Directly above me was a narrow, jagged, and irregular strip of sky with stars.

I whirled, and saw to my great joy a strip of sky westward between the cliff and the rock.

Rub with salt, pepper and butter and tie a very thin strip of bacon around the body of each quail.

Flamm Avenue, which is treeless and built up for its entire length with two-story, flat-roofed buildings, stares, window for window, stoop for stoop, at its opposite side, and, in summer, the strip of asphalt street, unshaded and lying naked to the sun, gives off such an effluvium of heat and hot tar that the windows are closed to it and night descends like a gas-mask to the face.

Day by day, nearer came the menace; narrower and swifter still ran the deep black water strip between the encroaching ice-lines.

But cheek by jowl is a long strip held by the Tuscaroras, a murdering lot of devils, of whom you and I'll get news sooner than we want.

Yet presently he saw a gleam before him that broadened with each step, and, of a sudden, was out beneath the skya narrow strip wherein stars twinkled, and so beheld again friar Martin's white frock flitting on, ghost-like, before.

Ho, RalphOtho, strip me this stubborn jadeso!Ha!

To preserve BARBERRIES for TARTS. Take barberries when full ripe, strip them, take their weight in sugar, and as much water as will wet your sugar, give it a boil and skim it; then put in your berries, let them boil whilst they look clear and your syrrup thick, so put them into a pot, and when they are cold cover them up with a paper dip'd in brandy.

I remember, too, the strange thrill I had one day, when, having passed the sawmills and dumps of stores and shells and the huddle of Headquarter offices at Granezza, I came out on the last edge of the mountain wall, into sudden full view of the great plain below, full of rivers and cities, and saw, for the first time from up here, the sunlight flashing on a strip of distant golden sea.

About a hundred yards distant, in the direction of the river, was a long, pleasantly shaded green strip of turf, destined in time for a sidewalk.

Even after the strip of water had been crossed on the return journey and the meat exposed to the full, unobstructed glare of the sun the cruiser's messcooks had to saw off their portions, and the remainder continued hard as long as it lasted.

"Hurry, my child," urged Coquenil, and working madly with a piece of stick that he had wrenched from one of the logs, he met each feather of smoke with a strip of cloth, stuffing the cracks with shreds of garments, with Alice's veil and hat ribbon, with the lining of his coat, then with the body of it, with the waist of her dress, with his socks, with her stockings, and still the smoke came through.

"Strip him of his robes, and array him in the garb of El Islam.

Nothing could have saved them had it not been that, just at the most critical moment, they reached a "windrow," a strip of ground upon which a storm had hurled down the trunks of trees in wild confusion.

That house, with its little strip of garden at the back, will always remain dear and sacred to me.

" "'Yes, sir,' replied the working preacher, ripping off a strip of siding, 'and begin all new.'

In front of me was a strip of woods, and the bay was so near that I could hear the dashing of the waves.

The bear had taken shelter on a small mountain stream that coursed through the valley, and was bordered on either side by a narrow strip of ash, thorn, and rose bushes, while beyond this was the level prairie.

" Holmes glanced at Pike's felt hat lying on the table: there was a rusty strip of crape on it.

You can make them afraid of your tongue, strip them of all ardor with your nineteenth century bigotry....

Death tears a comic strip.

The stove had stood in the southwest corner of the room, and the room was warm with the heat of it; and the floor was white and had a strip of rag carpet reaching from the table to a corner of the stove.

He clung instead to the memory of the warm stove, and the strip of carpet, and the table with the red cloth, and to the puffy, white pillows on the bed.

CANNED RHUBARB READY TO USE Strip the skins from the stalks, and cut into small pieces as you would for pies.