Granny MARBLE, to the extreme left of the picture, clenches her fists over the pungent suds, and looks fight at Granny JONES, of the Times.

" "Commodore, I wish you twenty more good hearty years of fishing in this lake, which grows, each instant, more beautiful in my eyes, as I confess does the whole earth; and to show you that I say no more than I think, I will clench it with a draught.

Here one poor word an hundred clenches makes, And ductile Dulness new meanders takes; There motley images her fancy strike, Figures ill paired, and similes unlike.

Note also the perfect antithesis in their parts between the first and second stanzas, and how the last line of the poem clenches the whole in revealing its ideathat for the sake of which it was written.

" "'Tis easy to guess, whom you intend," said LISIDEIUS, "and without naming them, I ask you if one [i.e., GEORGE WITHER] of them does not perpetually pay us with clenches upon words, and a certain clownish kind of raillery?

He is many times flat, insipid: his comic wit degenerating into clenches; his serious swelling, into bombast.

But it was beyond his control: it seemed as if all the organs of speech involuntarily clenched themselves, as the hand unconsciously clenches itself when a man is enraged.

It will never be Germany who clenches her fist, who draws down the black clouds of war over Europe.

Then, when the man frowns, and clenches his hand against the hostile fate pressing upon him, the child only weeps, and endeavors to avoid the suffering.

After which, Mr. O'Brallaghan clenches his hands with threatening vehemence, and brushing by the concealed Jinks, who makes himself as small as possible, disappears, muttering vengeance.

He has all sorts of echoes, rebuses, chronograms, &c., besides carwitchets, clenches, and quibbles.

But these, we hope, are mere epigrams and jeux-d'esprit, as far from truth as they are free from malice; a sort of running satire or critical clenches "Where one for sense and one for rhyme Is quite sufficient at one time.

Another thing, in which Mr. Malthus attempted to clench Wallace's argument, was in giving to the disproportionate power of increase in the principle of population and the supply of food a mathematical form, or reducing it to the arithmetical and geometrical ratios, in which we believe Mr. Malthus is now generally admitted, even by his friends and admirers, to have been wrong.

Dorothea begins to sob, and Gentleman Jim clenches his hands.

a question which Mr. Carlyle clenches by the addition, What right, a short time ago, hadst thou even to be?

The demand of your markets for slave produce enhances the value of the slave, and in so doing clenches another nail in the coffin, of his hopes."

For the next world as for this; will clear your name From calumnies which argue worldliness; Buy of itself the joys of paradise; And clench your lordship's interest with the pontiff.

That clenches it then, and we shall hold fast by the river.

He clenches his fist, and no one can open it.

For you must let me clench this God's truth into your minds; that you stand now in your last lot, in the end of your days when the Son of Man cometh again.

It is meant to clench into our minds the God's truth that we must stand by our faith with the arms of war if need be.

But to Shakespeare, Dryden objects, that his comic sometimes degenerates into clenches, and his serious into bombast; to Jonson, the sullen and saturnine character of his genius, his borrowing from the ancients, and the insipidity of his latter plays.

When he saw Donald Brown turn white and clench the hands he dropped from his friend's shoulders, Atchison realized what he had done.

"After matters have proceeded satisfactorily the girl, anxious to clench the matter, asks when they are to be married.

The Master made no gesture with his hands, did not frown or clench his fists, but remained impassively calm.