How strangely the eyes of the two men look, after two or three more applications to the antique flask; and how curiously Mr. Bumstead walks on tip-toe at times and takes short leaps now and then.

" They tip-toed round the building.

gauge, with the 9 lb. rails, is commonly used, and the trucks carry double equilibrium tipping-boxes, containing 9 to 11 cubic feet.

What can we do?" "Bolt!" answered Diggory, and began tip-toeing back towards the library door.

"Well, just look at this;" and with the tip-end of a tiny knife-blade Jimmy pointed out something in the delicate vined tendrils that had hitherto escaped notice.

Finger-tip coats are the style.

These ladles are made in sizes to take from five to fifteen ton charges, or larger if required, and are mounted on a very strong carriage with a backward and forward traversing motion, and tipping gear for the ladle.

Then a sweet voice called out in the room, "Tip-tap, tip-tap, who raps at my door?"

" "With a pug nosefrecklesand all that?" "Just a tip-tilt in the nose, Sally.

But big Neddy the Shoveras his intimate friends were wont to call himwas a man of pleasure as well as of business; he was not a bloke in an office; he liked an ample Christmas vacation and was now taking one with a party of friends at Brightonall tip-toppers who did the thing in style and spent their money (which was not their money) lavishly.

If you grind tip slate, and then analyse it, you will find its mineral constituents to be exactly those of a fine, rich, and tenacious clay.

Then there were several thuds, followed by a rumble that was unmistakablefalling masonry; it was the noise that bricks make when they dump them from a tip-cart, only smothered by the thickness of the cavern floor.

Curse their hammers; their eternal tip-tapping goes through my brain.

Sahwah won the canoe tipping contest, getting her canoe righted in one minute less time than it took Undine Girelle, so the first score went to the Alley.

She measured, I should say at an offhand guess, seventy-five feet from tip to tip lengthwise, and she was perhaps twenty feet in diameter through her middle.

You see how difficult tip-hunting can be!

There, slowly leaving the dense edge of the woods, was a new bear, not so large as the first, but we could see at a glance that she had a beautiful coat of a dark silver-tip color.

His left arm hung helpless at his side, and from the finger-tips blood dripped with monotonous regularity.

I foresaw that, in soliciting the honour of the fair damsel's hand, I should have much opposition to encounter from the rivalry of the three learned professions, to say nothing of the gentlemen of the sword and of the buskin; but, thinks I to myself, 'faint heart never won fair lady,' so I at once set up a snuff-box, looked as tip-topping as possible, and commenced canvassing.

A pint later, Oliver reached in his pocket for tip money and felt a small thick square.

The defendant, on this occasion, by the mute presentation of a tip plate covered with baize, solicited the pecuniary contributions of the faithful.

Every handful showed the quivering flesh, and was followed by spouts of blood; nor did he seem to carealthough the more carefully the flaying operation was performed, the better chance he had of carrying his wagerwhether he brought away with the torn tips portions of the skin.