" "Why not?" "For your sakes; he'd kill you, Joe!" At this they both gaped in unison, and as one man they drawled in vast admiration: "Good heavens!"

He gaped at us amazedly as we clambered up toward him, and I saw that he was licking his lips convulsively.

What is your opinion, Mr. Edson?" This timely question prevented Mr. Edson's retreat, for he had actually got so far in this important evolution, as to have gaped and turned his back.

The trap was open, and the huge cavity gaped before them; there was no barrier, nothing to warn them and prevent them from making a fearful plunge.

The two men gazed in silence; even Pottinger, to whom his 'osses generally represented all that was beautiful in nature, gaped with wide-open mouth.

And if so, what happened?" Racey gaped at Peaches like an expectant terrier watching a rat-hole.

Beyond the dirt pile gaped the mouth of a hole leading beneath the log.

We just gaped like a couple of idiots, and after a while I said, "Cracky, it's too good to be true.

Stone gaped, and Robinson nearly dropped his teacup.

He gaped widely at the sight of her, smoke streaming up past his eyes.

The crude grave has gaped before the cock to suck in every one of those shrunk forms, so indigent of vital impulse, so pauper of civism, lust, so draughty, so vague, so leanbut not before they have had time to dower with the ah and wo of their infirmity a whole wretched "army of grand-children."

It gaped at her now out of the throats of purple-black clouds.

All things" (as he proceeds) "fear to touch the king; yet I saw him and Apame his concubine, the daughter of the famous Bartacus, sitting on the right hand of the king, and she took the crown off his head, and put it on her own, and stroke him with her left hand; yet the king gaped and gazed on her, and when she laughed he laughed, and when she was angry he flattered to be reconciled to her."

The horses of the mounted sentinels curvetted with impatience; bayonets glittered in the sun; children gaped wearily, seated on the curbstone.

When they struggled to their feet again, the smoke had parted and the House of Silvery Voices gaped open, its front wall stripped bodily away.

At the end, one of these doors gaped open, music of a peculiar shrillness floated out.

The boy gaped and said nothing.

One poor fellow had a ghastly wound across his lower lip, which gaped wide, and showed his teeth and gums, as though a second and unnatural mouth had opened below his first.

He said it made him feel that life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work.

When "Woman's Right to Labor" was printed, many persons expressed their regret that so little was said about sin and destitution in Boston itself; and many refused to believe that every pit-fall and snare open in the Old World gaped as widely here.

Another was overturned, with broken wheels collapsed under it, and in the Red Cross canvas tilts of others gaped huge tears and rents.

He gaped at her a full moment before he found speech.

I gaped in amazement at this incredible spectacle.

And lest this fact should not have been sufficiently kept in recollection, a grave was constantly open in the burying-ground at hand, the digging of which was a source of bodily exercise and recreation to the brethren; a new one being always made when a tenant was found for that which already gaped to receive him.

" The new-made bridegroom ceased struggling and gaped at her.