The next morning Magbolotó went to get his wife, but the grandmother stopped him, saying: "You shall not take my granddaughter away until you have first hulled a hundred bushels of rice.

"Hull-o-o-o!" suddenly hailed a voice from the water, "got any breakfast fer an old shipmate?

That was anticipated, though, by all the world; for the night before we set sail,it was a very murk, hot night, we were all called out to see the likeness of a large merchantman transfigured in flames upon the sky,spars and ropes and hull one net and glare of fire.

Even Cotton seeds was picked by hand, hulling the seeds out with the fingers, there was no way of ginning it by machine at that time.

Ester was sitting upon the back porch, hulling strawberries and watching with absent amusement the tireless efforts of Jane to induce a very fat and entirely brainless pup to shake hands.

One is a model of a "fore-and-aft" schooner, with whose rigging or hull the most particular tar could not find fault.

" Esther hulled a particularly fine berry and carefully putting the hull in the pan, threw the berry away.

Fernando's anxiety and mortification increased as he witnessed the repeated failures of his gunners to hull the Xenophon.

Two shot hulled the "Falcon," and others whistled through her rigging.