While Virginia was flattering herself that she had repelled the savages, and the Rappahannock men were notching their muskets with the tale of the dead, a wave was gathering to sweep down the Pamunkey or the James, and break on the walls of James Town.

"You think I'll ; No, I'll not : I have full cause of , but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws Or ere I'll ." <Cut, cleave, hack, haggle, notch, slash, gash, split, chop, hew, lop, prune, reap, mow, clip, shear, trim, dock, crop, shave, whittle, slice, slit, score, lance, carve, bisect, dissect, amputate, detruncate, syncopate.

Tact family Tail family Tain family Take down a notch Take hold of Take the hide off Take umbrage Talk (noun)

No." "Or a meal?" "No, I said I'd cut a notch on my slate first time she did, and it's all smooth yet.

He forgot all about the big trout in the pool, and stood with his fly drifting aimlessly in the water, watching with something like breathless interest this, the most daring piece of horsemanship he had ever witnessed; and he had ridden side by side with the best steeplechaser of the day, and had watched a crack Hungarian cavalry corps at its manoeuvres; which last is about the top notch of the horse-riding business.

In the pivot joint a kind of peg in one bone fits into a notch in another.

Then I went back to my own work; for I had not yet finished notching the bows.

Isak he went about building, notching his baulks and fitting up his framework; also he managed a hearth and fireplace of picked stones, though this last was troublesome, and Isak himself was not always pleased with his work.

The sun was so low now, almost below the edge of the Notch, that the rays were level and long behind her.

First, with their double-bitted axes, each drove a deep notch into the sapwood just wide enough to take the end of a two-by-six plank four or five feet long with a single grab-nail in the end,the springboard of the Pacific coast logger, whose daily business lies among the biggest timber on God's footstool.

Then jointly they chopped down to this sawed line, and there was the undercut complete, a deep notch on the side to which the tree would fall.

"Ranaway, Joe Dennishas a small notch in one of his ears.

"Stolen, a negro man named Winterhas a notch cut out of the left ear, and the mark of four or five buck shot on his legs.

"Ranaway, a yellowish negro boy named Tom, has a notch in the back of one of his ears.

In the preceding advertisements, the reader will perceive a number of cases, in which the runaway is described as 'cropt,' or a 'notch cut in the ear, or a part or the whole of the ear cut off,' &c. Two years and a half since, the writer of this saw a letter, then just received by Mr. Lewis Tappan, of New York, containing a negro's ear cut off close to the head.

For some time he focused his gaze at the Notch, from which the road sprang and flowed in slow undulations to a vanishing point in the blank spaces of the west.

In the circle of the binoculars he saw a tiny, distant figure dismount from a black horse and walk back and forth across the road directly below the Notch.

Lorry wiped his glasses and centered them on the Notch again.

Presently the twinkling front of an automobile appeareda miniature machine that wormed slowly through the Notch and descended the short pitch beyond.

Probably some Eastern tourist had taken the grade below the Notch too fast and ditched his machine.

The pony loped toward the Notch, quite as eager as his rider to attend a performance that promised action.

Within a half-mile of the Notch, Lorry pulled the pony to a walk.

This is the second holdup here at the Notch this summer.

"Just a little fireworks, as a send-off, Major," said he, notching the speed ahead, ever ahead, till a whipping gale began to beat in at the broken pane.

"Faith, but that looks like lotus-eating, all right," said the major, notching up his cartridge-belt another hole.