There was a spotless cloth upon the board, Thin bread-and-butter was upon me pressed, And China tea in a frail cup was poured

It is also rather like the knight of the chess-board; or it may make you think of the dragon of the fable; but, really, the Sea-horse is like nothing on the earth, or in the waters.

[Footnote 2: This was done through the Board of Agriculture for the War Office.

On the other hand, in the purchase of clothing, boots, blankets, etc., the War Office approached the producers directly instead of through the Board of Trade.]

[Footnote 1: Towards the end of August, the tin-plate and steel-sheet trade in this country which had suffered badly on the outbreak of war revived, and "several mills were reopened, owing to the obtaining of orders which formerly went to Germany" (Board of Trade Labour Gazette, Sept. 1914, p. 330).]

[Footnote 2: The Board of Trade receives monthly reports from employers and others in different industries.

In the potteries "most of the firms" were running short time (see the Board of Trade Labour Gazette, Sept. 1914).

What the real position of the labour market was after we had been at war two months, cannot be precisely determined, but it was certainly more serious than the Board of Trade percentage would seem to indicate.

[Footnote 2: "Certain confidential statistical enquiries on a large scale are said to support the inference to be drawn from the figures published by the Board of Trade, that at least 10 per cent of the fifteen million wage-earners in the United Kingdom are not at work at all, whilst quite as large a proportion are on short time.

The Government through the Board of Trade took the lead in the attempt to secure a share of the trade hitherto done by Germany and Austria.

Between August 4 and September 21, 1914, the Local Government Board received over 600 applications from local authorities for powers to borrow money amounting in all to over £2,500,000.

During this period the Board sanctioned loans amounting in the aggregate to more than £3,500,000, as compared with rather under £2,000,000 in the same period in 1913.

The Road Board arranged to put in hand the construction of certain new highways arranged for before the beginning of the war.

In addition, in the first seven weeks of the war, the Board arranged to make grants amounting to about £450,000 in aid of new road construction and road improvements in many different parts of the country, which will involve a total expenditure of about a million sterling.

The Board of Agriculture has urged that where practicable the acreage under wheat should be increased.

Even if the schemes sanctioned by the Local Government Board and those adopted by the Road Board were put into operation immediately, which is almost impossible, they would not make a very appreciable difference to the total wages bill of the country.

Even if the schemes sanctioned by the Local Government Board and those adopted by the Road Board were put into operation immediately, which is almost impossible, they would not make a very appreciable difference to the total wages bill of the country.

The result has been that the Government has often remained inactive when action was needed and has acted unwisely and ignorantly at times; for example, in the case of the Local Government Board circular, stating that the Army Council are prepared to issue allowances through the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association or the Local Representation Committees.

The course of unemployment in this country may be traced from the returns published each month in the Board of Trade Labour Gazette (monthly, 1d.).

" [Footnote 1: Board of Education Special Reports, vol.

An hour glass, a pepper mill, a compass, an inkstand, stand for utility, and quaint and twisted musical instruments and a backgammon board for beguilement.

The officials took good care that no goods should be smuggled on board without a boleta.

The oars used in the Philippines are usually made of bamboo poles, with a board tied to their extremities with strips of rattan.

Carlo refused her both bed and board, and, in the spring of 1578, he forced her into the Franciscan convent of San Onofrio da Folignoa favourite place of sanctuary for dishonoured gentlewomen!

"When coming up the river forty or fifty miles below Vicksburg, a Judge Owens came on board the steamboat.

Peggy saw I was bored, so she requested me one day to walk down to the poultry-yard and ask about her chickens; she pretended a great deal of anxiety, and Peter had sprained his ankle.

We shall be bored but concessive.

Yet here was a girl who might be supposed to be bored.

Peter hastily reviewed the case, though he could see his listener was bored exceedingly.

The Speaker, in purple velvet, with a sweeping plume in her three-cornered hat, sat on the throne; pages in uniform answered the many calls of the members, who, on the Government side were showing every sign of being bored, for the Opposition had the floor, and the honorable member from Mountain was again introducing her bill to give the father equal guardianship rights with the mother.

I think I should feel dreadfully bored there, for there is too great a lack of amusements.

He himself, amid all his passion for show, felt bored to death everywhere, and was at ease only among his horses; and this despite his pretensions with respect to advanced literature and philosophy, his collections of curios, such as the bourgeois of to-day does not yet understand, his furniture, his pottery, his pewter-work, and particularly his bookbindings, of which he was very proud.

She remained ensconced in her armchair, still reading, with a weary, bored expression on her anaemic countenance.

He was always fearing that she must feel bored during the long hours when he left her at home, alone with the servant.

I have caught much the same look in the eyes of twelve bored jurymen who were, nevertheless, bound to give my remarks their impartial attention.

But I pretended instead to be bored by his importunities, choosing to rub it in.

"You're bored," explained his partner.

"Bored to death.

He never bored me; I enjoyed him too thoroughly.

I rather gatherthough I did not cross-examine them at all closelythat they had been a good deal bored.

For almost as soon as he was alone, he threw himself down and scribbled a careless line to Ina Rose, advising her to accompany her father to Mentone, and adding that he believed she would not be bored there.

' The others had listened hitherto in a sort of mournful silence, distinctly bored.

' 'A Nickel Napoleon,' suggested the barrister, who was bored to death by this time, and could not imagine why Lady Maud followed the conversation with so much interest.

" "If some one hadn't offered me tea in a moment or two," Anna declared, "I should have gone back to the Prince, with whom I must confess I was very bored.

E. [10] It is probable that this Balhara, or king of the people with bored ears, which plainly means the Indians, was the Zamorin or Emperor of Calicut; who, according to the reports of the most ancient Portuguese writers concerning India, was acknowledged as a kind of emperor in the Indies, six hundred years before they discovered the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope.

MADELINE: I get a bit bored with him.

Bored with him?

Some days later[d] he was again placed in the pillory; and the letter B for blasphemer was burnt on his forehead, and his tongue was bored with a red-hot iron.

On every [Footnote 1: "This day I and B. went to see Naylor's tongue bored through, and him marked on the forehead.

It arrests priests, stops newspapers, wishes to incorporate us, in spite of ourselves, in the National Guard; robs usso we are told; lies inveteratelythat is incontestable, and altogether makes itself a great bore; but what does that matter?human nature is full of weaknesses, and prefers to be bored than bombarded.