"My masters," quoth he, "ye have heard my words, how this night I go to take down Black Ivo's great gallows.

"Rolfe," he said, "take down Mr. Evans's statement outside and get him to sign it.

The mock "P.B." had only this effect on me, that after twice reading it over in hopes to find something diverting in it, I reached your two books off the shelf, and set into a steady reading of them, till I had nearly finished both before I went to bed,the two of your last edition, of course, I mean, And in the morning I awoke determined to take down the "Excursion."

They were going to give the fat woman a hoist, when the boss canvasman gave the signal to take down the tents, and all was in a hubbub for about 15 minutes.

I rushed off next door to my neighbour Guru who took one look at the tank and told me that we would have to take down the whole thing and start from scratch again.

But in this case could not the prisoner take down the authorized hammock, unroll it, hook it up, and lie down again?

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After Morning Sing he established himself on a rocky ledge just below Bedlam, where, hidden by the bushes, he sat ready to take down the innocent conversation of the young ladies among themselves as they made their tents ready for tent inspection.

He would wander about his library, take down a book, look into it, and then put it back again, but was incapable of work.

They order that arms, weapons, and other things should be prepared; and they take down from the temples and porticoes the old spoils taken from the enemy.

I've had a deal of things to hinder this year; the house to do up, being leaky and like to fall to pieces; hayloft to take down and put up again, and no sort of room in the turf hut for beasts, seeing I'd cow and heifer more than Brede he'd ever had in his time," says Fredrik proudly.

I felt a bit ashamed, too, that I had allowed my friends to persuade me to take down my money so soon.

"I shan't have any crimps to take down, that's one thing," Frank answered.

A very experienced short-hand writer was employed to take down Mr. Coleridge's lectures on Shakespeare, but the manuscript was almost entirely unintelligible.

In time I came to see London with my own eyes, but how much better when I saw it with those of Dickens!' Tired and discouraged, badly nourished, badly housedworking under conditions little favourable to play of the fancy or intentness of the mindthen was the time, Gissing found, to take down Forster and readread about Charles Dickens.

' "Den de cunjuh man ax' Pete ter take down one er two go'ds off'n a she'f in de corner, en one er two bottles wid some kin' er mixtry in 'em, en set 'em on a stool by de bed; en den he ax' 'im ter fetch de mule in.

En ez I doan want no mo' d'n w'at 's fair 'bout dis thing, ef you'll retch up wid yo' paw en take down dat go'd hangin' on dat peg ober de

So, in order to enlighten me, he would take down his books and show me the inexorable statutes.

On this special train a ladies' maid is provided for the convenience of ladies, and a stenographer, with his type-writing machine, occupies a seat in the vestibule of the drawing-room car to take down any urgent letters which business men may desire to post en route.

But the very familiarity which their mighty fame has bred in us makes us indifferent; we grow weary of what every one is supposed to have read; and we take down something which looks a little eccentric, some worthless book, on the mere ground that we never heard of it before.

He ordered some of his men to dismount and take down the fence.

To his great surprise he discovered that he had forgotten to take down his shutters, though it was past the hour when his best customers passed by.

"Sam Bossom might take down the Success to Commerce for it, and he's as well out o' the way wi' the rest o' you.

Mr. Sharp was present at this trial, and procured the attendance of a short-hand-writer to take down the facts, which should come out in the course of it.

In a few moments he saw him start violently and take down the receiver.