The coach would probably have passed through into the stable without any serious damage had it not been for the bar or threshold that was stretched across the ground to fasten the doors to.

" The Jesuit had fastened his eyes on Mac's woollen muffler, which had been loosened during the ministering to Kaviak and had dropped on the ground.

As before, I fastened the rope to the tree.

Kazan slunk in the sand while his captor fastened the end of the hide rope to the stern of the canoe.

It was she who persuaded him to leap up through a big dark hole into the still darker interior of a car, and it was she who lured him to the darkest corner of all, where his master fastened his chain.

"Fastening my horse to one of the pine trees in the thickest clump I sawhe is there now, I supposeI crept up to the house, and tried the door.

Potts and Mac obeyed, but Kaviak had fastened his fine little hand on the weak one, and anchored so, stared about taking his bearings.

She smoothed out her crimps with a wet and ruthless hand; fastened up her pretty hair in the simple way Jack liked; gave her once cherished bonnet a spiteful shake, as she put it on, and utterly extinguished it with a big blue veil.

he has fastened his tooth, which is none of the bluntest, just in the fleshy part of my leg.

Still, he put on a bold face while Angeline fastened his refractory collar and tied his cravat.

Again she fastened her gaze upon the indomitable red rose which hung a pendant ear-ring on the right side of Abraham's head.

A big black braid was rolled around her perfectly round head; a large green jade brooch, with a braided silver edge, fastened her dress.

Choose a plump bird, and truss it in the following manner:After it has been carefully plucked, drawn, and singed, skin the neck, and fasten the head under the wing; turn the legs at the first joint, and bring the feet close to the thighs, as a woodcock should be trussed, and do not stuff it.

The gondolier landed, fastened his boat in the usual manner to the stepping-stones, and entered the court.

Then they turned the cross, and fastened his feet upward and the head downward.

"All right," returned the other, laughing, as he paused for a moment outside the pavilion to fasten the strap of his batting-glove; "I'm going to make runs this journey, or die in the attempt.

" The Carmelite fastened an uneasy look on the bright features of the young Venetian.

" "I shouldn't advise you to fasten a quarrel upon me."

To be revenged for this treachery he rushed forward, and would have seized hold of the sorceress, but she fled into the fort and fastened the gate.

May I ask the favour, Mrs. Abbott, of a bit of thread to fasten this hook afresh?" The widow-bewitched turned to her basket, and raising a piece of calico, to look for the thread "high, low, jack and the game," stared her in the face.

Make little flags by fastening a small piece of tissue paper on one end of a wooden toothpick.

Goldberger was annoyed; that was evident enough from the nervous way in which he gnawed his moustache; but he had no theory any more than the police; there was not a scintilla of evidence to fasten the crime upon any one; and the end of the hearing was that the jury brought in a verdict that Philip Vantine and Georges Drouet had died from the effects of a poison administered by a person or persons unknown.

They tied his hands as tightly as possible with hard new cords, fastening the right-hand wrist under the left elbow, and the left-hand wrist under the right elbow.

Somewhere he obtained a chain for Kazan, and after fastening the dog securely back of the tent he cut off the babiche muzzle.

So they got out, and Ralph having fastened the reins to the dashboard, clicked to the old mare, who walked away by herself.