Finding it hard, however, to get about as quickly as his smaller opponent, the first classman soon went in for close, in-body fighting, following Dave, half-cornering him, and forcing him to stand and take it.

To-day there are not only victors and vanquished, but currents of hate, ferments of violence, a hungering after conquests, an unscrupulous cornering of raw materials carried out brutally and almost ostentatiously in the name of the rights of victory: a situation which renders production, let alone its development and increase, utterly impossible.

Ninthly, a keen contest of nationalisms, land-grabbing and cornering of raw materials renders friendly relations between the thirty States of Europe extremely difficult.

By a system of treaties France has created a military alliance with Belgium and Poland, thus completely cornering Germany. 2. Absolute freedom of the sea beyond territorial waters.

The woman led us to a pew cornering on one of the side-aisles, and, telling us that it used to be Burns's family-pew, showed us his seat, which is in the corner by the aisle.

In the evening, the captain came to our tent, quite surprised to find two wandering Americans in such a lonely corner of the world.

While I was contemplating this lovely view, the road turned a corner of the ridge, and lo!

"God knows," said he to François, "in what corner of the mountains you might now be, if I had not accompanied you."

It was in the extreme northeast corner of New Hampshire.

He'd thrown himself down on some old carpet, way out in the darkest corner, under the eaves.

I know I could be heard in every corner of that little church."

But it was Oily Dave who took the chief credit for the whole business, and, having succeeded in cornering the bishop and Mr. Clay, he proceeded to inform them of the manner in which he had helped the match along.

After a scanty supper, she and the old man lay down to rest in a corner of a tent, and slept, despite the busy preparations that were going on around them all night long.

I lost no time in cornering Albert Edward.

Food that was badly needed by the men at the front was hoarded by government officials in order to raise prices for their friends who were growing rich through “cornering” food supplies.

About this time the lack of food in Petrograd, the result largely of speculation and “cornering the market,” had become so serious that the government thought it wise to call in several regiments of Cossacks to reinforce the police.

" It seemed that he, too, was not above cornering her.

It was in the little bed in the corner that she used to sleep; it was in the old four-poster that her nurse slept.

In the far corner, by the window, there used to be a press, in which nurse kept tea and sugar.

She returned soon after with a small basket; and a large retriever, tied up in the corner of the yard, barked and lugged at his chain.

Look at these old haymakers; I never saw but one little corner of this picture before; it was stowed away behind a lot of lumber, and I hadn't the strength to pull it out....

She sat in a corner, a picture of deep misery; and whenever he spoke to Mrs. Bentley, he thought she would burst into tears.

Many of those who took up these issues as subsequent events showed were more keen on cornering a share of the spoils for themselves and their kin, rather than really empowering the commonman (and woman) to utilise a language they could be more at home in.

Then, each of us grabbing a corner of the mattress, we hoisted the sufferer onto the machine, covering him with a sheet.

At common law, then, these obnoxious acts may be analyzed into five definite heads: forestalling, regrating, and engrossingwhich have been thoroughly defined in an earlier chapter and the modern form of which in modern language might be called restraining production or fixing prices, the buying and selling of futures or gambling contracts, and cornering the marketrestraint of trade, and monopoly.