No matter how slyly they trace the furrows of the bark, they are speedily discovered, and kicked down-stairs with comic vehemence, while a torrent of angry notes comes rushing from his whiskered lips that sounds remarkably like swearing.

It was more of a furrow in the snow, and Pierre Radisson followed it, expecting to find the dog dead at the end of it.

On entering the house, and descending a flight of steps, we found, at the farther end of a dark room, lighted with a chandelier suspended from the ceiling, an elderly man, with a long gray beard, and a thin, pale countenance, deeply furrowed with thought rather than care.

A golden plough had been provided, and the king himself turned up a furrow on the four sides of the ground within which the building was to be.

Yea, Romans, we will furrow through the foam Of swelling floods, and to the sacred twins Make sacrifice, to shield our ships from storms.

Billy Edwards came on deck with a line of irritation right-angling the furrows between his eyes.

Soon afterward a jagged bluff-like cloud with a sheer face appeared over the valley of the Yuba, dark-colored and roughened with numerous furrows like some huge lava-table.

There had been some very heavy rains, by which the sand had been washed away from the hill-side, leaving deep and wide furrows at the foot, which required all our skill to jump over, but we determined not to be outdone by Alfred, who acted as pioneer; so we continued to follow our leader, with many a laugh and tumble, until it seemed we were going a great way, to get nowhere.

They found that he had been shot through the fleshy part of the thumb, and the bullet, ranging down the arm, had sliced a furrow to the bone all the way to the elbow.

A fire, a bad fire like that, gets so in an hour that you can't stop itcan't stop it till it gets out where you can plow a furrow around it.

The furrows into which his countenance was contracted were gradually relaxed; his features were brightened into a smile; the kindness with which he had upon former occasions contemplated Emily seemed to revive in his heart.

" Zip pursed his lips, and his brow furrowed under his red hair-a common expression for the leader of the Starman team.

The venerable minister, for his locks were grey, and time had ploughed deep furrows down his cheeks, and draws palpable lines across his brow, was, as my memory paints him, the personification of earnestness, sincerity and truth.

Down through the heart of FranceTours, Poitiers, Angoulemepast trim little French rivers, narrow, winding, still, and deep, with rows of poplars close to the water's edge, and still a certain air of coquetry, in spite of bare branches and fallen leavespast brown fields across which teams of oxen, one sedate old farm horse in the lead, are drawing the furrow for next spring's wheat.

It has one horn about a cubit long which is solid, but has a furrow from the base to the tip.

Jack had a bullet hole in the upper left arm plugged with a bit of cotton; and a deep furrow across the temple, which was bleeding.

But Ewans had already scampered across the yard, leaving a dusty furrow behind him.

It is this entanglement of moods which makes us old, and puckers our brows and deepens the furrows about our eyes.

Thou dyest when next thou furrowest up our brow.

Back and forth he went through the long furrow after the patient ox, the hens and chickens following.

For two hours, a cannonade between the Royal George and the big guns on shore was kept up, with very little effect, when a 32 pound ball from the former came over the bluff and ploughed a furrow near where the riflemen were standing.

This is the most charmingly symmetrical of all the giants of the Sierra woods, far surpassing its companion species in this respect, and easily distinguished from it by the purplish-red bark, which is also more closely furrowed than that of the white, and by its larger cones, more regularly whorled and fronded branches, and by its leaves, which are shorter, and grow all around the branchlets and point upward.

Then the youth asked about the two men he had met; Singh Chando said;"Tell the first man when he is ploughing to plough two or three furrows beyond the boundary of his field and his wealth will diminish and tell the second man to drive away three or four of his cattle every day and their number will decrease."