He had not to wait long be-fore the latch lift-ed, and his mo-ther en-ter-ed.

I called at the house in Cork Street indicated by Elma, and learned from the old commissionaire who acted as lift-man and porter, that Mr. Woodroffe's chambers were closed.

The parasol antsof whom I could tell you much, save that you will read far more than I can tell you in half a dozen books at homewalk in triumphal processions, each with a bit of green leaf borne over its head, and probably, when you look closely, with a little ant or two riding on it, and getting a lift home after work on their stronger sister's backand these are all the monsters which you are likely to meet.

"Will you please ascend to the dressing-room, Sir?" He committed me to the care of a lift-girl, who conveyed me to the second storey.

At any moment he might hear the lift stop, steps across the corridor, the ring at his bell, the plainly-clad, businesslike man outside, with his formal questions, his grim civility.

The lift tackle is performed by seizing the opponent around the legs below the hips, bringing his knees together so that further locomotion is an impossibility to him, and lifting him upward off the ground and depositing him as far backward toward his own goal as circumstances and ability will permit.

We will show all men what we hear and see; And we will make Thee lift Thy head, and smile.

The great grating lifts outwards and upwards very slowly.] Zophérnes: [to the Two Dukes] Quick, to the great hole.

"Poor old thing!" said the rector, as if excusing himself, "she's got a heavy basket, and we all need a lift sometimeseh, doctor?into the world and out again, at all events.

But he contented himself with asking, 'You think, then, my lord, that in the present state of society, no dead-lift can be given to the conditionin plain English, the wagesof working men, without the destruction of property?' Lord Minchampstead smiled, and parried the question. 'There may be other dead-lift ameliorations, my young friend, besides a dead-lift of wages.'

Lift yer head slowly, Dick, an' don't show more nor the half o't above the ridge.

Then he bounced off, and when the lift boy whistled as he brought me up, and the Irish chambermaid began to chat to Octavia, she said she could not bear it any longer, and Tom must go out and find another hotel.

789. plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate^, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer^, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger [Slang]; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster. swindle, peculate, embezzle; sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece; defraud &c 545; obtain under false pretenses; live by one's wits.

"Honeybunch!" "Babe!" said Mr. Blutch Connors, upon the slam of the lift door.

What I have invented is, to put it shortly, an electric engine in which there is hardly any waste; and we can now pump water, turn mill-stones, draw railway trains, and lift elevators, at a saving, in fuel and labor, of nearly seventy per cent, of the cost of steam.

I love them allthe bus-conductors, the ticket-punchers, the lift-girlsone of them nearly shot me right through the roof of Harrod's the other dayand the window-cleaners and the page-girls and the railway-portresses!