One day, when his mother had no money in the place and began to weep, he talked of ripping up the mattress, where, said he, she probably kept her hoard.

Won't it be ripping?"

I'll get you a ripping one to make up.

"Yes, by Jove," he said, "let's have the new game of 'Likenesses;' it's a perfectly ripping game.

From the attic observation station into which we climbed, the officers directing the attack could look down the line of one of the trenches and see their own shells ripping it to pieces.

And Heady, ripping away his mask again, whirled round and round, trying to find the little globule in the dazzling sky.

I seemed to hear again, all at once, the lapping of the water Sunday morning as it began to come in over the door-sill; the sound of Terry ripping up the parlor carpet, and Mrs. Ladley calling me a she-devil in the next room, in reply to this very voice.

Now there came a ripping, tearing sound in the air, and a veritable cloudburst of the damnable whizz bangs broke over us.

This is a ripping two-step.

For my own part, I had hurled myself off the bed on the side opposite to him, and the blade grazed my side before ripping its way through blanket and sheet.

A man hard pressed by creditors, who had assembled at his house and were urgent in their demands, called to them to keep back, and upon their still pressing on, he seized a bowie-knife in each hand, and rushed among them, stabbing and ripping right and left, till checked in his mad career of assassination by a creditor, in self-defence, burying a cleaver in his skull.

"So we're here, mother ... and it's ripping, isn't it?" She could hardly speak, but her eyes seemed to sparkle with a second youth.

For six francs, a prisoner, who was also a turnkey, procured us two files, a ripping chisel, and two turnscrews.

The "fun" consists in drawing them down the back of any one you pass, when they make a sound precisely like that of ripping cloth.

I am on board a schooner which is ripping through the water at a great rate and leaving a long white trail behind her.

The first will be answered in a few days' time, no doubt, in view of the rapidity with which we are ripping through the water, under the action of a means of propulsion that I shall end by finding out all about.

There was another bump, another ripping sound, and the Sword lay still.

"Andrew, it's ripping good to see you....

I took a perfectly ripping French kid out to dinner last nightname's Liane, from the Varietésand she was calling me 'mon grand cheri' before the salad, and '

Oh, Janet, what a perfectly ripping nightdo see!" They leaned together on the window-sill, silenced by the white and shining beauty that had turned the pleasant garden into a place of magic and enchantment.

Almost on their very heels a dust-covered Confederate flying battery dropped its blackened guns and sent charge after charge ripping through them, while out of the fringing woods trotted the gray infantry, driving in skirmishers, leaping fences, brush piles, and ditches, like lean hounds on the trail.

The blunt report of a gun punctured the silence, followed by the long-drawn ripping of brush and the snorting of the pony.

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.

He had caught his reins, and I was on him and off in the bush, between bullets that came ripping the leaves about me, before they could give chase.

She watched him ripping it to shreds.