2705 examples of belt in sentences

In the midst of the quarrel, a fierce-looking fellow with a wooden leg and his belt full of pistols, intervened, asking with many oaths for Macrae, who thought his last moment had come.

Any way she turned she found a barrier Ben kept them in his shell belt, and he wore the belt about his waist, waking or sleeping.

Ben kept the weapon in his cartridge belt, but the extra pistol shells were among the supplies.

The moment of opportunity she had watched for, in which she might seize the cartridge belt and destroy it, had never come to pass.

He had never, as she had hoped, removed his belt and forgotten to replace it, nor had his slumber ever been so deep that she could steal it from him.

His gray-shot hair was gathered up behind into a short stiff tail, and a seaman's hanger, with a brass handle, was girded to his waist by a tarnished leather belt.

I wasn't so cold, for it was early fall, and I could get three parts of my body on to the spar, but I was hungry and thirsty and bruised, so I just took in two holes of my waist-belt, and put up a hymn, and had a look round for what I could see.

In all haste she turned her palfrey to the river, and entering the stream clutched her lover by the belt.

[Footnote 11: U.B. Phillips, History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860 (New York, 1908), pp.

The scale of cotton-belt slaveholdings rose not because free labor was unsuited to the industry but because slaveholders from the outside moved in to share the opportunity and because every prospering non-slaveholder and small slaveholder was eager to enlarge his personal scale of operations.

Until about 1850 the sugar district as well as the cotton belt was calling for labor from whatever source it might be had; but whereas the uplands had work for people of both races and all conditions, the demand of the delta lands, to which the sugar crop was confined, was almost wholly for negro slaves.

Corn and wheat, cattle and hogs were produced regularly nearly everywhere, not on a mere home consumption basis, but for sale in the cotton belt and abroad.

In the western cotton belt the lands most highly esteemed in the ante-bellum period lay in two main areas, both of which had soils far more fertile and lasting than any in the interior of the Atlantic states.

The area was locally known as the prairies or the black belt.

The rest of the western cotton belt had soils varying through much the same range as those of Georgia and the Carolinas.

[Footnote 6: This use of the term "black belt" is not to be confused with the other and more general application of it to such areas in the South at large as have a majority of negroes in their population.]

The process was that which had already been exemplified abundantly in the eastern cotton belt.

The man had a belt over his shoulders and he drew in the shafts; the son worked by traces tied to the end of the shafts and assisted his father to draw the cart; the son's wife rode in the cart, and the old woman was walking, carrying a rifle, and driving a cow."

'I offered to buy him off, but he threatened to serve me up with dumplings and wear my scalp in his belt.

From this elevation one could see that a broad belt of sea ice had been pushed bodily to seaward, and it was evident that last night the whole stretch of water from Hut Point to Turtle Island must have been openso that our poor people at Hut Point are just where they were.

Beyond this belt we passed through irregular patches where the ice, freezing at later intervals in the season, has been much screwed.

[He takes his fife from his belt] No, the green!

PIPER [flinging him the pipe from his belt] Do you fear this?

[MICHAEL gives him a drinking-horn from his belt.

"The belt of the lost Princess!"

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