Mac picked up a billet of wood, and drove the cork in flush with the neck.

Walker, of course, was foremost in the persecution of the redcoats; and he eagerly seized his opportunity when an officer was billeted in a house where a brother magistrate happened to be living as a lodger.

" "News?" said the fisherman eagerly; "perhaps you have a billet for me?"

See, here's a Billet to her.

However, there was no time for this; and we decided to run the risk of finding the hotel 'full up,' particularly as Wareham had informed us that in such a case we might secure a temporary billet at one or another of the smaller hotels of Walton or Weybridge.

Its members are those house-holders who have been privileged to have Anzac soldiers billeted on them.

In the same district a German officer was billeted with a famous Flemish poet; the officer behaved courteously, was treated with consideration, and allowed himself to talk freely: his complaint was the misdeeds of his soldiers.

The report was read, and the amendments to the clauses in debate, which then ran thus: That the officers and soldiers to be quartered and billeted as aforesaid, shall be received, and furnished with diet and small beer by the owners of the inns, livery stables, alehouses, victualling-houses, etc. paying and allowing for the same the several rates mentioned.

On taking leave she found means to slip a little billet into Horatio's hands, unperceived by any of the company, which, as soon as he had a convenient opportunity, he opened, and found these words in French: To the agreeable HORATIO.

those swan-white, sky-blue, rose-pink maidens who in every town and on every plantation from Memphis to Charleston, from Richmond to New Orleans, despatched their billets by the forlornly precarious post only when they could not send them by the "urbanity" of such or such a one!

Far more poetical, too,is it not?as well as more practical, than tying billets under the wings of carrier-pigeons.

As Jerry Swayne deposited their key upon its hook, he drew forth a small tri-cornered billet from the pigeon-hole beneath, and presented it.

I did not know him at all at firstand then, suddenly, with a shock, I recognized him as my fine young Gordon Highlander of the rest billet near Tramecourt.

"We're heading for a rest billet behind the lines.

A sergeant's wife provided welcome hospitality; but no sooner was "Skilly" billeted outside the canteen than the plague returned, and so she was recalled urgently to active service.

Pleasant to see superiority of billets over the hooter: that only emitted three blasts.

But tire and the difficulties of a sister (not a foreign) tongue cloud everything, and one goes to billets amid a murmur of voices, the rush of single cars through the night, the passage of battalions, and behind it all, the echo of the deep voices calling one to the other, along the line that never sleeps. . . . . . . .

Not only are there five thousand infantry billeted along the hills and in the valleys, but there are big divisions of artillery also.

We are in billets after the great battle, and this time I saw it all.

"You won't find many billets like it.