I went back to the outer side of the wall, and thence to the edge of the chasm, leaving Tonnison rooting systematically among the heap of stones and rubbish on the outer side.

Cold weather had driven the merchants indoors, and the thoroughfare was quite deserted except for a few hogs rooting among the refuse heaps piled in front of the stores.

His wits are like a sack which, the French proverb says, is tied faster before it is full than when it is; and his opinions are like plants that grow upon rocks, that stick fast though they have no rooting.

It is of such a kind, however, that those who are capable of experiencing it, would as soon think of treading upon the object that conveys it to them, as those who honour Nature would think of rooting up a nest of violets.

White men, Christian men, are driving them back; rooting out their very names from the face of the earth.

The real inflammation of her hands bore testimony to this symbolical rooting up of the nettles; and we have, perhaps, reason to hope that the churches shown to her under the appearances of vineyards experienced the good effects of her prayer and spiritual labour; for since the door is opened to those who knock, it must certainly be opened above all to those who knock with such energy as to cause their fingers to be wounded.

Here and there he would have met a razor-backed hog lazily rooting his way along the principal thoroughfare; and more than once he would probably have had to disturb the slumbers of some yellow dog, dozing away the hours in the ardent sunshine, and reluctantly yielding up his place in the middle of the dusty road.

A pig's nose is pretty strong, you know, for it is made for digging, or rooting in the earth, to turn up acorns, and other good things to eat.

Squinty would call to his brothers and sisters, and they would hunt all over for it, rooting up the earth with their strong, rubbery noses.

Digging in the dirt was good practice for them, and their mother and father would watch them, saying: "Ah, when they grow up they will be very good rooting pigs indeed.

No, instead, Squinty began rooting them out of the earth with his strong, rubbery nose, made just for digging.

Then he got up with a grunt and a squeal, and began rooting in the ground.

He walked first to one side, and then the other, rooting in the dirt with his funny, rubbery nose.

If that is a trick, it is a very easy onejust rooting up acorns," thought Squinty to himself.

Next he began rooting in the ground.

Just as he was he got up out of his leaf-bed, and began rooting around in the ground for acorns.

It was first given to king Recared (590) in the third Council of Toledo, for his zeal in rooting out the "Arian heresy.

Byron, Shelley, and George Moore; and Swinburne, he, too, who loved literature for its own sake, was forced, amid cries of indignation and horror, to withdraw his book from the reach of a public that was rooting then amid the garbage of the Yelverton divorce case.

It is a paper you cannot make head nor tail of, and at the end come five or six long folded diagrams that open out and show peculiar zigzag tracings, flashes of lightning overdone, or sinuous inexplicable things called "smoothed curves" set up on ordinates and rooting in abscissaeand things like that.

It contains records of a great variety of experiments in both agriculture and stock raising, pictures and descriptions of plows, machines for rooting up trees, and other implements and machines, plans for the rotation of crops, and articles and essays by experimental farmers of the day.

"The Land" also dealt with a movement that ran counter to the rooting of the Celtic people in the soilemigrationthe emigration to America of the young and the fit.

Byron and Shelley, and Swinburne, he, too, who loved literature for its own sake, was forced, amid cries of indignation and horror, to withdraw his book from the reach of a public that was rooting then amid the garbage of the Yelverton divorce case.

The HOYA is properly a trailing plant, rooting at the joints, but have been generally cultivated here as a twiner.

Reason, with ordinary light from the word, may teach these things; but grace can only carry them into the heart, and make them take rooting there.

He said he couldn't fill a radiator but some goat would be chewing the baggage tied behind the car, or Billy would be rooting suitcases off the running board.