As soon as I found water enough, for my raft drew about a foot of water, I thrust her upon that flat piece of ground, and there fastened or moored her, by sticking my two broken oars into the ground; one on one-side, near one end, and one on the other side, near the other end: and thus I lay till the water ebbed away, and left my raft and all my cargo safe on shore.

It may be well, here, to explain to the uninitiated reader, that the harpoon is a barbed spear, with a small, but stout cord, or whale line fastened to it.

The Mediterranean man, fixed on the shores that gave him birth, was accustomed to accept all the changes of history, as the mollusks fastened to the rocks endure the tempests.

The smaller red champion had fastened himself like a vice to his adversary's front, and through all the tumblings on that field never for an instant ceased to gnaw at one of his feelers near the root, having already caused the other to go by the board; while the stronger black one dashed him from side to side, and, as I saw on looking nearer, had already divested him of several of his members.

Till in the woods one evening Ah! eyes as dark as they, Fastened on mine unwontedly, Grey, and dear heart, how grey! NAPOLEON "What is the world, O soldiers?

His eyes in shadow of his hat Stare on the ruins of his house; His cloak, up-fastened with a brooch, Of faded velvet grey as mouse, Brushes the roses as he goes: Yet wavers not one rose.

These tails, meeting on the top of her head, were fastened with a small tin comb.

The recusant was marched to the river-side, and placed in the stern of the boat, which lay fastened in the ice.

The saddle on which Mr. Kinzie rode had not been properly fastened, and, owing to the rough motion of the animal on which it was, it turned, so as to bring the rider into a most awkward and painful position.

His limbs being fastened, he could not disengage himself, and in this manner he was compelled by those who had charge of him to ride until he was nearly exhausted, before they had the humanity to release him.

Here and there the plaster was broken as though some fastened object had been violently torn away.

The volume, as far as Pendleton could see, was a sort of scrap book in which had been fastened a great number of prints.

"The bolt is rusted and broken; it has probably not been fastened for months, perhaps years.

The admiral therefore gave orders that the hog and the cat should be placed close together; the cat immediately wound her tail around the snout of the hog, and with its remaining fore-leg fastened on the pole of the hog, which grunted the while most fearfully.

He pulled off some leaves from a tree, and made a cup, and taking off his sash, he fastened the cup to it, and drew up some water, and gave it to the princess.

The young man rose up, and having fastened the chains of all the apartments, he went towards the corner of the garden, and began to beat the bull he usually rode.

That ring was still fastened to its cord, and hung about her neck.

The post-office at Janesville for several months consisted of a cigar box, which was fastened to a log in the bar-room.

Mealy saw it all through envious eyes and with a pricking conscience, as he doggedly fumbled the myriad buttons which his mother had fastened upon his pretty clothes.

As Mealy fastened his last button, he felt his father's finger under his collar, and his own feet shambling blindly over the pebbles, up the path, into the bushes; he heard the boys in the water laugh with the new boy, and thenstories differ.

He was little the worse for wear when he chased the last swarm of primary urchins into his father's cow lot, fastened them in, and went at them one by one with a shingle.

Mealy donned carpet slippers in Pennington's barn, and wore long pink-and-white striped stockings of a suspiciously feminine appearance, fastened to his abbreviated shirt waist with stocking-suspenders, hated of all boys.

A black veil, fastened upon her hair like a mantilla (a style much affected by the Lucca ladies), fell in thick folds upon her shoulders, and partially shaded her face.

A green door of faded baize faced him on the upper landing, and another bella red tassel fastened to a bit of whipcord.

She never fastened herself on to any one; no one could say she intruded.