By the fretwork of its radiance through the chinks of our rudely-built cabin I had marked off the hours.

"Bring that copper-colored chink in here, if you'll be so good," directed Dave.

the whole covered with bark; the ends consisted of stakes, driven into the ground and chinked with moss.

They had first attracted Madame Varrillat's notice by the bright play of sunbeams which, as they walked, fell upon them in soft, golden flashes through the chinks between the palisades.

The curtained window of a fantan shop still glowed in orange translucency, and from behind it came the murmur and the endless chinking of cash, where Fortune, a bedraggled, trade-fallen goddess, split hairs with coolies for poverty or zero.

The light that shone in through the chink under the door went out.

Money chinked on all sides to an accompaniment of laughter and curses.

"You can't take the Chink from here this time, can you?" "I reckon Sing Pete'll have to go along as usual," Old Heck answered; "it'll make it a little unhandy at the ranch, but" "Ophelia and I can 'batch' while you are gone," Carolyn June suggested.

"I guess the old Chink down the road, the fellow who kept me talking at the gate, had something to do with storing the explosive there," Ned remarked.

He got the Chink to believe he could handle the vanilla for him, and got hold of it, and then out by the vegetable garden Brown hit the poor devil of a Chink over the nut with a club.

The only chink through which a breath of air seemed to come, and keep her heart alive, was the hope that somehow, somewhere, she might find that belt, and restore it without her mother's knowledge.

Canning is the very man who has taken especial care that no strong box among us shall be without a chink at the bottom; the very man who asked and received a gratuity (you remember the Lisbon job)

He could not open the gates of his fortress even a chink without letting in a flood before which it must topple into ruin.

The logs had been rolled up to form the body, a roof of "shakes" had been hastily put on, there was no chinking between the logs, there were no windows, and the only door was a blanket.

" Thus made welcome, Rudolph crawled toward a chink among the bags, ran the muzzle of his gun into place, and lay ready for whatever might come out of the quaking lights and darknesses beyond.

A Portuguese Jew had them in a pawnshop, and he said he bought them from a chink for seven Mex dollars.

At half-past three on a morning of early August light should be already stealing through the little window and the chinks into the hut upon the Meije.