If there is a child in the house, it is sure to spot the playful innocent; and by means of an ingenious contrivance combining the principles of the gimlet and the air-pump, it soon relieves the little human bud of its superfluous juices.

But, my friends and feller citizens, old VAN is sharper that a two-edged gimlet.

A single grain of gimlet-dust, for example, would have been as obvious as an apple.

With an expression of intense solemnity he fixed his eyes, gimlet-like, upon the middle button of the Sunday blouse of the lady in front of him and followed up the hill.

Ailward carried off as security for his debt the lock, a gimlet, and some tools, and a whetstone which hung from the roof.

In a situation calling for words of molten passion of a nature calculated to go through Madeline Bassett like a red-hot gimlet through half a pound of butter, he had said not a syllable that could bring a blush to the cheek of modesty, merely delivering a well-phrased but, in the circumstances, quite misplaced lecture on newts.

"Now you puts it to me lak dat, Peter," he answered with importance, "I wonders ef dat gimlet-haided white man ain't put some stoppers in dat deed he guv you.

" The constable tried to laugh and wriggle away, but the cashier's gimlet eyes kept boring him, and eventually he fished out a five-dollar bill and handed it in.

"Have you a gimleta large gimlet?

Give me a gimlet!" Martine went down into her kitchen and brought back the tool that had been asked.

With a strength which one would not have suspected in her little hands, withered by age, she inserted the gimlet, and made a hole at the height indicated by the servant.

James was well aware that to tell that acute individual the least particle of a story was like starting a gimlet in a pine boardthere was no stop till it had gone through.

I had made a gimlet-hole for it in the morning when our guest was out shopping; it fitted into place without noise.

They are somewhat like a gimlet in form, and consist of five iron plates, with dentated edges, which are placed radiating on the end of an iron rod, and close together, forming a blunt point towards the front.

MEPHISTOPHELES Fetch me a gimlet here!

MEPHISTOPHELES (takes the gimlet) (To FROSCH)

And each one of this claneach slim, feline little man in blue serge, white-toothed, gimlet-eyed, smooth-tongued, briskhated Mary Gowd.

Then she looked at the gimlet-eyed man in the chair and saw his eyes rove from one to another of the girls questioningly.

He amused himself burning holes through the pantry shelves, when the cook was out, and boring holes, with a gimlet, through a handsomely carved bread board.

Joseph is seen building up the framework of a house, assisted by an angel; Jesus is boring a hole with a large gimlet: an angel helps him; Mary is winding thread. 10.

With a small gimlet he bored holes in the box to let in fresh air, and fanned himself with his hat, to keep the air in motion.

pavois, as a naval term, 'bulwarks.' vrille, gimlet.

The Nation knew I had writ for it, and for the Gimlet, and I wuz awful

And that other piece you remember that come out about the same time in the Jonesville Gimlet I'll tell you plain that I approved on it, though I didn't write it.

In the absence of a gaol, the Vigilants were known to keep a culprit in duress by shutting him up for the night in a sea-chest, ventilated by means of gimlet-holes.