Cuttings root freely if inserted in sharp sand and placed in slight heat, while seeds germinate quickly.

To cut the nut neatly an instrument is used like an enormous pair of nutcrackers with a sharp cutting edge.

SCHUPPENHAUER, WILLIAM E. Cost cutting plan.

The head measures near four feet long, and eight feet in circumference; the jaws open two feet wide, and the cutting-teeth of which it has four in each jaw, are above a foot long, and four inches in circumference.

With the left-hand hook and arm, he carries on the grain from the inside to the outside of the swath or "work," making three or four strokes with the cutting knife; then, at the end, gathers it all up and lays it down in a heap for binding.

"H'anyway, right 'ere's where h'I stick, h'and once th' bloomin' 'eathen show a 'ead above the 'atchway, h'I 'ates t' think what'll 'appen to 'im." "Perhaps the channel will close in and drive them ashore," suggested Dave hopefully, as he drew his mackinaw more closely about him and crouched nearer to the conning-tower, that he might avoid the cutting air and icy spray which reached him from the prow of the submarine.

At the proper time I ventured the opinion that the rifle could not go off again, and that it would be well enough to finish the cutting process.

The black savins sighed and wailed as they bent to the cutting blast.

So the youth asked for a fire, a lathe, and a cutting-board.

" He went white with rage at my cutting sarcasm.

The straining-table is being cleaned by the table 'mate' and his coolies, while the washerman stamps on his sheets and press-cloths to extract all the colour from them, and the cake-house boys run to and fro between the cutting-table and the cake-house with batches of cakes on their heads, borne on boards, like a baker taking his hot rolls from the oven, or like a busy swarm of ants taking the spoil of the granary to their forest haunt.

My heavy cutting-whip whistledand touched nothing.

In the rendering of distant mountains, Mr. Dillon evinces new knowledge of what such forms necessarily imply,their tendency to monotone and to flatness, yet preserving all their essential surface markings, and their inevitable cutting outline against the sky,which sharpness Mr. Tilton as yet has only hinted at, not represented.

But if our eyes fell on a certain chair, empty against the wall, a cutting pang was felt, which was not at all concealed; for there were sudden breaks in our commonplace talk, which diverged into wandering channels, betraying the tension of feeling.

From other of its alloys, knives, axes, swords, and all cutting implements may receive and hold an edge not surpassed by the best tempered steel.

Work was in progress there: the play of currycombs, the whirl of the cutting-box, the noise of the mangers, the bellowing of calves, the rich streamy sounds of the milking.

He expected to be greeted with jeering words and with cutting remarks, not so much in the way of malice as of fun.

My room might have been one of Romeike's cutting-rooms.

For a time the lumbermen took advantage of the necessities of the public, but when timber on the government concessions first granted them had been exhausted and they applied for new cutting areas, my turn came.

Like a true friend, who, regardless as to consequences, hurls cutting truths, it smites you between the eyes without asking leave.

I heard him make advances of good nature; That he, for once, would sheath his cutting satire.

At the same time he struck a terrific cutting stroke with his left paw.

He was no longer conscious of the hard unconcern of a million faces, of the crude buildings in the streets, the cutting winds, the curious, depressing sense of being on a desert island, the hermit clutching at the sleeves of imaginary multitudes.

This is a strange cutting time.

This revelation of his crime in all its terrible details, told in clear cutting tones by Mr. Brownlow, while his eyes never left the man's face, overwhelmed the coward Monks.