Among the mild varieties of this article may be mentioned benzine, camphene and kerosene; the next strongest kind is called Jersey lightning; but, if you desire par's nips in their most luxuriant form, go to Water street and try the species known as "rot-gut.

Blackburn is one of the towns which has suffered more than the rest in the present crisis, and yet a stranger to the place would not see anything in its outward appearance indicative of this adverse nip of the times.

He would run his nose up and down the front of her dress, nip at the buttons, and be very happy if he could get a bit of her watch-chain between his strong teeth.

"One dollar is my regular price for a bottle," Racey said gently as the bartender's hand suddenly nipped into sight clutching a sixshooter, "but if you want it back, take it.

She who nips off the end of a brittle courtesy, as one breaks the tip of an icicle, to bestow upon those whom she ought cordially and kindly to recognize, proclaims the fact that she comes not merely of low blood, but of bad blood.

More seldom still did any dwelling betray evidence of inhabitation beyond faint wisps of smoke, like ghosts of famine, drifting from the chimneypots, orperhapssome unabashed exhibit of red flannel hung out to dry with wrist or ankle-bands nipped between a window-sash and sill.

A motor-boat nips on ahead, trailing a rope.

With a whispered "Good-night, dear madam," Mrs. Butterby and the maids leave the room a-tiptoe, closing the door behind them as if 'twere of gingerbread; and no sooner are they gone than Moll, big with her mad design, nips out of bed, strips off her nightgown, and finding nothing more convenient for her purpose, puts the ham, pasty, and partridges in a clean pillow-slip.

The air nipped like cold pincers.

Silvia went running on a little before while Mr. Tebrick followed after with Esther in his arms whimpering and struggling now to be free, and indeed, once she gave him a nip with her teeth.

After a little he came nearer, nosed in between two of them, and was nipped for his intrusion.

Here then the Sergeant was left, after being accorded another nip from the flaskwhich, however, Neddy kept in his own hands this timeand a whispered but vigorously worded exhortation to keep up his courage.

By great good fortune she nipped over the stile before it could reach her.

A colder air nipped through the broken window.

"Look here," said he, "we'll nip up to Pap's after supper.

"I could have done with a nip after a morning's walk, but it is something new to have a whole bottle whizz past my ear.