As I did so, a boot-heel flashed in the air, the Count's arm descended with a terrific detonation, and I saw no more.

Wonder if a feller could get any boot-leg liquor?" "Better leave it alone," Old Heck warned, "that kind's worse than none.

"More than that," I continued, "for nearly six weeks I lodged just behind the church, in a whitewashed cottage with a stock of oranges, pipes and boot-laces for sale in the window.

" Since it had come out that they had been so frightened, Clevi now told in detail about the horribly tall armoured knight with the high boots and the long cloak hanging down to his boot-tops.

Franky had often watched the boot-maker at his work; so he coaxed his father to let him have some money to buy tools and leather, in order that he and his sisters might play at making boots and shoes.

Behind the semicircle of men, three or four deep, were ranged the ranks of youthboys and girls from six to fourteenstanding as silent as their elders, but eager, watchful, carrying king salmon, dried deer-meat, boot-soles, thongs for snow-shoes, rabbits, grouse.

The boot-jack with which the original source of the pudding used to be pulled off was also exhibited, and excited great interest.

It is a favorite recreation of the moral boot-blacks and pious newsboys of New York to gather in the evening on the steps of Mr. FROTHINGHAM'S church, and scare each other with thrilling stories of the gentle ANNIE'S fierce exploits and deeds of daring.

A Senator was trying to lift himself by his own boot-straps into the Governor's chair.

Under the big stones on the hillside, Peter knew, was cached illicit whisky, and at night the boot-leggers carried on a brisk trade among the gamblers.

Donkeys, dogs, rats, everything indeed in the way of flesh, had been consumed; even boot leather, the straps of native bedsteads, and mimosa gum did not come amiss to the sorely-tried garrison.

A gentleman with dingy but elaborate boot-uppers hailed and mounted the 'bus.

"The fact is," said Lewisham slowly and looking at his boot toes, "I must be doing something while I am getting my degree.

In the boot cupboard downstairs there would probably be nothing likely to be of any use.

They can be relied on for at least two or three long seasons, if one is careful to oil the uppers with boot oil occasionally, and never to oil the soles except with linseed oil, which is said to harden them.

He sketched the horses, he sketched the dogs, all the servants, from the bleer-eyed boot-boy to the rosy cheeked lass whom the housekeeper was always calling to come downstairs.

"Do you want to enter the boot trade also?" asked Steinmetz cheerfully, in a lowered voice.

If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.

Bill could not have described the retreat from Mons; but he could have told, as he told me, about the blister he got on his heel, how he hungered for a smoke, how he marched and marched until he fell asleep marching, how he lost his pal at Le Cateau, and how his boot sole dropped off at Meaux.

A Subterranean City The subterranean galleries of the citadel of Verdun were constructed by Vauban, and are now a hive of activitybarbers' shops, sweet shops, boot shops, hospitals, anything and.

The cloakrooms should be provided with low pegs, boot holes, clothes brushes and shoe brushes: there should be low basins with hot and cold water, enamel mugs and tooth brushes for each child, nail brushes, plenty of towels, and where the district needs it, baths.

At one o'clock, when the hotel was very quiet, and the boot-cleaner had made his round of collection, Madame heard the handle of her door move and the door itself push slowly open.

The first to arrive was Marie, then followed another femme de chambre, then came the night porter, then the boot-collector, last, with eyes opened wide at the surprising spectacle of a beautiful young woman receiving her lover at the point of a pistol, appeared monsieur le patron himself.

debenture stock of a company being formed to extend a boot factory.

How she managed to tear her dress off the waist, and loose five boot buttons, and last, but not least, the very hat she wore on her head, would have been a mystery if you hadn't seen her run.