33 collocations for collar

And I look forward to the day when there will come a better understanding between them and ourselvesbetter perhaps than has ever been beforewhen we shall forgive them their sins against us, and they will forgive us our sins against them, one of which certainly is our meanness and shopkeeperiness in rejoicing in the war as a means of "collaring their trade."

After a sufficient allowance of frolic had gratified the crew, a daring Shetlander collared the bear as if it had been a dog, and fastened a fresh rope round its neck, and having forced it to leap overboard, the rope's end was thrown to the boat's crew of a visiter, at that moment about to leave us, and it was towed or rather led away.

That would give us our chance to collar a boat and clear.

She made a hasty exit, while Ken collared his brother and looked him over.

Hope, who had collared Ben Burnley, had sunk to the ground with him, but still clutched the assassin.

'Collar the candles, Peter!'

He suddenly turned away with a growl and collared Chisholm.

Some of the officers seized the implements of the gang, while others collared the delinquents, and marched them through the streets to the nearest police station, where they were thrust into a dungeon and locked up for the night.

"I saved you from having a cracked head that time, Gordon," he said as he collared Ditson.

" He who finds he has something to sell, And goes and whispers it down a well, Is not so apt to collar the dollars, As he who climbs a tree and hollers.

Shah Mirza also collared a fowl, which no doubt formed his next meal.

We were now dismissed, whereupon we all collared huts for our men and ourselves, and sat down to rest.

I say, give us a 'and 'ere, like a good fellow," cried Mivins; but Mivins cried in vain, for at that moment Saunders had violently collared the interpreter and dragged him towards an old Esquimau woman, whose knowledge of Scotch had not proved sufficient to enable her to understand the energetically-expressed words of the second mate.

I was requested to do likewise, as the train was off; but instead of so doing, launched such a tirade at the head of every official within reach, that they kept the train waiting to return it; at last, seeing I was obdurate, at least half a dozen rushed to the offending pile, collared the various items, and bore them towards our compartment.

Lest we forget, I'll collar Comrade Jellicoe's jug now and keep it handy.

"He's keen as mustard to collar this thiefthe keener, possibly, since he discovered that the fellow is a tenderfoot.

I said to Tom, and we collared the lamps off the table, and went up to have a look.

Hawk collared his Mercury before he could rap on the door.

Putnam collared Merriwell at the first opportunity and demanded to know the truth about Rattleton's smoking.

Then I collared Moze an' waited for you fellows.

I chased the thief, collared the purse, and took it back to its owner, who proved to be one of the richest merchants of the town.

Thieves are here; collar the rascals; bind them, skin them, strike them dead!"

Still in the same old trench clothes, with a goodly quantity of Flanders mud attached, I walked into Paddington station, and collared a seat in the train on Number 1 platform.

The rotund woman with a short waist, sketched in No. 54, may improve her figure, as shown in No. 55, by choosing belts and collars the exact shade of her shirt-waists in summer, and by not cutting off her height by any sort of outside belt on winter gowns.

He would rob the safe, and get Clifford convicted for the theft; convicted as Bolton, Clifford would never tell his real name, and Lucy should enter the Cliffords' house with a certificate of his death and a certificate of his marriage, both obtained by substitution, and so collar his share of the £20,000, and off with the real husband to fresh pastures.

33 collocations for  collar