I should very much have liked to get hold of a rifle and ammunition, or at least to lay in biscuit and water, but for this there was no time.

I think if the matter were laid before him in a proper light he might be induced to reconsider his decision.

The only outlet from this village was by passing down the valley along the settlements, and following the course of the stream; so that there was no other injunction laid on me, than not to extend my rambles far in that direction.

He ran his hand against the lay of the sequins, absorbed in a conscious kind of gaiety.

Well, it's Captain Ezra Selover, and you can lay to that!

I'll lay for the Dutchmen.

But before the night is too far gone and while yet you can hold yourself from nodding, you will please read about Captain John Smith of Virginia and his "strange performances, the scene whereof is laid at such a distance, they are cheaper credited than confuted.

A foundation was thus laid with me for habitual remissness in these ceremonies; and after I grew up, I persuaded myself that they were of less importance than they were deemed by my countrymen.

I hitched myself to the spark, and laid across it the rope with which my wrists were tied.

Of all the causes that arrest public attention, surely this laying of wooden pavement is the most enduring and effectual.

The enemy have invaded and laid waste the province of Ulster, and the chief warriors of the Red Branch, except Cuchullin, who must needs fight alone, are laid under spells by the magicians of the invaders.

Then then the blushing Maid lays by Her simpering, and her Modesty; And round the Lover clasps and twines Like Ivy, or the circling Vines.

Well, say no more, I'll lay about me.

'Twas to the accompaniment of Elspeth's merry laughter that I wakened, to find myself in a dark, strange-smelling place, with a buffalo robe laid over me, and no stitch of clothing on my frame.

These were the first warnings from the great barrens that lay between the last lines of timber and the Arctic.

My clothes had been brought back and laid beside me, and with much difficulty I got into them; but I gave up the effort to get my stockings and boots over my scorched legs.

" Hetty was crying softly, her cheek laid against Thursday's sleeve.

Next, the bough being very large, he laid along it a plank steadied by blocks underneatha level for the little feet.

I lay like a log upon the ground.

When the wound, however, is jagged, or the flesh or cuticle lacerated, the parts are to be laid as smooth and regular as possible, and a piece of lint, wetted in the extract of lead, laid upon the wound, and a piece of greased lint placed above it to prevent the dressing sticking; the whole covered over to protect from injury, and the part dressed in the same manner once a day till the cure is effected.

The day-gang on No. 0 was hard at it down there where lengthwise in the channel was propped a line of sluice-boxes, steadied by regularly spaced poles laid from box to bank on gravel ridge.

But as we liv'd and died together here, So let our bodies be together tomb'd: Let him with me, and I with him, be laid Within one shrine, wherever you appoint.

The laying out of the circus is attested.

Educate him, polish him as you may, it will be in him still, and he will love to go off into the old woods at times, to lay around loose for a season, vagabondising among the wild and savage things of the wilderness.

We all laid into the canvas like mad, and in no time had snugged down to a staysail and the peak of our mainsail.