Neither master nor beast was wonted to rough ways.

But her delicate feet were unused to rough, hard roads, and, despite her will and brave efforts, she tripped and stumbled continually.

A wool-man, butcher, and dealer in skewers lately observed to him that his nephew (an idle lad) could only assist him in making them;he could rough hew them, but I was obliged to shape their ends!

Many of the hills are used as cemeteries, and are dotted over with small mounds of earth, walled in with stone flags, or rough hewn stones two feet high, frequently covered with inscriptions.

With these words she gave her a push from the table in so rough a manner, that the cards fell out of her hand.

In this country me do rough-a work," he explained apologetically; "in Pal-aer-mo do polit-a work.

The evening was a trifle chilly for June, but I've been used to roughing it all my life, especially when I was afloat, and I went into the office and began to take my clothes off.

The silence was instantly broken by a whistle the shrillest and loudest I had ever heard; the dense compressed atmosphere of the Astronaut rushing out with a force which actually created a draught through the whole vessel, to the great discomfiture of the birds, which roughed their feathers and fluttered about in dismay.

But doubtless the stage was too rough a field for the gentle Oxford scholar.

Cold sponging employed daily, and the surface of the body rubbed dry with as rough a flannel as the delicate skin of the child will bear; friction being very useful.

"Kill me, or I shall destroy everything!" He held her close to him, with so rough a grasp that she could scarcely breathe, crying: "When a child steals, it is punished!" A few drops of blood appeared and trickled down her rounded shoulder, where an abrasion had cut the delicate satin skin.

" "Wall, they have not wanted for nothing as far as I knewthe poor baby in particular;" and, as he spoke, he roughed his hair with one hand and smiled into my face a huge, honest, gummy smile, inexpressibly reassuring.

But should rough hands part so fond a clasping, the hazel would wither at the root, and the honeysuckle must fail.

We can rough itit will be lots of fun!"

So came they where torch and lanthorn smoked and gleamed, by whose fitful light they beheld a barricade, rough and hastily contrived, whence Sir Benedict fought and Walkyn smote, with divers of their stout company and lusty fellows from the town.

Horribly rough luck on the Morristons as new-comers here to have an affair like this happening in their house.

Du Guesclin, darting forward, struck so rough a blow with his sword at Don Pedro, that he brought him fainting to the ground, and then turning to the Prince of Wales said, "Nathless I give up my sword to the most valiant prince on earth."

These shrubby plants are herbaceous and mostly hardy, of a creeping nature, fast growers, and suitable for dry banks or rough stony places.

Bewlah drawed the grewel off the fire, wiped her hands, an' stood lookin' at me a minnet, then she sez, slow an' quiet, but tremblin' a little, as women hev a way er doin', when they've consid'able steam aboard, "'Hiram, other folks think lumberin' has spilt yeou; I don't; they call you rough an' rewd; I know you've got a real kind heart fer them as knows haow tew find it.

In the ring were a course of stiff jumps, lesser rings, the judges' office, a kind of watch-tower from which a strenuous fiend with a megaphone bawled things that no living soul could understand, and a number of most horsily-arrayed gentlemen, whose individual status varied from General and cavalry-colonel to rough rider, troop sergeant-major and stud groom.

[Footnote 13: Most of the dramatists whom I have consulted are opposed to the principle of "roughing out" the big scenes first, and then imbedding them, as it were, in their context.

With her pregnant assistance he roughed out a scheme, so warily conceived and so faithfully elaborated, that, on its presentation to the Lords of the Signory, it was accepted almost unanimously.

Anthony had been like the unengined hulk, moored in gentle waters with never the hope of a voyage to rough seas.

When his sitter was posed to his liking, and the artist, with a few bold, sweeping, strokes of the charcoal had roughed out his subject on the canvas, and was bending over his color-boxhe said, casually, to put her at ease, "You came alone this afternoon, did you?" "Oh, no, indeed!

There was no dust, for the road was not yet dry, and a gentle land breeze just roughed the surface of the calm sea to a deeper blue.