Now, Mrs. BACKUP was one of your eminently respectable females, who are always loaded to the muzzle with Beautiful Moral Essays, which they try to cram down everybody's throat, but never practise themselves.

" "Yes." "Very well," said Mr. Rushton, kicking his horse, and cramming his cocked hat down on his forehead.

" "Oh, I'm going to cram my head full of learning this trip," answered Tom with a grin.

He cannoned against the table at last, and, subsiding into an easy-chair, crammed his handkerchief to his mouth and gave way to suppressed mirth.

Better far to be ignorant, but industrious and useful in any calling however humble, than to cram the mind with knowledge that leads to no good practical result.

Three hundred marks, a gold watch and a lot of food which crammed my pockets would be their booty.

I thought in my innocence that we should hear as many reports as I had crammed cartridges down her muzzle.

Having completed our observations, and crammed every available square inch of the Beagle with various storesa proceeding rendered absolutely necessary by the unsatisfactory accounts we received of the state of affairs at Swan Riverwe sailed for that place on the morning of the 12th of October.

The invaders entered the house, and returned, cramming their mouths with bread, and chopping asunder flitches of bacon.

Others there are who insist that nothing beats oleaginous diet, and cram their birds with ground oats and suet.

Kinch tried to blush, but being very dark-complexioned, his efforts in that direction were not at all apparent, so he evidenced his confusion by cramming a whole short-cake into his mouth, and almost caused a stoppage in the tunnel; Caddy became excessively red in the face, and was sure they wanted more cakes.

I' faith, Peter, you shall cram your guts full of cheesecakes and custards there; and, sirrah clerk, if thou wilt say amen stoutly, i' faith, my powder-beef-slave, I'll have a rump of beef for thee, shall make thy mouth stand

Miss Bessie was with her, and they were cramming things into a portmanteau.

It is not wise to form any theory and fit our facts to it, as a man in a hurry is apt to cram his traveling-bag, with a total disregard of shape or texture.

" "Or take Westlake," said Mortimer, cramming the tobacco into his pipe.

It was apparently of a jocular nature, for he felt impelled to slap his leg again and cram his fist into his mouth.

Little children have beautiful ideas on this subject, and would have, if properly trained, correct notions as to the rights of property; to teach them to respect the property of others, and even to respect themselves, is far preferable to cramming their memories with good rules in theory; this was the old plan; we have proof that it has not worked well.

Dudley, you just go and fetch him in, will you?" Dudley crammed rather a large piece of cake into his mouth, and dashed out of the room; and a few minutes later dragged in the would-be soldier.

We'll cram the words back down their throats and be hanged to 'em.

Probably nobody has ever crammed more energetic work into four seconds than he did then.

He crammed a fur cap down over his ears.

to cram the hungry maw, To teach the empty stomach how to fill, To pour red port adown the parched craw; Without that dread dessertto pay the bill.

We hear of a clerkship in Liverpool, a searing experience in America (described with but little deviation in New Grub Street), a gas-fitting episode in Boston, private tutorships, and cramming engagements in 'the poisonous air of working London.'

He called me down, quite late in the evening,nearly nine it was,from cramming chemical equations for my Preliminary Scientific examination.

Babies scarcely big enough to sit up crammed their little fingers into their eyes to shut out the dust; bigger children, to whom the ride would be, no doubt, the event of their lives, laughed and clapped their hands, and old men on foot took off their caps, after the fashion of the country, and bowed gravely as we whirled past.