muerte, f., death; á , to the death; herir de , to strike dead.

sonar, to sound, ring in one's ears, echo, resound, strike.

títere, m., manikin, marionette; no dejar con cabeza, to put everything in disorder; to destroy everything. título, m., title; titled person, noble. tocar, to touch, sound, ring, play, blow, strike, reach, belong, fall to one's lot, befall.

Some are reluctant to strike out, when they begin to enter the deepest channel, and try to turn back; the mahouts and 'mates' shout, and belabour them with bamboo poles.

Another observation in the same line of reflection also must often strike one:for what very different qualities than those for which we were first passionate do we come afterwards to value our old enthusiasms.

Therefore crush him, saith the Philistine, as we crush the vine; strike him, as one strikes the lyre.

From here they kept south meaning to strike the Lyons River, discovered by Frank Gregory during his last trip.

From Helena Spring Carnegie struggled on, intending to strike the northern settlements at Hall's Creek where there is a small mining township.

From this place the course was laid to the south to strike the much-talked-of Southern Continent.

As he was about to march an army into Greece at the beginning of the spring, he undertook a sudden expedition into the territories of Oricum and Apollonia, in order that Macedonia might not be molested by the Illyrians, and the cities bordering upon them, in consequence of the terror he would thus strike them with in turn.

At first call the men turn out, perform their toilets, strike their shelter tents (unless it has been directed to await the sounding of the general for this), and make up their packs.

An error in setting the width of one of the lines on the leaf will cause an error of about 8 inches in where your bullet will strike at 500 yards.

This point is where your shot should strike if your sights are correctly adjusted, and if you have squeezed the trigger without disturbing your aim.

If, however, you are minded to cultivate an acquaintance with them, it is not difficult to find opportunities of doing so, but I must warn you that it will be with jeopardy to your faith, for the very first thing that will strike you about them will probably be their cleanness.

If you wander in any palm grove in Western India, looking upward, it will soon strike you that a large number of the trees do not seem to bear coconuts at all, but black earthen pots.

Although he felt a good deal of fear that there might be some truth in Aunt Patsy's words, he was very sure that if she took it upon herself to give warning or reproof to old Mrs Keswick, a storm would ensue; and where the lightning would strike he did not know.

Strike me blind, now, this moment, in this here room, if I'd take so much as a pin's head that you valued, not if my life depended on it and there wasn't no other way of getting a morsel of bread!

One strike had been called, when Godfrey struck a foul which was almost impossible to catch.

He remarked on the exemption of slaves from duty, whilst every other import was subjected to it, as an inequality that could not fail to strike the commercial sagacity of the Northern and Middle States.

The Report of the Committee of eleven (see Friday, the twenty-fourth) being taken up, Gen. Pinckney moved to strike out the words, "the year eighteen hundred," as the year limiting the importation of slaves; and to insert the words, "the year eighteen hundred and eight.

Mr. Baldwin, in order to restrain and more explicitly define, "the average duty," moved to strike out of the second part the words, "average of the duties and on imports," and insert "common impost on articles not enumerated;" which was agreed to, nem.

Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Wilson moved to strike out, "and direct taxes," from Article 1, Section 2, as improperly placed in a clause relating merely to the Constitution of the House of Representatives.

On the motion to strike out, "and direct taxes," from this place,New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, aye3; New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, no8.

The design of this clause is to prevent the general government from prohibiting the importation of slaves; but the same reasons which caused them to strike out the word "national," and not admit the word "stamps," influenced them here to guard against the word "slaves.

Lightningit is worst in the hills and mountains of the western statesmay strike and damage a number of trees in the same vicinity.