The shadow convulsed as shadows are apt to swirl in a green pool when a stone is dropped into it; and a bit of board two feet long and some eight inches wide cracked against the shins of Lefty Joe.

At eleven, my conveyance arrived; the steps were let down, and, when down, they slanted under the body of the carriage; my foot slipped from the lowest step, and I grazed my shin against the second; but at last I surmounted the difficulty, and seating myself, sank back upon the musty, fusty, ill-savoured squabs of the jarvey.

Thou shinest in my breast as some bright star!

And he tapped him on the shin with his staff.

Was ever man so fortunate as I? To break his shins at such a stumbling-block!

They upset buckets and benches, so that he might break his shins over them, which he never failed to do.

"And we don't want none of your lip," ses the carman, who was in a bad temper because he 'ad got a fearful kick on the shin from somewhere.

Only don't kick too hard; for, after all, it has a hundred million pair of shins to your one.' 'Don't fear that I shall run a-muck against society just now.

" King of Corpus (who was an incorrigible wag) was about to point out a half dozen of people in the room, as the most celebrated wits of that day; but I cut King's shins under the table, and got the fellow to hold his tongue, while Jones wrote on his card to Hoskins, hinted to him that a boy was in the room, and a gentleman who was quite a greenhorn: hence that the songs had better be carefully selected.

In a moment I brushed against a table, then struck my shin on something which proved to be the leg of a chair lying over-turned on the floor.

Thou shinest like lightning in the midst of the clouds.

He remembered then to protect the honest freedmen who had sent him warningstrode to a fire near a caterer's booth and burned the letter, stared at by the slaves who warmed their shins around the embers.

Thou resemblest the deity of a thousand eyes; and in grace and beauty and prowess, thou shinest among these all as a king!' "Bhima replied, 'O king of kings, I am thy cook and servant in the first place.

You will have to carry me over the stream, for I'll not wet my shins for love of any man, mark that!"

I was just rubbing my shins after an encounter with a remarkably solid object, nature uncertain, when somebody near me fell over something with a crash and a groan.

When she attempts to take hold of you, do you jist come down on her corns, fling your shins about kinder wild, you know, and let her have it on both feet.

" Now Robberts had been pressed into service in consequence of Charlie's absence, and was in no very good humour at being compelled to air his rheumatic old shins behind the family-carriage.