The house was quite dark, like its neighbors, and yet after a few taps, he heard a movement overhead, a door opening, and a cautious voice asking who was there.

The water was received in large closed basins, above which rose splendid monuments: these basins supplied other subterranean conduits, connected with various quarters of the city, and these conveyed water to small reservoirs furnished with taps for the exclusive use of certain streets.

A hand taps him lightly on the shoulder.

When the turf was all cut, they saw her make three taps on the ground with the handle.

From the centre of the ceiling, gas burners, in star-shaped clusters, are suspended, and when the taps are on they give good lights.

I do not wish to kill thee like a slave, That taps men in their cups, and broach[es] their hearts, Ere with a warning-piece they have wak'd their ears; I would not like to powder shoot thee down To a flat grave, ere thou hast thought to frown: I am no coward, but in manly terms

With the drum, one tap indicates a dot and two taps in rapid succession a dash.

I picture thee within with dainty satin sides, Where all the long day through the sleeping dryad dreams, But when the moon bends low and taps thee thrice she glides, Knowing the fairy knock, to bask within her beams.

The warder taps him on the shoulder.

It was like the table of some hideous orgy left uncleared, and one turned away disgusted from its broken fragments and muddy heel-taps.

The taps were all turned on.

This also penetrates the heart of the Berkshire uplands and taps a district inexhaustible in charm and interest, in the centre of which is Wantage, famous as the birthplace of Alfred.

The way is for guardians to take possession, and board over the source, and make a reservoir with taps, allowing water to be taken first for drinking and washing purposes, a flow being otherwise provided by spout and troughs for the animals, and for cleansing the camp.

One wonders whether Furetière himself was present on the 3rd of January; if so, what puttings of periwigs together there must have been in corners, and what taps of gold-headed canes on lace-frilled cuffs!

Flora Taps Grandma's Cheek XV.

XIV FLORA TAPS GRANDMA'S CHEEK Meanwhile, from a cluster of society folk sipping ices at "Vincent's" balcony tables, corner of Carondelet Street (where men made the most money), and Canal (where women spent the most), Flora and her grandmother, in Irby's care, made their way down to the street.

R86790, 29Nov51, Mathurin M. Dondo (A) DONNELLY, FRANCIS P. Little cords, taps from a light lash.

There he recalls a number of mean dirty shops, and particularly that of a plumber and decorator with a dusty disorder of earthenware pipes, sheet lead, ball taps, pattern books of wall paper, and tins of enamel.

He leans on his stick and blinks his eyes, looking all round the room; then taps with the stick and clears his throat'Be he in yet?' he asks, with emphasis on the 'he.'

Ladies of the Canterbury, fair sharers of our hospitality who have left the triumphs of the drama to cheer the unfortunate soldier on his war-ward way, I raise my glass and drink to each Terpsichorean toe which, erstwhile, was pointed skyward amid the thunder of metropolitan plaudits, and which now demurely taps my flattered carpet.

Elder spiles were stuck in the taps for the water to drop out in the wooden troughs, under the spiles.

These trees had been tapped and elderwood spiles were placed in the taps where the water dripped to the wooden troughs below.

In the night, he climbs to the bedroom window, and taps until he wakens me.

" "I'll go you seventy-five dollars for the outfit, just as you got itchaps, taps, and latigo straps, if you'll have it in front of my house at nine o'clock to-morrow.

Pretty little gloves pelted us with love-taps.