It was better to permit the insolent republicans to maintain their entire freedom than to hazard, by indiscretion, their transferrence to the hands of those Tartars who were loosened from the parent stock.

"My faith!" gasped the General, loosening in all his joints.

As the sun rose higher rocks were loosened on shattered portions of the cliffs, and came down in rattling avalanches, echoing wildly from crag to crag.

As I glanced up from time to time I saw the agent's face change, and his look deepen and the lips, usually so energetically tense, loosen with emotion.

One of them loosened under the feet of an eight-year-old lad, who fell into the abominable pit and was drowned.

The material is loosened for the shovels by blasts of dynamite and, all the day through, the air is shaken by explosions.

O heart, thy friend's exceeding bounty should free thee from unfounded dread; This instant, as of love thou vauntest, be ready to devote thy head! I gained from thee my frantic yearning for mountains and the barren plain, Yet loath art thou to yield to pity, and loosen at mid-height my chain.

" The colours already set were lowered, and, in their place, the emblem of the house of Braganza was loosened to the breeze.

The force of the sea may be guessed from the fact of the sheet-anchor, nearly a ton and a half in weight, being actually lifted on board, to say nothing of the forechain-plates' board broken, both gangways torn away, quarter-galleries stove in, &c. In short, on getting into port, the vessel was found to be loosened through all her frame, and leaking at every seam.

" So the thin, graying ringlets were loosened around the meagre forehead, and indeed Mandy's appearance was considerably ameliorated.

Just how much had been loosening before thatsome, he knewjust how much would have more or less insecurely held its place had it not been for that night, he was not prepared to sayeven to himself.

If it still heats, loosen about the same as before, and you will find that it will soon be all right.

that points us to the sky, Loosens from earth, that we may soar on high.

And we drove away 'mid the rising hum of hundreds of tongues, loosened after the agonizing suspense.

McRae's fingers loosened as the man slid down and caught the bull-like throat.

" The Jesuit had fastened his eyes on Mac's woollen muffler, which had been loosened during the ministering to Kaviak and had dropped on the ground.

During the evening no talk was allowed except the occasional wranglings of the musicians over tempo and shading, but afterwards, every one's tongue, chastened by the long silence, was loosened into loud and cheerful loquacity.

They heaped all the stones they could loosen over the bodies, and the chaplain read prayers at last, after a 'week's preparation' and suspense, 'snow to snow, and ice to ice.'

His remarkable acuteness is busier in loosening than in binding; it is more happy in the discovery of contradictions than in their resolution.

No one could tell how it happened; but the supports were all cut save two or three, which the swaying of the hammock gradually loosened until, just as the officer went to "change sides," down he came with a frightful splash head first into the tub.