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All one side of the ravine was stripped of underwood, showing the bare rock.
In every case the garments had been stripped from the bodies before burial, so that there was absolutely no means of identification.
Jack, stripped to the waist and wearing a pair of trunks, had appeared on deck.
Now, at the very moment the legions were stripped for the march, many of them were without proper ammunition.
Strip off the legs, and you will find that each pair is attached to a very definite segment of the under wall of the body; but these segments, instead of being the lower parts of free rings, as in the tail, are such parts of rings which are all solidly united and bound together; and the like is true of the jaws, the feelers, and the eye- stalks, every pair of which is borne upon its own special segment.
The wagon road from Holbrook, on the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad, to the military post at Camp Apache, on the White Mountain Indian Reservation, passes through this strip by way of Show Low.
Cut off the heads and tails, and a thin strip on each side of the beans, to remove the strings.
broke in Shade swiftly; "don't you say anything to the bosses about this"he shook the strips in his hand"not till I've had a chance to talk to you again.
The top leaves may be curled, by shredding them in narrow strips with the point of a clean skewer, at a distance of about 4 inches from the top.
Day by day, nearer came the menace; narrower and swifter still ran the deep black water strip between the encroaching ice-lines.
Use these strips like levers by placing them across the long rubber tube at different points.
Turkey in Europe has dwindled to a strip along the Bosporus to the Sea of Marmora and the Dardanelles, Egypt has been lost, Tripoli also, and the only force that, for the last hundred years has kept alive in Europe the existence of that monstrous anachronism has been the strange political phenomenon, now happily extinct, called the Balance of Power.
I found most of the coolies with their loads still on the right bank of the river, leisurely proceeding to strip before wading across; the loads had to be carried on their heads, the water being well above their waists.
Whip the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, mix with them the pounded sugar, and cover the apples very smoothly all over with the icing; blanch and cut each almond into 4 or 5 strips; place these strips at equal distances over the icing sticking up; strew over a little rough pounded sugar, and place the dish in a very slow oven, to colour the almonds, and for the apples to get warm through.
Really that tiny strip across the isthmus is crowded with souls snatched too quickly from torn and tortured bodies.
The cells are subjected to pressure, which increases as the operation goes on, from the growing resistance offered by the increasing deposit of solid matter on the cloths; and it is therefore necessary that they should be provided with a jointing strip around the outside, and be pressed together sufficiently to prevent any escape of liquid.
Neither side is able to cross that strip without being crumpled by fire against which no body of men can stand.
Perhaps, as you assert, some power which is stronger than I may some day tear all masks aside: but this will not be my fault, and I shall even then reserve the right to consider that stripping as a rather vulgar bit of tyranny.
Coming back to the main room we find one division weaving bright paper strips into a mat of contrasting color, and note that the occupation trains the sense of color and of number, and develops dexterity in both hands.
Ice covered all the lake save a narrow strip next the land.
This he filled with powder, and then, slinging it over his shoulder, he carried it out to the clump of bushes and placed it at the base of the sapling, cutting a strip out of the bark immediately above the spot.
Three to four weeks later the diseased surface was gradually getting smaller, while in about six weeks it was quite healed up, the last place to heal being a strip outside the bar, between it and the wall, and a smaller spot on the bulb of the heel.
That article is now fitted with India-rubber soles for the Quebec demand,a continuation of the sole running in a low strip round the edge of the foot.
March 19.Bay cleared except strip inside Inaccessible and Razor Back Islands to Corner Turk's Head.
He whistled while he rode along the creek bank looking for a comfortable camp site; and when Valencia loped up to him, as he was hesitating over a broad, shaded strip under a clump of willows, he turned and smiled upon his head vaquero.