Gallant Tar (To horrified lady of uncertain age), "BELAY THERE, OLD WOMAN!

'Gaynst such strong castles needeth greater might Then those small forts which ye were wont belay**: Such haughty mynds, enur'd to hardy fight, Disdayne to yield unto the first assay.

[** Belay, beleaguer.]

braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase^; graft, ingraft^, inosculate^; entwine, intwine^; interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist^, interweave; entangle; twine round, belay; tighten; trice up, screw up. be joined &c; hang together, hold together; cohere &c 46.

I had helped him occasional in the beginning,learned him how to veer and haul a brace, let go or belay a sheet,but let him alone generally speaking, and went about my own business.

steady, sohaul taut the weather-braces, and belay all."

"Tell the truth and" "Belay!"

Away went the sloop, steadying her bow-lines; the call piping belay, as each sail was trimmed to the officer of the deck's fancy.

I" "Belay there!"

"Bouse a bit on this waister!" called Richard, when he had properly secured the good-man; "so; belay all that.

Belay, belayed or belaid, belaying, belayed or belaid.

The following twenty-nine are omitted by this author, as if they were always regular; belay, bet, betide, blend, bless, curse, dive, dress, geld, lean, leap, learn, mulet, pass, pen, plead, prove, rap, reave, roast, seethe, smell, spoil, stave, stay, wake, wed, whet, wont.

Belay theregive us more liberty ashore!

Avast and belay!

Avast and belay, my hearties!

He had only just time to belay it round the cleat to avoid its being jerked out of his hand, so fast was the creature they had hooked now traveling.

"Belay bellering," said Bill.

and "Belay!" While a few dukes so handy there Respectfully make love or swear; As in the poem

Putting his open hand to the side of his mouth, he (when GEORGE CAMPBELL was making one of his last speeches), shouted out, "Belay there!"

Being holy men, I trust that ye would not belie your word so pledged, therefore I know the good Saint Dunstan hath sent this in answer to my prayers.

His senses belie him.

Weele not belie our teares; we waile not thee, It is our selves and our owne losse we grieve: To thee what losse in such a change can bee? Vertue is paid her due by death alone.

You do belie my Scarborow reading so; Forgive him, he is married, that were ill: What lying lights are these?

They do belie her that do say she's dead; She is but stray'd to some by-gallery, And I must have her again.

Do not belie me: if there be any good in me, that's the best.

BUT. Do not belie me, if I had any right, I deserve to be hanged for't.

The ecclesiastics took exception at this ornament, which they said was an attempt to belie the scripture, where it is affirmed, that no man can add a cubit to his stature; and they declaimed against it with great vehemence, nay, assembled some synods, who absolutely condemned it.

In his discourse he talks of none but privy councillors, and is as prone to belie their acquaintance as he is a lady's favours.

That hath a clean face and garment with a foul soul, whose mouth belies his heart, and his fingers belie his mouth.

I have said that you were rational, and you are not going to belie my words.

Notwithstanding this noble instance, not to belie the old proverb, jugglers were never received into the order of knighthood.

And up and down the town the foul fiend sported, now here now there; snapping daintily at unexpected victims, as if to make confusion worse confounded: to belie Thurnall's theories and prognostics, and harden the hearts of fools by fresh excuses for believing that he had nothing to do with drains and water; that he was "only"such an only!"the Visitation of God.

Why belie his own aspirations? "God made the country, and man made the town.

While, therefore, other monuments, intended to perpetuate human greatness, are daily mouldering into dust, and belie the proud inscriptions which they bear, the solid, granite pyramid of his glory lasts from age to age, imperishable, seen afar off, looming high over the vast desert, a mark, a sign, and a wonder, for the wayfarers though this pilgrimage of life.

The sentence read: "He durst not, because what a noble heart dares least is to belie the plighted word, and what the kind heart shuns most is to wrong the confiding friend.

so that his sense of touch might well belie the truth.

Ready for all excesses, and not blushing to confess them, loving and hating with fury, incapable of controlling herself, and opposed to all constraint, she did not belie the great and haughty family from which she was sprung.

The months in war-time sometimes belie their traditions, but it is fitting that in May we should have enlisted a new Allythe Sun.

The after-career of Richelieu did not belie its commencement.

These pacifists belie their own construction.

Then raise the rosy goblet high, The senior's chalice and belie The tongues that trouble and defile, For we have yet a little while To linger, you and youth and I, In college days.

Cardinal Sadolet did not belie their expectation; he received them with kindness, discussed with them their profession of faith, pointed out to them divers articles which might be remodelled without disavowing the basis of their creed, and assured them that it would always be against his sentiments to have them treated as enemies.

And again this passage, called forth possibly by the letters of the Rev. Walter Blaise: "Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world.

For Justice would in sooth belie her name, Did she with this all-daring man consort.