I had a lantern with me, and the idea came to me, that now would be a good time to investigate whatever lay under the great, oak slab.

An old broken battledore, and some shuttlecocks with most of the feathers missing, were on a marble slab in one corner of the hall, which constantly reminded me that there had once been younger inhabitants here than the old lady and her gray-headed servants.

Have ready a marble slab or large dish, rubbed over with salad-oil; pour on it the sugar, and cut it into strips with a pair of scissors: these strips should then be twisted, and the barley-sugar stored away in a very dry place.

It may be formed into lozenges or drops, by dropping the sugar in a very small quantity at a time on to the oiled slab or dish.

" With the aid of a convert, he unbarred the ponderous gate, and ventured out on the highest slab of the landing-steps.

These things I mention from memory, but not all of them together impressed me so much as an inscription on a small slab of marble fixed in one of the walls.

Here Victor took charge of Sofia, the chauffeur holding the lamp to light the other Chinaman at his labours with a trap-door in the floor, a slab of woodwork so massive that, when its iron bolts had been drawn, it needed every whit of the man's strength to lift and throw it back upon its hinges; and its crashing fall made all the timbers quake and groan.

pedrusco, m., (rough) block of stone; stone (or marble) slab (or block); bowlder. pegar, to fasten, close, shut, join.

Knotted and warted, slabbed and armoured like the hide Of tropic elephant; unstormable and steep As some grim fortress with a princess-pearl inside, Where savage guardian faces beard the bastioned keep: So hard a rind, old tree, shielding so soft a heart A woman's heart of tender little nestling leaves; Nor rind so hard but that a touch so soft can part, And Spring's first baby-bud an easy passage cleaves.

He felt the chagrin of the army of unpublished novelists who lay their hearts bare on the stone slab of the dissectors in a publisher's office.

Here was a home; he could go inside and shut the door, and stay there; could stand outside on the door-slab, the owner of that house, if any should pass by.

Isak was astonished in his turn at all this wealth of goods, but being a silent man and slow to speak, he said nothing, only shambled out to the door-slab and looked at the weather, and shambled in again.

It was no longer a pleasure and a delight to sit outside on the door-slab and look out over his lands and be the owner of it all.

One day Isak heard a sudden shout; Inger stood on the door-slab with the child in her arms, pointing over to the bull and the pretty little cow Silverhornsthey were making love.

Inger comes out with a parcel of food; she gives a cry, and drops down on the door-slab.

" Inger sat down on the door-slab.

Inger went out on the door-slab to see him off; she did not cry or complain, but only said: "They may be coming for me now any day.

Isak stayed a while sitting on the door-slab, then he went out into the woods to look for the ewe.

" "That would be the place," Oliver said, cutting a slab of Stilton.

As far back as the reign of Men-kau-R[=a], the Mycerinus of the Greeks, about B.C. 3600, a religious text, which afterwards formed chapter 30B of the Book of the Dead, was found inscribed on an iron slab; in the handwriting of the god Thoth, by the royal son or prince Herut[=a]t[=a]f.

" Now, although the papyrus upon, which this statement and prayer are found was written about two thousand years after Men-kau-R[=a] reigned, there is no doubt that they were copied from texts which were themselves copied at a much earlier period, and that the story of the finding of the text inscribed upon an iron slab is contemporary with its actual discovery by Herut[=a]t[=a]f.

Beneath this slab lies Matthew Day, 126.

A small white slab lay upon the centre of the green mound and at its head grew a rose bush in bloom, bending, till its weight of white buds and blossoms touched the long bright grass upon the grave.

Emily was attracted by its simple beauty, and drawing near, she stooped down and read upon the marble slab, "Dear Mina."

We eagerly encouraged the old man to this task, and he went to work in removing the green sod from a large slab which had been entirely hidden under the soil, and in a brief space revealed to us a tombstone fully six feet long, upon which we were able to read, in plainly chiselled letters, an inscription surmounted by a carved heraldic shield with its proper quarterings and devices.