Darters, with snakelike necks and pointed bills, perched in the trees on the brink of the river.

The great, splendid birds, standing about as tall as a man, show fight when wounded, and advance against their assailants, clattering their formidable bills.

Curved-bill wood-hewers, birds the size and somewhat the coloration of veeries, but with long, slender sickle-bills, were common in the little garden back of the house; their habits were those of creepers, and they scrambled with agility up, along, and under the trunks and branches, and along the posts and rails of the fence, thrusting the bill into crevices for insects.

Some of them had straws or twigs in their bills.

In one piece of high forest we saw a party of toucans, conspicuous even among the tree tops because of their huge bills and the leisurely expertness with which they crawled, climbed, and hopped among the branches.

This fact has been doubted; but Miller has shot them with the ants in their bills and in their stomachs.

We need $25,000 a month to pay necessary bills.

The lowest figure, in order to enable us to meet our bills for the two months, is $50,000.

Outlines of bills and notes.

Cases on the law of bills and notes selected from decisions of English and American courts.

Laws, Statutes, etc. Handbook of the law of bills and notes.

I have an incurable habit of paying bills.

Then he handed him ten bright, crisp ten-dollar bills.

Then from an inner drawer he drew the merchant's bank-book, in which were clasped several hundred dollars in bills.

Our embarrassment for small change is renewed: many of the communes who had issued bills of five, ten, and fifteen sols, repayable in assignats, are become bankrupts, which circumstance has thrown such a discredit on all this kind of nominal money, that the bills of one town will not pass at another.

Our embarrassment for small change is renewed: many of the communes who had issued bills of five, ten, and fifteen sols, repayable in assignats, are become bankrupts, which circumstance has thrown such a discredit on all this kind of nominal money, that the bills of one town will not pass at another.

The original creation of these bills was so limited, that no town had half the number requisite for the circulation of its neighbourhood; and this decrease, with the distrust that arises from the occasion of it, greatly adds to the general inconvenience.

Some fix their bills so as to be half covered by a shutter; others fasten them only with wafers, so that the wind detaching one or two corners, makes it impossible to read the rest.

Mean time the duke's credit at Rouen began to sink; he was attended every morning with a considerable levee, consisting of the tradesmen of that city, who came with importunate faces to demand payment of their bills, which he discharged by quitting Rouen, leaving his horses and equipage to be sold, and the money to be divided among them.

The legislative committee of the Colorado State Federation of Clubs has held regular meetings during the sessions of the State Legislature, and it has been a regular custom to submit to that committee for approval all bills relating to women and children.

Seven bills were brought by employees against unions for interference with their employment, etc., and in three cases unions sought injunctions against other unions.

Usually bills have in theory to be read three times and must be voted for by a majority of a quorum.

There has in the last few years been an effort at the proper drafting of bills, but it has hardly made much progress as yet, and will be discussed in our final chapter.

I had the same notice printed on bills, and stuck up all through the country.

To this interest no doubt are due the entries in his accounts of sundry pounds spent "for treating Ladies," and for the large tailors' bills then incurred.