"Seventeen and three-quarter pounds avoirdupoisthat's the correct weight.

You must never set words scowling and growling at each other through injudicious combinations like this: "She was five feet, four and three-quarter inches high, had a small, round scar between her nose and her left cheek-bone, and moved with the lissom and radiant grace of a queen.

She was so deeply bedded in the sand that, though the bank was dry at three-quarter ebb, I could not examine her bottom.

As the boats neared the three-quarter buoy it was plain to all who looked that the real race was yet to come.

In the event of corn or sand-crack existing with the contraction, the shoe known as a 'three-quarter bar' is preferable (see Fig. 103).

The most simple shoe for effecting this is the ordinary three-quarter shoe.

If at the same time contraction of the heels exists, then, perhaps, a better shoe is that known as the three-quarter bar (Fig. 103).

In the latter case the most suitable shoe will be found to be either a three-quarter shoe (Fig. 102) or a three-quarter bar shoe (Fig. 103).

In this case a very useful shoe will be the three-quarter bar shoe.

The field force on the former comprised in 1850 sixteen plow hands, thirty-four full hoe hands, six three-quarter hands, two half hands and a water boy, the whole rated at fifty-five full hands.

In summer the slaves went without shoes and wore three-quarter checkered baggy pants, some wearing only a long shirt to cover their body.

The men and boys wore homespun, three-quarter striped pants and sometimes a large funnel-shaped straw hat.

We have now six times as many men in the field as formed the original Expeditionary Force, and in the few days fighting round Neuve Chapelle almost as much ammunition was expended by our guns as in the whole of the two and three-quarter years of the Boer War.

The pictures were on a new-sized canvas adapted to the height of the walls, whence the name 'kit-cat' came to be applied generally to three-quarter length portraits.]

One of his discoveries was an artist, who saw men not on one plane but modelled full or three-quarter face, with limbs suited to their loads and postures.

A three-quarter-grown boy passed by, lounging on the seat of a farm waggon.

He made a fine fight, but at last I landed him on the grass, a cutthroat of about one and three-quarter pounds, deep red and silver and green, and spotted all over.

The negress, who, resting near by with a tray of cakes before her, has been for some time contemplating the three-quarter face of her unconscious neighbor, drops her head at last with a small, Ethiopian, feminine laugh.

His wearing apparel consisted of one garment, a shirt made to reach below the knees and with three-quarter sleeves.

By 1768 he was manufacturing the chief part of his requirements, for in that year his weavers produced eight hundred and fifteen and three-quarter yards of linen, three hundred and sixty-five and one-quarter yards of woollen, one hundred and forty-four yards of linsey, and forty yards of cotton, or a total of thirteen hundred and sixty-five and one-half yards, one man and five negro girls having been employed.

When Angus M'Lachlan saved a certain try by tackling a speedy wing three-quarter low and bringing him down with a crash, a hundred voices demanded his removal from the field.

Three-quarter length; life-size; standing towards right; head facing; hands resting on a column, glove in left; black dress, cut square at throat.

The distance from nearest point of coast is three and three-quarter miles.

To the well-beaten yolks of nine eggs and the whites of two, add one and three-quarter cups of sugar and juice and rind of one lemon.

Special three-quarter Vellum, Oxford side-papers, gilt tops, silk marker, 5/- net.