"It's some people's stock-in-trade," he remarked, "not to look a rascal like they really are, sir."

I should like to take it as it standslock, stock and barrel.

Now set thy two arms fast about me and see thou loose me not, for now must we ride for the wildbrush and thicket, stock and stone, nought must let or stay usso loose me not, sir knight!"

When you got Brown out of the factory, did you think it possible he had a private stock of liquor?" "I'm satisfied he had not.

Despite the surrender, the Germans continued their invasion of Russia, with an eye to booty, and captured without organized resistance of any kind thousands of guns and vast quantities of rolling stock, motor trucks, automobiles, and munitions of war.

Not only were the peasants' homes pounded to bits by the opposing artillery fire, but the armies as they fought back and forth took all the cattle, horses, and stock that came to their hands.

As Patsy peered in at the man West was engaged in deliberately examining packet after packet of papers, evidently striving to find the missing stock certificates.

" "And you say the stock was all issued to you?" West hesitated.

" "Does the transfer appear upon the stock itself?"

"H-m. This appears to be the stock in question," said Uncle John.

"Take your stock, Mr. West," he said, tossing it toward the man; "and try to forgive us for making fools of ourselves!" CHAPTER XXIII.

"I find the stock properly transferred," continued Uncle John, grimly conscious that he was as thoroughly disappointed as the girls.

"I have been an ass, West; but circumstances warranted me in suspecting you, and even Joseph Wegg did not know that the Almaquo stock had been transferred to you.

But if you then owned the stock, why was it not in your possession?"

Wegg said he would get the stock from the cupboard and hand it to me; but we both forgot it at that time.

But where is the stock, or deed, to show they bought that property?" "I do not know, sir.

"Yes; in a search for my own stock," he said.

But it was not a matter of great importance at that time if the stock was mislaid, since there was no one to contest my ownership of it.

The varmer he comes screeching out, To zave 'uns new brood mare; Zays I, "You and your stock may roast, Vor aught us poor chaps care.

Hence does terrorism form part of the stock-in-trade of the tyrant.

This defect was remedied, but valuable time was lost whilst the necessary alterations were being carried out, and although we possessed in April, 1917, a stock of some 20,000 mines, only 1,500 of them were then fit for laying.

"Certain title-deeds and certificates of stock, part of my father's legacy, which, as if foreseeing the present emergency, I had brought away with me, were easily converted into cash.

Not the stock-holder; for he looks with eyes of faith toward a great future.

Aristides railroad-stock scarce.

There she sat, stock-still, dumb, staring first at my bonnet, then at my shawl, then at my gown, then at my feet; up and down, down and up, she scanned me, barely replying in monosyllables to my attempts at conversation; finally getting up, and coming nearer, and examining my clothes, and

It is not an unusual thing to find a sunflower stalk in the prairies rising from a height of eight to ten feet; here they grow like dandelions in the grass, yet retaining all their characteristics of form and color.

When he had nearly passed the bush he thought he heard a movement and a thick stalk of the cactus shook.

Occasionally a caravan of laden camels stalk gravely through the alleys, scattering the yelling crowd right and left, only to reassemble the moment it has passed, like water in the wake of a ship.

With a sharp knife take off a small slice from the stalk end.

When it must be kept for some time, see that it is in a shady, cool place, and an hour or two before using; remove any tough or withered leaves, split up the stalk well into the heart, if to be used whole, and lay in a large basin of cold water.

Cut the stalk off quite bare, and trim the leaves with scissors where necessary.

With a rifle in his hand, a general knowledge of the surrounding forest, and a couple of gillies, give him the wind of a royal stag feeding amongst his hinds, and despite the feminine jealousy and instinctive vigilance of the latter, an hour's stalk would put the lord of the hills at the mercy of Dick Stanmore.

She wanted intensely to escape from this phantom whom she herself had called up from the void to stalk at her side.

Incidentally, such an arrangement would have enabled her to stalk a husband, a moneyed husband, which did not occur to her at all.

It is a hardy biennial, with a thick stalk, from eighteen inches to four feet high, and with very peculiar large woolly and mucilaginous leaves, and a long flower spike with ugly yellow and nearly sessile flowers.

In our absence the tide had been slowly creeping up on reeds and rushes, had reached its height, and (leaving a brown, bubbly line upon each slender stalk to show that the law had been fulfilled) had started slowly down again.

* * BLOODROOT "Hast thou loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk?" Beech-trees, stretching their arms, rugged, yet beautiful, Here shade meadow and brook; here the gay bobolink, High poised over his mate, pours out his melody.

His stalk the dark delphinium.

Jack and the bean stalk.

Stalk the hunter.

Hi celery: Let's stalk!

And then I powerfully blew the Panchajanya obtained from the waters and graceful as the lotus-stalk and white as milk or the Kunda flower or the moon or silver.

Resembling the full moon, of unchanging youth, of well-rounded breasts, illumining all sides by her splendour, possessed of large eyes like beautiful lotuses, like unto Kama's Rati herself the delight of all the worlds like the rays of the full moon, O, she looketh like a lotus-stalk transplanted by adverse fortune from the Vidarbha lake and covered with mire in the process.

Indeed, this girl, of a delicate frame and of lovely limbs, and deserving to dwell in a mansion decked with gems, is (now) like an uprooted lotus-stalk scorched by the sun.

But where is now the snowy white, And where the tender red? How heavy over each dry stalk Droops every languid head!

A tiny bird flitted past and perched on the dry, dead stalk of a yucca.

When she talked to you in return, she talked all over; with quiet, refined radiations of life and pleasure in each involuntary turn and gesture; the blossom of her face lifted and swayed like that of a flower delicately poised upon its stalk.

For years he tried to stalk it and kill it, and so did other hunters.

When our plans were settled we felt in pretty good spirits again, and one of the boys got up a sort of corn-stalk fiddle which made a squeaking noise and in a little while there was a sort of mixed American and Indian dance going on in which the squaws joined in and we had a pretty jolly time till quite late at night.

Such a brush is also most serviceable for washing celery, as the corrugated surface of the stalk makes a thorough cleaning with the hands a difficult operation.