" As he spoke the Sheriff's ruddy cheeks grew pale, and he said nothing more but looked upon the ground and gnawed his nether lip.

If haply, however, thou, in the hardness of thy unbelief, rejectest the testimony of heaven, and searchest rather for examples of those in this nether world who have felt his power, I affirm them to be so multitudinous that where to begin I know not.

And Napoleon went upon his knees and divested himself of his own nether garments, and arrayed the king therein, to the great diversion of those who stood about.

"Sir," said he to the young Lord of Icombally, who was going to join his regiment, "may Providence preserve you in battle, and especially your nether limbs!

They plagued him with allusions to certain matters mentioned in their interviews with Lucifer, with which they naturally but erroneously supposed him to be conversant, and worried him by continual nods and titterings as they glanced at his nether extremities.

A main bore or ventor more than oneopens itself between the bottom of the sea and the nether fires.

His legs are stuck in his great voluminous breeches like the whistles in a bagpipe, those abundant breeches in which his nether parts are not clothed but packed up.

He was supposed to be absolutely merciless,as hard as a nether millstone, a judge who could put on the black cap without a feeling of inward disgust.

I could eat little of the food, but I drank the water to the last drop, for my throat was as dry as the nether pit.

The good-natured clavier had observed the wavering and uncertain character of the baron's decision, and he had been induced to urge his particular request to be the officiating priest by a secret apprehension that, descended again into the scenes of the world, the relenting father might become, like most other parents of these nether regions, more disposed to consult the temporal advancement than the true happiness of his child.

The same remark may apply to his nether integuments, which were ventilated at each knee, indicating a most praiseworthy regard to the laws of health.

Earlier still, he had heard a hoot-owl, and encountered through it, his first realization of phantom horrors; he knew then there was an Unseen, and nether acoustics; here was a key to ghostly doors.

The cost of production, therefore, could not serve as a nether limit for slave prices at any time.

"She's all right on this side," said Elihu Titus, cannily peering at the nether mechanism in pretense that he had left his seat to do just that.

85 "These nether precincts do not lack Charms of their own;then come with me; I want a comrade, and for you There's nothing that I would not do; Nought is there that you shall not see.

Thine upper and thy nether springs Make both thy worlds to thrive; Under thy warm and sheltering wings

In line 22 hose means the covering for a man's body from his waist to his nether-stock.

What with the Sulpitians at Montreal and the Jesuits here, we poor devils are between the upper and the nether stones.

Till clomb above the eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright star 210 Within the nether tip.

Breeches, rejected by common consent of young and old alike, cling to the legs of the coalheaver with an abiding fondness, as to the last place of refuge; and, on gala-days, a dandy might die of envy to mark the splendour of those nether integumentswhich he has not soul enough to dare to wearof brilliant eye-arresting blue, or glowing scarlet plush, glittering in the sun's rays, giving and taking glory!

Even in that conservatory existence where the fair Camelia is sighed for by the noble young Pineapple, neither of them needing to care about the frost or rain outside, there is a nether apparatus of hot-water pipes liable to cool down on a strike of the gardeners or a scarcity of coal.

Deep hid within this nether cell, What force with Fire is molding thus

It was also ordained that the women should not haue past three cubits of cloth in their nether clothes, which they binde about them; which are so strait, that when they go in the streets, they shew one side of the leg bare aboue the knee.

Sometimes, in speeches vain and proud, His boasts insult the nether crowd; Now, seized with giddiness and fear, He trembles lest his fall is near.

TARTARUS, a dark sunless waste in the nether deeps, as far below earth as heaven is above it, into which Zeus hurled the Titans that rebelled against him; the term was subsequently sometimes used to denote the whole nether world and sometimes the place of punishment.