" [Illustration] Some talk of WAGNER chorus, of war's wild rataplan, Or of the well thumped tom-tom of happy Hindustan; But sweetest of all shindy to which man's ear may list, Is the tow-row, tow-row, tow-row of the loud Salvationist!

The tow-line was passed from the bows aft, and there attached to the boat-hook, held by your representative.

Indeed, I never can believe I am at sea at all, on the Atlantic, the passages between New-York and Portsmouth being little more than so much canalling along a tow-path.

Gatemen shouted, the big tow-rope splashed and tightened with a jerk, and the hulk began to move.

52°, 29' S., long., 71° 36" E., a little to the north of the Heard Islands, the tow-net, dragging a few fathoms below the surface, came up nearly filled with a pale yellow gelatinous mass.

It was a fairly broad canal, and the water was nearly up to the towing-path.

"When at length the ship left England I watched and watched the retreating tow-boat," he continues, "until I could see it no longer, and then hurried down below.

I want some tow-cloth to sew on immediately.

"What a devoted boy, to risk his life and liberty for our poor Jack!" Mrs. Sprague said, bending forward to stroke the tow-head.

To this the towing-ropes were attached, on the kite principle, so that the greatest resisting surface was presented to the water.

When the drowsy tow-horse came abreast of the house, and the carpet caught his eye, he suddenly stopped and gave a start toward the canal.

We wore tow linen clothes in summer and jeans in winter.

He who was now clothed in fine linen, had once rejoiced in a tow shirt that scarcely covered his nakedness, and had sustained life on a peck of corn a week, receiving the while kicks and curses from a tyrannical overseer.

I could hear the awful roar of the under-tow sucking back the pebbles on the beach.

A shark was also taken, eleven feet long; and many curious specimens of crustacea and medusa were obtained by the towing-net.

Ibid., 183 (Curate of Blackmore, Essex, suspended from the celebration of the rites because "there was tow children... which died unchristened by his necligence." 1584).

It was a coarse tow-sackin'.

Take this," said he, handing him a dirty tow apron, "and tie it around your neck; it will keep the blacking off your clothes, you know.

Just as you are now sounding this bottomless pond, with a tow string six feet long, having an angle worm at one end, and an old hairy curmudgeonly grub at the other.

His dress was completed by a pair of baggy tow breeches, held up by a single tow suspender fastened to big brown horn buttons.

His dress was completed by a pair of baggy tow breeches, held up by a single tow suspender fastened to big brown horn buttons.

His old tow trowsers and calico shirt revealed the shining fact in too many places to leave room for a question, and shoes he had none.

[Illustration: In i-vy, tree, or barn, or tow-er The Owl a-waits the e-ven-ing hour.]

and, to prevent infection from the small-pox, I ordered all my male servants' heads to be shaved, made the coachman and footman wear tow wigs, and had them both regularly smoked whenever they returned from the neighbouring town, before they were allowed to enter my presence.

Agony was borne down in triumph upon the shoulders of Miss Judy and Tiny, with all the camp marching after, and was set down in the barge of honor, the first canoe behind the towing launch, while all the Alley drew straws for the privilege of riding with her.