After that, the conversation was shifted to lighter subjects.

Nay, 'tis time we departed then, and shifted for ourselves.

In that record stands the story of the fight, with striking shifts from week to week.

There was a shift of speakers then, this time a private, still too rangy, but his looseness of frame seeming already to conform to the exigency of uniform.

The Boy had invariably been feeling (just as the Colonel had before, during his shift in front) that the man behind wasn't helping all

The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose well say'd, a world too wide

For honey sells well, and we ourselves can make shift with a drop o' small mead and metheglin for common use from the comb-washings.

Someone stirred as the door opened, and out of the fetid dusk of the unventilated, closely-shuttered cabin came a voice: "Night shift on?" "No."

"Tired of towns and desk-work, andand" The Boy shifted about on his wooden stool, and held up his hands to the reviving blaze.

I cannot stand all day on the naked beach, watching the capricious hues of the sea, shifting like the colours of a dying mullet.

I am sure the men must have felt the change, though certainly they were too far away to see it, for they shifted by ever so little from their first frozen attitude.

" Scowl Austin was up, ready, as usual, to relieve Seymour of half the superintending, but never letting him off duty till he had seen the new shift at work.

They work on the same shifts as the men, receive the same pay, but are not worked overtime "because they must go home and perform their domestic duties.

Let this unsutable foole goe, sir Gyles; we will make shift without him.

" His gaze shifted across the room to Beresford, alert, gay, indomitable, and as implacable as fate.

The covering party which was to cross at the ford found the bar had shifted under the pressure of flood water and that the marks put down to direct the column had been washed away.

By the rule of the day the hard shift before dinner usually fell to the Boy.

Here he found it strangely awkward and even perilous to dismount without his hands to balance his weight, as he shifted out of the stirrups.

"Whisky in the JAR," the driver sang to himself shifting through gears.

Spain Clings to the Ghost of Her ColoniesThe Scene of War Interest Shifts from ManilaThe Typhoon SeasonGeneral Merritt on the Way to ParisGerman Target Practice by Permission of DeweyPoultney Bigalow with Canoe, Typewriter and KodakHongkong as a Bigger and Brighter Gibraltar CHAPTER XXIII.

A bridge and a mill dam having been destroyed during winter the only means of crossing was by a ford three feet deep at the mouth, an uncertain passage because the sand bar over which one could walk shifted after heavy rain when the stream was swollen with flood water.

Lastly, That the Course of the Trade-Winds, the Monsoons, and other Winds periodically shifting between the Tropicks, be visibly express'd.

Your weight should shift toward the direction in which you are hitting at the moment of impact, and you should have your feet planted firmly.

One hundred and twenty men, working in three eight-hour shifts per dayforty at a timecould do all that was needed to the Intrepid and Terrific, and not one man was included who had not served at Devonport for at least ten years.

Thus cracks will be formed; and if the pressure goes on, the ends of the layers will shift against each other in the line of those cracks, forming faults like those so common in rocks.