She might have been delightedly hugging to herself a secret which she had not shared even with the trusted Abraham.

Hugged in the clinging billow's clasp, From sea-weed fringe to mountain heather, The British oak with rooted grasp Her slender handful holds together; With cliffs of white and bowers of green, And Ocean narrowing to caress her, And hills and threaded streams between, Our little mother isle, God bless her!

Beyond these punctures of the flesh, while I ached from head to foot, my other injuries were merely bruises to add to my discomfortthe result of blows dealt me by Sanchez and Cochose, aggravated by the bearlike hug of the giant negro.

and she bestowed a convincing hug on Veronica that nearly took her breath away.

"I do, I do, I do, and I do!" said Olly, with a bear's hug at each assertion.

" said Tennyson; "honest doubt," hugged with all the certainty of a revelation, is the creed of most of his philosophical poetry, and what is more to the point was the creed of the masses that were beginning to think for themselves, to whose awakening interest his work so strongly appealed.

They nip the bear behind, and when they turn, the dogs run like mad, for a hug from a bear means sure death to a dog.

Whirling upon his adversary, he grappled him in his long arms, hugging like a grizzly, and shouting: "You, Gid Himes, wha'r's my specimens?" He shook the stranger savagely.

They were sitting on her couch when Joe tried to describe what he had felt during their hug by the beach.

Say-So, the Pecos horse, jammed close to the side of the black stallion; Snow Johnson, rider of Prince John, pushed the big sorrel ahead with his nose at the roan's tail; Dash-Away hugged against the heels of Prince John.

Ann could laugh, too, and when Katie sat down to "talk it over" they were that most intimate of all things in the world, two girls with a secret, two girls set apart from all the world by that secret they held from all the world, hugging between them a beautiful, brilliant secret and laughing at the rest of the world because it couldn't get in.

And maybe the thing she hugs as a burden is no burden at all to the other people in the family.

" "I want you to, papa," replied Theresa, giving him a kiss and a great hug for emphasis.

I suppose you hug along the west shore.