"I thin "13" is an unlucky number I'se heard so much talk of hit till I believes hit.

Thin is the rind on which we tread; It shakes, and a thousand lives are lost; The sea engulfs unnumbered dead; Each second scores of souls are tossed Into the stream that sweeps them on ... Whither?

But Macaulay has less ethical depth, and less perception of ethical depth, than any writer that ever lived with equally brilliant gifts in other ways; and thin is the very last word that describes this admirable master.

It would be foolish, in the present melancholy condition of the art of dramatic declamation, to wish for the public performance of Death's Jest Book; but it is impossible not to hope that the time may come when an adequate representation of that strange and great work may be something more than 'a possibility more thin than air.'

The walls were of unpainted wood, made of slips as thin as laths, and several doors were roughly cut in it.

As a means of knowing arrowroot when it is good, it may be as well to state, that the genuine article, when formed into a jelly, will remain firm for three or four days, whilst the adulterated will become as thin as milk in the course of twelve hours.

Only a few vapors, as thin as moonlight, fleeted rapidly across the stars.

Then roll out as thin as paper; fold the dough and cut into round pieces; fry in deep hot lard to a golden brown.

The thinnest part is over the temples, where it may be almost as thin as parchment.

Put some flour on the bread board, mold the dough well, and roll as thin as pie crust in such shape as will fit a shallow baking tin.

The dogs are as thin as rakes; they are ravenous and very tired.

When boiling add some turnip in tiny dice and some carrot in slices as thin as sixpence, also finely chopped spring onion, leeks or chives, according to season, and a little finely minced parsley five minutes before serving.

" We could see him scooting pell mell around the edge of the cooking shack, his spindle legs as thin as sticks.

Masked and hooded figures in purple and gold and blue and red danced madly off into a forest of stinking, sodden leaves and trees as thin as tissue-paper burnt by the sun.

This is very fine, but care must be taken in baking and removing the layers, as layers are as thin as wafers.

The drongos, which are flycatchers in habit, wear their tails very long and deeply forked; and one of them, the racket-tailed drongo, has the two side feathers extended beyond the rest for nearly a foot, and as thin as wires, expanding into a blade at the ends.