New York is an awful placeendless, narrow, torn-up streets crowded with hurrying throngs, taxicabs, cars, and full of noise and dust.

Whose stealing pace and lengthened shade we fear, Till torn-up forage in his teeth we hear.

Two days after securing this end of the line the German engineers had repaired the torn-up right-of-way and installed a complete acetylene outfit, and already they were dispatching trains of troops and munitions clear across southeastern Belgium to and from the German frontier.

Under him fell away the chaos of torn-up rock and shale.

Stirred to the depth of his soul by what he had seen, and what he saw about him now, the hunter-naturalist refused to leave the blood-stained and torn-up arena in which the grizzly and the black had fought their duel.

Tombstones lying about and sticking up at odd angles all over the torn-up ground.

There were two envelopes, both addressed to the missing man, one bearing his name only, some small torn-up scrap of paper, and three or four private letters.

There was a torn-up letter found in his bedroom fireplace, and the crumpled up envelope that belonged to it.

On its summit he saw a huge torn-up blotch in the snow, spattered with blood, where the moose had fallen first after the shots; and at the foot of the hill, as the Indian had predicted, the great animal lay dead.

" "How do you account for the torn-up appearance of the place where you found the carcasses?"

The disturbed, torn-up condition of the snow usually apprises the traveller of his approach to the yurts of the Koraks, as the reindeer belonging to the band range all over the country within a radius of several miles, and paw up the snow in search of the moss which constitutes their food.

The fallen trees, the crushed thicket, the splintered limbs, the rudely torn-up soil, were made hideous by their grotesque juxtaposition with the wrecked fragments of civilization, in empty cans, broken bottles, battered hats, soleless boots, frayed stockings, cast-off rags, and the crowning absurdity of the twisted-wire skeleton of a hooped skirt hanging from a branch.

"Because I knew that bear hadn't gone far for that sugar; because I knew he hadn't stole it from a cacheit was too fresh, and we'd have seen the torn-up earth; because we had passed no camp; and because I knew there was no shanty here.