" A Northern correspondent said of the course pursued by General Jenkins, in command of Ewell's cavalry: "By way of giving the devil his due, it must be said that, although there were over sixty acres of wheat and eighty acres of corn and oats in the same field, he protected it most carefully, and picketed his horses so that it could not be injured.

I put each man to his station, and I had the sense to picket them a little distance from the house.

Their eyes opened by this, the girls picketed the shop, and told the girls who answered the advertisement that the shop was on strike.

When night came on we picketed our animals in a grass plot and lay down near them to see that they did not get tangled in the ropes and hurt, or that some red skin, not having the fear of the Lord in his heart, did not come and take them away.

"Dar's whar de pickets fire across.

Thus my soldier friends picketing the Holland-Belgium frontier had warned me in the morning.

Farther to the rear a line of horses were picketed, including my man-eating demon the white Cabool stallion, my gentle country-bred mare Moteethe pearland my handsome little pony mare, formerly my hockey or polo steed, a present from a gallant sportsman and rare good fellow, as good a judge of a horse, or a criminal, as ever sat on a bench.

Javert had undoubtedly picketed every outlet.

So we started late at night, armed cap-à-pied, and each as fierce in heart as ten tigers; arrived at the appointed spot, and having selected a convenient place for concealment, we picketed a sheep, brought with us purposely to entice the cheetar from his lair.

Van Bibber still stood looking gravely out at the lights that picketed the black surface of the city.

CHAPTER V The Tang of Life Waring rode until dawn, when he picketed Dex in a clump of chaparral and lay down to rest.

I noticed that, as the crowd moved forward, men dropped out and remained picketing the doorways of the street.

Around the strikers picketing a factory were the police in full force and a gang of thugs.