Then Nig, realising that for once in a way noise seemed to be popular, pointed his nose at the big object hugging the farther shore, and howled with a right goodwill.

14° W. "Thence make the coast near the Skelligs approximately at daylight, hug the Irish coast to the Tuskar, up the Irish coast (inside the banks if possible), and across the Irish Channel during dark hours.

The dismounted Indian warriors still continued firing, but as the scouts had thrown up their intrenchments sufficiently to protect themselves by closely hugging the ground, little or no damage was done.

But no sooner were we back in our bunks than he began it again, and such was the turmoil of our nerves that day found us sitting wan about a fire, hugging our knees.

" "I've got rheumatism in my shoulder to-day," says Potts, hugging the huge fire closer.

" Captain Colden, adhering to his resolution to take the advice of his new friends, crept along the line, telling the men in sharp whispers to hug the earth, a command that they obeyed willingly, as the darkness, the silence and the mysterious nature of the danger had begun to weigh heavily upon their nerves.

I wished with all my heart that I had not come, as I groped upwards hugging the wall.

Was he true to me and mine until you returned to put evil thoughts into his heart? or had pride and jealousy already crept in there, which you have only fostered?' 'Salon hugged his chains till I showed him that they were unworthy of a true-born Indian.

He hugged the tree tightly, and, steadying himself against the boughs, at last managed to falter out: "Please thee, sir, I am Félix Michaud, and my lamb Beppo, who was to ride in the Christmas procession, ran off to-day, andandI have been hunting him, I think, ever sincesince yesterday!"

He, too, hugged the boy as he said goodbye, then handed him a piece of paper.

They had meant to hug the right bank, but snow and ice refashion the world and laugh at the trustful geography of men.

"And how did little Tim behave?" asked Mrs. Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity, and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content.

" She had got little Deanie out in her arms now, and stood hugging the child, bending to kiss Melissa, finding a hand to pat Milo's shoulder and rub Pony's tousled poll.

" The Boy could have hugged that mackinaw man.

She might have been delightedly hugging to herself a secret which she had not shared even with the trusted Abraham.

The newly ennobled parvenus were worse than the old boyars; they hugged the serf system more lovingly and the serfs more hatefully.

V. approach, approximate, appropinquate^; near; get near, go near, draw near; come to close quarters, come near; move towards, set in towards; drift; make up to; gain upon; pursue &c 622; tread on the heels of; bear up; make the land; hug the shore, hug the land.

With horror at his heart he shrank away and hugged the face of the precipice.

" Olympia was hugging the astonished woman, who glanced in terror over her shoulder to see that feminine curiosity was not dangerously alert.

Here was where she had hugged the toy dog to her breast.

He hugged Doctor Cotton-Tail and stopped crying at once.

Still hugging his gold he was gone, far down the steep slope.

I think the sketch is an exaggeration, and that I hugged the saddle in better form than it indicates.

We fired 10 shot, but all did not signify, for she hugged her wind, & it growing dark, and having a good pair of heels, she was soon lost sight of.

Written to the jolt of a troop train, in which wounded men hugged their bandaged hands, it tells how five thousand Frenchmen did their best to check a German army corps.