You serve Baal, not God, John Gib, and the devil in hell is banking his fires and counting on your company.

"Ladies first, even off the earth," came back from Jimsy gallantly, as he skillfully "banked" his machine in an upward spiral.

The day fades fast; And backward ebbs the tide of light From the far hills in billows bright, Scattering foam, as they sweep past, O'er the low clouds that bank the sky, And barrier day off solemnly.

Its execution must have been seriously contemplated, for the Senate of Genoa banked 300 ducats for the purpose.

I wouldn't call it living always to be seeking gold, To bank all the present gladness for the days when I'll be old.

Instead of going to see Virginia before her school opened in the morning, I went to work banking up my house, fixing my sheds, and reefing things down for a gale as I learned to say on the Lakes.

"Things look a lot different when the sun is shining, and out here, you see, Mrs. Fred, we have to do without and forget so many things that we bank a lot on the sun.

"Why don't you bank your money, Tabitha?"

ve'y mawnin' I banked nigh on to a thousan' dollehs fu' de young boss.

For a reason of my own, I had not banked the note it contained.

To-day in his machine he has described figures of eight in the space of his grounds even, banking the planes at an inclination affreuse!"

Bright tawny leaves banked the platform where the orchestra sat, and along the side walls globes of red and orange balloons glowed among the soft tans and browns of cornstalks.

An altar had been raised; and upon it was the golden service, a little apart the font, and upon either side of the long gallery were flowers banked 'neath specially honoured portraits.

This tour was a grand success, and once more, for less than three months of work, Mac and I banked more than a hundred pounds apiece.

Bund, An embankment or dyke to bank a river.

He leaned Elephas primigenius against a tuft of willow banked round with snow, and turned gloomily as if to go back down the river again.

The next step ends hip-deep and over, for here an unseen wall is banking back the rush of the singing drifts.

I had no sooner given up my former Project, but my Head was presently full of draining Fens and Marshes, banking out the Sea, and joining new Lands to my Country; for since it is thought impracticable to encrease the People to the Land, I fell immediately to consider how much would be gained to the Prince by encreasing the Lands to the People.

After completing our observations, we fastened the little tent as securely as possible, banking the snow around it, and left it on top, first having placed in it one of the Appalachian Mountain Club's brass record cylinders, in which we had sealed the Yale flag, a contemporary map of Peru, and two brief statements regarding the ascent.

The fellows paid up and I banked the stuff and mailed Madeline a check for the whole amount the first thing.

Having discovered the modus operandi of the pair, and having read their cards, so to speak, he next set himself to discover where they banked their swag.

We could bank up a valley in that range of hills over there and make a nice reservoir, and we could make a big place here to generate our electricity and have it all simply lovely.

Extraordinary associations of people with prophetic visions of aesthetic horrors rallied to protect the scenery of the place where they would build the great house, of the valley where they would bank up the water.

"Banked that check yet?" "Not yet," replied the other sedately.

They banked the windows.