Each in turn averted his eyes and removed from the box a small sliver of ivory.

Only the trees were touched, however, so far as I could see,a few firs 200 feet high, perhaps, and five to six feet in diameter, were split into long rails and slivers from top to bottom and scattered to all points of the compass.

For days after he had run a sliver in his paw she nursed his foot.

All finisher cards are fed by slivers which have been made as explained in connection with the breaker card, but there are two distinct methods of feeding the slivers, or rather of arranging the slivers at the feed side.

It is curious to notice, in the writings, of this intelligent commercial geographer, and in the travels of Marco Polo, the peculiar advantages in commerce enjoyed by the Chinese at so early a period, of being paid in sliver for their commodities and manufactures.

"There's a bad, bold sliver about this long, that ran into Danny Watson's foot.

He collected dry twigs from the sunny places, cut slivers with his knife, built over the whole a wigwam-shaped pyramid of heavier twigs, against which he leaned his firewood.

The two slivers are then guided by horns projecting from the upper surface of the sliver plate, made to travel at right angles to the direction of delivery from the mouths of the conductors, and then united to pass as a single sliver between a pair of delivery rollers on the left of the feed and delivery side and finally into a sliver can.

Big Bob, the star bear of the show, had in some way run a great sliver into one paw.

Ltook a sliver off his coat and offered it to us as a souvenir.

His heavy boot caught in a sliver on the step but the rending of wood brought no response.