At the end of the second verse the Colonel started up, clapping on his hat, seizing his stick, and looking ferocious.

And shouldering his stick, and scowling round at the company of scared bacchanalians, the indignant gentleman stalked away, his boy after him.

Tom had recognised him and gave him a patronising nodTom, a little wretch whom he had cut over the back with a hockey-stick last quarter, and there he was in the centre of the square, rallying round the flag of his county, surrounded by bayonets, cross-belts, and scarlet, the band blowing trumpets and banging cymbalstalking familiarly to immense warriors with tufts to their chins and Waterloo medals.

" Another anecdote current in Yorkshire is interesting, showing how fully superstitions of this kind are believed:"A woman was lately in my shop, and in pulling out her purse brought out also a piece of stick a few inches long.

He bit at the spot struck, as a dog does at a stick or stone thrown at him; then leaping away, broke through the opening circle and escaped unhurt.

" The dizziness produced by his twenty-seven attacks of fever on the road made it all he could do to stick on Sindbad, who managed to give him a last ducking in the Lombe.

She had walked with her friend to the top of the wide steps of the Museum, those that descended from the galleries of painting, and then, after the young man had left her, smiling, looking back, waving all gayly and expressively his hat and stick, had watched him, smiling too, but with a different intensityhad kept him in sight till he passed out of the great door.

If you will only stick to the ship until she is fairly docked, I will promise you a sight of the Isle of Dogs before you land, even.

Hal cried, as he picked up one fish, which was like a stick of wood.

"I broke the ice with a stick and got him out.

But there's no use in advisin' or warnin'; it's like the pigs and the hot swillone will stick in his nose and run away squalin'; the next one will do the same, and the next and the next.

She would do it without fail, so father put a little stick under his arm, and every time she would bite, he would give her a rap over the nose.

Sometimes now, you'll see her make a snap at father as if she was going to bite, and then look under his arm to see if the stick is there.

The front door was propped open by a stick.

Miss Laura got a stick and scratched poor piggy's back a little, and then she went back to the house.

There was a heavy walking-stick by his side, which they recognized as one that the Englishman had carried.

I said to Davidson, over there in Hoytville, 'If I thought you would herd my sheep and lambs and calves together, and take them one by one in sight of the rest, and stick your knife into them, or stun them, and have the others lowing, and bleating, and crying in their misery, this is the last consignment you would ever get from me.'

John says you can't take a stick and strike a cow across the back, without her milk being that much worse, and as for drinking the milk that comes from a cow that isn't kept clean, you'd better throw it away and drink water.

" He showed her a little stick he had in his hand, and she said, "I don't think you could hurt them much with that, and if they will be naughty and steal the potatoes, you have to drive them out.

Marjorie moved to the stove and stood a moment holding the wooden pudding stick in her hand.

"I am such a poor stick myself, and Helen could do so much in the world; and here I am, as strong and well as can be, and she is almost dying.

Now then, Eberswe'll stick to that name for the sake of clearnesswas in and out of my rooms a good deal, of course.

His hands were bunched on the head of his walking-stick, his chin propped on his hands; his eyes were bent on a certain spot on the carpet with a fixed stare.

Also, there used to go there the young man Ebers, or Federmanwe'll stick to Eberswho, from Merrifield's account, seems to have been a tool of Schmall's.

"Stick to your own game, my lad, and when you want to grow roses, do it in your own back yard for pleasure.