I had strength enough, however (for I cared not for the gold), to fling myself back the other way upon the ground, where I rolled backwards, downwards, I knew not how, turning over and over upon sharp ashes and metallic edges, which tore my hair and beard.and for a moment I knew no more.

The least excuse can bid thee part, And tear with pain this anxious heart.

One young hopeful once tore his clothes a-fishing, and mended his trousers with a scarlet flannel patch!

Julia, angry that her maid should thus take the liberty of seeming to know what she really wanted, tore the letter in pieces, and threw it on the floor, ordering her maid once more out of the room.

Game Preserves where they can do it in luxurious leisure; fox hunts with their pack of hunters and hounds in full cry after one poor defenceless fox, and battle-fields where they tear each other limb from limb with Gatling gun and shells; and yet we call ourselves honorable gentlemen, and talk of the delights of the chase and the glories of war!

* Bruce, alone, with trembling fingers tore open the envelope.

" It was a very toilsome journey now, obliged as they were to hug the obstinate growth of haws, wild alder, and dog roses, which tore flesh and garments in the hurried flight.

She rose up trembling and flushing very much after reading the letter, and she tore the paper into a hundred fragments, which she trod on.

"So I tear away the veils which made me ridiculous, I grant you.

It was a cruel one, for the bullet had torn its way through flesh and sinew, and for many a week the fighting arm of Jack Landis would be useless.

A youngster was tearing up a piece of paper and scattering the fragments about on the gravel.

Isa. Villain, Dog; help me to tear his Eyes out.

Just see how they have torn their handsome coats, and how the blood is dripping from them.

They tore down the two houses and built that big one.

I tore away his shirt, and saw that blood was welling from a wound in the breast.

So he tore out a fly-leaf from the big Bible, and jotted down notes of the meeting,"An outpouring of the loyal heart of West Virginia,"and yawned, ready for bed, contented with the world, himself, and God.

And then when you're asleep they tear a little hole in your neck with their sharp claws, and they suck the blood with their red lips.

Twice, I scream out in the supreme agony of my fear; then, with a mad effort, I tear my hands away.

Esmond, rushing forward, tore the dress off, so that his own hands were burned more than the little boy's, who was frightened rather than hurt by the accident.

The mighty flood ran free, tearing up trees by their roots as it ran, detaching masses of rock, dissolving islands into swirling sand and drift, carving new channels, making and unmaking the land.

They kicked, they cuffed, they scratched, they tore the garments from each other's shoulders, they foamed and rolled gasping in the yellow sand of the arena.

It can be used only at short distances; and at these it is apt to burn and tear a skin so soft and delicate as that of the thernee.

The scrap of lace merely shows that it was torn off a good handkerchief, but there is nothing about it to show that the handkerchief was different in any marked way from the average filmy scrap of muslin and lace which every smart woman carries as a handkerchief.

That very Sound tears out my hated Soul, And to compleat my ruin, I'll still behold this face where Murder dwells.

becaze Pap he has to have somebody to do for him, an' he'd just about tear up the ground if I was to name sech a thing.