You can see his collar-bone and count his ribs and almost mark the beatings of his poor profit-counting heart.

"Not on your collar button," answered Tom.

Adventures of a white-collar man.

"Father's lost his collar-stud."

Beyond came a heavy piece of collar work, the horses dropping to a walk as they heaved through the drifts towards a depression between two tors closing the view ahead.

Whist Club (PWH); 1Feb63; R309331. WHISTLER, REX. Silver collar boy.

Then, still as it were mechanically, he felt the torn collar-band of his shirt, with speculative fingers.

Close to the middle class come the white collar workers and the better paid blue collar workers.

A cold shudder went over her at the idea of that ink among the spotless contents of her own collar-box.

Here he produced from a pocket a bent and twisted piece of baling-wire, and a steel half-moon horse-collar needle.

Missing buttons and cap and collar ornaments should be promptly replaced.

" Max rose to his feet, his face red and his collar awry.

Ilminster, a small market town (with station) on the Ile, is a place of great antiquity but of little present importance, though it has some lace, shirt, and collar manufactories.

1. Laomedea torressii, n. sp. Cells campanulate, nearly sessile upon an incrassated collar projecting from the stem.

Rollo thought so too, and they both tried to bite their own collar ribands, by way of showing Jonas how impossible it was.

" "Oh, there's a big rip in the back of the shoulder where the padding is sticking through and your cuffs are frayed and your necktie's got a hole worn plumb through it where the wing of your collar rubs.

An old dog-collar set with bells Swings from a hook by clasp and tether, With rude embroidery that spells "Diana" worked upon the leather.

His watch and chain are no his ain His claes cost eighteenpence; Wi' cuffs and collar shabby, 0' mashers he's the daddy; Hats off, stand aside and let Past Tooralladdie!"

In Stow's Chronicle we find that one of these said gentlemen was set on horseback, his face towards the tail, which he held in his hand in the manner of a bridle, while with a collar significative of his offence, dangling about his neck, he made a public entrée into the city of London, conducted by Jack Ketch, who afterwards did himself the honour of scourging and branding the impostor, previous to banishment, which completed his sentence.

Dancing in this sort of weather with your collar slumping and the perspiration rolling in tidal waves down your manly brow doesn't strike me as being a particularly desirable diversion.

I would set his coat collar straighter, I would sweep some specks from it.

A Somebody at lastafter being office-boy, clerk, strap-hanger, gallery-patron, cheap lodger, and paper-collar wearer.

All British bare upon the bristled skin, Close notchéd is his beard both lip and chin; His linen collar labyrinthian set, Whose thousand double turnings never met: His sleeves half hid with elbow pinionings, As if he meant to fly with linen wings.

Just before we entered Gradisca, we passed a Battalion of the Granatieri, the Italian Grenadiers, all six foot tall, with collar badges of crimson and white, coming up from reserve to fight a rear-guard action.

The book teaches us to make Scotch collops, to pickle lemons and quinces, to make French bread, to collar beef, pork, or eels, to make gooseberry fool, to dry beef after the Dutch fashion, to make sack posset two ways, to candy flowers (violets, roses, etc.)