There are steps on the stairs; strange padding steps, that come up and nearer....

Between every two howdahs are four or five pad elephants.

Tom's trip in practice-pad form.

Most of them were men; but the women Ann, Strumpet and Christian Grace made two flights each, and the old pad-mender Abba's Moll stayed out for a year and a quarter.

In a moment a shadowy figure leaped through the window, and Black Bart landed on the floor with soft padding feet.

A minute passes, and another; then I hear the padding sound, again.

The Cossack seat on horseback is on a high pad-saddle, with the knee almost vertical and the heel well drawn back.

Pendleton saw the pad drop from Locke's hands; he saw the mute wheel as he felt the vibrations and stare at the window, his eyes puckered and straining.

t'e anxieties he hass cause' us, yet which we haf cheerfully pornet'at ingrate hass t'e pad taste to prefer t'e ot'er house!

It is almost impossible to get black nails in a dog of pure breed and the black soon wears off the pad work, so folk must understand this.

Then he heard a padding footfall, hardly louder than the light, light step of the wolf.

" We lay and listened, and we lay and listened, but the padding footsteps didn't come back; and then I suppose we must have fallen asleep, for the next thing we knew was that the ayahs were standing beside us with tea, and the miserable night was past.

im, and a host of able workers as his slaves making everything easy, padding plush about him, grading roads for him, boring tunnels, moving hills out of his way, eager, like the devil, to show him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory and foolishness, spiritualizing travel for him with lightning and steam, abolishing space and time and almost everything else.

Since first the fabric of this power begun; His noble stream, inglorious, Mersey roll'd, Nor felt his waves by lab'ring art controll'd: Along his side a few small cots were spread, His finny brood their humble tenants fed; At op'ning dawn with fraudful nets supply'd The padding skiff would brave his specious tide, Ply round the shores, nor tempt the dangerous main, But seek ere night the friendly port again.

These currents, rapid evaporation combined with a lack of steady atmospheric pressure, and that sticky state of soil which on ploughed land invariably follows a frost, and in a lesser degree affects grass, causing a fox to take his pad scent on with him (all the particles that do not cling to the ground having been diffused and lost in the air),these are the curses of modern hunting fields and the chief causes of bad scenting days.

Close to the Princess are the chief eunuchs, richly adorned and finely mounted, each with a wand of office in his hand; and surrounding her elephant a troop of female servants, Tartars and Kachmerys, fantastically attired and riding handsome pad-horses.

The way out was a 'pad-iatra ' (or, long march across Goa on foot) through the villages of the then union territory.

What did he do?" "He was an engineer, called himself a launch pad maintenance man.

Put the roller round, and the pad-piece under it, about six or eight inches from the fore legs.

'Bagh ka butcha!' screams our mahout, and regardless of the elephant or of our cries to stop, he scuttled down the pad rope like a monkey down a backstay, and clutching a young dead tiger cub, threw it up to Debnarain; it was about the size of a small poodle, and had evidently been trampled by the pursuing herd of buffaloes.