Shafts for shuttles, dipped in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along.

I had learnt by this time that metallic cords so twined serve in Mars most of the uses for which chains are employed on Earth, and I assumed that this symbol possessed the significance which poetry or ritual might attach to the latter.

There was an unextinguished fire in the eye of the captive, and an expression of fearless indignation in the proud bearing with which he strode by the side of his captors, that clearly told how bravely he would sell his life but for the cords that tightly bound his wrists behind him, and were held by a powerful Cree on each side.

Sharp cords and flaccid folds in Wutzler's neck, Chantel's brown cheeks, the point of Heywood's resolute chin, shone wet and polished in the lamplight.

" "How's that?" Dabney's reply was to draw from his pocket a couple of long, strong cords, bits of old fishing-lines.

He cracked a couple of clams one against the other; tied the fleshy part of one to each of the cords; tied bits of shell on, a foot or so from the ends, for sinkers; handed one cord to Ford, took the other himself, and laid the long-handled scoop-net he had brought with him down between them, saying, "Now we're ready.

The infant seemed to cling to him from that moment, and the Great Father above alone knows how strangely and rapidly those cords of love were cemented between the bluff, old bachelor sea-captain and the infant.

Then the servants of Holofernes turned aside and bound Achior to a tree hands and feet with cords, and left him and so returned to their lord.

At last they espied a Shining One coming toward them with a whip of small cords in his hand.

Matt Abrahamson thought he had found something of more than usual value when he came upon this chest; but when he cut the cords and broke open the box with his broadaxe, he could not have been more astonished had he beheld a salamander instead of a baby of nine or ten months old lying half smothered in the blankets that covered the bottom of the chest.

It was filled half full of books and papers, and half full of canvas bags tied safely and securely around and around with cords of string.

The bows, four feet long, are very stout, and strongly reinforced with cords of sinew along the back.

But so great were the complications of the involved Venetian machineso many were the mysteries and fears environing the daily life of these patriciansthat each felt the actual to be safer than the untried unknown, and surrendered the hope of change, tightening the cords that upheld the government as their only means of safety.

verse 15, And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the Temple; this prying Divine makes these discoveries, "I discover," says he, "in the first place, that in the Church or Temple, a scourge may be made, And when he had made a scourge.

All the cords of the imperial pavilions are of silk.

One landscape = ten cords of wood = a quarter-acre of corn = twenty dollars.

The hands and wrists of the latter were in a sad condition, they had been so hurt by the cords tied round them.

A knife sawed the cords, a pair of hands gripped my heels and flung me forward, and as I fell clear of the groove the stone horror crashed back into its bed with a jolt that shook the huge table!

[Sidenote: A Show Place] I went to get the photograph of you I always have on my dressing-table, to show it to Lady Theodosia, and I met quite a troop of tourists on the stairs, and all the place railed off with fat red cords, and everything being explained to them by a guide who has the appearance of a very haughty butler, and lives here just to do this, and look after the things.

Oblivious of my presence, though she actually touched my dressing gown with the hand that pulled the cords, she resumed her dreadful, solemn march, disappearing at length down the long vista of the corridor like a shadow.

There was no sound of creaking cords, no rattle of heavy chainsnone of the busy hum ordinarily attending the discharge of freight from a vessel, or the packing of goods and stores on board.

Castellani renounced the modern methods of chasing and engraving, and adhered only to the antique fashion of overlaying with cords, grains, and finest threads of gold.

He called out that it was his lady who was singing, and he wanted to go to her,and his mother, who they all knew was a blessed saint in paradise years before; and he commanded them to untie him, and pulled and strained on his cords to get free; but they only tied him the tighter, and so they got him past,for, thanks to the holy wax, the sailors never heard a word, and so they kept their senses.

WOODS, H. P. Amerclad cords and cables.

The cross-bows were ordered to be inspected, all their cords, nuts, and arrows to be put in complete order, and the range of each to be ascertained by shooting at a match.