It now seems that the new and terrible fagot-gun used in the French army is to be spoken of in the feminine gendermitrailleuse instead of mitrailleur, as hitherto spelt by correspondents.

It is the plundering and sacking of our city, the profanation of our mosques, the ruin of our homes, the violation of our wives and daughterscruel oppression, bigoted intolerance, whips and chains, the dungeon, the fagot, and the stakesuch are the miseries and indignities we shall see and suffer; at least, those grovelling souls will see them who now shrink from an honorable death.

So Robin straightway left the Beggar, who, upon his part, went to a budding lime bush back of the hedge, and there spread his feast upon the grass and roasted his eggs upon a little fagot fire, with a deftness gained by long labor in that line.

Come, fellow Pagans; death meanes to fare well to-day, for he is like to have rost-meate to his supper, two principal dishes; many a knight keepes a worse Table: first, a brave Generall Carbonadoed, then a fat Bishop broyl'd, whose Rochet comes in fryed for the second course, according to the old saying, A plumpe greazie Prelate fries a fagot daintily.

Had this King and Priest of Salem been brought in cursing, it had had a better appearance: for, I think, punishment for opinions which generally ends in a fagot always begins with a curse.

If this be not allowed, I do not see how we can elicit fire and fagot from this adventure; for I think there is no inseparable connexion between tythes and persecution but in the ideas of a Quaker.

And in the golden fagot of faire Concord Bound safely up those strengthes which Mutenies, Corruption and homebred Traitors scatterd.

Sc. fagot.

The whirling, blazing fagot of wood struck the slinking beast full in the side.

SCENE FIRST The NIGHT-BIRDS, of all sorts and sizes, form a great circle, perching in tiers on the branches, the briers, the stones; the CAT crouches in the grass; the BLACKBIRD hops hither and thither on a fagot.

THE BLACKBIRD [On his fagot, mystified.]

And that fragile roseate snail, struggling unaided to silver over a whole fagot, I honour!

THE BLACKBIRD [Hopping up on the fagot.]

In the old days one ran the risk of perpetual imprisonment if one made so bold as to differ from the Princethe fagot, if you did not agree with the Church; but now you must think with forty millions of men and follow them in their frantic contradictions.

The victim lay helpless before his persecutors; the agonies of disease supplied the place of rack and fagot.

3. rusticorum, etc.: The farmer-soldier's manly brood Was trained to delve the Sabine sod, And at an austere mother's nod To hew and fetch the fagot wood.

Could fire and fagot, sword or halter, stinking dungeons, whips, bears, bulls, lions, cruel rackings, stoning, starving, nakedness, etc., "and in all these things they were more than conquerors, through him that loved them"; who had also made them "willing in the day of his power.

A tarred fascine consists of a small fagot of dry wood, 20 inches in length by 4 in diameter, covered with the same composition as the preceding (Fig. 11).

It was not definitely discovered until the mahout came out of his hut with a lighted fagot for a first inspection.

And as he stood, lifting the fagot high, he heard the wild elephants trumpeting from the hills.

And as he held the fagot nearer so that the beams played in the elephant's eyes and on his coat, the mahout sat down and was still, lest the gods observe his good luck, and, being jealous, turn it into evil.

Read then of faith That shone above the fagot; Clear strains of hymn

FAGOT VOTE, a vote created by the partitioning of a property into as many tenements as will entitle the holders to vote.

The scene assumed a rather wild aspect, for the people with the baggage, in hurrying back and forth among the cooking-fires, kicked from its place many a burning fagot which crackled and showered sparks in the very path down which the bridal pair were to walk.

"I shall find him," she repeated, in a louder tone; and she drew herself up, and bent forward,but her eyes saw not the cheerful fire-light, her ears took in no sound of crackling fagot, rising wind, or muttered fear among the three who sat and looked at her.