He never goes far from home since, without a rifle; although with that he has no fear of wolves, yet he concludes that a hunting-knife and a stick are no match for a whole pack of the kritters, when made savage by the starvation of winter.

"You know I'm not your match in size or strength, or you wouldn't challenge me to fight; but this I will do: unless you leave the room, I shall go at once and report you to Dr. Denson.

For a chain of five blocks he walked, with a silence and speed that Miss Slayback could only match with a running quickstep.

" He touched a match to the fuse.

"Illustrious Arabs," continued Shidoub, "you know what happened in consequence of the match between Dahir and Ghabra: I assure you on my life that I will outstrip both of them in running, even were they swifter than the wind.

Thurston certainly had good reason to feel proud of the part he had played in the chief match of the season, and might in years to come have always looked back with pleasure on this twenty-fourth of July.

The old feud died out, giving place to a far better spirit, which was manifested each term in the friendly manner in which the teams met for matches at cricket and football.

By the time this trick was worn out, other waggish gentlemen had introduced the practice of dropping wax matches on the floor and treading on them, and of hunting an imaginary mothan irresistibly humorous proceeding, in which the participators rushed about brandishing books and magazines, ever and anon crying, "There he is!" and smiting on the head some quiet, unoffending reader.

"I've got here a challenge from Horace House to play a match against them, either on our ground or on theirs.

The footman at last took a box of matches from his pocket, struck a light and, holding it to the key-hole, peered in.

"Some I.W.W. has stuffed a handful of matches into a wheat-sheaf.

They were both powerful creatures, and fairly matched as regarded size.

These suspicions produced an insurrection, which was headed by the duke of Suffolk and Sir Thomas Wyat, who both lost their lives in the attempt to prevent the match by seizing the Queen; for the design was soon discovered, easily defeated, and those two persons, with many more, suffered on a scaffold.

The village consists chiefly of one row of contiguous dwellings, separated only by party-walls, but ill-matched among themselves, being of different heights, and apparently of various ages, though all are of an antiquity which we should call venerable.

She saw the flare of one match after the other as they fell to smoking; the smell of strong tobacco came to her.

His appetite failed, the hand that too often carried a glass to his lips shook so that drops of wine spattered the cloth like blood; he could not even keep a cigarette alive, but burned more matches than tobacco.

Miss Martin stuck to her guns persistently and eventually pulled the match out of the fire, winning the next six games straight off and thus becoming Irish Champion for 1902.

I can't tell you how I knowit's all over himit's all over meit's his eyes, the way he stands, the expression of his mouthI don't only see itI feel itI feel it the way a thermometer feels it when you put a match under the bulb ...

Moreover, in France it has long been the custom for poor girls to seek eligible matches without reference to love.

When he got a light he crossed the grass, as if he meant to throw the match over the hedge.

Nobody had bought any of her matches during the whole long day.

There was a litter of half-burned matches near the barrel and Ned bent over and gathered them up.

"I have no objection to the bargain," I said slowly, helping myself to a match off the table; "the only question is whether it is possible to carry it out.

We had to be careful, though, not to drop matches about, and to put out our pipes before going to sleep.

In 1833, he went to Frankfort to hear Paganini, and there it was a case of "pretty girl at the willow-bushstaring match through opera-glasseschampagne."