"What's this here old lady's hoop-skirt doing on me?" "Peace, wriggling dotard!"

It is undoubtedly a fact that Europeans had been at the islands previously to Cook's visit, for at least two pieces of iron were found, one being a portion of a broad-sword and the other a piece of hoop-iron.

A framework formed of hoop poles rose up from the steps.

Nott inscribes his book "To all Good Housewives," and declares that he placed an Introduction before it merely because fashion had made it as strange for a book to appear without one as for a man to be seen in church without a neckcloth or a lady without a hoop-petticoat.

In this respect he presents a marked contrast to the hoop-snake, which has no more back-bone than a timid politician, and can put its tail in its mouth, and roll in any direction with the utmost facility.

One ornament, and one only, had Seraphine ever been guilty of wearing, and that was an old-fashioned half-hoop ring of Brazilian diamonds, brilliants of the first water.

As soon as the hydraulic pressure is removed, the bale expands slightly, and the buckled hoop grips the bale securely.

He also sometimes had a part with "the Tom Thumb acrobats," doing some clever hoop-jumping with a trick Shetland pony.

She said they look like a hoop rolling and whatever they stuck a horn or their tail in it died.

This state may exist without any change from one to two or three weeks before the peculiar feature of the disease-the hoop-sets in.

There was a hoop-stick and the hoop which had been taken down to the blacksmith's to be mended.

There was a quantity of stable-manure and old straw, and a heap, as large as a two-story cottage, of old hoops stript from casks and packing-cases.

We were so impressed by his guileless face and cock-a-hoop assurance, that we had not the heart to turn him away.

He helped me with that fire hoop stunt, and it would be an act of charity to give him work.

But then, I don' know as 'tis; woods all bein' cut offpoles gittin' scurcer; hoops bein' shoved in from Down East.

There should be two hoops round the funnel, for the attachment of the funnel shrouds, instead of one, so that the funnel may not be carried overboard if one hoop breaks, or if the funnel breaks at the upper hoop from the corrosive action of the waste steam, as sometimes happens.

Analyze the present magnitude called Lady, and you can arithmetically state it, how little of it is nature-woman, and how much is hoop-civilization.

"Grandma toted her big hoop dresses about and carried her trains up off the floor.

She had taken the part of a gipsy queen, appropriately costumed in slightly soiled white satin slippers with four-inch heels, and a white satin dress enhanced by a red sash, a black velvet bolero, and large hoop earrings.