It was downright cutting of throats and scuttling of ships that our youngster sang of, and the grim faces looked and listened approvingly, as you might fancy Ulysses's veterans hearkening to a tale of Troy.

Pa says the farmers fought with each other to sign orders, and some paid in advance, so as to get the willow cuttings in a hurry.

Pare the cucumber, cut it equally into very thin slices, and commence cutting from the thick end; if commenced at the stalk, the cucumber will most likely have an exceedingly bitter taste, far from agreeable.

Fastened as I was in the stocks, I could only stand and take lash after lash, as long as he desired, the terrible rawhide cutting into my flesh at every stroke.

Half-way up the cutting on their left was a little hut, and beside it stood the man who had spoken.

They flower in August, and are increased by layers or by cuttings under glass.

It was an affair of time, as it involved the delicate cutting out of daisy garlands from a wider bordering filled with flowers of other colors, and proved a fascinating occupation.

Steel sleepers, big heavy rails, low gradients, excellent cuts and bridge work; cuttings through rock smoothed as if by sandpaper and crevices filled with concrete.

Gradually the village boys and young men went off to their ploughing, or grass cutting for the cows' evening meal.

The gun teams were generally exposed during the advance and were treated to heavy shrapnel fire, but they swung into action at prearranged points and set about wire-cutting with excellent effect.

that you are setting an axe to that system, more cutting than the axe of any Socialist, Nihilist, or Anarchist in the world?

If in the cutting off the pound of flesh you shed one drop of Christian blood, your land and goods are by the law to be confiscated to the state of Venice."

In weed-cutting by hand, instead of with the long knives, it is wonderful how many trout get cut by the scythes.

The ridge of rock cutting across the burned-over area could not properly be called rimrock.

We crossed the hollow which divides the moor, and went to the top of a sandy cutting at the rear of the workhouse.

"We shall have good cutting to-day," I said to myself.

They aim to harvest the tree yield more thoroughly and to extend their cuttings over many years.

" You see all this is very simple when one reads the whole; but in cuttings like those of the Government Attorney, the smallest word becomes a mountain.

Take cuttings during summer, place them under glass, but give a little air occasionally.

The white steeple of Poole church was lighted by the rays, while the town presented a neat and picturesque appearance with the masts of the shipping cutting against the blue sky.

Every eye was turned in that direction; a profound upheaving agitated the crowd; they rushed forward, they pressed against the railings of the high pavements which border the cutting between the theatres of the Porte St. Martin and the Ambigu.

As a proofsome of you may recollect, when the South-Western Railway was in making, seeing shellssome of them large and handsome onesNautili, taken out of the London clay cutting near Winchfield.