For whenever the hand, struck by the poisoned fangs, loosened its hold on the drawer, the drawer sprang shut as you see, and everything was as beforeexcept that one man more had tasted death.

" She tried to loosen the grip of the boy's firm little fingers on her dress and to calm him, but she did not succeed, and he kept on crying louder and louder: "Come back!

Try it moderately, and it may loosen your tongue.

Fourteen years of kindly British rule had loosened the old French bonds of government and the habitants were no longer united as part of one people with the seigneurs and the clergy.

Rogers loosened his collar with a convulsive movement.

Hildebrand saw and lamented the countless evils of the day, especially those which were loosening the bands of clerical obedience, and undermining the absolutism which had become the great necessity of his age.

In vain I entreated the spotted face to take the silver, and loosen the ropes; but he spurned my offers and immediately departed.

Then it was, and just as Sergeant Corney came up to us, that I loosened my grasp entirely in order to pass my hands over the stranger's face and head.

As emphasized, the internal secretions are like tuning keys, and tighten or loosen the strings of the organism-instrument, the nerves.

"Let's go on," she said, loosening her rein.

" "What, then, loosens the tie among ourselves, where no law of primogeniture exists?" "That which loosens every thing.

D.Elecampane root possesses the general virtues of alexipharmics: it is principally recommended for promoting expectoration in humoural asthmas and coughs; in which intention, it used to be employed in the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia: liberally taken, it is said to excite urine, and loosen the belly.

" My hand was on the bridle rein, when a shout close by us made me loosen the knot more quickly than I intended.

she said, loosening his tightening hand from her wrists.

'If you will have the kindness to loosen these cords,' I answered, 'I will show you how strong I am.'

" "What, then, loosens the tie among ourselves, where no law of primogeniture exists?" "That which loosens every thing.

Nay, what would you?" "I must go back," said Beltane, loosening sword in scabbard, "for needs must I this night have word with Gui of Allerdale.

Cut a slit in the knuckle, loosen the skin, and fill it with a sage-and-onion stuffing, made by Recipe No. 504.

Discharging all their artillery, they loosened the sails, and went beating to windward on the river of Lisbon, tacking until they came to anchor at Belen, where they remained three days waiting for a wind to go out.

"Loosen up all your clothes, then.

Dan turned, loosening his revolver in the holster, and followed Bart through the soft gloom of the tree shadows and the moonlight.

She loosened her shoulder-straps, released her snow-shoes, and put them on.

He loosened his bandages toward the end.

His daughter loosened her arm from round him and turned her face toward Kurt.

It was this same rain that had so loosened the earth that the slide was caused.