Donaldson and Bertrand went off to their trapping; Elspeth was braiding her hair, the handsomest nymph that ever trod these woodlands, and trying in vain to discover from the discreet Ringan where he came from, and what was his calling.

He raised his food and the tobacco he smoked, and braided his summer hats of straw and knitted his winter caps of wool.

Dozens of witnesses from the Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion took the stand to braid a hangman's rope of untruthful testimony.

He sat outside the cabin, braiding a leather hat-bandeight strands, and the "repeat" figurean art that I never could master.

They brought flowers to Ondrejko that he might braid a chain of them.

With them she began to braid a ring about one of her fingers in the old simple fashion of the country.

Singer universal feed spiral braiding machine 114W21, by Archibald Tregaskis.

He found an old sedge on the meadow, which was strong and tough; and out of this he began to braid a knapsack.

Into her golden tresses she braided the necklaces that he had offered her.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is far too much, of a philosopher to take such revenge on a man who has no more dealings with His Majesty than to fill his pipe each evening, to braid his pigtail each morning, and to shave him in the good old German fashion every second day.

In their hair they braided eagle plumes, hawk wings, or the brilliant plumage of the tanager and redbird.

We stop before a barber shop and watch the queer process of shaving the head and braiding the queue.

Me, I have braided the riatas and bridles since I was so high."

And how often did she turn from her home to the wilderness, slipping in noiseless moccasins back into the narrow, mysterious trails of the red man, where bended twig and braided rush and scar of bark held messages for her!

I braided their soft fine silk for hair, and gave them blankets as various as the scraps I found in my mother's workbag.

LEMON FILLING.Into one cup of boiling water stir one tablespoonful of cornstarch previously braided smooth with the juice of a large lemon.

Upstarts, who that morning had trembled at his frown, and had very properly deemed themselves unworthy to braid his tail, now swept by him with swaggering insolence, as if to compensate in their new-found freedom for the years of social enslavement they had been subjected to.

"Senor, if a-was one man whath lo-va you' thaughter, all is possiblee to lo-va." Pauline, nervously braiding some bits of wire which she had unconsciously taken from a shelf, glanced upagainst her will,into the eyes of Galahad.

But anon she falls a-sighing, and braided a tress of hair 'twixt white fingers ere she spoke: "'Tis said of thee that thou art a hermit and live alone within these solitudes.

EPILOGUE TO A MOTHER, ON SEEING HER SMILE REPEATED IN HER DAUGHTER'S EYES A thousand songs I might have made Of You, and only You; A thousand thousand tongues of fire That trembled down a golden wire To lamp the night with stars, to braid The morning bough with dew.

But, powerless to begin, she feigned to busy herself all the more devotedly with braiding the deep-green circlet.

I thought I was in a sunny place with Elspeth, and that she had braided a coronet of wild flowers for her hair.

The Moorish youths and maidens crowd, With joyful face, the city square; These mount their steeds, those sit and braid Bright favors for their knights to wear.

In ten seconds Mac Strann will be down here lookin' for you!" He stepped back, humming desperately to cover his wheezing, but Barry continued to braid the horsehair with deft fingers.

" "I reckon it wouldn't suit the stranger," said Flip, dubiously producing a much-worn, slashed, and braided vaquero's jacket.