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.

With spring sunshine even hot against the steel rails of Winchester Road, and awnings drawn against its inroads into the window display, Mrs. Shila Coblenz, routing gloom, reached up tiptoe across the haberdashery counter for the suspended chain of a cluster of bulbs, the red of exertion rising up the taut line of throat and lifted chin.

But while the militia are routing about on the Rapidan, what hinders the big invasion to come down the James or the Chickahominy or the Pamunkey or the Mattaponey and find a defenceless Tidewater?

The routing of idleness and ease by compulsory labor is the good counterbalancing some of the evil.

After a week or two they master the operations on the "turret," gauging and routing machines.

Thence the Athenians marched eagerly down the slope toward the town, routing some Syracusan detachments that were quartered in their way, and vigorously assailing the unprotected side of the outwork.

After a spirited engagement Col. Marshall, with about 400 men, made a double-quick charge upon the Sioux and succeeded in utterly routing them.

It encountered the Indians a number of times, routing them, and continued on its way.

Colonel Johnson with his half of the Kentuckians had struck Tecumseh and was routing his entire force.

" "We are in New York, after routing Washington on Long Island.

When this had been accomplished, there came a busy time of routing out various matter of which we should have need in jury rigging her; for they had been so long in disuse, that none remembered where to look for them.

He ran from lodging to lodging, turning the occupants out of their beds and routing about for fresh linen.

I have the general idea, but the exact routing gets me.

While Youssef was routing the forces of Christianity at Zallarca in Spain, another schismatic tribe of his own people was detaching Marrakech and the south from his rule.

" The cook thanked him fervently, and routing out a sack, rushed hastily on deck, his departure being the signal for Mr. Henshaw and his friends to make preparations for retiring for the night so hastily as almost to savour of panic.

"There is probably no real need of routing people from their beds at this hour," she said; "but, of course, we wish to do all we can when any one is suffering.

She began to scheme and dreamto plot ways of getting about him, of routing him out, of tearing him from his rut.

I found him routing in the lily-bed after snails or some such delicacy.

In the middle ages, for instance, there was a belief that a holy man had the gift of routing demons, of healing the sick, and of working divers other miracles.

Key to numerical system of the American Bankers Association with check routing symbols.

Key to numerical system of the American Bankers Association, with check routing symbols, 1947.

Key to numerical system of the American Bankers Association with check routing symbols.

Key to numerical system of the American Bankers Association with check routing symbols.

Key to numerical system of the American Bankers Association with check routing symbols.

There were all sorts of these things that people were routing out and furbishing up; infernal things, silly things; things that had never been tried; big engines, terrible explosives, great guns.

Cruger had just returned from routing the Georgian Colonel Clark, who was besieging Augusta.