Perceiving this vast body of police, with Superintendent JOURDAN at its head, advancing with measured tread upon them, the Count sheathed his sword and Mr. P. shut up his deadly weapon.

Then Beltane sheathed his dagger and, in three long strides was close behind, and, stooping above the man, sought and found his hairy throat, and swung him, mighty-armed, that his head struck the wall; then Beltane, sighing, laid him upon the floor and turned toward a certain arras-hung arch: but, or ever his hand came upon this curtain, from beyond a voice haileda voice soft and musical.

Ringan had sheathed his blade, and was looking at me with a queer smile on his face.

The most powerful firms consent to sheathe this weapon, i.e. agree not to undersell one another, but to adopt a common scale of prices.

He seldom deals directly in the pathetic, but now and then, as in Evelyn Hope, the Last Ride Together, or the Incident of the French Camp, a tenderness comes over the strong verse as sheathes A film the mother eagle's eye When her bruised eaglet breathes.

And, after great persuasions to his friends And worthy resolution of them all, He first did sheathe his poniard in his breast, And so in order died all the rest.

Still it was not usual for nobles like Don Camillo to hold intercourse, beyond that which the required service exacted, with men of Jacopo's cast; but the language and manner of the Bravo so strongly attracted the curiosity, and even the sympathy of his companion, that the latter unconsciously sheathed his rapier and drew nearer.

We can leave this lumbering Spaniard behind, I have no doubt," and sheathing their dirks, the boys set off at full speed.

" To confirm this, the eye, penetrating the gloom, is confronted by a great blank metal door that sheathes the elevator.

To kill a woman, a harmless lady? Villain, prepare thyself; Draw, or I'll sheathe my falchion in thy sides.

Once out of sight of the house of McFluke, Chuck sheathed his sixshooter with a jerk and returned Racey's gun.

Then Manuel sheathed Flamberge, and Manuel cried farewell to the pigs.

" Sheathing his fury, he rode off rapidly toward the wagons, followed in silence by the others.

An old chief and a couple of warriors rode forrad, Winchester to pommel, but, seein' we was alone, they sheathed their guns, and we invited 'em to eat.

Be of cheer!the magazine of a ship-lies deep, and many sheathed bulk-heads still protect us.

Magua recoiled a step, and one of his assistants, profiting by the chance, sheathed his own knife in the bosom of Cora. (1826).

I would wish thee, Ingenioso, to sheathe thy pen, for thou canst not be successful in the fray, considering thy enemies have the advantage of the ground.

"He is a Man!" Elzemah strove to sheathe his poinard in the monk's bare breast, but the brazier crushed him down.

The captain neared the royal bed And humbly bowed his helmèd head, And laid his hand upon the plate That sheathed his breast, and said, "Though late Thy mercy comes, I hold it still My duty to do thy royal will.

When will the minister of wrath give o'er? Behold him at Araunah's threshing-floor: He stops, and seems to sheathe his flaming brand, Pleased with burnt incense from our David's hand.

a, caulicle; c1, first leaf of the plumule, sheathing the rest; c2, second leaf; c3, third leaf of the plumule; d, roots.

More Irish than the Irish though he is known to be, he has for the moment sheathed his shillelagh.

Thus in this very pretty impression, as it may almost be called, of an ancient gem; So playful Love on Ida's flowery sides With ribbon-rein the indignant lion guides; Pleased on his brindled back the lyre he rings, And shakes delirious rapture from the strings; Slow as the pausing monarch stalks along, Sheathes his retractile claws, and drinks the song.

What is it in the sweeping dignity of these pointed, oval, parallel-veined leaves, sheathed one within another, the clean column of the bloom stalk rising a foot and a half perhaps above, and at its tip the wonderful pink, dreaming Buddha of the forest, that so commands the heart?

Lying in his hammock, where he smoked his most excellent tobacco in his best pipe, Selkirk smilingly contemplated the capricious bounds, the riotous sports of his cats and kids, their graceful postures, their fraternal combats, in which sheathed claws and the inoffensive horn were the only weapons used on either side.