For several days after the first dash on Monday morning, April 9, the British tore through the German defenses on an extended front north and south of Arras, from the north bank of the River Scarpe to the German trench system just south of Loos, and straddled the iron line of Hindenburg by April 13 as far as a point seven miles southeast of Arras.

Another naked heathen, who sits straddle the animal's neck, looks around at the load, inquires if everybody is ready, jabs the elephant under the ear with a sharpened iron prong and then the trouble begins.

It's cruelty to animals for me to straddle a horse now, yet there's where I'm at home, and I'm going to buy me a cayuse of some kindsay, I ought to get at that; if I'm going around with Lettis I want to ride a horseknow anybody that's got a real live horse for sale, Mattie?

When he rode in among the buildings of the 88 ranch his eyes were gratified by the sight of freckle-faced Bill Allen straddling a cracker-box in front of the bunkhouse and having his hair cut by Rod Rockwell.

I sat there some moments straddling that branch.

I saw three witches That bowed down like barley, And straddled their brooms 'neath a louring sky,

Now you straddle that cayuse of yours and come along with me and I'll show you some rattling colts.

The result was that Bauer's greater aggressiveness carried the day, and soon Keith found himself prone on his back with a triumphant Bauer straddling his chest.

He looked like a frightened landsman straddling the end of a studdingsail-boom run out to leeward on a fast clipper, and his face was screwed up into an expression of mingled pain, amusement, and astonishment, which evidently did not begin to do justice to his conflicting emotions.

" The "kingdom of Gaboon," which straddled the equator, was the worst reputed of all.

Behind it straddled a huge, ungainly figure.

Instead of dropping to his place, he straddled the fire, stretching his arms over his head.

During each loading process I straddled the gun, looking towards Allison.

I'le make him think he's got straddle his wooly hoss, and an army of mermades was after him with red hot pitchforks.

He did not accept their appointment with his whole heart, but seeing the uncertainty of events and admitting that they might turn out either way, he straddled the issue.

"Who comes next?" To this question Henri answered by stepping up to the line, straddling his legs, and executing preliminary movements with his rifle, that seemed to indicate an intention on his part to throw the weapon bodily at the mark.

The skeleton of the Elevated Railway structure straddling almost its entire length, Sixth Avenue, sullen as a clayey stream, flows in gloom and crash.

When Max managed to reach a point directly above the one in peril, straddling the friendly limb as only a nimble boy could do, he quickly fashioned a slip-noose at one end of the rope.

He then straddled the log himself, and gave the word to push out into the stream.

Before this straddled Dom Nicolas, the Picardy monk, with his skirts picked up and his fat legs bared to the comfortable warmth.

I looked at him, and saw a huge bald-headed wild boar, with gross chops and a leering eyeonly the more ridiculous for the high-arched, gold-bowed spectacles, that straddled his nose.

Evidently the box had only now been taken from its hiding-place under a loose board in the floor; the board lay tossed to one side, and Brodie's legs straddled the opening.

I shouted, then ran forward, straddling papooses and shouldering squaws out of my way.

GENEVA BY FRANCIS H. GRIBBLE Straddling the Rhone, where it issues from the bluest lake in the world, looking out upon green meadows and wooded hills, backed by the dark ridge of the Salève, with the "great white mountain" visible in the distance, Geneva has the advantage of an incomparable site; and it is, from a town surveyor's point of view, well built.

We gained the top of the cliff, a mere knife edge in places, where we worked our way along, straddling the rock.