They were a bit puzzled by my paper, but the seal seemed echt-Deutsch and they pronounced it "gut, sehr gut."

I recovered from my surprise sufficiently to understand that they were thanking me for my good will while they were constantly reiterating: "It is your food and you will need every bit of it.

They both laughed heartily together, though her mirth I thought a bit forced.

Above the melee of sounds, however, I caught a gladdening bit of English.

A little bit of all right, eh?" I acquiesced in the plan and was led over to the wall while a movie-man whipped out a handkerchief and tied it over my eyes.

" He began an essay on Shakespeare's relation to music, but without waiting for this the University of Jena granted him his doctorate on February 24, 1840, a bit of speed which must have been marvellously refreshing to this poor victim of so much delay.

Biter bit, 256.

Footsore and hungry, he crawled into a big empty cask lying on Long Wharf, ate the last bit of bread and meat in his bundle, and went to sleep.

we have a long and abstruse problem in chances worked out to show that it was so many millions, and so many odd thousands to one, that accident could not have produced the phenomenon; not a bit of it.

THE LINCOLNSHIRE EEL, A bit of Munchausen.

The air bit shrewdly, and it was "bitter cold" upon entering the sanctum, although I had not quitted it many hours, having watched the "old year out and the new year in," and then taken a short nap; yet Jack Frost had been active during my absence, and cooled down the air of the sanctum some degrees below the freezing point, at the same time coating the window panes with his beautiful crystalline figures.

I've practised a good smart bit with these pistols against the time when I'd meet some of them that did itthat killed my father and mother and lots of others, and little children, too.

" "Oh, not a bit dangerous, and it rests me to hold it there.

It seemed like you two would have to be a great big man and a little bit of a baby girl with yellow hair; and now I find you'resay, Mister, honestly, you're such a poor, broke-down, little coot it seems a'most like a shame to put a bullet through you, in spite of all your doings!"

When I saw the Indians coming along I wasn't a bit scared.

He had taken off the saddle with its gay coloured Navajo blanket, and the bridle of plaited rawhide with its conchos and its silver bit.

The moment he'd said it, he began to hope that I'd say 'No'so I thought I'd punish him, by leaving him in suspense a bit.

He knew that what Blanche said was true, and it was a very pleasant, reassuring bit of knowledge.

But I had to see you, and, by a bit of luck, I suddenly remembered this splendid old church.

" "I'm not a bit surprised that you are so distressed," he said soothingly.

At last Varick broke the silence, and, speaking in an easy, if excited, conversational tone, he exclaimed: "That's a bit of bad luck for me!

He guessed that something was wrong, and in one sense he got near to the truthbut it was such a very small bit of the truth!

"Then I think I will go out and tramp about for a bit.

Linnaeus himself was a bit of a prophet; as, indeed, thus well he might; for experience and observation amount almost to the power of vatacination.

In fact he realized that he had not only found a job that would decently support him, but one that strictly conformed with his somewhat restless disposition, as it permitted him to travel to his heart's content aboard the flying trains, giving him at the same time a chance to earn an honest living and see a bit of the world.

The lecture seems to have bitten itself into John's mind; for a little later on, in July, 1835, after hearing Mr. Swindlehurst lecture, he signed the pledge.

Miss Darling was head mistress of the Diocesan School at Amherst near Rangoon, and her pupils were bathing in the sea when one of them was bitten in the leg by a shark or alligator.

Miss Grace Darling had succeeded in getting hold of her when she too was bitten and disappeared under the water.

Two persons who tried to help him were bitten by the lion.

The poison of this snake is so deadly that had he been bitten his death would have almost instantly followed.

An ugly squaw whose nose had been bitten off years before in a fight, stabbed her brother that night, because he refused her more whisky.

The winter was then so uncommonly severe all over Europe that ever since the sun seems to be frost-bitten.

He has bitten all the children around here, has killed all my chickens, and raised more hell in this village than the whole population put together.

Being seized and slain and devoured by his lady love even in the very transports of husbandly affection, it had been bitten in on his subconscious sensibilities that diminutiveness was life-saving, and natural selection had made him inferior in size to his cannibal mate.

Groundswhen it is remembered that the period embraces the complete term of the waris the fact that during the past five years an aggregate of 428,390 persons was bitten by a snake.

Assistant (after attempting to fit the soulful-eyed dog with a muzzle and narrowly escaping being bitten).

If our scheme meets with the success that we anticipate, having first satisfied the gnawings of these hunger-bitten stomachs, we shall certainly turn round and think next what we can do to provide them with decent homes for themselves and their families.

There are the same destitute hunger-bitten multitudes, it is true, and the same difficulty arises before us as to what to do with these steadily increasing hordes.

And Aja bounded, as if bitten by a snake.

And I am like a bare and withered, leafless and frost-bitten tree, which has suddenly shot up into blossom at the coming of spring in thy form.

But as for the other two, one snake has evidently bitten both.

For she has been bitten on the foot, but her lover upon the lips.

Yes, Mr. Hyde was changed, and the change had bitten deep; his humorous contempt for the law had turned to abiding hatred; his sunburned cheeks were pallid, his lungs were weak, and he coughed considerably.

He was thin and brown, the marks of the frost were bitten deep into his flesh when, one evening in early March, he drove into Nome.

Many of the men were badly frost-bitten, but only one perished on the journey.

When the people had all passed out of sight, the dog went to the children, and gnawed the strings which tied them, until he had bitten them through.

There is a strange root called the Devil's Bit Scabious, of which quaint old Gerard observes: "The great part of the root seemeth to be bitten away: old fantasticke charmers report that the devil did bite it for envie, because it is an herbe that hath so many good virtues, and is so beneficial to mankinde."

He had bitten his lip and the blood stood in his mouth and trickled down, down his clean-shaven face.

" Then I ran to the roof, and, though the stones chilled me to the bone and the frost-bitten iron hasps of the fastenings burned me like fire, I opened the trap-door and looked out.

But I made nothing of itthinking, like a careless, ill-deserving soldier-lover, eager for success and dazzled with ambition, chiefly of my profession, of how to win battles and take fortresses against the surrounding princelings, our Karl's enemies, till one day I found Helene with her cheeks wet and her pretty lips bitten till the blood had come.