" In his work on the Indians of California (271), Powers writes: "An aged Achomauri lost his wife, to whom he had been married probably half a century, and he tarred his face in mourning for her as though he were a womanan act totally unprecedented, and regarded by the Indians as evincing an extraordinary affection.

They had a Nigger that they was a-goin' to tar an' feather.

Workmen laid canal-banks, and tarred the huge lock-gates.

The Martha's Vineyard-man gave his brother tar a quick, impatient glance, which pretty plainly said, "tell that to the marines," when he opened the second chart, which as yet had been neglected.

They were dressed in the plain, weather-soiled, and tarred habiliments of common seamen, and bore about their several persons all the other unerring evidences of their peculiar profession.

Having tarred my hand, the fisherman's wife, kind woman, insisted upon washing it herself.

They then tied his hands behind him, and took him to a small piece of bush near by,then tore off his coat, vest, and cravat, and with a jack-knife cut off his hair, occasionally cutting his scalp,and, remarking that they had a plaster that would heal it up, they tarred his head and body, and poured tar into his boots.

Use as not abusing is the proper rule, tar all the new modes of teaching and amusing children that I have introduced; but it has often appeared to me that abuse it as much as possible was the rule acted upon.

First we scrubbed the Laughing Lass, then we painted her, and resized and tarred her standing rigging, resized and rove her running gear, slushed her masts, finally careened her and scraped and painted her below.

He says: "No one could vanquish me Were I not just a trifle ill to-day." Qaddour, the little cock, the drummer-boy, Who hangs on walls and colors houses here Or tars roofs with his mates, exclaims: "I took This voyage just to get a bit of air.

A single man is a kind of protected or licensed vagabondrambling to and fro without stamp or mark, as Witwould might say,like a sheep that has been overlooked at tarring time.

The words Tar a Ri (pronounced Tory,) and meaning Come, O King, having been so constantly in the mouths of the Royalists as to have become a by-word to designate them.

I'll tar yer all ober yer en' set yer on fiah.