A little digging in the earth revealed the green metal of an old powder-flask with a wooden stopper.

"Enough to decimate France," he said, screwed the stopper carefully into place, and put the flask in his pocket.

In the farthest corner of the room, elevated on a crimson velvet cushion, sat the Vizier, wrapped in a superb pelisse: on his head was a vast turban, in his belt a dagger, incrusted with jewels, and on the little finger of his right hand he wore a solitaire as large as the knob on the stopper of a vinegar-cruet, and which was said to have cost two thousand five hundred pounds sterling.

Heah's dis nigger-stopper, jes lak

" "Well, she 'fo' God is thaiuh, an' you sho let loose a hundud dollars uv our 'ciety's money, an' got nothin' fuh hit but a piece o' paper wid a nigger-stopper on hit!" Tump's voice was so charged with contempt that Peter looked with a certain uneasiness at his find.

"Now, I reckon you see whut a nigger-stopper is.

Fo' Gawd, nigger, whauh you been to school all dese yeahs, never to heah uv a nigger-stopper befo'!"

Then, before his very eyes, and long ere he could unscrew the metal stopper, he saw the contents of the closed glass phial sink and lessen as though some one were drinking violently and greedily of the liquor within.

He understood that in Mudge's present condition one side of the flask was open to space and he could drink without removing the stopper.

I have some papers and envelopes here in my jacket, and a stub of pencil for the log-book, and while you are at your writing I'll fashion a stopper for the bottle and a buoy.

Upon which he put his Hand into his Fob and presented me in his Name with a Tobacco-Stopper, telling me that Will had been busy all the Beginning of the Winter in turning great Quantities of them; and that he [made ] a Present of one to every Gentleman in the Country who has good Principles, and smoaks.

Very often his aunt had stopped to exchange ideas with the old stallkeeper, while he examined the counter which was spread with a napkin, the carafe of liquorice-water that stood on it, and the lemon that served as stopper.

"Begorrah, if yees can't talk better sinse nor that, ye'd bist put a stopper on yer blab.

This ascending and descending stopper is hollow, carpeted, with cushioned seats, and is watched over by two condemned souls, called conductors, one of whom is said to be named Ixion, and the other Sisyphus.

She filled hot water bags automatically, like a machinewater half-way to the top, then one hand clutching the bag's slippery middle while the other, with a deft twist, ejected the air within; a quick twirl of the metal stopper, the bag released, squirming, and, finally, its plump and rufous cheeks wiped dry.

Look here, dear; nobody knows better than I how this working and being independent and earning your own good money puts the stopper on any sentiment a girl might have in her; but don't let it sour you.

He closes the windows when he takes the stopper out of that bottle to drink its breath, and he puts the stopper back quickly again, so that it will not evaporatenot too soon.

He closes the windows when he takes the stopper out of that bottle to drink its breath, and he puts the stopper back quickly again, so that it will not evaporatenot too soon.

But the man who has that vial opens the windows and throws the stopper away, and all the air is sweet forever.

Give him a drop of your brandy, Roy.' As Roy unscrewed the stopper, the Turk's eyes opened, and he stared up at his rescuers in blank amazement.

The seaman stationed at the stopper obeyed, and down went the anchor.

While he was thus busied, Mark was looking to the stopper and shank-painter of the sheet-anchor, which had been got ready to let go, before Captain Crutchely was lost.

This was successfully done also, and Mark let go the stopper within twenty feet of the wall of the sunken reef, just as the ship began to drive astern.

Laddy was the quickest thing on legs in that part of the countryout of a mighty spry little Pinto mare by our thoroughbred Kentucky horseand I knew if I could get to the open them Injuns wouldn't have much of a chance to take out my stopper and examine my worksnot much.

He must put a stopper on this project.