The numerous illustrations in each book are by well-known artists, and each volume has a separate attractive cover design.

Back cover page.

With an ivory paper-knife scrape the back of the tongue or the inside of the lips or cheek; place the substance thus obtained upon a glass slide; cover it with a thin cover-glass, and if necessary add a drop of water.

NM: new cover illus., p.12-14 & new version of text.

Ambition has its cover-sluts in the pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war; but where are the trophies of avarice?

Mrs. Eben Given (Phyllis Duganne) (A); 25Jan66; R381963. No cover charge.

Redfern, the next man, had hardly taken his place at the wicket when a sharp click, the glitter of bails twirling in the air, and a Wraxby shout of "Well bowled!" announced his fate; while ten minutes later Rowland, one of the mainstays of the home team, was caught in a most provoking manner at cover-point.

The frail hand on the cover lid groped vaguely for his.

She appears with her little basket, which has two brown flaps for covers opening from the middle and with a spring in them somewhere so that they fly shut with a snap.

So the finish of the comedy deserves the epithet "engaging" in more senses than one: with a Jack to every Jill, and the harvest moon (as promised in the cover picture) beaming upon all, the couples paired off to everyone's entire satisfaction.

In dense woods they half-cover pools that are three or four rods long.

O'erturn'd his infant's bed he found, The blood-stain'd cover rent, And all around the walls and ground With recent blood besprent.

Spent more nights under cover roundabouts than Georgie'll have white hairs in her head,for all she's washing the color out of her eyes now.

I toiled long to secure it, and, now that I hold it, may its modest vermilion cover shine always like a lamp upon my shelves!

Boosting up with a bushel basket the stiff canvas at the end opposite the boots he made the wagon-cover stretch long enough and high enough to conceal the important fact that there were no legs or body attached to the boots.

The ladles are butt jointed, with internal cover strips, and have a very strong band shrunk on hot about half way in the depth of the ladle.

Passages consisting of deep communicating trenches facilitate passage from the cover trenches to the firing trenches when under fire.

In the late nineties, I went to conferences where music execs patiently explained that Napster was doomed, because you didn't get any cover-art or liner-notes with it, you couldn't know if the rip was any good, and sometimes the connection would drop mid-download.

The 155th Brigade was still held fast in that part of the wadi Janus which gave cover south-west and south of Mughar, and after the charge had been completely successful and the yeomanry were working forward to clear up the village a message was receivedtimed 2.45 P.M., but received at 4 P.M.which shows the difficulties facing that very gallant infantry brigade: '52nd Division unable to make progress.

Almost no attention was paid to conserving the soil by rotation of crops, and even those few planters who attempted anything of the sort followed the old plan of allowing fields to lie in a naked fallow and to grow up in noxious weeds instead of raising a cover crop such as clover.

We will withdraw among the reeds until night comes, and then under its cover cross Ganoatohale.

Behind this, descending two steps, is the study and consulting-room, and there, as ever, the revolving-cover oak writing-desk: but on my little shabby-red sofa, a large lady much too big for it, in shimmering brown silk, round her left wrist a trousseau of massive gold trinkets, her head dropped right back, almost severed by an infernal gash from the throat.

'Some loss' covers everythingit means 'more or less.'

But the revivalist, knowing human nature, as all confidence men do, banks on our superstitious fears and makes his appeal to our acquisitiveness, offering us absolution and life eternal for a considerationto cover expenses.

And when he had satisfied himself that that which was done was properly done, as coolly as before he stowed away his match in his cover-fire, mounted his horse, and rode towards us.