He turned his back to her, then, and began clipping away as before.

But that he'd be finished clipping in the course of the day, and that to-morrow morning at eight o'clock the pheayton would be ready.

It may be urged, in the case of domestic fowls, that from constant disuse, and from clipping and plucking, and other sorts of maltreatment, their wings can hardly be regarded as instruments of flight; we maintain, however, that you may pluck a fowl's wing-joints as bare as a pumpkin, but you will not erase from his memory that he is a fowl, and that his proper sphere is the open air.

With the exception of the docking of horses' tails and the clipping of the ears of dogs, she has done little or nothing in this respect, and it is much to be feared that the great benefits of pruning, as applied to the human race, are denied to the present generation; for we all know how difficult it is, in the face of the dogged opposition of the masses, to inaugurate a truly valuable reform.

But here is the main part of the clipping, well worth reading: There is something novel about a ranch which consists of spaces covering 150 feet of ground.

"Paring and clipping, and dipping the hoof in blue vitriol and vinegar, or rubbing it on, as the English shepherds do.

Marry, here's a stammerer taken clipping the king's English, and the constable and his watch hath brought him to you to be examin'd.

He took a clipping from a drawer of the desk and handed it to Uncle John, who read it carefully.

Their monosyllabic character may only be the result of that clipping and trimming which words get on shipboard.

Hell, try clipping a pithy passage out of a paper book and pasting it into your sig-file.

I have lost the clipping of that day's trial, but I remember her testimony perfectly.

" He turned to the man, who was clipping a tiny mirror on to his bayonet and hoisting it to use as a periscope.

He never advertises himself, never saves a newspaper clipping concerning himself, never keeps a sermon of his own, and will not seek applause.

and indignantly clipping away with our scissors, we turned a deaf ear to all further remarks.

My mother turned over my scanty wardrobe with perplexed looks; and an immediate cutting and clipping took place, by which old gowns of hers were made into bran new ones for me.

A little time may be well spent among the flowers and bulbs of the apartment, clipping here a leaf and here a stem, and removing the young buds and bugs.

Ulysses ran his eyes over the enclosed newspaper clipping containing the last verses of the poet.

So passed the day,Miss Prissy busily chattering, clipping, basting,Mary patiently trying on to an unheard-of extent,and Mrs. Scudder's neat room whipped into a perfect froth and foam of gauze, lace, artificial flowers, linings, and other aids, accessories, and abetments.

The end of June is a good time for clipping.

CHAPTER II All the morning she had been busy in the Craig's backyard garden, clipping, training, loosening the earth around lilac, honeysuckle, and Rose of Sharon.

Wabigoon led, weighted under his pack, selecting the clearest road for the toboggan and clipping down obstructing saplings with his keen-edged belt-ax.

" In the afternoon, as the Judge was in his office, a little springy step came clipping in.

He spent every day ten hours in his closet, in reading his courses, dozing, clipping papers, or darning his stockings; which last he performed to admiration.

The pains that are taken in sowing, tending, cutting, clipping, rolling and otherwise nursing and coaxing it, being seconded by the often-falling tears of the climate, produce results which must be seen to be appreciated."

It bears clipping, and forms a very ornamental fence.