But with double army blankets nailed over the single window it was blessedly dark, if stuffy, and in crying need of cleaning.

He tried to raise his head to see his companions, but he might as well have been nailed to the cross, so far as pain and helplessness went.

It is not so much that you jumped on that poor soul with hob-nailed shoes, but that you formulated the 'jump' quite as the husband might have done.

A square hole is cut at the back of the pole, and the body of the dead, wrapped in a matting of cedar bark, is placed within, a board being nailed so that the body will not fall to the ground.

Pitiful, from the town Jesus was nailed on the cross At the noon-tide; Strong thieves they hanged up, One on either side.

Listen, then, for I would by no means baulk an inquisitive friend, especially one who is nailed by the ears, as you are.

One could see that it was a pleasure to the big American to lend his arm to the invalid, and at night he would stand with all respect behind his chair in the cabin and lay his great stub-nailed forefinger upon the card which he should play.

Though they may understand them not, they handle them with gentle courtesy, and are certainly in every way to be preferred to the youthful freckled monster with red spines upon his head, and nailed boots, 'the work of the Cyclops,' upon his feet, whose physiognomy is contorted by cinnamon-balls at the very moment he carries in his arms some great Golden-lips or gentle Silver-tongue.

He cleaned the first and noticed a small lead disk numbered, 7, nailed to the outside face of the bottom of the sash.

See where they have nailed the Lord and Giver of Life!

" On the following day the grocer nailed up the shutters, and locked and barred the doors of his house.

"And there's a sign nailed on the door that forbids smoking in bed.

The skin of many a slaughtered varmint was nailed on its shingle, and the landing-place was carpeted with the fur.

The story is fiction or factif fiction, why has it not been nailed to the wall?

Christ, indeed, is not even its symbol; on the contrary, the chosen symbol of Christianity is the cross to which Christ was nailed and on which He died.

His good qualities would have ruined him had not destiny with great discernment and charity nailed him to his little patrimony, where he was comparatively safe.

He wished to persuade people that the human species were made to be nailed to a chair, and to pore over books.

First Hag: He to be in the fair to-day and to take the fancy, you would hear the nailed boots of the frieze-coated man footing steps on the sidewalk.

Peron needle equals nailed fist.

At the back of these buildings were nailed the trophies of the gamekeeper: hundreds of wild cats, dried to blackness, stretched their downward heads and legs from the mouldering wall; hawks, magpies, and jays hung in tattered remnants!

but all grey, and even green, with age; and the heads of birds in plenteous rows, nailed beak upward, and so dried and shrivelled by the suns and winds and frosts of many seasons, that their distinctive characters were lost.

Meanwhile the father took eight nailshe had them in his pocketand with all the crowd looking on, he nailed down the lid of the coffin.

It was a misfortunate meeting for Delany, for Asche nailed him upon the spot and made him repeat to Caput Magnus the story of how he had seen Tony throw the brick and then, for some fool reason, not being satisfied to let it go at that, he insisted on calling in a stenographer and having Delany swear to the yarn in affidavit form!

He fell, pierced by two musket balls, in the van of a division of boats, attacking their principal vessel, a fine schooner of about eighty tons, with a long eighteen pounder on a pivot, and four smaller guns, with the bloody flag nailed to the mast.

Stephen kept hammering and prying, and Ruth held on to all he gained, until they slipped the wedge along gradually, to where the board was nailed again, to the middle joist or stringer.