The Germans accepted the bait as the British drew off slowly; and as they advanced more ships steamed up from the east.

" "That's better than being made shark bait," said Harris; "and, by the way, speaking of sharks, I have heard that there were many of them in these waters.

And in this again the opinion of the King's great wisdom did surcharge him with a sinister fame, that Perkin was but his bait to entrap the Earl of Warwick.

Each soul is hooked with its own bait, called by its own name, drawn in its own way; and as the attractiveness of Christ is virtually infinite in its multiformity, so is that of His Church, nor is there a more unpardonable narrowness than that of insisting that others shall be drawn in the same way as we ourselves, or not at all.

For my part, I could not have been more astonished, were I to bring up the sogdollager with a trout-hook, having a cheese paring for the bait.

" I laughed, my nerves tingling to the success of my rusehe had taken the tempting bait like a hungry fish.

There was a fourth chum also, the Steve spoken of and who had slipped away with his new steel-jointed bait-rod, and a handful of fat grubs, as soon as he heard Max say they had gone far enough on their way.

He cut a willow pole, stood back and cast out his gay bit of bait, letting it drift with the riffles.

A boy said that he had persuaded some of his friends who were going fishing, to put their bait worms into a dish of boiling water to kill them before they started, and also to promise him that as soon as they took their fish out of the water, they would kill them by a sharp blow on the back of the head.

Wherefore content thee, that we are resolv'd (And therefore laid to snare thee with this bait)

Even the noble souls, never wanting in history, who follow not a bait, but belief, see only in imperfect survey the connections and relations of their deeds.

When such as Dryden and Pope lavished in preface and dedication their encomiums upon wealth and power, and waited eagerly for the golden guineas the bait might bring them, we have no right to complain of the Tates and Eusdens for prostituting their neglected Muses for a splendid sum certain per annum.

We must refresh it sometimes; as we bait [lunch] upon a journey, that we may go on with greater ease.

"You ain't much of a man, Jig, but as a bait for my trap you'll do tolerable well.

He's the bait, Arizona, and we're the trap that'll catch Sinclair.

"Leave that bait lie till the sun burns it up.

This is the hook that hangs under water to choke the fish, and his sergeant is the quill above water, which pops down so soon as ever the bait is swallowed.

So forth we fared together, and found the boat the landlord had promised us, and the tackle, and the bait.

Bait for a trap.

Bait for murder.

Blonde bait for the murder master.

Zorro takes the bait.

With fly, plug, and bait.

"Don't give up, Bill," he said, encouragingly, as Mr. Russell sat glum and silent; "read over them beautiful 'Verses to a Tea-pot' agin, and try and read them as if you 'adn't got your mouth full o' fish-bait.

Bait it with the balsam, Seek it with the knife, Baffle, if it cost you Everything in life.

I would rather bate him a few strokes of his oar than not employ an honest man that had been wounded in the Queen's service.

He does homage to no man for his great style's sake, but is strictly just in the exaction of respect again, and will not bate you a compliment.

In a letter of December 26, 1891, Lady Russell says: "Your poor country has risen victorious from many a worse fall, and will not be disheartened now, nor bate a jot of heart or hope.

I would rather bate him a few Strokes of his Oar, than not employ an honest Man that has been wounded in the Queen's Service.

I kind o' calc'late 't won't pay to take the cretur's shoes 'n' hide off to-night,'n' the' won't be much iron on that hoss's huffs an haour after daylight, I'll bate ye a quarter.

" "They're not so aisily bate outthey fight like sevin divils.

If Lady Agnes strolled in the moonlit gardens with Mr. Browne, the former Miss Bate of Boston could scarcely control her emotions.

But it wos all thrown away, it wos, for there wosn't another pig in all the length o' Ireland as had sich a will o' its own; and it had a screech, too, when it wosn't plaazed, as bate all the steam whistles in the world, it did.

Was beat called bate?

Churchill's vowel sounds, he says, "may be found in the following words: 1. Bate, 2.

BATE, Rev. Henry (Sir H. Dudley), account of him, iv. 296.

BATE, James, i. 79, n. 2. BATEMAN, Edmund, tutor of Christ Church, i. 76.

DUDLEY, Sir Henry, (alias Rev. Henry Bate), iv. 296, n. 3. DUEL, trial by, v. 24. DUELLING, defended by Johnson and Oglethorpe, ii. 179; by Johnson as being as lawful as war, ii. 226; as self-defence, iv. 211; his serious opinion not given, ib., n. 4; could not explain its rationality, v. 230; Thomas, Colonel, killed in one, iv.

BATE, WALTER JACKSON.

Walter Jackson Bate (A); 18Apr67; R408473.

Illustrated by Isabel Bate & Harold Black.

Floyd Benjamin Streeter, Isabel Bate & Harold Black (A); 28Feb69; R456016.

BATE, WALTER JACKSON.

Walter Jackson Bate (A); 18Apr67; R408473.

I'll bate thee one: goe winck, and fight: for shame.

Provided, if you prove unfaithful, then your time of a twelve-month to be prolonged; so many services, I will bate you so many days or weeks; so many faults, I will add to your 'prenticeship so much more: And of all this, I only to be judge.

For this I bate you three weeks of your service; now hear your bill of faults; for your comfort 'tis a short one.

But I've bate ye.

RICHARDS, ALFRED BATE, journalist and author; turned from law to literature; author of a number of popular dramas, volumes of poems, essays, &c.; was the first editor of the Daily Telegraph, and afterwards of the Morning Advertiser; took an active interest in the volunteer movement (1820-1876).

The Senators who voted against the treaty were: Bacon, Bate, Berry, Caffery, Chilton, Cockrell, Daniel, Gorman, Hale, Heitfeld, Hoar, Jones (Ark.), Mallory, Martin, Mills, Mitchell, Money, Murphy, Pasco, Pettigrew, Rawlins, Roach, Smith, Tillman, Turley, Turner, Vest.