As it was impossible either to climb the tree or hew it down, I endeavored to knock off the cones by firing at them with ball, when the report of my gun brought eight Indians, all of them painted with red earth, armed with bows, arrows, bone-tipped spears, and flint-knives.

Ordinarily, had Plooie chased a small boy who had tipped a barrel down his basement steps, nothing would have come of it.

The head-dress is a circular plait of hair, braided with a red cloth roll, which fastens behind, and hangs down in long ends tipped with fringe.

Her pelvis tipped back; she shifted her weight stiffly from one leg to the other in an exaggerated prance that said, "You should be so lucky as to even look at me."

At Troy, too, he had continued these tactics, and found, to his delight, when he weighed in, that he just tipped the scales at one hundred and fifteen.

Presently out came a man with a great Portuguese flag, and then the Senators, two and two, with short black cloaks, white bands, and gold-tipped staves, trod statelily towards the church.

So reaching home at the aforesaid late hour, where Mr. Ned became good again when he stooped to unlatch the gate, 'Tenty looked so fresh and rosy and sweet when she came in, that Aunt 'Viny growled to herself, found fault with her gruel, scolded at the blanket, tipped over the teacup, and worried 'Tenty back into stern reality, till the girl stole off to her bed.

Archery was another favourite amusement, and he was expert at making bows from the thinnings of the Dunglass yews, and arrows tipped with iron ouselsalmost the only manual dexterity he possessed.

Before reaching it, and while still in the strong tide or suck of the current, he rose in his canoe for some purpose connected with the sail, and tipped it over.

The cask of liquor I found to be a kind of rum, but not such as we had at the Brazils, and, in a word, not at all good; but when I came to open the chests, I found several things of great use to me: for example, I found in one a fine case of bottles, of an extraordinary kind, and filled with cordial waters, fine and very good; the bottles held about three pints each, and were tipped with silver.

It has lately received a coat of paint of an intense black and the cross-headed wand that the monarch holds is tipped with gold.

" Ned made a quick dash for the door, tipped the assistant manager over a broken-backed chair which stood in the way, and passed into the outer office.

Under the impetus of the leap the machine trundled along for a few feet and tipped over, landing Hans on his back with the rear wheel scraping acquaintance with his nose.

The consul tipped back his chair and tapped his lips with a pencil.

" The doctor tipped his head back against the worn red velvet of the lounge.

High above them the mountains were tipped with flame.

His green felt hat, tipped at an angle, was ornamented with a little orange feather.

He tipped over Grimshaw's glass, spilling the wine into the woman's lap.

Howard tipped over a bottle of liquid white.

Some of their peaks, as well as the mountain of Vallombrosa, along the eastern sky, are tipped with snow.

When the water began to boil, the old man tipped his quiver up over the kettle, and immediately there came from the pot a noise as of a child crying, as if it were being hurt, burnt or scalded.

I'd been up to town, to take a mess o' clams at Giberson's, with maybe a sprinklin' of his apple-jack,nothing else,and I was on my way home,to Skillman's tavern at the dépôt, you know,and I'd jest stopped a piece, and was a-standing there, looking at the moon in the water, when he tipped me over.

Get thy will tipped with the heavenly grace, and resolution against all discouragements, and then thou goest full speed for heaven; but if thou falter in thy will, and be not found there, thou wilt run hobbling and halting all the way thou runnest, and also to be sure thou wilt fall short at last.

Your mother is sick abed; she tipped me off and I caught the first train to get here.

The gables of the houses were still tipped with sunlight, yet he seemed to be groping about in a deep night.