After she has had her own breakfast, and whilst the family are finishing theirs, she should go upstairs into the bedrooms, open all the windows, strip the clothes off the beds, and leave them to air whilst she is clearing away the breakfast things.

"We'll see, anyway," said Heywood, stripping off his coat.

Wash the celery, strip off the outer leaves, and cut it into lengths of about 4 inches.

I was put in command of the Left Section, stripped bare for its journey to Ferrara.

Mac picked the body up and held it head downwards; laid it flat again, and, stripping off the great sodden jacket, already beginning to freeze, fell to putting Kaviak through the action of artificial breathing.

At first the men, pleased by the novelty, stripped the skins.

The gypsy moth stripped the trees near Boston, and the State had to pay out all this money, and even then could not get rid of the moths.

If in a room or sheltered place, strip the body, and wrap it in blankets, overcoats, etc.

With wonderful poetic insight the bark itself is represented as telling its story to the wife, from the time when the birch tree grew beside the sea until the exiled man found it and stripped the bark and carved on its surface a message to the woman he loved.

He ate a little food, while I stripped off the garments I did not need, carrying only the one pistol.

The newcomer glanced at the body, waved us back, fell on one knee, stripped away the clothing from the breast and applied his ear to the heart.

Sometimes in his fits of intoxication, he would come riding into the field, swinging his whip, and crying out to the hands to strip off their shirts, and be ready to take a whipping: and this too when they were all busily at work.

Then we stripped the mask with its bristle of long whiskers, took the gall, and dragged the carcass into the surf where it was devoured by fish.

Let us strip the gown boldly from his shoulders.

As the trees are felled, he strips off the branches, leaving the clean trunks, and piles up the small wood in heaps.

She opened the desk, picked up a roll of money and a ladies' watch, which first caught her eye, and was reaching toward the drawer upon the right, when I interrupted her: "'Well, thief, are you trying to strip the house before you leave it?' "She gave an involuntary cry, clasped one hand to her bosom and with the other caught up her child, and stood like a wild beast at bay.

Death cancels every thing but truth; and strips a man of every thing but genius and virtue.

Show me thy purse, reverend brother, or I may perchance have to strip thy robes from thee to search for it myself.

Four days they stopped with Cypriano, who treated them royally, killing an ox and stripping his garden to feast them, and sending them on to Cassange with provisions of meal ground by his mother and her maids.

She looked at her shoesonce snowy white; with a shudder she stripped the soiled gloves from elbow to wrist and flung them aside.

They'll strip your last veil from imagination!"

When it was learned that the Germans were approaching Ghent, sixteen hundred civil guardsmen threw their rifles into the canal and, stripping off their uniforms, ran about in the pink and light-blue under-garments which the Belgians affect, frantically begging the townspeople to lend them civilian clothing.

This determined upon I called all hands, and with Watkins in command forward, preceded to strip the vessel of canvas, leaving exposed only a jib sheet, with closely reefed foresail, barely enough to give the wheelsman control.

Boil 6 eggs for 20 minutes, strip off the shells, take the yolks and pound them in a mortar.

But the mistaken notion which most strips the country of its natural guardians, is the fallacy, on the part of young and sanguine dispositions, of believing that the motives and sphere of individual action rise in proportion to the apparent magnitude of the scene.