Patsy also bought her a set of soft and pretty furs, thinking she might need them on the journey if the weather continued cool, and this seemed to cap the climax of Myrtle's happiness.

This solemn guaranty of security to the slave system, caps the climax of national barbarity, and stains with human blood the garments of all the people.

Don't mind telling you I was in a rare funk till you capped my story so neatly.

he asked; and turning, took a slow, cool survey of the nunnery, as though looking his lastfrom the ditch at their feet to the red tiles, patched with bronze mould, that capped the walls and the roof.

The silver mines of Santa Eulalia, in Chihuahua, from which during the last century one hundred and twelve millions of dollars were taken, opened on ore deposits situated in Cretaceous limestones like those of San Carlos, and apparently similar ore-filled chambers; an igneous rock caps the hills in the vicinity, but is nowhere in contact or even proximity to the ore bodies.

And Mrs. Charteris had not wept once during the church ceremony, and had not even had hysterics during the interment at Cedarwood; and she had capped a scandalous morning's work by remaining with the undertaker and the bricklayers to supervise the closing of John Charteris's grave.

Just so all that clothes a man, even to the blue sky which caps his head,a little loosely,shapes itself to fit each particular being beneath it.

It could not, with the witling in the play, cap verses with any man.

The sketchy description of this notable rebellion here given may be completed by consulting Herrera, Dec. I., 3, i.; Fernando Columbus, Storia del Almirante; Irving, Columbus and his Companions, book xi., caps iv., v., etc.]

Think of the charm of being able to call a spade a Hoe! without your companion, however contentious, capping the exclamation.

He capped all his follies by marrying at the age of twenty a woman of no social standing and much older than himself.

It was there that Mr. Maule in his young days, not yet Lord Panmure, led the riots and drank his claret, while Saunders capped him glass for glass with whisky and kept the company in a roar with Deeside stories.

On the Darling Range is found a red cellular structure capping the granite, assuming all the appearance of having been subjected to fire; it extends also in the low country about that neighbourhood.

He capped his hands about his lips and the hunter screamed encouragement to the hunted, yelled advice, shrieked his warnings when treetrunks hurtled from behind.

About one comes Mr. Godwin to cap her happiness and give fresh glory to her beauty.

"Why doesn't Cap hurry?" he muttered, referring to his horse; "he must have heard my call, and he never lets it pass him.

He hasn't attended to business and he's capped his inefficiency by absconding with our bank account.

And Harcourt was capping the jokes of Delane.

"When the day began to break, the thudding of the door came gradually to an end, and, at last, I got hold of my courage, and went along the corridor in the half light to cap the lens of my camera.

If not: there are to be seen, capping almost every high land round London, the remains of a fifth world.

At last he told Mrs. Dearman herself, as he saw her in the rosy light that emanated from the fine old Madeira that fittingly capped a noble luncheon given by him in her honour.

His gown is a spick-and-span new one, of orthodox length, and without a single rent; he caps every Master of Arts he meets; besides a few Bachelors, and gets into the gutter to give them the wall.

" From the stoop of his store Bill watched the captain ride away, drooping at the shoulders, and with his hands folded on the pommel of his saddlehis dim blue eyes misty, the jaunty forage cap a mockery of his iron-gray hair, and the flaps of his coat fanning either side like mournful wings.

When she did hesitate, it only meant that she was seeking for the simplest word, and she would cap her pause with a monosyllable as curt as an explosion.

They've cut his curls of jetty hair, And armed him cap à pie, Until he looks as fair a knight As France could wish to see.