The distant roar of this cataract had frequently been heard in the camp, when the wind came from that direction, and when the stillness of the nightbroken only by the occasional howl of wild beasts seeking their prey, or the melancholy cry of the goat-sucker[*]— succeeded to the sounds of labor or idleness that generally kept the temporary village alive by day.

Fortunately, it was a real pump with real water and a sucker in good standing, warranted to need no priming.

At the tip of each is a powerful sucker, which acts rather like those leather suckers boys sometimes play with.

Each sucker fixes itself to a stone or other object, and then the animal can draw its body along.

Each tiny sucker at once takes hold, more and more of them touch the ground as the ray is turned right side up, and at last the Starfish turns over, and, slowly but surely, glides away.

And it is hard to imagine feet more useful to the Starfish than those wonderful sucker-feet!

The tube-feet, or sucker-feet, are fixed to the shell in much the same way as the spines.

If the Urchin is on a rock he clings tightly with these sucker-feet; then, if he wishes to move away, you will see the long thin tubes stretch out and bend about.

It can be used as a sucker; and it is this which enables the Limpet to cling so firmly to its rock.

Men come here for gold, Ambitious for wealth They stickfor they can't get away, They dig, drink, and die, And then go to hell, To pay for their last sucker play ALASKA CONTENTS THE BIRTH OF THE LAND A WOMAN, A DOG, AND A WALNUT TREE WHEN THE WATER STARTS TO RUN THE THROWBACK THE MALAMUTE UNSATISFIED THE PROSPECTOR IF US FOR

Ay, if thou seek'st the ruin of my son, Thou art a tyrant and a blood-sucker.

This fish has an oval sucker on its head, by which it fixes itself to Whales, or even to the hull of a ship.

This acts as a strong sucker, much like that of the Sucking Fish (p. 43).

If the Goby wishes to stay still in one place, it presses its sucker to a stone; then it cannot be washed away by the ever-moving water.

And there's one Sarlaboys to, as arrant a blood-sucker and as notable a coward as ever drew weapon in a bawdy house, he carryes my marke about him.

If Dicke Bowyer be not writ a bountifull benefactor in hell for my good deeds in sending thither such Cannibals, I am a rabbit sucker: yet I scorne to vaunt of my deeds, too.

So Falstaff,"Hang me up by the heels for a rabbit sucker" (I Henry IV., ii. 4).

"He looks like a 'sucker' himself, but sometimes it is impossible to tell about a man till after you see him play.

He is evidently in the same class in orthography with his friend, Master Gillander, and I do not doubt that, under careful culture, he may emulate the various virtues of his friend, and become, in time, an accomplished "aig" sucker.

In like manner, the Goat-sucker is a persecuted bird, since, as its name implies, it has been thought to suck the teats of goats and other animals; whereas the form of its bill entirely precludes such an act, and it is an inoffensive bird, living upon insects.

Swing-time sucker

The best I get is, 'Clear out, you blamed sucker.

He's the rankest sucker yet.

Having no further use for a sucker or a quitter, the other two gentlemen may go to the devil, and I hereby stand adjourned.

He resembled a sucker or mullet, had a small mouth, dark color, and was rather a sluggish-looking fish.