Then, I nailed the heads of the struts to these, and, driving them well home at the bottoms, nailed them again there.

One decoration for the head in particular struck my fancy: it was formed of a silver tissue, containing fireflies, and intended to be worn in the night.

I observed too, that instead of decorating their heads with flowers, like the ladies of our earth, they taxed the animal world for a correspondent ornament.

I trembled from head to foot, and, though burning with impatience to obtain from them farther particulars, it was some moments before I could trust myself to speak.

She turned her head on hearing the sound of my voice, and, seeing me, shrieked out, "He lives!

There is no telling just where we were headed for some time.

We read of Turpin, Oliver, and Roland,the sweepers-off of twenty heads at a single blow; of Arthur, who slew Ritho, whose mantle was furred with the beards of kings; of Theodoric and Charlemagne, and of Richard of the Lion-heart.

If it be granted, that, in effect, this way does more mischiefthat a man is secretly wounded, and, though he be not sensible himself, yet the malicious world will find it out for him, yet, there is still a vast difference betwixt the slovenly butchering of a man, and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place.

Down went the roley-poley boy, like a dumpling down a cellar-door; crashing his head against the cruel rocks that stood in stony heartedness in his way, and dashing his brains out against their hard sides.

Even then, I could not perceive the cause, until I knelt down, and thrust my head over the cliff.

But instead of sitting confidingly as my other visitors had done, he rushed off at once, nearly tumbling heels over head into the lake in his suspicious confusion, and with loud screams roused the neighborhood.

And now, if you will tip back your head like a paper-hangerwhose Adam's apple would seem to attest a life of sidereal contemplationyou will see in the center of the murk above you a single point of light.

Slowly, and with a sullen struggling, he was drawn towards the shore, sometimes with his head out of water, and sometimes diving towards the bottom.

When he had made an ending, she inclined her head toward him.

Some stood midside in the water, some with only the line of their backs and heads above it.

The cruiser immediately headed about, following the probable course of her charge, which would be beaten far down to leeward.

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So, for a space, they stood with bared heads between the twin graves.

" He shook his head as one who sees his last hope fade.

Here he wades about ducking his head under water and deftly turning over pebbles and fallen leaves with his bill, seldom choosing to go into deep water where he has to use his wings in diving.

Both were the sons of grave and strict fathers, each of whom had met with terrible misfortunes: one deprived of his liberty by his enemies, the other of his head by his own subjects.

The Colonel was on his legs in a flash, putting his head through his parki and drawing on his mucklucks.

But Beltane recked nought of this, for, espying a narrow window in the opposite wall, he came thither and thrusting his head without, looked down upon the sleeping camp.

I leave the matter to be settled by more competent heads than mine, and return to my narrative.

He bared his head before her.