She gazes up with a weary smile At the rafter-hanging crocodile, The slowly swinging crocodile.

But with my spear of Faith, Stout as an oaken rafter, With my round shield of laughter, With my sharp, tongue-like sword That speaks a bitter word, I stood beneath the wall And there defied them all.

An' they seeked him in the rafter-room, an' cubby-hole, an' press, An' seeked him up the chimbly-flue, an' ever' wheres, I guess; But all they ever found wuz thist his pants an' roundabout: An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you Ef

"Where?" "Southeast of Dogvillethe Rafter H ranch.

I'm figuring on a right smart growth for the Rafter H within the next year or two.

I found my seed-bag hanging, dusty, over a rafter in the shed, and Harriet sewed a buckle on the strip that goes around the waist.

But before Leothric could reach him, he climbed away with his hands, going up by one of his ropes to a lofty rafter, and there sat, growling.

They had already begun to pull down the right side of the house; a pickaxe was leaning against a loosened stone; the roof had fallen in, and a rafter was sticking out of one of the windows.

Forthwith, a dozen eager hands were laid on him, a rope was passed under his armpits, and the free end thrown over a rafter of the office.

She suffered so terribly that, one morning, Nagendra found her hanging from a rafter in his cowshed.

The walls are entire, the roof is of wood, and some of the rafter work is in fair preservation.

How it moaned and mocked and muttered At the cottage window, shuttered, Whence there streamed Fitful flecks of firelight mild: And within, a mother smiled, Singing softly to her child As there dinned Round the gabled roof and rafter Long and loud the shout and laughter Of the wind, The wild November wind.

He was once appointed Town-Major of some brick-dust, a rafter and two empty bully-beef tinsall of which in combination bore the name of a village.

In that instance the iron structure was put together at the bottom of the tank, leaving the rafter ends and the mural ring.

He had hidden the turkey in a gunny-sack which hung from a kitchen rafter.

Should he leave it in the sack, hang it from a rafter of their veranda, out of reach of a chance bobcat or coyote, orit would be much more of a real surprise to hang the big bird in front of their door in all his feathered glory.

Safe in their alabaster chambers, Untouched by morning and untouched by noon, Sleep the meek members of the resurrection, Rafter of satin, and roof of stone.

He stopped occasionally to put down a rafter, placing it so that its length should be in the line of his road, and taking care to sink one end into the snow, so as to leave the other out as far as possible, to prevent its being all buried up before they should return.

However, Jonas soon came to his first rafter, and this encouraged him.

He went on, however, as nearly as he could in the direction indicated by the rafter; and, after going the proper distance, he began to look out before him for the second.

He went to it, and found that it was the rafter.

All his efforts to discover the third rafter were entirely unavailing.

When he came to the shore of the pond, we found your rafter laid there, and that made us think you must have gone upon the ice, but we couldn't imagine what for.

Instead of boiling it, some people nail the heart to the highest rafter of the house, or lay it on the edge of the hearth, in order that it may dry up, no doubt because the same thing happens to the witch.

A temple of Roses, planted in the same way, has a beautiful appearance in a flower gardenthat is, eight, ten, or twelve stout peeled Larch poles, well painted, set in the ground, with a light iron rafter from each, meeting at the top and forming a dome.