There was a crash and a splintered debrisplates that rolled like hoops to the four corners of the room, shivering as they landed; a great ringing explosion of heavy stoneware, and herself drenched with the webby water.

" "The iron hoops do not," Cartwright rejoined.

Or is there some occult relation between spheres and hoops?

Though, personally, I think all that sort of thing went out of fashion with our great-grandmother's hoops, and crinolines.

At the foot of "the hill," down in town, is, or was, a tidy old elm, which was said to have been hooped with iron to protect it from Indian tomahawks, (Credat Hahnemannus,) and to have grown round its hoops and buried them in its wood.

The Crown made for the coronation of Victoria, consisting of a purple velvet cap enclosed by hoops of silver, and studded with diamonds.

Its eighteen wooden hoops are 8 inches thick and 15 inches broad, and its 127 staves are 91 inches thick.

He spent his mornings in bed, his afternoons reclining on the bank behind his residence, puffing at his dudheen and watching our recruits going through the hoops with the amused contempt that a gentleman of leisure naturally feels for the working classes.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar; The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

The walls were made of two rows of palm trees and other strong timber, firmly set in the ground, and bound together with iron hoops and large nails, the space between the two rows of timber being rammed full of earth and sand, and the whole surrounded by a ditch always full of water.

To keep off the fireships and floating castles, he constructed a species of rafts, made of masts or spars eight fathoms long, and bound together with iron bolts and hoops.

Jack's head was a barrel about to burst its hoops; his skin drying like a mummy's; his muscles in a starchy misery from lack of exercise.

Hooped wheels are very unsafe, unless the hoops are, by some process or other, firmly attached to the arms.

George had diverted him with a long story about how his father had made his whole family jump through hoops during his last years and then had snuck off to Atlantic City and spent most of his money before he collapsed.

The ladies in monstrous hoops, so that in getting into their carriages they were obliged to go edgewise.

Every man did his best, and the tough oars bent like hoops as each boat's crew strove to outstrip the others.

Canaries ceased their songs in the windows; urchins stopped their hoops and stood on the curbstones, eyeing the gloomy man askance.

There are four layers of metal hoops over the breech.

When his cloathes were worn out, he made himself a coat and a cap of goat-skins, which he stiched together with little thongs of the same, that he cut with his knife, He had no other needle but a nail; and, when his knife was worn to the back, he made others, as well as he could, of some iron hoops that were left ashore, which he beat thin, and ground upon stones.

Of course the hoops were wound with the cloth, and besides that were trimmed with apple blossoms and lilacs.

Marcus did not notice that, behind him, was a woman struggling between the two rows of seats with a bandbox, a workbasket, an umbrella, and her hoops, all of which caught in turn on one side or the other.

The lads carry lighted torches or flaming hoops steeped in tar at the top of long poles.

The women slaves at that time wore grass shirts woven very closely with hoops around on the inside to keep from contacting the body.

Hoops for these dresses were made of grape-vines that were shaped while green and cured in the sun before using.

Then specially prepared hoops or metal bands are placed round the bale, and an ingenious and simple system, involving a buckle and two pins, adopted for fastening the bale.