Davis, the arch-rebel, the chief architect of the Confederacy, under the same roof; in an hour, if no hitch come, the traitor would be bound and flying in trusty Union hands.

They are those of his two sisters, one of whom had ordered him to hitch up the cutter for her to escape, as he had every reason to believe, the other.

I might as well admit that if I could just only see how you hitch all of this League and church business to real life, I would be for it with all I've got.

'Who'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme.

" "Just as soon as I can hitch up, cousin;" and Saul pitched in his last log, looking ready to put a girdle round the earth in less than forty minutes.

You with the fur cap hitch up the mules to the second wagon.

The Green Mouse sorts out, identifies, and intercepts the young man's own particular current, hitches his subconscious self to it, and zip!he's at one end of an invisible telephone and the only girl on earth is at the other....

At the first sound of disaster he had snapped his rope strap, freed his rope and taken two half hitches round the horn.

He climbs to the top of the highest hills To search out the vales afar; He bedrocks a hole on the deepest creeks He hitches his cart to a star.

Now there happened to be convenient a great spike of rock, the same, indeed, to which the bo'sun had bidden Job tie the boat, and to this we ran the painter, taking a couple of turns about it and two half-hitches, and now, unless the rope carried away, we had no reason to fear the loss of the boat; though there seemed to us to be a danger of the creature's crushing it.

It's an easy thing to do, but you'll have to see that there're no hitches afterward.

With the roll so lying on the ground that the edge of the shelter half can just be seen when looking vertically downward one end is bent upward and over to meet the other, a clove hitch is taken with the guy rope first around the end to which it is attached and then around the other end, adjusting the length of rope between hitches to suit the wearer.

The party passed off very well in spite of one or two little hitches.

The chair he deposits by the tent door, and hitches Mop's "lead" to the back of that on which the Queen is sitting.

Whatever is, he hitches into rhyme.

Neenaby (the person who hitches on his seat), of Sault St. Marie, lodged a complaint against Mr. Butterfield and one of his runners (i.e. persons employed to look after credits given to Indians, or carry on a petty traffic by visiting their camps).

Father always hitches in his chair when he's irritated and nervous.

Now cooks for kindlewood would give great riches, And in the dixies the pale stew congeals, And ration-parties are not free from hitches,

Meanwhile "Through the Looking-Glass" was steadily progressingnot, however, without many little hitches.

She was beginning to feel the "needs and hitches" of life and had a sense of the flints strewn under foot.

At the last word Amos-Parr sprang to his feet and seized the harpoon, the boat ran right on to the whale's back, and in an instant Parr sent two irons to the hitches into the fish.

There had been a few minor hitches; for example, the food and the manner of serving it and the proper method of consuming it had furnished a bad moment or two; and once Monsignor had been obliged to feign sudden deafness on being asked a question on a subject of which he knew nothing by a priest whose name he had forgotten, until Father Jervis slid in adroitly and saved him.

It hitches on extraneous matters and it amends past legislation by mere inference.

Away you, Duncan, and sorrt it!" Mr. Duncan, who has been sitting hunched over a telephone, temporarily quiescent, smoking a woodbine, heaves a resigned sigh, extinguishes the woodbine and places it behind his ear; hitches his repairing-wallet nonchalantly over his shoulder, and departs into the nightthere to grope in several inches of mud for the two broken ends of the wire, which may be lying fifty yards apart.

On the whole the system worked admirably, though of course there were occasional hitches.