She had taken out the dicky, too, and for some reason filled in there with a flounce of pink net ripped off from the little ruffles that had flowed out from her sleeves.

He had opened the packet, ripping off the old encasement of cloth.

Then the wind went ripping off through the tree-tops, exacting its toll of flying twigs and leaving in its wake a brief, hushed calm.

She, Gloria Gaynor, to have her bedding ripped off her, to be commanded to do a man's biddingand to be whipped!

He ripped off his blood-stained clothes, scrubbed the sacrificial clots from his hair, and splashed the cool water luxuriously over his exhausted body.

The Forest Children, with the Tree Girl's help, were tumbling into theirs, wrong-end-to mostly, ripping off buckles in their hurry.

So the noble delegate imagined he could quietly issue a proclamation one morning commanding all the officers under his orders to rip off the gold and silver bands which luxuriantly ornament their sleeves and caps!

Ask any soldier, Federal or otherwise, if he will give up his pay, or his jingling sword, or even his rank; he may perhaps consent, but ask him to rip off his embroidery, and he will answer, never!

" Peggy ripped off a flounce of her petticoat and formed it into a bandage.

The hurricane had ripped off the boarding about the bell, and the wind itself was the bell-ringer.

" "No, but it might help you, if I could rip off that swathing of idealization you've wrapped around him," Fyfe observed patiently.

The barge was almost immediately overwhelmed in the midst of immense foaming breakers, which rushed over the bows, carrying away planks, oars, &c. About half a minute elapsed between the filling and going down of the barge, during which I had sufficient presence of mind to rip off my three coats, and was loosening my suspenders, when the barge sunk, and I found myself floating in the midst of people, baggage, &c.

If he bought a new horse something would happen to it before a week had elapsed; and how his coachman once ripped off the top of his depot wagon by driving it under a loose telephone wire is still one of the stories of the vicinity in which he lives.

"Rip off this glove.

" "'Yes, sir,' replied the working preacher, ripping off a strip of siding, 'and begin all new.'

We gathered speed an' ripped off a section o' their bulwarks, an' roared along neck an' neck with 'em.

He took a jar of preserves and ripped off the paraffin wafer that covered the top.

Not an inch of the real lace, not one of the jeweled buttons, not a scrap of ribbon, was ripped off to save.

A moment, and he had ripped off a string.

The next thing I knew, Kennedy had ripped off his disguise, had flung himself up behind the van, and had swung the doors open.

Instantly all hands were employed in ripping off the copper, and the armourers being set to work under his personal superintendence, the whole camp, before night, resounded with the warlike blasts of the cavalry.

When I went into the church for my early service I found that some one had ripped off the wainscoting in a half a dozen places and even pried up the altar.