Already the true son of the Church was undoing the ropes that lashed firm the canvas of the tent.

During the hour before dinner the ground itself was a scene of brisk activity: the school colours flew at the summit of the flagstaff; the boundary flags fluttered in the breeze; a number of willing hands, under the direction of Allingford, put a finishing touch to the pitch with the big roller, while others assisted in rigging up the two screens of white canvas in line with the wickets.

We had sweated the canvas on her, even to the flying jib and a huge club topsail she sometimes carried at the main, for the afternoon trades had lost their strength.

I stood before my great canvas with all those who were of my faction pressing upon me, noting every touch I made, shouting, and saying, "He will win!

As he and Mac came out, Andrew was undoing the last fastening that held the canvas to the stakes.

So the others looked on with admiration and a pleasant confidence, while Mac boldly cut a hole in the brand-new tent, and instructed Potts how to make a flange out of a tin plate, with which to protect the canvas from the heat of the stove-pipe.

"The stubborn canvas for my voyage prepared.

Harry was off forthwith to see the troops under canvas at Alexandria.

I don't know as it was right to do it, but about the time pa had got to the red pepper course and was sprinkling it on his skin pretty thick, and he was beginning to get pretty hot, and was yelling a little, I told the chief of police, who was looking around with the health officer for suspicious cases, that there was a man acting sort of queer behind the wagon that had a piece of canvas over the wheels.

Then, having made an end of writing, he bade two of the men take hold of the canvas by the ends and expose it to the view of those in the ship, and in this manner we got them to understand our desires.

Verily, if I were a painter, I should desire no lovelier scene for my canvas than that on which Mark and Mildred looked.

Thou, Kneller, long with noble pride, The foremost of thy art, hast vied With nature in a generous strife, And touched the canvas into life.

With this intent, we roused out so much heavy canvas as the boats contained, for we had gotten a bolt and a half from the hulk in the creek; also the boat covers which we could lash down to the brass studs under the gunnels of the boats.

For my part, seizing this chance to make some examination of my wounded toe, the which, indeed, was causing me to limp, I found that I had endured less harm than seemed to me; for the bone of the toe was untouched, though showing bare; yet when it was cleansed, I had not overmuch pain with it; though I could not suffer to have the boot on, and so bound some canvas about my foot, until such time as it should be healed.

The Adele responded to the helm gallantly, the spreading canvas above standing out like a board, a broad wake of white foam spreading far astern.

Again and again I felt I located the near presence of the Namur, the sound of feet on deck, the shout of a voice, the flapping of canvas against the yards; but as I desperately turned that way, the noise ceased, or else apparently changed into another point of compass.

We all laid into the canvas like mad, and in no time had snugged down to a staysail and the peak of our mainsail.

Before he raised his eyes again the brig had hoisted her anchor, and was tacking under full canvas out of the Quebec basin.

But when the portrait was turned toward the light, she forgot everything but the canvas before her.

You could not put a brush on a canvas without signing it.

Just now the little house was being fitted up for occupancy, How himself doing it at odd moments of the day and at evenings; but as yet he still lived, as always, under eight by ten feet of canvas near at hand.

Our breeze was that they pray for when the wind alone must drive the towering trees of canvas toward Australia from America.

The men had carried so many bags filled with hard and uneven lumps that the shoulders of some of them were tender, and they had to use cushions of canvas under their loads.

Hardly had I fallen asleep again when "spat" came the wet canvas across my face, accompanied by a shout of "Get up!

He had established himself bag and baggage and at the end of two weeks a row of canvases along the wall of his room bore testimony to his diligence.