After luncheon, when they were smoking (all of us together, no one went into the smoking-room), he and Hatzfeldt began talking about the Empire and the beautiful fetes at Compiegne, where anybody of any distinction in any branch of art or literature was invited.

In the court yard was the smoke house where she cured meat and fish.

At break of day the drums and trumpets sounded to arms, and the Christian army issued from among the smoking ruins of their camp, in shining squadrons, with flaunting banners and bursts of martial melody, as though the preceding night had been a time of high festivity instead of terror.

Proud knights, doughty archers and men-at-arms who had fronted death unmoved on many a stricken field, wept aloud and crouched upon their knees and screamedbut not so loud as those wild and maddened horses, that, bursting all bonds asunder, reared and leapt with lashing hooves, and, choked with rolling smoke-clouds, blinded by flame, plunged headlong through and over the doomed camp, wave upon wave of wild-flung heads and tossing manes.

" "I'll engage a nice upholstered seat in the smoking car.

It was too weak to stir or do more than occasionally to make that muffled noise that I'd heard coming up through the smoke-hole.

" He stretched himself, lay back in his chair, sent a smoke-ring circling toward the ceiling, and watched it, smiling absently.

Smoking tobacco was selling at $1.50 a pound and good plug cut and fancy tobacco was selling at $2.00 a pound.

" "All the Hudson River I can see is fifteen smoke-stacks and somebody's wash-line out.

And ever the clamour of voices waxed upon the misty air from hurrying groups dim-seen that flitted by, arming as they ran, and ever the fifty and five, crouching in the dark, impatient for the sign, watched Beltanehis firm-set lip, his frowning brow; and ever from belching arrow-slit the curling smoke-wreaths waxed blacker and more dense.

A is the furnace, B the steam chest, and C the smoke box which opens into the chimney.

This was George Lister's business, and he lounged in a corner of a smoking-compartment, and rather drowsily studied some calculations.

I looked across the river and saw the dense white smoke screen which our Field Guns were putting up to cover the advance.

One supposes the Indians might have learned the use of smoke signals from these dust pillars as they learn most things direct from the tutelage of the earth.

" She looked down curiously at the little wooden huts, half-buried in the snow; the smoking chimneys; the twinkling, curtainless windows.

What filled my mind was the sight of my enemy, very white and drawn in the face, holding a smoking pistol and staring at me.

In the smoke-room of the railway hotel three men were discussing it with many grimaces and sinister hints, and the talkative young woman behind the bar asked me my opinion of the strange goings-on up at the Castle.

"I never thought I'd come to wearin' a quilted silk basque with tossels on it," Abe remarked one day on being urged to try on a handsome smoking-jacket.

Caroline, however, went away musing much upon these points; and she began to think Mr. Brandon more wonderful and beautiful every day, whereas he was remarkable for nothing except very black eyes, a sallow face, and a habit of smoking cigars in bed till noon.

He would not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax.

He was withdrawn amongst his own speculations, and his eyes looked out beyond that smoke-laden room in a fort amongst the Himalaya mountains into future years dim with peril and trouble.

ALLAN V. C. Gun-smoke brand.

He was sixty inches of nerves, wrinkles, and whiskers, with special adornments in the shape of a blue smoking cap, and a pair of spectacles with specially ground lenses of an enormous thickness.

KITCHENS IN LARGE ESTABLISHMENTS are usually fitted with what are termed "smoke-jacks."

ON THE EDGE OF THE STORM A Russian village kabak, with a smoking lamp, of which the chimney is broken.