"I ain't achin' to stop at Pymeut," says his pardner with a superior air, standing up, as he swallowed his last mouthful of cold bacon and corn-bread, and cheerfully surveyed the waste.

There was nobody to help, so it must have been he who somehow got the Colonel to the fire, got him to swallow some food, plastered his wounded face over with the carbolic ointment, and got him into bed, for in the morning all this was seen to have been done.

" "Yes, I always did like attics," said Laura, adding, as she swallowed a delicious morsel: "

He resolved to swallow all pride, and make a last appeal for a loan from some of those he dreaded to meet again.

As for mine host, he knew how to keep a still tongue in his head, and to swallow his words before they passed his teeth, for he knew very well which side of his bread was spread with butter, for Robin and his band were the best of customers and paid their scores without having them chalked up behind the door.

She puts something on her tongue, swallows a glass of water, and comes back.

He smiled at her action; then his arm closed about her spasmodically and he swallowed a lump in his throat.

The slipper swallowed the same quantity at a gulp, bowed and passed along.

Schenley swallows sing: Schenley melding leads the way to better business, you will say.

He had to swallow his pill, and he did it with the best grace possible.

so some man will read them, and swallow the bait and not feel the hook in his gills, or a truly good bank cashier who teaches Sunday school, and skips out for Canada some Saturday night, after the bank closes, and on Monday morning they find the combination of the lock on the safe changed, and when they hire a reformed burglar to open the lock the money is all gone with the cashier.

While yelling he swallows great draughts of lung-expanding, purifying air and forgets the fear of "taking cold.

What gnat did they strain at here, after having swallowed all those camels?

"I didn't eat much breakfast, and I don't believe you did either." "I swallowed a cup of boiling coffee," admitted Bob, "but that's all I remember.

Now, no Englishman would readily swallow such a thing: he would go and inquire of somebody else.'

He slipped down from the tree, gathered the large moist leaves that clustered near the pool and held them to the burning lips, Jones swallowed the drops with a hideous gurgling avidity, clutching the boy's hand ravenously to secure a more copious flow.

Why should I, who came of as good family as any in Virginia, be compelled to swallow insults as I had to-night?

" "Just so," Philip assented, swallowing the rest of his cocktail.

As a matter of fact, a person inadvertently swallowing hot tea or coffee will burn or scald his mouth or tongue much more painfully than will a professional fire-eater.

Chatterton would not suffer me even to swallow my breakfast, he was so impatient to show me off.

"That sort of thing has made plenty of shipwrecks around here," said the man of medicine; "and the people on the bar have swallowed so much salt water, the apple-jack can't hurt 'em.

It takes nerve!" Of course, no one can actually swallow fire and live.

While the bubbles were yet sparkling on the brim, the doctor's four guests snatched their glasses from the table, and swallowed the contents at a single gulp.

I hurried to my room and swallowed a dose of a sedative which had been given me to procure sleep on my first return from India.

Earthquakes swallow up this mercantile city and its "gripple merchants," as Drayton hath it, "born to be the curse of this brave isle"!