The sword has been thrust into our hands by a power beyond our own to defend from a relentless foe the flag which has been handed down to us unsullied through the ages, and to preserve for the world the freedom which is the proudest birthright of our race.

And it's an altogether different matter to think of having a brand-new father thrust upon you, all ready-made, as you might say, and of course I am interested.

He did not write a memorial to the President, to be sent to the Secretary of War, to be referred to the Chief Clerk, to be handed over to File-Clerk No. 99, to be glanced at and quietly thrust into a pigeon-hole labelled "Crazy and trashy."

Two or three dirty hands were thrust out to catch the gown of the woman, who was groping for the latch of the door.

" She thrust it into his hand, and then, her errand done, began to gather chips together to make a fire, choking down hysteric sobs.

He thrust the whole matter away.

The prisoner thrust his hand out of the window, and called again, louder; but Joe was too far down the street.

The coroner and his jury, the local editors, Kirby himself, and boys with their hands thrust knowingly into their pockets and heads on one side, jammed into the corners.

I recollect that while I was speaking a drum went by the church, and how I was disgusted to see all the heads near the windows thrust out of them, as if the building were on fire.

And please note also that each has two hands on the reins, and no whip hand flung high in the air, or elbows thrust outwards, you gentlemen who are fond of painting pictures of hunting scenes for the press!

Ted thrust the letter soberly in his pocket and went off for a shower.

Belgium must be restored; her neutrality must be replaced by a defensive alliance with her two Western Allies; and if the world has still to reckon with Hohenzollerns, then her frontier must be thrust forward into the adjacent French-speaking country so as to minimise the chances of any second surprise.

Somewhere she must get to open sea, and if it is not through Constantinople then her line must lie either through a dependent Armenia thrust down to the coast of the Levant or, least probable and least desirable of all, through the Persian Gulf.

Having undergone these ceremonies, I was thrust into a day-room, in which all the persons then under confinement for felony were assembled, to the number of eleven.

We were not allowed to have candles, and, as I have already said, were thrust in here at sunset, and not liberated till the returning day.

I received the implements with great joy, and thrust them into my bosom; and, as soon as he was gone, concealed them in the rushes of my chair.

And fumbling nervously in his pocket, and shaking all over, not at all like the old object of similitude, but rather like a branch of a tree driven by the wind, he thrust something into Sth's hand, and rushing past him, was off on the road homewards.

It was not rifled from you?" "I thrust it into the villain's hand, and ran.

THE STAG IN THE OX-STALL A Stag, chased from his lair by the hounds, took refuge in a farmyard, and, entering a stable where a number of oxen were stalled, thrust himself under a pile of hay in a vacant stall, where he lay concealed, all but the tips of his horns.

The king at last becomes impregnated with the liberal spirit of the age; Popanilla is "sent for" to court; he is overpowered with promotion, told that "with the aid of a treatise or two," he will make "a consummate naval commander," although he has "never been at sea in the whole course of his life," and at length thrust into a canoe, with some fresh water, bread, fruit, dried fish, and a basket of alligator pears.

the present position of affairs leaves me no alternative, my own thoughts having becomethanks to those who should lend their assistance in bearing the grievous burthen which has been thrust upon mebut sorry companions.

Not all the daily contrasts thrust upon him in those months at the cooperage had so brought home to his soul the differences of caste.

"I wonder if I'll ever get sense enough not to have a sneaking envy of himand regret?" If he could have looked in upon Ross's mind, he might have been abruptly thrust far along the toilsome road toward his goal.

Thus, not only did he not have the key which enables its possessor to unlock them; he did not even know how to use it when Del offered it to him, all but thrust it into his hand.

He thrust the gun in his waistband.