Under their cup-like chins the beavers brought from the banks a mixture of mud and fine twigs, carrying from half a pound to a pound at a load and began filling up the framework with it.

The framework of this mortal form may rot within the mould, But in my soul a love exists which never shall grow cold.

Whether, however, this backing represented a reasoned view of the Constitutional points involved and of the position, prerogatives, and organization of a Second Chamber in the framework of British Government, whether it implied that our people were really interested in and had deeply pondered the relative merits of the Single and Double Chamber systems, is much more doubtful.

He seized one of the supporting poles of the framework.

He now discovered that his coat had caught in half-a-dozen fish hooks attached to an eel line all tangled up in the framework.

She went instead to one of the great bay windows and leaned against the framework, gazing out.

They are the framework into which all analysis of special, detailed problems must be fitted.

Closely sewed the bark together, Bound it closely to the framework.

The pews, the pulpit, the front of the gallery, the organ, and the framework of the roof, which was all exposed, were of oak, which had been made to resemble in colour wood that has stood the test of 400 or 500 years.

He had brought up some of the beams too, for the framework; he could begin building when he pleased, but he put it off.

True, it was only an umbrella stick really, that he had dismantled and taken the framework off; but here he had not used it as he did in town, swinging it aboutonly carried it hidden against his thigh.

The cutting apparatus, the device to raise and lower the cutters, the levers, the platform, the wheels, the framework, had all been used before McCormick's time.

The beauty of this lunar rainbow is enhanced by the framework of shapely ash trees through whose branches it is seen.

I got Frohman's approval on the framework of the play to-day, and ran for the first train.

If Germany has a right to claim the whole realm of the abstract, if Frenchmen understand the framework of society better than we do, there is in the national dramas of Shakespeare an historical secret, which neither the philosophy of the one nor the acute observation of the other can discover.

Man's nature is basically bad, but by working on himself within the framework of society, he can change his nature and can develop.

So well the shuttle threw, And severed from the framework As closelywov'n a warp: And who could wake with masterhand Such music from the harp, To broadlimbed Pallas tuning

The framework represents the sky, which far off, on the horizon, reaches down to and touches the world.

Within the framework of the Empire the municipal liberty of the city-state had been stifled and extinguished by the waxing jungle of bureaucracy, and the spiritual culture which the city-state fostered, and which was more essential to Hellenism than any political institutions, had been part ejected, part exploited, and wholly compromised by a new gospel from the east.

Ailsa, scarcely able to breathe in the heavy heat, leaned panting against the framework, watching the darkness.

VI On other nights heavy rain came on unexpectedly, and I discovered how pleasant a bed may be made just under the framework of a bridge.

The framework or theory of benevolence might be there, but the animating spirit was absent.

We are the cup that holds the sea And the framework of the peak that parts the sky.

Where any portion of the framework has fallen into dilapidation and decay, the gaunt skeleton bones of the ruined structure are decked and covered with leaves and flowers.

Against the framework thus formed the sails are stuck up on end side by side to the number of three or four, occasionally even five, and kept in their places by long sticks placed transversely, their ends as well as those of the mast being sharpened to serve as skewers which in the first instance secure the sails.