Here be caves and caverns enow to hide an army, and rocky passage-ways, narrow and winding i' the dark, where we four might hold all Black Ivo's powers at bay from now till Gabriel's trumpan we had food enow!" Quoth Beltane: "'Tis a fair thought that, and I've heard there be many outlaws in the woods hereabouts?" "Yea, forsooth.

We shall turn here and stand at bay, and the invader will come no further.

Beyond, where the two Rhinogs tower, Rhinog Fach and Rhinog Fawr, Close there after a four years' chase From Thessaly and the woods of Thrace, The beaten Dog-cat stood at bay And growled and fought and passed away.

In the novel domains they now traversed the small dog's excitable nature led him to investigate everything that seemed suspicious, but he was so cowardly, in spite of this, that once when Patsy let him down to chase a gopher or prairie dogthey were not sure whichthe animal turned at bay and sent Mumbles retreating with his stubby tail between his legs.

The flag of the Law was on the ground, in the mire of universal treason, under the feet of Louis Bonaparte; the Left raised this flag, washed away the mire with its blood, unfurled it, waved it before the eyes of the people, and from the 2d to the 5th of December held Bonaparte at bay.

He had for six years resisted and often defeated overwhelming forces; he had fought more battles than David; he had kept the enemy at bay while his prostrate country arose from the dust; he had put to flight and slain tens of thousands of the heathen; he had recovered and fortified Jerusalem, and restored the Temple worship; he had trained his people to be warlike and heroic.

Ah! see distressed He stands at bay against yon knotty trunk, That covers well his rear, his front presents An host of foes.

He now again stood at bay, clubbing his rifle for a blow, while the Indian, dropping his empty gun, brandished his tomahawk and prepared to throw it at his enemy.

Chapter II Paris At Bay The Calais and Boulogne routes were already closed.

Here the leader, with a few of their bravest men, kept the cavalry at bay, while the rest retreated at full speed down the side streets, the word being passed for them to scatter and meet again in the forest, for by this time the whole garrison would be bearing down upon them from different points.

I stood on the look-out to prevent an attack, one man being abundantly able to keep at bay a dozen who could approach only by ascending a rope hand over hand, while Marble went below to look after the two worthies who had been snoring all night in the cabin.

It was a big minute for him, and for me, too, and I'll prob'ly never forget the picture of that pantin' boy at bay among them grinnin' barbarians.

O England, staunch of nerve and strong of sinew, Best when you face the odds and stand at bay; Now show a watching world what stuff is in you! Now make your soldiers proud of you to-day!

The mendacious dispatches of victory from the Montenegrin commander gave us to believe that the Turks were kept at bay, until we found that they were actually in Niksich, and there was not a single battalion to serve as bodyguard to the Prince at Ostrog.

Bedient could not hold these two men at bay all night.

The sons of John Hyrcanus succeeded in holding at bay the Syrian armies that were sent to relieve the besieged.

He found the family at bay in their hall, the father and his three sons naked except for the shirts of mail that they had hastily slipped on.

The genteel tradition at bay.

The Saint at bay.

A great chieftain, Art McMurrough, had made himself master of the greater part of Leinster, and only by a humiliating use of "Black Rent," could he be kept at bay.

The people from the fort then, by firing their rifles, kept his foes at bay until he could be rescued; and he soon recovered from his hurt.

They drove away his horses and wounded his overseer; but he managed to get into his house and stood at bay, shooting one warrior and beating off the others.

On the strength of this house, I have borrowed money enough to keep my principal creditors at bay.

l at bay, on the whole, art belongs to the relaxation and leisure of the mind, while the substantial interests of life demand its exertion.

He stood at bay against all Europe in arms; and so desperately did he contend against the vast odds opposed to him, and so rapidly did he move from one invading column to another, successively beating back division upon division, that his astonished foes, awed by his superhuman exertions, had wellnigh turned their faces to the Rhine in panic-stricken retreat.