriving towns and even large cities.

Generally speaking, the coastal strip was mainly Greek (the coast itself purely so), the interior mainly Slav.

It is not probable that any stream coming from the east side of the lake is of importance, as the strip of country between the Lewes and Teslintoo is not more than thirty or forty miles in width at this point.

" A strip of birch bark was the tablet on which "ver-i-tas-ca-put" was traced.

I have lived centuries, it seems, and these strips of cardboard are chapters of my life-story.

The letter was from an attorney of the name of Sawbridge, giving notice of an action of ejectment, to oust him from the possession of the Holmford estate, the property, according to Mr. Sawbridge, of one Edwin Majoribanks; and the strip of parchment was the writ by which the letter had been quickly followed.

These strips I would weave into a crude Rip Van Winkle kind of suit; and so intricate was the warp and woof that on several occasions an attendant had to cut me out of these sartorial improvisations.

This strip of steel is Sacnoth, and it may be neither cleft nor molten, and there is nothing in the world that may avail to break it, nor even leave a scratch upon its surface.

This narrow strip of meadow that winds along the bottom of the gorge is not the single tinted green ribbon it lately was.

That stripping was the thing that brought me to my senses.

This stripping of the osiers is a most busy time in the neighbourhood of the large plantationsalmost like hop-pickingfor men, women, and children can all help.