monkies, you mean,dozens of black monkies, Mr. BUMPLIN," whispers OLD MORTARITY, clutching his arm as he sinks against him.

Thus she lay for a little while, as the little Pilgrim remembered she herself had lain, not wishing to move, wondering what had happened to her; then she clutched the hands which grasped her, and said, muttering, "You are some one new.

He clutched her shoulder with a great claw of a hand and drew her closer to him, his face thrust down to hers.

"It's all right," I said, as he clutched hold of the stern.

Twice have I come near bein' discovered, an' of a verity I believed, when you clutched my throat, that this was the lastthe endin' of it all.

Each man had a dim feeling in the back of his head that, after all, the hillock of gold was an illusion, and his own hand upon the dazzling pile would clutch the empty air.

" Brodie turned on him slowly, still rending at his meat, still clutching his rifle and holding it so that no man might forget that he held it.

"They are all alike, and yet"He clutched his white hair with big knuckles, and tugged; replaced his mushroom helmet; held the paper at a new focus.

There are times, though, he says, when it is a pleasure, before going to some agreeable meeting, to rush out into one's garden and clutch up a handful of what grows there,weeds and violets together,not cutting them off, but pulling them up by the roots with the brown earth they grow in sticking to them.

Startled at the sight, they turned swiftly to run; for that terrible feeling which sweeps over a hunter, when for the first time he finds himself hunted in his turn, had clutched their little hearts and crushed all their confidence.

A sudden leap of the boat caused her to clutch the rail, and instantly Sanchez was at her side, proffering assistance.

A Bishop passed thereby, and careless bent To sign the cross, a blessing brief to say; But a great Cardinal, to clutch their prey, Followed the thieves, falsely benevolent.

" At this I laughed too, partly to calm her, and patted gently the hands with which she had nervously clutched my sleeve.

These three men were looking at a fourth mana young man who appeared to be falling out of his chair, clutching convulsively the hilt of a dagger, the blade of which had been buried in his heart, clearly by Macari, who stood over him.

His hand clutched the edge of the footrail as if only so he could keep his stand there.

He clutched his head in despair.

The major shivered with apprehension as the slender hand which he held in his own contracted nervously and in a spasm of pain clutched his fingers with a viselike grip.

"Perhaps it's a wolf!" Grace clutched her dress and ran.

She clutched the newel-post for support, waiting to find strength for the ascent.

Then quite suddenly he sat down heavily on the couch, clutching a bottle of whisky in one hand and a tumbler in the other.

Thus she was just in time to see him, standing at the mouth of the cave, clutching a heavy bag; he had been tying the mouth of it.

His hand involuntarily clutched the stick as if it were a sword, and his breath came hard and quick, as if he were eager to rush into battle.

"Ah!" said Don Juan, gripping the flask in his hand as we clutch in our dreams the branch by which we are suspended over a precipice.

Across this the three friends began to crawl, holding their breath, and clutching their deadly weapons, while their hearts beat with anxiety lest their victims should escape.

Directly I was on my feet I went as giddy as a kite, and it was only by clutching the chair that I saved myself from toppling over.