Corey was sitting before a deal table, littered with papers strewn round a central bottle of ink, in which a steel pen stuck upright.

But we owe'd a deal o' brass beside that.

Just deal boards, I expect!

He and I had a great pow-wow, didn't we, Nicholas?" Nicholas smiled absently, and fixed his one eye on the bacon that Mac was cutting on the deal box into such delicate slices.

They were certainly not suited for mourning; but she had no others, and therefore thrust her little bare feet into them and walked behind the plain deal coffin.

Anerley, with his head and arms buried in a deal packing-case, was working his way through strata of tinned soups, bully beef, potted chicken, and sardines to reach the jams which lay beneath.

Why, that Joseph Paice was as real a person as Joseph Hume, and a great deal pleasanter.

But now Aunt Emeline and Uncle 'Siah were dead, and Stephen came a good deal oftener over the border than he'd any right to.

A low wooden settle stood by the fire, one or two plain deal chairs by the wall, and little John's three-legged stool was placed close to his father's arm-chair.

"If they was a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door, but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision's limited.

There was a little deal shelf here and there; but there were neither sand, salt, whitening, nor pipes.

The half-knowledge, the instinctive arts, which girls sometimes display continually mislead men into thinking them a great deal cleverer than they are.

Real estate broker's deal envelope.

And, as for the party, I thought afterwards that it would be a great deal cosier just to have a few persons here.

She was fond of the boy,a deal fonder than he deserved,for he was as mischievous a monkey as any that ever lived in a tree, with a curly tail.

"Yes, it's me, Aunt," said Andy, a good deal crestfallen and embarrassed.

On his way from the town-gate to the water-port, he noticed some deal planks near the beach.

Now, I would have been glad enough to give her the stuff to make a new gown, but I had hinted at that sort of thing before, and did not intend to do it again, for she was a good deal prouder than she was poor.

Germany, of course, is full of the military spirit, but it is my opinion, Norgate, that it is a great deal fuller of the great commercial spirit.

"'I hope, ma'am,' says I,and I was a guid deal nettled,'I hope, ma'am, ye dinna tak' me to be a drunkard.

See these mer-ry chil-dren four, Now their les-son time is o'er, Deal-ing with the bat-tle-dore Steady blow on blow; Till the fea-thered shut-tle-cocks Fly at their al-ter-nate knocks, "Re-gu-lar as kitch-en clocks," Spin-ning to and fro.

He was even less inclined to trust him when Wardle announced confidentially at the close of the meeting that day, "Brother Wright talks a good deal jest to hear his head roar.

That one was a rough deal kitchen table, and that another was of polished wood, with beautiful inlaid work and artistic curved and carven legs, the spoils of some drawing-room apparently, was a matter without the faintest interest to the signalers who used them.

And while he listened to the account given by the two boys of their doings, he could not help looking at Emily, and thinking, as he had sometimes done before, that she bore, in some slight degree, a resemblance to his wifehis wife whom he had idealised a good deal latelyand who generally, in his thought, presented herself to him as she had done when, as a mere lad, he first saw her.

A happy escape indeed, Jack!For the fire had scorched the window-board, singed the hangings, and burnt through the slit-deal linings of the window-jambs.