"They plied me with questions: 'Do you have women in your faculty?

At this the father raised his hook, And snapped a fagot-band; He plied his work;and Lucy took The lantern in her hand.

Still he plied his arms steadily, and with sufficient skill.

My father plied the question.

" So Miss Wimple waited in her shabby little shop and plied her needle for hire.

In fact, Rauchen really feared to refuse the demand; and he plied his daughter with such argument as he could command, hoping to move her to accept the offer.

Several steamers of good size plied on the Argono river, one a freight and passenger boat, belonging to a local line going as far as Clammerport at the foot of the lake.

And so for ten minutes he plied me with questions, which showed me clearly that the Emperor had read him aright, and that he was determined, come what might, to be upon the side which won.

Sometimes the snow softened and let the horses in up to their necks when Thatcher plied whip and tongue with necessary cruelty.

Through the day, the stalwart arms of Teddy, with occasional assistance from the more delicate yet firm muscles of Harvey, had plied the paddle.

Dudley Venner drew her away and silenced her with a voice of authority, while Helen and an assistant plied their restoratives.

Smugglers' whisky is very strong, and Bridget artfully plied him with it.

The stifling heat, in spite of the palm-leaf fan which he plied mechanically, was scarcely less oppressive than his own thoughts.

' "Myra sighed, and lifted up her head, and leaning upon her arm watched the progress of her sister as she plied the needle to her work.

They must stand and hold up their clothes, while he plied his hickory.

2. Were there nothing else to prove it a system of monstrous cruelty, the fact that FEAR is the only motive with which the slave is plied during his whole existence, would be sufficient to brand it with execration as the grand tormentor of man.

In 1811 a boat steamed from Pittsburg to New Orleans, and in 1812 steam ferryboats plied between what is now Jersey City and New York, and between Philadelphia and Camden.

Chaucer's shipman, almost the sole representative of the sea in mediaeval English literature, plied a coastwise trade.

He also tells us, to instance the poet's familiarity with the sex, a story of Shelley sitting with one of his lady friends and being plied with cups of tea by that fair sympathizer,the poet talking and letting his saucer fall, and the lady wiping his perspiring face with a pocket-handkerchief.

In all the cities the shops, save one here and there, opened and closed at their proper hours, the doctor and the undertaker plied their trades, the workers gathered in the factories, soldiers drilled, scholars studied, lovers sought one another, thieves lurked and fled, politicians planned their schemes.

The whole party were plied with liquor, and became helplessly drunk, in which condition Greathouse and his associated criminals fell on and massacred them, nine souls in all.[30]

In a short time my guest reappeared and as she refreshed herself, I busily plied her with questions concerning the events of the last two weeks.

A brighter happier look came to them than we had seen, and then they plied us with questions the first of which was:"Where were you?" We told them it must be 250 miles yet to any part of California where we could live.

The inventor bent over his machine, and plied the hammer, the chisel, and the file, on various parts of it.

At the end of five days she took a warm bath and, while she still remained in the hut and plied the scratching-stick on her head, was privileged to feed herself with her own hands.