The sound of heavy breathing, dull blows, the tear of cloth; and grunts of punishment received; the swirl of the sand, the heave of struggling bodies, all riveted my attention, so that I did not see Captain Ezra Selover until he stood almost at my elbow.

The opposite side of the Pit, still retained its verdure; but so torn in places, and everywhere covered with dust and rubbish, that it was hardly distinguishable as such.

Leaving, I continued my tour 'round the house, finding little else of interest; save at the back, where I came across the piece of piping I had torn from the wall, lying among the long grass underneath the broken window.

It lays hold of a child and, out of his destructive instinctsthe instinct to bang, and pull, and tear to piecesit develops creative power, the inventive genius that lies hid within him.

It had something in its talons, which it put to its mouth and tore at....

It is resolved that Alcippus, who is now torn with agony and remorse, must be fittingly punished, and accordingly as he lies sick at heart in his chamber Erminia enters as a spirit, and so looking over his shoulder into a mirror wherein he is gazing tells him plainly of Galatea's love.

Here at the Gates She lies 'mid many tears for many fates Of wrong.

But the tear on the shoulder of your coatah, that is too smooth edged for a tear, too long for the bite of a scissors.

My body was purpler than a huckleberry pie, and my linen was torn into pieces finer than a postage-stamp.

She shed hot and bitter tears over this wrong which all her friends did to Lady Mary's memory.

We tore through the herbage as if we had been running a race in the yard of a peaceful manor.

She was calling to him through the forests, and he was torn between desire to answer that call, and desire to go down into the plain.

" "This writing was indistinctly traced with a burnt stick, on a blank leaf torn out of a book.

When Lady Anne rejoined her sister and their bosom friend, Miss Seymour, after the disconcerting interview with Carleton, she explained her tears by saying they were due to her having been 'obliged to refuse the best man on earth.'

There is nothing in it that pierces like a sword, that burns like fire, that rends and tears like the turning wheels.

The porcupine was rolled up in a thousand-spiked ball a dozen feet away, and she could hear Kazan tearing about in the throes of the direst agony that can befall a beast of the forests.

gain one's liberty, obtain one's liberty, acquire one's liberty &c 748; get rid of, get clear of; deliver oneself from; shake off the yoke, slip the collar; break loose, break prison; tear asunder one's bonds, cast off trammels; escape &c 671.

Even Mac was found agreeing with the others of his Trio that, since they had a grand, tough time in front of them, it was advisable to get through the black months ahead with as little wear and tear as possible.

The reader paused, midway of the first paragraph, to piece a tear across the column, and Bedford escaped by dashing into his store.

Rutilia followed her son Cotta into exile so dearly did she love him, yet no one saw her shed a tear after his burial.

Her eyes shut, and she felt hot tears under the lids.

Three little half-breed Indian boys, yelling with excitement, tore past the Gold Nugget, crying now in their mother's Minóok, now in their father's English, "The ice is going out!"

I remembered that even in my anxiety about Roland I had heard them tearing along the avenue back to the stables, and had made a memorandum mentally that I must speak of it.

what strippings, what tearing off of histrionic robes, and private vanities!

" And into the little recitation-room Laura was very willing to go and hide her tear-stained face from inquisitive eyes, while Kitty, penitent and overcome more by the spectacle of these tears than by a sense of her own shortcomings, followed briskly after, with this cheerful little running fire of remarks, anent the Art Club lecturer: "I'm just crazycrazy to see this Monsieur Baudouin; for what do you think Flo Aplin says?