In this were some wads of fibrous material used for wicks.

In the center stood the surgeon, with the sleeves of his operating-coat turned up, his arms red to the elbow in blood, all about him blood-stained bandages and wads of cotton-wool.

At nine A. M. Sidi Mohammed left the Bardo under a salute from the guns, one of the wads of which nearly hit Captain Balfour on the head.

When a discharge occurs from the ears, it is not best to plug them with cotton wads.

The others were huddled together in a sad group at the front window, eyes swollen, handkerchiefs rolled into drenched, pathetic little wads.

" Mr. Van Kamp took a wad of loose bills from his trousers pocket, straightened them out leisurely, and placed them in his bill book, along with some smooth yellowbacks of eye-bulging denominations.

I've got a wad of white chewing-gum; would you flat it out and stick it over the collar button?

I can show a wad of five-pound notes and not have Scotland Yard at my heels, or charter a ship and crew and go about it businesslike, and take my time at it.

The most distinguished had cork stoppers for heads, with faces marked on the sides, the rest, only wads of paper or cloth fastened on the ends of sticks that reached down into the bodies.

I didn't bring you here to get rolled for your wads, or anythin' like that.

Wads were not a commercial commodity in those days.

I made the weights by filling blank cartridges with shot, wool, and wads, so as to distribute the weight equally, and I closed the cartridges with a wad, turning the edges over it with the instrument well known to sportsmen.

The quartette were placing prospective rubies and sapphires on the board, using gun-wads in lieu of the real article.

They use gun wads and simply play that they are rubies.

It may be a joke, but the people think you are playing for real stones, using gun wads as they've seen poker chips used.

" He had seen Miss Anna, he resumed, "for so brief an instanton an errandthat he had not made civil inquiry after the others, but had left good-by for them about as a news-carrier wads and throws in the morning paper!"

The critics and politicians, and especially the philanthropists, have chewed them, till they are mere wads of syllable-fibre, without a suggestion of their old pungency and power.

SEE WADS WORTH, L. A. The masquerade mystery.

SEE WADS WORTH, L. A. The masquerade mystery.

Investigation showed that our only resource in the commissary line were some wads of sticky, unsalted, boiled rice which our Igorot carriers had inside their hats, in contact with their frowsy hair.

The table was filled with empty cans and tin plates and cracked, oven-stained bowls and iron-handled knives and forks, and the bunk in the corner was a tumble of gray blankets and unpleasant, red-flowered comfortscorner-wads, Charming Billy was used to calling themand for pillows there were two square, calico-covered cushions, depressingly ugly in pattern and not over-clean.

'Letter for you, Shadder,' says Smith, and passes over a big envelope with wads of sealing wax all over it.

Do not rub off little wads of dough either from the hands or the board and keep kneading them into the loaf; they will seriously injure the uniform texture of the bread.

Yes, our best things go, like wads for guns, to bid our purpose speak more emphatically, as it expresses the overruling inspiration of the hour.

I was scrubbed, rolled, pounded, drenched with cold water and scalded with hot, beaten with bundles of birch twigs, rubbed down with wads of hemp which scraped like brickbats, and finally left to recover my breath upon the highest and hottest step of the whole stairway.