A tyrant, an oppressor, a bad landlord, a man who lets miserable tenements at a rack-rent (to come down to particulars), and exposes his wretched tenants to all those abominations of which we have heard so muchwell!

The negro put his suitcase under the seat, hung his overcoat on the hook, and placed his hand-bag in the rack overhead; then with some difficulty he opened a window and sat down by it.

I had to brain him wi' a rack-pin; there was nae doin' wi' him.

Ode vi. After the extatic notes have been heard, all vanishes away like some figure in the clouds, which Even with a thought, The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.

'This forging slave,' says Pentheus, 'would prevail O'er our just fury by a far-fetched tale: Go, let him feel the whips, the swords, the fire, 140 And in the tortures of the rack expire.'

These limbs, my Lord, can do their task no more; The rack hath crush'd them in its wild embrace, So that Truth's firm-set attitude is o'er, Else had I met my judges face to face, And challenged justice, as in days of yore.

A rain cloud sweeping along the distant hills has hidden them from sight, and the rack hurries overhead driven before the stormy wind.

There were four hay-rack loads of the "truck," altogether, and when it was all dumped into the big empty barn at the Wegg farm the poor agent had no idea what to do with it.

"Well, Claire, I see I can't be of much help," she announced as she powdered her nose before the shabby hat-rack mirror and drew on her gloves....

And now the fleeting rack obtrudes between!

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As we returned, I called in at an ironmonger's, where I bought some thin hemp rope and an iron rack pulley, like those used in Lancashire for hauling up the ceiling clothes racks, which you will find in every cottage.

Then came an evening at Vauxhall, on which occasion Dobbin, George Osborne, and Joseph Sedley escorted Amelia and Rebecca, and the Indian civilian got hopelessly tipsy on a bowl of rack punch.

is regarded as the maximum safe gradient for an Abt rack railway, since the cog-wheel is liable to climb out of the rack on any steeper grade, it will be seen that the strain upon the credulity of the hearer of this story is almost as great as that upon the car must have been.

And they then, very speedy and sedate, as though I were some rack-rape that they did well to be feared of alone at night; and so came at last to the village green, where a great dance was a-foot, with torches, and a wandering fiddler to set the tune; and ale in plenty.

I then sketched the misery of the peasants in the grip of absentee landlords, the turning out on the roadside to die of the mother with new-born babe at her breast, the loss of "all thought of the sanctity of human life when the lives of the dearest are reckoned as less worth than the shillings of overdue rack-rental."

Through the sky's wild rack Shoots the lightning pale; O'er the waters black Burns its flickering trail.

The arrangements for instruction are rather more systematic at Harvard, but Yale has several valuable articles of apparatusas the rack-bars and the series of ringswhich have hardly made their appearance, as yet, in Massachusetts, though considered indispensable in New York.

In my apparatus it is pushed out and in, and clamped where desired, but it ought to be moved altogether by pinion and rack-work.

none, though on the rack-bed bound to die.

Perhapps the threatninge weather kept him backe: Itt was a trobled skye, the soon set blusheing, The rack cam swiftly rushing from the west; And these presadges of a future storme, Unwillinge for to trust her tendernes Unto such feares, might make him fayle his hower; And yet with purpose what hee slack't last night Howe to make goodd this morninge.