The bottom of the valley is wide and sandy, and covered with scrubby timber, principally poplar and pitch-pine.

It has no hesitation, whatsoever, of shovin' it's pitch-fork into a human bein', and when a feller feels it, it makes him think old SOLFERINO has come for him, and no mistake.

The pitch darkness of the little turret chamber in which I stood made me feel quite safe from observation.

[Fr.], corno Inglese^, bassoon, double bassoon, contrafagotto^, serpent, bass clarinet; bagpipes, union pipes; musette, ocarina, Pandean pipes; reed instrument; sirene^, pipe, pitch-pipe; sourdet^; whistle, catcall; doodlesack^, harmoniphone^. horn, bugle, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, cornopean^, clarion, trumpet, trombone, ophicleide^; French horn, saxophone, sax

In the far West you choose your spot of ground, you dig post-holes and you pitch tents, and you set up telescopes and inhabit the land; and then the owner of the land comes to you, and asks if he may not put up a fence for you, to keep off intruders, and the nearest residents come to you and offer aid of any kind.

CHADWICK, LESTER. Baseball Joe, pitching wizard; or, Triumphs off and on the diamond, by Lester Chadwick, pseud.

The buoyant voice acquired by correct-pitch-control; a new scientific method of training.

It was Walpurga's old uncle Peter, a poor pitch-burner, who was known in the district as the "pitch-mannikin," who brought the first news that the freehold farm, where Walpurga's mother had in her young days served as a maid, was for sale at a very low price for ready money.

He told her heartily that she had earned a rest if any one ever had; that it was well, after all, to get an early start at pitching camp; that he was going to make his lady-love as cosy here in his big outdoor home as was ever princess in castle walls.

This is much more abundant in the branches than in the trunk, and the boards and other lumber of this wood are usually full of pitch-knots.

Pittsburgh had an excellent pitching staff.

Ancient Greek possessed a pitch-accent only, which allowed the quantitative values of syllables to be measured against one another, and even to form the basis of a metrical system.

Its first discoverers, of course, were not bound to see that a pitch lake of ninety-nine acres was no more wonderful than any of the little pitch wells'spues' or 'galls,' as we should call them in Hampshirea yard across; or any one of the tiny veins and lumps of pitch which abound in the surrounding forests; and no less wonderful than if it had covered ninety-nine thousand acres instead of ninety- nine.

Resin or pitch pockets are of common occurrence in the wood of larch, spruce, fir, and especially of longleaf and other hard pines.

Had the Emir chosen, he could have remained in Rif till this time; but he determined to try his strength with the Sultan in a pitch battle, which should decide his fate.

The mule-cart arrived; the lady of the party was put into it on a chair, and slowly bumped and rattled past the corner of Dundonald Streetso named after the old sea-hero, who was, in his lifetime, full of projects for utilising this same pitchand up a pitch road, with a pitch gutter on each side.

Knowing the prestige attached to the brave marines, the Communist generals made use of the naval clothes found in the marine stores, and dressed therein some of the valliant heroes of Belleville and Montmartre.] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 46: The game of pitch-halfpenny, in, which, in France, a cork (bouchon), with halfpence on the top of it, is placed on the ground.]

" He began to whistle "Yankee Doodle" and pitch hay energetically, while "Susan" was within hearing; but how would that dear woman's soul have floundered deeper and deeper in the fog that clouded it now, had she seen her grave husband sit down on one end of the hay-mow and laugh till the tears stood in his keen eyes, and then, drawing his coat-sleeve across the shaggy lashes, say to himself, "Poor child!"

His method was to coat the wire with pitch inclose it in split rattan, and then wrap the whole with tarred yarn.

One of them took a lighted stick from under the pitch kettle, and, making a wide circuit round the place, fired the grass as he ran.

When Fine Art is in a man's nature, it must exude, as pitch leaks from a pine-tree.

Accordingly, the nail-holes at the toe should be 'pitched' distinctly inwards, the inward pitch lessening as the quarters are reached, until the hindermost nail-hole or two is pitched in a direction that is almost perpendicular.

The mortise spur-wheels have a diameter of 22½ feet at the pitch line, with two rows of teeth, each 15 inches face.

I at once set the pitch melting, and presently the Swede joined me at the work, though under the best conditions in the world the canoe could not be safe for traveling till the following day.

His pitch-oil is bought by the wood-cutter for his wounds, by the charcoal-burner for his burns, by the carter for his horse, by the brandy-distiller for his casks.