But the real trouble came when, after felling the dead tree, splitting an armful of fuel and carrying it to the Colonel, he returned to the task of cutting down the tough green spruce for their bedding.

She heard him felling in the woods, not so far off; she could hear from the crash that he was felling big timber.

"Now stand thou back thine own self," quoth Little John, and straightway smote the man a buffet beside his head that felled him as a butcher fells an ox, and then he leaped to the cart where Stutely sat.

With an oak stick I felled his horse.

These were all engaged in felling wood and other laborious employments, and Tisquantum prepared to lead his own horse out to meet his adopted son.

" Aubrey, referring to this old superstition, says: "I cannot omit taking notice of the great misfortune in the family of the Earl of Winchelsea, who at Eastwell, in Kent, felled down a most curious grove of oaks, near his own noble seat, and gave the first blow with his own hands.

At length the master hurled a stone at his head sufficient to have felled a bullockbut he did not heed it.

Girls and boys, the former on the right, the latter on the left-hand side of the church, filled the stalls of the choir; the priest stood beside the reading-desk; on one stained window of the side-aisle the Holy Ghost hovered over the Virgin; on another one, Mary knelt before the Child Jesus, and behind the altar, a wooden group represented Saint Michael felling the dragon.

" Tanneguy had struck and felled the duke; several others ran their swords into him; and he expired.

Then his comrades did not restrain themselves and felled their emperor together with Eclectus.

Then, felling a big fir, he manages to get in the way of its fall, and is thrown to the ground.

[Illustration: Darrin's Blow Felled the Fop to the Ground.]

"Mademoiselle, you shiver; the dew falls, and it is damp here; we must have a fire;" and Karl was away to a neighboring hedge, intent on warming his delicate charge if he felled a forest to do it.

The forest settler who swung an axe all day for his livelihood could have felled the ordinary fine gentleman with one blow of his fist.

Fra Pacifico clinched his huge fist menacingly, and dealt a blow in the air that would have felled a giant.

Brrr! said the thing, and felled the grass in swathes.

'She juist felled hersel at Graigo wi' straeberries and 'ream.'

she juist felled hersell at Craigo wi' straeberries and 'ream!"

"Two can play at that game," muttered Ben Loring, as he felled Hiram to the floor with a sweeping blow, and in half a minute Ben had his nippers on the young man's wrists.

It was after this some considerable time, that being upon the top of the hill, at the east side of the island, from whence, as I have said, I had, in a clear day, discovered the main or continent of America, Friday, the weather being very serene, looks very earnestly towards the main land, and, in a kind of surprise, fells a jumping and dancing, and calls out to me, for I was at some distance from him.

Sufficient has been said to enable you to understand how affecting it was to meet this old man in the red and yellow woods, at the end of a breathless autumn day, trying to fell a young larch.

He had no time to draw, but with a mighty sweep, sword in scabbard, he felled the Magyar to the ground; he had no time to dispatch him, and was barely able to get away.

The horrible bluntness of the question nearly felled Marcus to the floor.

That summer he felled a mass of timber, and brought it to the hut.

Now he chucked a spy into a rivernow felled a rude ambassador to the earth (for he didn't stand upon ceremony)now cleared a space round him in battle with the clapper of an old bell which he had found at the monasterynow doubled up a king in his tent, and bore him away, tent and all, and a Paladin with him, because he would not let the Paladin go.