The fire, if such it could be called, ran with incredible rapidity along the seams between the planks, forward and aft, until the entire deck was sketched like a pyrotechnic display in thin, vivid lines of incandescence.

So I dressed in a new suit of light buckskin, trimmed along the seams with fringes of the same material; and I put on a crimson shirt handsomely ornamented on the bosom, while on my head I wore a broad sombrero.

Of your balsam and your resin, So to close the seams together That the water may not enter, That the river may not wet me!"

There were cracks and crevices; there were seams of a harder material which, better withstanding the attacks of time, were thrust out beyond the general level; on them a man might stand.

His face was so brown and tough and netted with seams that it resembled a piece of alligator leather.

One good day among many bad ones showed no more bear signs, so we soaped the seams of the otter boat, which leaked badly, and set sail for Three Saints Bay, named after Shelikoff's ship.

From the time of getting on the rocks she had leaked considerably, and a large quantity of stores had been destroyed or damaged, there being at one time four feet of water in the hold; but by nailing battens and tarred blankets over the open seams the leaks had been greatly reduced.

Being desirous to examine the river above Steep Head, commenced fitting the portable boat, but found that the heat of the climate had destroyed the seams of three of the air cells, and the boat is therefore unserviceable.

At noon the boat returned from the schooner with stores; Captain Gourlay also came up in the gig to the camp; he informed me that the schooner now only made ten inches of water per day, and that she would be ready for sea so soon as the upper seams were caulked, and that he considered her perfectly seaworthy for the purpose of the expedition. 23rd

Often I cast my eyes up at it with satisfaction, watching the bark shrink and slightly deepen in colour, and once I climbed up where I could see the minute seams making way in the end of the stick.

His cassock was black, but its hem, its buttons, and the pipings of its seams were scarlet; so were his stockings; so was the broad silk sash that circled his waist; so were the silk gloves, thrust under the sash; so was the birettina, the little skullcap that barely covered his crown and left to view a fringe of white hair and the rebellious lock upon his forehead.

The iron hand of Goetz of Berlichingen would burst the seams of a Paris kid-glove.

By means of a small rent, however, which I slyly effected in one of the seams of the bag, I helped myself to the choicest pieces.

The keel was firmly bedded in the sand; the shock had opened several seams; while the swell of the breakers, striking her broadside, left her each moment more and more aground, until she fell over on one side.

"Gone, gonesold and gone, To the rice-swamp, dank and lone; There no mother's eye is near them, There no mother's ear can hear them; Never, when the torturing lash Seams their backs with many a gash, Shall a mother's kindness bless them, Or a mother's arms caress them.

She was incompletely attired in a petticoat that did not hide her ankles, and stays of bright red silk with white laces and seams.

Here, Nab, take the garment, and press down the seams, you idle hussy; for neighbour Hopkins is straitened for time, while your tongue is going like a young lawyer's in a justice court.

"The exhaustless coal seams and iron-stone beds in the vicinity, combined with the ingenuity of the people, conferred early fame on their products; for Chaucer, in alluding to a knife, calls it 'a Sheffield thwittel,'whittle being among the manufacturers at this day the name of a common kind of knife.

If a man stretches himself too much in his coat the seams must burst! CHACHO.

To work, then, Mark and Bob went to put on the sheathing-paper and copper that had thus bountifully been provided for them, as soon as the seams were well payed.

She had three masts; her planking was gray and weathered, and her seams gaped.

She looked at his clothes, at the round dinner jacket with its silk collar and at the beautiful evening trousers with their braided seams.

When this was done, he went to work on the lighter, which was leaky, and bailed it out, and calked the seams, taking plenty of time, and doing his work in the most thorough manner.

Went on with the work, some at caulking, others at battening the seams with strips of canvas, and pieces of pine nailed over, to keep the oakum in.

The pitch bubbled like caviare in the seams of the white deck, and the shrouds and ratlines ran with tears of tar.

She is brought on the stage occasionally towards the end of the play, but never utters one word, and seems a supernumerary of no importance at all.

It seems to me Abby herself would not reprove me, could those cold lips now bring me a message from her spirit in heaven.

You told me that I must learn to love everybody, and so I did; and now it seems as if everybody and everything loved me, even our old cat and dog.

The one seems but the expression of a cheerful forgiveness of unkind treatment, the bursting forth of a happy nature in spite of man's cruelty; while the other seems a free outpouring of perfect happiness, and the choicest notes of a grateful little being directed to the good GOD of nature.

The one seems but the expression of a cheerful forgiveness of unkind treatment, the bursting forth of a happy nature in spite of man's cruelty; while the other seems a free outpouring of perfect happiness, and the choicest notes of a grateful little being directed to the good GOD of nature.

The two meant to keep the matter to themselves, but therein, it seems, I thwarted them; there was a little opposition on the part of their respective families, but all was amicably settled before I left Wampsocket.

But it seems only fair, I confess, and you dare not think me capricious.

With the return of the warm weather it seems certain that the red skins will take advantage of the opportunity thus offered, and inaugurate a bitter and vindictive fight against the whites.

From the letter of Messrs. Throstlethwaite, Throstlethwaite and Dick, it seems extremely probable, not to say certain, that Mr. Beauvoir arrived in your city about 1849, in company with a distinguished English scientist, Professor Titus Peebles, whose professional attainments were such that he is probably well known, if not in California, at least in some other of the mining States.

The first thing to be done, therefore, it seems to us, is to ascertain the whereabouts of the professor, and to interview him at once.

On the opposite bank of the Itchen, at Bitterne, was the Roman station of Clausentum, but Southampton itself seems to have been originally a settlement of the West Saxons.

It seems hardly credible that this beautiful glass, the making of which is now a lost art, was deliberately destroyed at the end of the eighteenth century by the so-called "architect" James Wyatt.

A fragment of Wycliff's cope or chasuble is preserved in a glass case in the vestry, but some doubt attaches to the origin of "Wycliff's chair," which seems of considerably later date.

It seems strangely slight when one is standing within the tower and notices that no floor breaks the great sweep of walls for a great height.

The Danes repeatedly made incursions into this part of the country, and Gloucester suffered very much from their ravages; but probably through the fact that the kings of Mercia instituted a palace and priory there, the city seems to have had sufficient strength to recover after each disaster.

Although there seems little reason for not believing that the scenery which surrounded him in his youth impressed itself on his mind, yet it is now stated with authority that the localities associated with his subject poems, "which had been ingeniously identified with real brooks and granges, were wholly imaginary."

A large old-fashioned house near St. Peter's Church seems to correspond to Lucetta's residenceHigh Place Hall.

The latter seems the more feasible theory.

He seems to have been steadied by success.

'He seems to be doing well,' the Squire said to Mr. Holt.

There is a style of letter-writing which seems to indicate strength of purpose and a general healthy condition on the part of the writer.

'It seems but a day or two since you went;and

But no, it seems that is not enough for her.

"She seems to like himand as to the rest, God knows.

It's a pity she seems a little enthusiastic.