Blackburn is one of the towns which has suffered more than the rest in the present crisis, and yet a stranger to the place would not see anything in its outward appearance indicative of this adverse nip of the times.

Entering the yard, we found the wooden sheds crowded with people at breakfastall ages, from white-haired men, bent with years, to eager childhood, yammering over its morning meal, and careless till the next nip of hunger came.

I am told that Wigan was one of the firstif not the very firstof the towns of Lancashire to feel the nip of our present distress.

Lasted close onto an hour, they say, nip and tuck all the way.

Here came hue after the crier, and I was set close at mother Nip's house, and there I call'd for three pots of ale, as 'tis the manner of us courtiers.

Ay, and nip you too!

"Look here," said he, "we'll nip up to Pap's after supper.

"II thought yesterday he would have liked togrowl and nip at me.

And so Mr. Hepplewhite became even more agitated, until he dreamed of this Tutt as an enormous bird like the fabled roc, with a malignant face and a huge hooked beak that some day would nip him in the abdomen and fly, croaking, away with him.

There is a use to which the rice is applied here, which was new to us, namely, as a substitute for razors; by using two grains of it between the fingers, they nip the beard, or extract it from the chin and face.

The Fidgets, with a wild squeal, now began a mad sort of dance round and round the two children, giving them now a nip, now a pinch, now a sharp pull till they were dizzy and frightened and weary of trying to defend themselves against such unequal numbers.

Majah Ca'te'et say he wouldn' have you, an' de No'then doctuh say he wouldn't do nothin' widout you, an' Doctuh Price he j'ined in on bofe sides, an' dey had it hot an' heavy, nip an' tuck, till bimeby Majah Ca'te'et up an' say it wa'n't altogether yo' color he objected to, an' wid dat de No'then doctuh give in.

So modest she was, and so shy, Although an inveterate sinner, She'd nip out her part of the pie Before it was brought up to dinner.

Probably we shall nip into some little cove not very far up.

Scarcely three minutes had passed since the nip commenced; in one minute more the brig went down, and the ice was rolling wildly, as if in triumph, over the spot where she had disappeared.

We stood for the best part of an hour watching the bonny craft, and then, as the sun was lying low on a cloudbank and there was a nip in the evening air, we turned back to West Inch.

"I could have done with a nip after a morning's walk, but it is something new to have a whole bottle whizz past my ear.

He gave up the morning nip, docked the number of cocktails, went to bed before two, took a little gentle exercise, met Mrs. Pat Dearmanand (like Mr. Robin Ross-Ellison, General Miltiades Murger and many another) succumbed at once.

Nip and tuck it had been, the varsity straining to drop the rival boat astern, but unable to do so.

Mr. Nip and Mr. Tuck.

I'll warrant she used to lie and wait for them; and woe to the little traveller if she caught him unawares, for she could nip him in two with a single thrust of her knives.

Before they retired Madame Guix asked if there were any who felt the slightest ill, for it were better to nip sickness in the bud, and she cheerfully lanced festers and pricked blisters, bathed, powdered and bandaged the feet of some dozen old and decrepit men and young children unaccustomed to such forced marching and unable to take proper care of themselves for want of time and hot water!

She had learned to crop every spear of grass she came to, and every bit of sage brush that offered a green leaf was given a nip.

It was a race to see who should first get to Washington,and we and the Virginia mob, in alliance with the District mob, were perhaps nip and tuck for the goal.

Thus it was that Queen and Cardinal joined hands to nip the young romance in the bud.