I had to brain him wi' a rack-pin; there was nae doin' wi' him.

But the more her body recovered its strength, and her brain its clearness, the more was her mind agitated and distressed.

Life has blundered supremely, in, while making brains its darling, forgetting or helplessly surrendering to the egoisms of alimentation.

Was it, one wonders, the memory of the Gudiyattam road, and those like it in nameless thousands, that burned deep into Dr. Ida Scudder's heart and brain the desire to found a Medical School, where the American Doctor might multiply herself and reproduce her life of skillful and devoted service in the lives of hundreds of Indian women physicians?

I'll go out and brain the dog.

Next I seen him was when he brained a fella that was shootin' at me.

That young hair brained fellow has sent us a brace of petticoats aboard; and these the profane reprobate calls his divinities!

I own I like not Johnson's turgid style, That gives an inch the importance of a mile; Casts of manure a wagon-load around To raise a simple daisy from the ground; Uplifts the club of Herculesfor what? To crush a butterfly or brain a gnat; Creates a whirlwind from the earth to draw A goose's feather or exalt a straw; Sets wheels on wheels in motionsuch a clatter!

This he hid, and reserved it for deadly uses; he was not clear in his mind whether to brain Hope with it, and so be revenged on him for having shut him up in that mine, or whether to peck a hole in the tank and destroy all three by a quicker death than thirst or starvation.

POOLING BRAINS IX.

The three men, whom Jarvis had singled out as "'eathen from another tribe," became so insulting that Dave could scarcely restrain Jarvis from braining their leader on the spot.

Waco swung his arm and brained the man with an empty whiskey bottle.

"And for well-nigh braining an officer of his Majesty's infantry!" said old Major Elliott, putting his head over the hedge.

If but a tile fallen from an high roof have brained a passenger, or the breaking of a coach-wheel have endangered the burden, he swears he will keep home, or take him to his horse.

And as on each of our minds and brains the picture of the beautiful human figure is, as it were, antecedently engraved, may not the ancestral type be similarly engraved on the minds and brains of the wading birds?

In one case when a Coromantee had brained a sentry he was notified by Snelgrave that he was to die in the sight of his fellows at the end of an hour's time.

that's nothing: His braines sticke in my conscience more than yours.

I turned away, an' said I to meself, 'Darrel, thy head is softa babe could brain thee with a lady's fan.'

Thou hast said right, for that to him was Play Which was to others braines a toyle: with ease He playd on Waves which were Their troubled Seas.

SANDFORD No prating, loon, but tell me who he was, That I may brain the villain with my staff, That seeks Sir Walter's life?

Good night-caps Keepe braines warme, or Maggots will breed in 'm.

One morning at breakfast his tripe didn't suit him, and he immediately brained his wife and children and set the house on fire, varying the monotony of the scene by pitching his mother-in-law down the well, having previously, with great consideration, touched her heart with a cheese knife.

"It is very unlikely that any conjunction of circumstances should supply a stimulus to brain work commensurate with what these men carry in their own constitutions.

yo take your 'ands away, yer little varmint, or I'll brain yer.'

He welcomed the rush of dark forms, and, swinging the gun round his head, made ready to brain the first antagonist who neared him.