" It seems possible sometimes to come by wrong roads to a right conclusion; and though the boys were mistaken in changing from their first opinion as to the meaning of the note, yet in this instance their error caused them to hit the right nail on the head.

" "I know there's not a better fellow in the world if he's kept nailed to the right job, and I know, too, there's not another fellow can go to the dogs any easier.

Still, however, I have taken precautions; for I have driven stout nails in at the back of each of the three bolts, that secure the door, opening from the study into the gardens.

he continued, as he tapped the thumb nail of his left hand with the inverted bowl of his pipe, knocking the ashes from it as he spoke, 'well, well!

On Sunday morning he ran a crooked, rusty nail into his foot.

"I stopped a-past and borried the nails and the hammer from Jeff Dawes; I mighty nigh pounded my thumb off knockin' in nails with a rock an' a sad-iron last week.

Here and there curtains, hanging from a slight frame of wood-work, veiled a small square from the eyes of all, except those who paid a nail for admittance.

But with double army blankets nailed over the single window it was blessedly dark, if stuffy, and in crying need of cleaning.

The night-wood is a world by itself, filled with its own atmosphere, as oppressive to valor as the electric reefs that drew the nails from the ships of Sindbad.

She clicked a finger-nail against her teeth.

That scream roused Robert, and he flew tooth and nail at the stepfather.

It is so tenacious that it will retain the nails by which the shoe is attached without tearing away from the hoof.

" Then there is the moonwort, famous for drawing the nails out of horses' shoes, and hence known by the rustic name of "unshoe the horse;" while the mouse-ear was credited with preventing the horses being hurt when shod.

His teeth were long and sharp and grinned horribly, while his lower lip hung down upon his chest, and he had ears like elephant's ears, which covered his shoulders, and nails like the claws of some fierce bird.

They drove nails through it to make me hear better how Dravot died.

The bicycle was leaning against a shelf just beyond me, and on a nail above it I saw an old disreputable-looking cap.

Standing there, buffeting her pink nails across her pink palms, Mrs. Connors followed the westward trend of that army.

Prepare the nails well, point them thin and narrow; and, as I have said before, use as small a nail as possible.

He swelled up and bit a hang-nail off of his cigar.

A leather or webbing thong is passed through the stick or nailed under the knob as a loop to hang them up by, but should never be put round the wrist except for uphill work as the wrist might easily be broken in a bad fall, if the stick be attached to it.

"He placed the iron on the anvil without heating it at the forge; he simply hammered it hot and forged nail after nail, without the use of either anvil or bellows.

"In the hut, on a nail behind the door, is a piece of cord.

There is an ingenious Fellow, a Barber, of my Acquaintance, who, besides his broken Fiddle and a dryed Sea-Monster, has a Twine-Cord, strained with two Nails at each End, over his Window, and the Words Rainy, Dry, Wet, and so forth, written, to denote the Weather according to the Rising or Falling of the Cord.

To make matters worse, I found that it was full of brass nails driven in from the outside, and Riggs told me some sailor had put a border of nails round the board and made a crude nameplate by spelling out the name of the vessel with nail-heads.

So one night when George had gone out he nailed down the window, and when the apprentice returned home in the early hours of the morning he found himself locked out.