This was the woe that ate the mother's heart; this was the sorrow that clouded millions of homes when mothers saw their boys pranked out in the trappings of war.

You've played a prank, acted a part, and cast a jest for what you have.

To please Mrs. Newcome, his father whipped Tommy for upsetting his little brothers in the go-cart; but, upon being pressed to repeat the whipping for some other prank, Mr. Newcome refused, saying that the boy got flogging enough at school, with which opinion Master Tommy fully agreed.

Whenever the young gentlemen from the castle wanted to play a special prank, one of them would take the knight on his shoulders, and the knightly long mantle would be hung over his shoulders so as to cover him down to his high boot-tops.

Crude they are, I grant youa sort of unlicked, incondite thingsvillainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases.

CHAPTER V A MAD PRANK OF THE GODS A week after the publication of that blithe bit of acrimony which opens this tale, Colonel J. Rodney Potts, recreated and natty in a new summer suit of alpaca, his hat freshly ironed, sued the town of Little Arcady for ten thousand dollar damages to his person and announced his candidacy at the ensuing election for the honorable office of Judge of Slocum County.

You will find it pranked out in philosophic garb in the doctrines of those who teach that all things are linked together by necessity of nature or Divine will, and that nothing could ever have happened otherwise than just as it has come to pass.

smart, gay, trickly^, flowery, glittering; new gilt, new spangled; fine as a Mayday queen, fine as a fivepence^, fine as a carrot fresh scraped; pranked out, bedight^, well-groomed.

She had been in mischief herself too often when at Phil's age not to feel sympathy with him on the score of the prank he had played that afternoon.

"Who would be likely to make a special visit to you to-day?" asked Katherine, momentarily forgetting Phil's prank of yesterday.

Portia added with the falsely deprecatory air of a mother apologizing for a child's prank, that Pietro had in fact, already invited him to the dinner and had only just informed her of the fact.

They were good-natured, jolly young fellows, and they lightened their labor with many a joke and playful prank.

Moreover, men struck by surprise, men stalked with infinite cunning; the moment when he felt most secure in his stall and ate with his head down, blinded by the manger, was the very moment which the Mexican had often chosen to play some cruel prank.

It was also something of a gala-day for Madame la Générale too, as it must be a gala-day for all old wives to see their husbands pranked in the manners and graces that had conquered their maidenhood, and exhaling once more that ambrosial fragrance which once so well incensed their compelling presence.

"Obtruding false rules pranked in reason's garb."Id.

How comes it now Right happily that I am pranked so fair!

Darkness passes, and the birds are carolling the sun, flowers and trees are pranked with aerial jewellery, the fragrance of the warm earth flows in your veins, your eyes are fain of the light above and your heart of the light within.

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Prank Webb (E of D. Chapman-Huston); 29Oct59; R245575.

Though such a driver for worksometimes twenty hours a day seemed too short and they often worked all of twenty-four,there was not unfrequently a jolly, prank-playing relaxation among the employees in the laboratory.

With a broad grin suffusing his face, the driver cried: "Whoa!" As the horses stopped Mr. Wilder, fearing that the boy had been made the butt of some mad prank, said severely: "If anything happened to that lad, I shall hold you responsible, Ned.

" Bob was not a little alarmed at the result of his thoughtless prank.

Though the vessel was in great danger Bob could not help smiling at the success of his prank.

Brahma has meanwhile sunk himself in meditation, but suddenly recalls his prank and hurries out to set matters right.

I hope I 'm ready for the worst, Whatever prank betides!