The strong man may batten on him, and the weakling refuseth not his mild juices.

It is not easy for anyone, least of all for a good American, to refrain from indignation at the baseness of the rogues who thus battened for many months on the United States and their people.

With infinite precaution Barnett picked out an object that looked like a 22- calibre short cartridge, wadded some cotton batten in his hand, set the thing in the wadding, laid it on the rock, carefully returned the small box to the large box and the large box to the boat, took up the cartridge again and waded back to the cliff.

The houses are generally built of grass walls, connected with thin battens of bamboo.

Then the bo'sun laid the unfinished batten along with them, and we lowered the boat again over all, trusting to its weight to prevent any creature from meddling with aught.

The carcases are stowed in tiers with wooden battens between the tiersit looks a triumph of orderly stowage, and I have great hope that it will ensure fresh mutton throughout our winter.