a man had as good be ty'd to a stake and baited like Tom Dove on Easter Monday as be the necessary appurtenance of a great man's table!'

Montreal became panic-stricken lest the soldiers, baited past endurance, should break out in open violence.

Some one had baited for a bear and had killed.

He hurried to his kit in his pack, got out hook and line, baited with a tiny bit of red flannel, and went back to the creek.

I related this anecdote to Craig, and, as he testified on the trial, expressed my preference to be taken on the deck of the steamer and shot at once, rather than to be given up to a Washington mob to be baited and murdered.

But it turned out, as the cunning landlord had foreseen, that our hanger was packed close to the very door, in consequence of great numbers coming to the town in the afternoon to see a bull baited, so that when Jack Dawson closed the doors and came behind our scene to dress for his part, he told us he had as good as five pounds in his pocket.

We got to the center of the town, leaving the venerable nag behind to be baited at a big gray barn by a big, shapeless, kindly woman hostler whose wooden shoes clattered on the round cobbles of her stable yard like drum taps.

They broke the journey first at a small roadside tavern, where the horses were baited, while Betty and Mrs. Seymour gladly descended, and warmed themselves well by the kitchen fire, taking a drink of warm milk, for which the good woman who had invited them inside refused payment.

As their happened to be a lack of hostlers, it took some time to get the horses baited, and it was later than Mrs. Seymour could have wished when Caesar finally made his appearance and informed his mistress that all was ready for their departure.

And now the president, or "Tug," as he was always called, had been baited long enough.

Our race is scattered now the wide world o'er; Our wailings rise to Thee from every shore; Baited or banished by the Christian Powers, Cursed by the Moslem mid our ruined towers, Like pariah dogs, an execrated race, We crouch to-day within our 'Wailing Place', Begging, and paying dearly for, the right To bathe with tears this consecrated site.

The pen-trap, the better for the aging, was repaired and re-baited, and several Black Bears were taken.

They baited all without setting thembaited them with honey, the lure that Monarch never had refusedand when at length they found the honey baits were gone, they came where he now was taking toll and laid the long-planned snare.

Every trap was set, and baited as before with a mass of honeybut honey now mixed with a potent sleeping draft.

" That baited him.

The protest was feebly fierce, and there was the snarl of a baited animal in the tone.

This suicide case had baffled the pick of Buffalo's trained reporters; it had foiled the best efforts of her police; nevertheless, this fat-paunched fellow had baited a starving man by offering him the assignment.

The boy is as harmless as any of us if he isn't baited.

"I am not here to be baited," protested Merle.

They have baited the hook this time with a dainty morsel.

The baited stag will turn, and with the show Of his dread antlers hold the hounds at bay; The chamois drags the huntsman down th' abyss; The very ox, the partner of man's toil, The sharer of his roof, that meekly bends The strength of his huge neck beneath the yoke, Springs up, if he's provoked, whets his strong horn, And tosses his tormentor to the clouds.

The case of the baited hook.

"MORAL(E) 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard, and the purizing (so to speak) of the purist has been a tempting game since Lucian baited Lexiphanes; may I yield to the temptation?

The baited hook, the net, Drawn skilful round the wat'ry cove, shall bring Their prize delicious to the rural feast.

I cried, "would you murder him?" He flung us off, as a baited bull flings off a pack of curs.

It is fearedbut here our later historians speak with bated breath, not liking to bring such an accusation against the kind Pope, who loved men of lettersthat the destruction of St. Peter's, afterward ruthlessly carried out by succeeding popes, was in his plan, on the pretext, so constantly employed, and possibly believed in, of the instability of the ancient building.

So the two disturbing elements in the calculation may be fairly set off against each other, as making a difference of only a few thousands or tens of thousands of years either way; and the age of the glen may fairly be, if not a million years, yet such a length of years as mankind still speak of with bated breath, as if forsooth it would do them some harm.

There was a hush amidst all the great audience; such a heavy silence as comes only when many are waiting, and all with bated breath.

The stars were out and the moon was bright At the Junior Promenade, But all the glories of starlit night Were bated before the splendid sight Of that merry throngand my lady in white, At the Junior Promenade.

with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on one's feet.

" Both men spoke in low tones, for although they were Northerners, they were talking about a subject on which they were compelled to speak with bated breaths.

Your action in the Senate of the United States will greatly determine the action of the voters of Oregon on our, or rather on their, election day, for we stand before the public in the anomaly of petitioners upon a great question in which we, in its final decision, are allowed no voice, and we can only stand with expectant hearts and almost bated breath awaiting the action of men who are to make this decision.

With the bundle containing my keepsakes, I now sat down by Georgia and listened with bated breath to the sound of grandma's approaching footsteps.

When in the woods, Tom's attitude and gait would at times resemble the movements of a cock pheasant: now stealing along for a few yards, listening for the slightest sound of any animal stirring in the underwood; now standing on tiptoe for a time, with bated breath.

And he looked at the youth with bated breath and fiery eyes.

But On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness and with dangers compassed round And solitude, he bated no jot of heart or hope.

And with bated breath they listened.

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John Dickson Carr (A); 16May62; R295390. CARR, JOSEPH B. The man with bated breath.

He alluded with bated breath to the topic of corned beef; he slid, so to speak, over the soap; only in the mention of the fifty marks did his voice ring out confidently, as though righteous indignation had overcome the baser sentiment of pity.

With bated breath and eagerly beating heart Rod pursued his search.

And then there was silencea silence broken only by their bated breaths and the excited thumpings of their hearts.

As they wound up the ascent of the mountain he noticed that Antonio and José conversed with bated breath and many pious crossings of themselves, but with eyes always wistfully fixed upon him.