When at last the sun arose, it glittered on a long broad blade, across which, upon the rough pavement, lay one very silent and very still, amid the tumbled glory of her hair.

Half the length of the keen blade had sunk into the wooda mute tribute to the force and speed of George's handand now Donnegan took the bright little weapon by the point and gave it back to the other.

You can move that lock with your knife-blade.

Now I'll be Hector, when his angry blade A lane through heaps of slaughter'd Grecians made!

" "Marry," cried Little John, clapping his palms together for joy, "thy bidding fitteth my liking like heft to blade.

That she chose that spot to her woe In the low dewy grass; For the reaper came with his gleaming blade.

The moment he saw the battle raging in open field, and beheld the blood flowing from the wounds of his countrymen, he forgot all else except that his strong right arm wielded a trusty blade; and its skilful stroke soon brought another of the red warriors to the ground, and chased away those who sought to secure their wounded comrade.

And God in Heaven only knows how you managed to get so far off the course!" Breathing to the night air thanks which would have driven Captain Monk mad could he have heard them, Lanyard let go the bronze blade and struck out for the melancholy bell.

Father, that is pastI am a man Once more, and look at Sorrow in the eyes; Let Truth e'en smite me with her two-edged blade, But smite me, like a warrior, face to face.

I see it upward roll'd, Day for the world, but life, fire-life for me, Smiting asunder Death's night-mystery With lightning-blade of strength and ecstasy!

They told him how it slew both man and brute, Destroying every living thing around, And laying waste the land for many a mile; And how 'twas thought no blade, by mortal wrought, Could cleave its way into the monster's heart;

Off, gown; hold, buckler; slice it, Bilbo' blade.

The gondola drove upon the spot where the limb had just been visible, and a backward stroke, that caused the ashen blade to bend like a reed, laid the trembling boat motionless.

Rising from his stooping posture, the practised gondolier gave a sweep with his blade, which caused the sluggish element of the narrow canal to whirl in eddies, and then the gondola glided into the great canal, as if it obeyed an instinct. CHAPTER XVII.

On July 27, 1623, Sir Henry Herbert licensed 'for the Palsgrave's players a tragedy of Richard the Third, or the English Profit with the Reformation, by Samuel Rowley'; and, again, on October 29 of the same year 'for the Palsgrave players a new comedy called Hard Shifte for Husbands, or Bilboes the Best Blade, written by Samuel Rowley.'

"Indeed," says he, "you are a cool blade, and a chip of the old block.

Dunburne beheld one of the watermen of his own boat knock down one of the crew of the other with the blade of an oar, and then he himself was clutched by the collar in the grasp of the man with the fur cap.

The lad took out his pocket knife, opened its big blade, and in a few minutes had pried off the strip lining the sash.

One day, as he was walking the quarter-deck, he lifted an ataghan (it might be one of the midshipmen's weapons), and unsheathing it, said, contemplating the blade, "I should like to know how a person feels after committing murder."

"Well, just look at this;" and with the tip-end of a tiny knife-blade Jimmy pointed out something in the delicate vined tendrils that had hitherto escaped notice.

Does the Bunker-Hill Monument bend in the blast like a blade of grass?

Her black hair was parted as if by a razor blade and plastered tightly in slablike masses while the tension of the braids was such that they stuck out on either side of the small head like decorated sign posts.

It was a large, open knife with a stiff spring blade which he had picked up from the floor.

Now!" He had knelt down in front of the striped chest, and passed the blade of the tool under the lid.

The blade took him fair and square in the wind, and with a loud observation that sounded like "Ouch!"