A dozen more were pushing their claims, every one in vain.

Patsy made a rush for it, but before she could reach the table half a dozen more papers had been piled above it, and gathering speed the great press hummed busily and the pile of Tribunes grew as if by magic.

Not that he spoke to any of them; but he pointed out the several kinds,policemen, firemen, messenger-boys, loafers, brokers, post-office carriers, a dozen more, with a degree of confidence which fairly astonished his friends.

The British fired half a dozen more shots at the fleeing boat; but the bullets began dropping behind.

In 1654, Claybourne, who was in possession of Kent Island, was threatened by the Catholics from Maryland, and John Stevens, with his friend Hugh Price and half a dozen more, went to aid in the defence of the island.

" With this he quietly closed the door again, although Louise was eager to ask a dozen more questions.

Foreign Crotons, Dracaenas, Cereuses, and a dozen more curious shapesamong them a 'cup-tree,' with concave leaves, each of which would hold water.

We tightened the root, set it perpendicular, cut it off exactly where it touched the ground, and then pulled carefully till we brought the plant and half a dozen more strange vegetables down on our heads.

Vévey lay at the water-side, many hundred feet lower, and seemingly on a narrow strand, though in truth enjoying ample space; while the houses of St. Saphorin, Corsier, Montreux, and of a dozen more villages, were clustered together, like so many of the compact habitations of wasps stuck against the mountains.

A dozen more strokes were accomplished slowly, painfully, and then, as encouraging shouts came from shore, he felt the body above him stir into life, heard a low cry of terror in his ear, and thenthey were sinking together, Clausen and he, struggling there beneath the surface!

He saw the man's intention made clear from the first, but the execution of it luxuriously postponed. Safely postponed because of the terrified girl's acceptance of his assurance that if anything happened to him, if a hand were raised against him, her father and a dozen more hostages would be shot and the town burned to the ground.

Faith would have liked to ask him why he did not stop James Denton from flirting in the store, and why the detectives were not punished for their villainous efforts in behalf of outsiders, as well as a dozen more questions, some of which would have included his own department, but she was far too wise to risk such a venture.

The first day they frightened more than they killed, but they enjoyed theirselves all right until one gentleman, who 'adn't shot a single thing all day, shot pore Bill Chambers wot was beating with about a dozen more.

" "Just pop your head inside that door," said the rude girl, "and judge for yourself, that is, if you dare to do sofor your brother is there, and Mary and a dozen more girls.

At least half a dozen more were severally drawn forth from the same box, besides rings, brooches, bracelets, and other articles of jewellery, of such magnificent materials, and costly workmanship, that Oliver had no idea, even of their names.

It was answered from among the brambles which lined the base of a cliff at one side of a clearing, and an instant later ten or a dozen more brigands came out from amongst them, and the two parties greeted each other.

If desirous of a loftier elevation, about a dozen more steps of the turret-stair will bring the occupant to the summit of the tower,where Pope used to come, no doubt, in the summer evenings, and peeppoor little shrimp that he was!through the embrasures of the battlement.

" Now he saw half a dozen trains lined up at once, and a dozen more tracks waiting, empty.

There were half a dozen more cows on board, as well as an improved breed of hogs.

This and a dozen more incidents of a similar nature made Hinpoha despair of ever gaining the good will of her aunt.

Seeing that we had some lances in the car, she rushed into her house and brought out half a dozen more.

Turn a lever and you had a dozen more knots; not with a leap or a jerk, but like a cat's sleek stretching of muscles.

A dozen more men and they would have split like a wedge through the Mormon mass.

Mamma wrote that he had blistered it with his kisses, and it's one of the big ones, but I don't care; I'll order a dozen more if he will blister them all.

Of late some assistance had been obtained, but only from Mr. Driver, the 'coach' or cramming tutor, who was directing the studies of Frank and half a dozen more youths, and his aid was strictly limited to a share in the Sunday services.