Here was an instance in which the prefects had taken a stand against palpable injustice, and the action had caused the whole body to rise several pegs in everybody's estimation.

But the best came when the sun had lowered behind the grove, the company grown more silent, and Mrs. Forrester, leaning beside the door of the tower, turned the great pegs of a Chinese lute.

" On the following evening, as soon as tea was over, the two friends slipped off down into the playground, where they were joined a minute later by Acton, who, unlocking the shed, took down from the peg on which it hung the key of the door in the outer wall.

his father makes boot-pegs for a living.

I stood behind the fence and helped the Brennan boys and Patrick Costigan to peg at them!"

Mr. Hatchard got out of bed and striking a match lit the candle, and, taking his overcoat from a peg behind the door, put it on and marched downstairs.

As soon as the man with the plaited queue had driven the second peg into the ground they began measuring again, and so, still measuring, disappeared in another direction which took them in behind the sand-dune, where Tom no longer could see what they were doing.

Mighty close quarters they were where the young man John bestowed himself and his furniture; this last consisting of a bed, a chair, a bureau, a trunk, and numerous pegs with coats and "pants" and "vests,"as he was in the habit of calling waistcoats and pantaloons or trousers,hanging up as if the owner had melted out of them.

It is to be hoped that this government effort will save the round pegs from getting into the square holes.

She was tempted to lie down and read, but instead she took a straw hat from a peg by the door and walked outside.

Hundreds of hides were pegged to the ground.

This startling idea would have been helped along by two or three shadowy bonnets depending from pegs above them.

The house of WIGGINS cannot consort with the son of one who pegs along in life in this manner!

They strike a tent-peg out of the ground with their lances.

Not by request were his cap and riding stick hanging from a peg beside the few belongings of How Landor; yet, likewise unchallenged, they were there.

" He opened and peeped into a cupboard in which an overcoat surmounted by a felt hat hung from a peg like an attenuated suicide; he looked in all the corners and into the sitting-room, but no slippers were to be seen.

After we arrived at the inn my postilion and I refreshed ourselves; he hung his horn on a peg near the kitchen fire; I sat on the other side.

Each rove bobbin is free to rotate on its own peg as the rove from it is drawn downwards by the retaining rollers.

His company conduct-sheet runs into volumes, and in peace-time they fix a special peg outside the orderly-room for him to hang his cap on.

She would answer: 'very likely,' or 'it may be,' or 'there is no knowing what may happen in this world of trouble,' and still rattle about her lace-pegs over the pillow on which it was made with the quickness of magic.

"Don't forget," said an officer, "that they are moving over good ground, while the pursuit has to move over bad groundroads with craters in them, ground so pitted with shell-holes that you can scarcely drive a peg between them, demolished bridges, villages that give scarcely any cover, and so on.

A boy places a board against his breast, takes a peg pointed at both ends, and, setting one end of the peg against the board on his breast, presses the other end firmly against a second board, the surface of which has been flaked into a nap.

At the far end of the passage she flung open her bedchamber door, entered, turned up the light, and snatched her cloak and hat from pegs beneath the curtained shelf that held her scanty wardrobe.

"Then we must try other means; if you can but manage to scale the chimney,and I think there are still some pegs inside which Reuben put there in the spring when he went up after burning it out,if you can reach the roof by the chimney you will find on the south side, close to the chimney itself, a trap-door which lets down by a ladder into our garret.

They all imitated Ford in hanging their hats on the appointed pegs before sitting down.