" Like her in Trallianus, that supposed she "could shake all the world with her finger," and was afraid to clinch her hand together, lest she should crush the world like an apple in pieces: or him in Galen, that thought he was Atlas, and sustained heaven with his shoulders.

To clinch matters, he accompanied Nicholas from the cabin to the river trail, explaining: "You savvy?

" Noaks clinched his fist, and for a moment his brow darkened; the next instant, however, he laughed as though the recollection of the incident afforded him an immense amount of amusement.

Microscopic scrutiny reveals that it is made up in part of nerve cells containing a pigment similar to that present in the cells of the retina, thus clinching the argument for its ancient function as an eye.

"It sort of clinched the nail we drove through didn't it, Frank?" "Seems like it," the other went on to remark.

It made my own nerves throb, and caused me to clinch my teeth, Sam turned his head, his frightened eyes seeking the scuttle leading into the forecastle.

Well, it merely clinched the decision he already had formed.

Ted thought he would follow up his advantage and clinch the point at once.

The overworked corresponding tutor was taking his ease at the seaside on the strength of a quarter's salary in advance, which Mr. Wigmore, tremulously anxious to clinch their bargain, had insisted on paying him.

"Why, of course!" said Hilda, clinching the affair, in an intimate, confidential murmur.

He went to Bartley, and Bartley bought the property in five minutes for £1200, and paid a deposit to clinch the contract.

" "What's wrong with O'Riley?" said Fred, pointing to that eccentric individual, who was gazing intently at the bears, muttering between his teeth, and clinching his cudgel nervously.

I knew if I could clinch the deal, and get the option, that some friends of mine would invest in it, and I'd have a good thing for myself.

Redbud was clinching Verty's doubts by smiling sweetly on Ralph;Fanny was causing dreadful jealousy and conviction of his misfortune in Ralph, by making herself agreeable to Verty.

When Dr. Englehart was gonefor so I still choose to call him for some reasons, although I give my reader credit for still more astuteness than I possessed myself, and believe that he has long ago recognized, through this cloud of mystery and travesty thrown about him, an old acquaintancethe child Ernie rose from the bed on which he had lain tremulous and observant, with his small hands clinched, his eyes on fire.

"And I am going to clinch that faith," opening the door into the hall.

" "Any of our clients," added Destyn, "can be instantly switched on to a private psychical current which will clinch the only girl in the world.

Hat and cane in the left hand, he entered; two fingers of the right raised to his lips, by way of salutation (he clinched his glove in the remainder), to be offered to me later, and ignored completely, then waved carelessly, as if condoning the offense.

"It shall be clinched each ilk and deal.

And then, to clinch the imitation, he wore the twin to the Major's supposed to be unparalleled coat.

The absence of all notes of life in that direction seemed to clinch his intentions, and he knocked at the door.

"I shall go up by the four train to-morrow," she said, clinching the interview, and rising.

The new boy tried to clinch Mealy, but the naked body slipped away from him; and just then the combatants saw the satisfied grin freeze on the faces of the boys in the water.

A Servian division, immediately after Kumanova, started southwest over the mountain passes in the snow and through the valleys in the mud to clinch the great Servian object of the war with the nine points of possession.

It is the only means of preventing all parliamentary resistance, imposing silence on the clergy, and so clinching public opinion that no special interest dare raise a voice against the overwhelming evidence of the general interest.