Rattling and rasping sounds, creaks and cracks, attested to his strong and impatiently seeking hands.

he said, in a disagreeable, rasping voice.

" "My duty, youth," quoth the stranger, rasping a hand across his grizzled chin, "my duty?

Finally, Suliman's snoring grew so loud that that in itself kept me awake; it was like listening to a hair-trombone; each blast of it rasped your nerves.

When he could again speak, he said, in his husky, rasping whisper,while grasping the painter's hand in effusive cordiality,"My dear fellow, I congratulate you.

The little creature indulged in none of the loud, rasping affectation of humour that was so maddening in the long creature; the little creature was dry, hard, and sterile, and when he did join in the conversation it was like an empty nut between the teethdusty and bitter.

At first it rasps the sense of what is correct, but the very frequency of it soon brings indifference.

"Steward!" rasped the captain.

The root of garden or red beet is exceedingly wholesome and nutritious, and Dr. Lyon Playfair has recommended that a good brown bread may be made by rasping down this root with an equal quantity of flour.

A kindly-faced old man, who in earlier days had helped her build little dust-heaps beneath the trees, takes her from the warm cot and hands her over to a woman of stern face and rasping tongue, with whom she dwells disconsolate until one fateful day she finds herself alone in a market-place, weeping the passionate tears of the waif and orphan.

Little by little the incensed gentlemen gave it a hearing, now two words and now three, interrupting it to rip out long, rasping maledictions, and wag their forefingers at each other as they strode ferociously about the apartment.

"Although I am no longer in charge of this case," rasped the fat man, "I suppose there is no objection to my rendering my distinguished associate," he bowed mockingly to M. Paul, "such assistance as is in my power.

First the Monongahela struckand reeled; The Lackawana's prow Next crashedcrashed, but not crashing; then The Admiral rammed, and rasping nigh Sloped in a broadside, which glanced by: The Monitors battered at her adamant den.

I dared not strike a match because of the sharp, rasping noise it would make, and I had to be as cautious as if I were treading with bare feet on glass, although I knew that Maxine was praying for me to be out of the house, and I was as far from wishing to linger as she was to have me stay.

A little sour apple and rasped cocoa-nut stewed with the curry will be found a great improvement.

" Captain Baumgarten rasped out a German oath.

"Not that one," rasped the officer.

It rasps a person of my temperament exceedingly to be deceived.

And when they all stopped and greeted the shooters, and crowded round the fire, he said, in a tone of rasping sarcasmin reply to Jimmy Danvers' announcement that they were back in the real life of a castle in the Middle Ages: "Any one can see that!

It is well for them they are so shallow-bottomed, for we rasped sand all the way home through the cut, and in the shallows of the river.

The Periwinkle rasps the seaweed with his tongue, and so scrapes off his dinner.

He had the uneasy fear that his hard rough hands were rasping the fine soft skin of hers.

First the Monongahela struckand reeled; The Lackawana's prow Next crashedcrashed, but not crashing; then The Admiral rammed, and rasping nigh Sloped in a broadside, which glanced by: The Monitors battered at her adamant den.

I spoke to Blandina about it, how pleased I wuz to see my sect settin' up so high in the place of honor, and she sez: "Oh, Aunt Samantha, I cannot rejoice with you, it rasps my very soul to see men slighted!

See yonder lad with tethered linnet, Its frail legs raw from rasping strings!