For 100 feet or so above the fall the ascent was made possible only by tough cushions of club-moss that clung to the rock.

In front of the President is a cushion with the Caduceus, the Mace, and the Golden Cane.

Billie was swinging back and forth in the porch swing, grasping a cushion in each hand to keep her from jumping out, while Chet walked restlessly up and down.

What are we going to wear?" "You poor fish!" cried Ferd, throwing a cushion at him.

I had caught them up after replacing the cushions on Adelaide's body.

Beside the potted hydrangea, well back and yet within an easy view, Mrs. Horowitz, her gilt armchair well cushioned for the occasion, and her black grenadine spread decently about her, looked out upon the scene, her slightly palsied head well forward.

I was lying back in a low chair with a cushion under my head.

where they live, is the essential thing; and Eve Effingham has lived so long in France, that she speaks nothing but broken English; and Miss Debby told me last week, that in drawing up a subscription paper for a new cushion to the reading-desk of her people, she actually spelt 'charity' 'carrotty.'

They listenedI will do them that much justice; but it was with such an air of incredulity that my words fell with less and less continuity and finally lost themselves in a confused stammer as I reached the point where I pulled the cushions from the couch and made my ghastly discovery.

She laid down her book and drew an open letter from between the cushions beside her, which she languidly tossed into the other's lap.

Now he offered me one of the chairs, took the other himself, and motioned ben Nazir to a cushion near the window.

And, surely, after that I had thought a little moment, I bid the Maid that she dress in her torn garments, so that these should be over the top of the armour-suit, and thiswise to make a soft thickness upon the top of the armour-suit, that should act for a cushion between mine armour and her dear body.

Miss Milligan's pins had overflowed from her pin-cushion into her mouth and Esther, who appeared tired, gazed steadily out of the window.

" Ted settled down among the cushions against which Ruth's blonde head had nestled a few hours ago.

The conical embrasure traverses this cushion by means of a cast-steel piece firmly bolted to the caisson, and applied to the armor through the intermedium of a leaden ring.

" She dropped back against the cushion as from weariness, and sudden tears brimmed into her eyes and spilled down her cheeks.

After she had explained it to him as well as she could, and he thought he understood it, it seemed to him only the more wonderful and mysterious; and ever as it went whirring round, it sung a song of its own, which was also the song of the story, whatever it was, that the old woman was telling him, as he sat listening in her high soft chair, covered with long-faded chintz, and cushioned like a nest.

They raised her between them with infinite care and flattened the cushions beneath her.

5.That poison having failed, he resorted to strangulation; after whichor beforecame the robbery of her ring, the piling up of the cushions over the body in a vain endeavour to hide the deed, or to prolong the search for the victim.

The senators, wrapped in mourning cloaks, surrounded the bust of the man they desired to honor as it was carried in triumph to the church where the tomb was prepared; and the three avvogadori, who had the keeping of the Golden Book, bore it on a great cushion behind the marble effigy, the leaf bound open where the name was re-inscribed.

After the feast they were retiring without retaining these important and costly articles of dress; and on a courtier reminding them of their apparent neglect, the burgomaster of Bruges replied, "We Flemings are not in the habit of carrying away the cushions after dinner!"

Step in, and get a cushion underneath your apron.

But Heady shouted: "Somebody stuff a sofa-cushion down History's mouth until we learn what it is that Quiz has got.

Del Ivory sat in a little open space, cushioned about with reels of cotton; she had a shallow gash upon her cheek; she was wringing her hands.

She was elevated on a radiant throne of gold and crimson cushions amidst a group of women, her hired flatterers, who kept singing and bawling out her praises.