He told me it was a cinch-hook hitch employed by mule packers in the mountains, and that he had used it on swamp-hooks in the lumber woods of Michigan.

Godfrey was chafing the girl's hands, and the veiled lady was bending over her, fumbling at the hooks of her bodice.

For the purpose of seeking that relief to my feelings which change of place only could afford, I determined to make a sea voyage; and, as one of my father's vessels was about to sail for Canton, I accordingly embarked on board the well-known ship the Two Brothers, captain Thomas, and left Sandy-hook on the 5th day of June, 1822, having first placed my three children under the care of my brother William.

The screws were so contrived, that by turning them in one direction, the pieces of lead attached to them were immediately disengaged from the hooks with which they were connected.

He showed me a hole in his jaw, made by your hook at the mouth of the Bog river.

So tyin' half a dozen hooks to the end of my line, I laid down on the log to angle for my powder-horn.

I dropped down the grapnel, and after a great many failures, I hooked into the string of the powder horn, and hoisted away.

The ancient gallows near London, had hooks for eviscerating, quartering, &c. the bodies of criminals.

We did not need him, for the place where we proposed to pitch our tents for the night would afford us all the fish required, and after lifting him into the boat with the landing-net and releasing the hook from his jaw, we returned him to the lake again.

'All right,' says I. 'Step this way and I'll take the hook out of your gums.'

Advancing southward, the Serbs, one hundred thousand strong (that is, the army of their first line), moved on Kumanova among the hills, where the forty thousand Turks defending the city of Uskub would make their stand as inevitably as a board of army engineers would select Sandy Hook as a site for some of the defenses of New York harbor.

At one time he would lounge in a boat at a fishing party, and laugh when he drew up pieces of salt fish which by the Queen's order had been attached to his hook by divers.

A moment later I caught a glimpse of Handy Solomon bent forward to the labour of dragging a body toward the sea, his steel claw hooked under the angle of the jaw as a man handles a fish.

"And they're in very good hands there," said I. He ruminated a moment, polishing the steel of his hook against the other arm of his shirt.

The nose was hooked like the nose of a bird of prey; the eyes were long and slanting like those of an Oriental.

Then he got into the well again, tied the collar about another stone, drew down the pulley, thrust its hook through the collar, got out of the well, and hauled up the second stone.

But for me, Sir, who am not quite devoid of conscience, whatever you may think,let me tell you, I'd rather hang by sharp hooks over a roasting fire than be again suspended as I was betwixt two such alternatives, and feel the torture of both!

" "A whole week," declared Marjorie, standing on tiptoe to hang up her sack and hat on a hook near the shelves.

Before Wayne could carry out his unmistakable intention of saying more, Katie was airily off into a story about the cook, dragging it in with a thin hook about the late dinner, and the cook in the present case suggested a former cook in Washington whom Katie held, and sought to prove, nature had ordained for a great humorist.

"And you can wash in my chamber," added the Major, with a grand air, "and hang your clothes on the spare hooks behind my door.

At the bottom was a seat on which he sat with the necessary space for him to stretch his legs when he placed them obliquely; under the seat, shut in by a lid, were a few provisions, and table utensils reduced to a simple pocket knife and metal mug; an overcoat and a rug hung from a nail, and the little lamp he used at nighttime was hooked onto one of the walls.

They surged onward, bawling, crowding, trampling, hooking without mercy.

The steamer had drawn in to the Hook beside the train, and Hagan was approaching the gangway, suit-case in hand.

Conolly thanked him briefly, and went without further ceremony to the table, and was about to place his hat and overcoat on a heap of similar garments, when, observing that there were some hooks along the wall, he immediately crossed over and hung up his things on them, thereby producing an underbred effect of being more prudent and observant than the rest.

Passing the bend of the hook round its neck, and the shank under its right wing, we tied the hook in this position with thread.