And when they've got down prices all they can by fair means, they're forced to get them down lower by foulto sand the sugar, and sloe-leave the tea, and putSatan only that prompts 'em knows whatinto the bread; and then they don't thrivethey can't thrive; God's curse must be on them.

The mouth of this river, though of sufficient width, is so full of shoals; and sand banks as to render its entrance very dangerous.

Three men scuffed by, sanding the decks.

1080 Calm were the elements, night's silence deep, The waves scarce murmuring, and the winds asleep; Yet fate for ruin takes so still an hour, And treacherous sands the princely bark devour; Then death unworthy seized a generous race, To virtue's scandal, and the stars' disgrace!

Nissr rose again as the second shell hit fair in the hard clay of the wady, cascading earth and sand a hundred feet in air.

Willis admitted that Thompson had reason, but did not think the rebels had yet found us out; at any rate, they would be afraid to come so near our strong skirmish-line; so for his part, he wasn't thinkin' of the left; the right was the place of dangerwhat was down this gully nobody knew; the rebels might sand a force up it, but not yet, for they didn't know we were here.

121; quotations, iv. 102, n. 1; 'quotidian prey,' v. 346; Rambler, his copy of the, i. 215; 'Small sands the mountain,' &c., iii. 164; sundial, iv. 60; Universal Passion, money received for it lost in the South Sea, iv.

Among the press notices copied by the Journal was this: "The Pittsburg Commercial Journal has a new contributor who signs her name 'Jane G. Swisshelm,' dips her pen in liquid gold, and sands her paper with the down from butterflies' wings.

This game is played by marking out in the dust or sand a parallelogram, which is subdivided into a varying number of compartments.

The country round this city is inexpressibly rich and beautiful, being laid put for several miles in gardens, abounding in flowers and fruit-trees; among the latter the vine sands pre-eminent, yielding most delicious grapes.

Te fecero logistam?" "Canst count the leaves in May, Or sands i' th' ocean sea? Then count my loves I pray.

V. be true &c adj., be the case; sand the test; have the true ring; hold good, hold true, hold water.

We owe to Sand herself the account of Chopin's manner of life, his petulance, his self-inflicted torments, and the agonies of his art and his disease.

When you have finished your letters, read them over again so as to correct mistakes; sand the writing, when necessary, and never fold your paper until the letters are quite dry, lest they be effaced.