This time he did not try for a hold, but slashed at the husky's jaws.

Bayle St. John, in his "Louvre," relates that he heard an associate of the Royal Academy deliberately and energetically declare, that, if it were in his power, he would slash with his knife all the works of the old masters, and thus compel people to buy modern.

They were very merry, even boisterous in this unaccustomed work, responding to rough jests by resounding slashes of the tightly wrung garments upon the heads or backs of the unwary wags.

A large round cake, with long slashes in its center, was baking and crowding the capacity of the frying pan.

Black and bitter were the thoughts of Frenchmen when they saw this weal of dishonour slashed across the fair face of their country.

Where the moon's rays splashed across the bare right forearm of Bull, he sent a bullet that slashed through the great muscles.

In the tough grim talk of the monkish days They hammered and slashed about, Dry husks of logic,old scraps of creed, And the cold gray dreams of doubt, And whether Just or Justified Was the Church's mystic Head, And whether the Bread was changed to God, Or God became the Bread

"Good bread for once," said the Squire, slashing into the smoking loaf; astonishing how dull those negroes arenot to be able to learn such a simple thing as baking.

But M. Haggren, after having observed the slash from the Orange-lily, the anthers of which are a considerable space distant from the petals, found that the light proceeded from the petals only; whence he concludes, that this electric light is caused by the pollen, which in flying off is scattered upon the petals.

The newspapers of Paris, that day, had a sensation that crushed into insignificance the news from Château de Montalais: in a compartment which he had occupied alone on the night rapide from Lyons, a man had been found with his throat cut, his clothing ripped to rags, even his luggage slashed to ribbons.

The stuff trickled in by Associated wire at the last minute, and we had to cut and slash for space and run it pretty much as it camethe bare story.

Jarvis had an ugly slash on his right arm.

Then he looked up to avoid imaginary dangers, and then back again to see a horse rolling on the ground, the gaunt man standing and slashing over it at a rent and fluttering mass of grey that streamed and wrapped about them both.

" Another hour, and suddenly Mrs. Kaufman shot out her arm from the coverlet, jerking back the sheet and feeling for her daughter's dewy, upturned face where the tears were slashing down it.

They were cutthroat trout, silvery-sided and marked with the red slash along their gills that gave them their name.

They say she's got nerves of ironcan cut and slash like her father.

On its becoming known that he required such a functionary, numbers of individuals who aspired to that dignified and honourable office applied forthwith; and as it was also known that the master was to be absent, and that, in consequence, the party having it under his entire control, could cut and slash without being interfered with, the value of the situation was greatly enhanced.