"It's all very well," said Jack Vance to Diggory, when late on in the afternoon he happened to come across the latter flattening his nose against the glass of the box-room window"it's all very well talking about writing and all that; but this is the end of the Triple Alliance.

The voice reached faintly to the top of the Sun Rock, and Gray Wolf flattened her ears.

He flattened his body against a friendly pine and listened.

" Rosie, scrubbing the veranda, hearing the last part of the sentence, piously thanked God for the master's returning health of body and mind, and flattened her head against the veranda post, to catch more.

In Thévenot is found the statement that, according to the account of a priest, probably in the 16th century, the custom prevails in some of the islands to press the heads of new-born babes between two boards, also to flatten the forehead, "since they believed that this form was a special mark of beauty."

" "I know that," said the witness viciously; "and I say that you've no business to make any such insinuations to a respectable young lady when there's a cook-housekeeper and a kitchenmaid living in the house, and him old enough to be my father" Here his lordship flattened his eyelids with startling effect, and Mr. Loram interrupted: "I make no insinuations.

"But even if they did see it, and didn't like it, they wouldn't jump over a fence to get at me, I suppose!" She walked on, along the track worn by the passing of feet, which had thinned and flattened the grass.

Under the other lad's directions, Joe flattened down the jib-sheet, and, going into the cabin, let down a foot or so of centerboard.

"We should play," he announced, "when it is play-time, and work when it is the time to work," and he set to work flattening a piece of shagreen.

He pressed harder, flattening her lips against her teeth.

The wind flattened a loose curl of hair against her cheek, and overhead the wild geese were flying and crying, small and far away.

They raised her between them with infinite care and flattened the cushions beneath her.

Haven't I got my name all over town for speed, just because I've always had to rustle out and try to learn how to flatten out a dime to the size of a dollar?

It was the wagon tire, and he saw it crushing and killing the grass at the side of the road, or rolling and flattening down the dust in long streaks.

Have a plentiful supply of bread crumbs spread evenly on a board; roll the ball lightly on the crumbs into the shape of a cylinder, and flatten each end by dropping it lightly on the board; put it in the egg (to each egg add one tablespoon of water, and beat together), and with a spoon moisten the croquette completely with the egg; lift it out on a knife-blade, and again roll lightly in the crumbs.

And he had a curious frog-like trick of flattening his eyelidsas if in the act of swallowing a large beetlewhich was the only outward and visible sign of emotion that he ever displayed.

He could not see, for his back was resolutely toward it and he was gripping the cover of the book hard to steady his hands; but he felt a breath of colder air from the outer hall; he felt above all a new presence peering in upon him, like a winter-starved lynx that might flatten its round face against the window and peer in at the lazy warmth and comfort of the humans around the hearth inside.

He lurched against the rail, as a sudden maneuver of the pilot somewhat flattened out the air-liner's fall.

Hind-quarters flattened out frog-fashion, he drags himself on his belly up to KIKI-THE-DEMURE whose striped body is perfectly quiet.

" Swing doubled a leg, flattened one bare foot against Racey's chest, straightened the leg, and deposited Racey upon his own proper cot with force and precision.

Haw-Haw Langley flattened his gaunt frame against the wall.

However, it flattened out my young friend, while Gregory ruthlessly told us the elements, and a good deal more than the elements, of that science.

She remembered stories he had told her of sudden storms that flattened the ripe grain to the ground, beyond saving; of long-continued rains that mildewed it as it stood in the shocks.

It would be well for some of our young ladies to carry burdens on their heads, even to the risk of flattening the instep, if by that means they could get the straight back of a slave.

And see how he flattens down his leaves over the surrounding grasses: they haven't a chance; he just squeezes them down and strangles them.