He had a shrewd, kind face, like a Scots dominie, and a mouth that shut as tight as the Governor's.

" "I was not in his company, but I knew and loved him well," I answered gently, taking both her hands and holding them tight in mine.

she asked, startled, clutching the baby tighter to her, and conning over with quick alarm the tow-heads that bobbed and surged about her waist.

What was it that had awakened Billie Bradley? Hardly had the girl asked herself that question when she heard ita padding, stealthy, creeping noise that made her clutch the bed clothes and draw them tighter about her.

"I expect they'll be a little tight for me," Johnnie remarked somewhat doubtfully; the slippers, though cheap, ill-cut things, looked so much smaller than her heavy, country-made shoes.

Place some bits of shaving in the tube, cork it, and make the cork perfectly air-tight by coating it with bees wax or paraffine.

Her rejection was firm and unqualified, but uttered with a grace and a tenderness to his feelings, that bound her lover tighter than ever in her chains, and he resolved on immediate flight as his only recourse.

Round their waists and over their under-dress they pass a piece of silk, which is wrapped tight round the person.

You know damwell I would, but money's tight with me just now.

The night was very dark and the snow falling fast, as Hermann, the charcoal-burner, drew his cloak tighter around him, and the wind whistled fiercely through the trees of the Black Forest.

No doubt you were a bit tight at the time.

As it passed out of sight they saw William Philander with his hand still tight on his olfactory organ.

The child was leaning against the door clasping the forgotten Christmas-tree so tight against the musk-rat coat that the branches hid his face.

The only complaint, it appears, is that some of them are just a trifle tight under the arms.

hisses BUMSTEAD, jamming the umbrella tighter over him.

And where the rein was tight across the back of her wrist, for he could reach no lower, Racey set the blade of his pocket-knife and sawed desperately.

The discovery, to the traveller returning from the East, robs the most romantic scenes of western Europe of half their charm: in the Piazza of San Marco, in the market-place of Siena, where at least the robes of the Procurators or the gay tights of Pinturicchio's striplings once justified man's presence among his works, one can see, at first, only the outrage inflicted on beauty by the "plentiful strutting manikins" of the modern world.

Their skin was blackened by sweat and coal dust; soaked singlets, tight like gloves, clung to their lean bodies.

The screw was, by no means, as tight after the writing as before.

"I changed my tights from blue to pink for the first night and scored another personal triumph.

"We must stop this," he cried, and tearing the shirt from his shoulders, he ripped it into fragments and wedged these tight between the logs.

The coat, too, was insupportably tight below the arms; and, as I turned half round before the glass, I saw that it hung loose between the shouthers! '

"Come through the woods t' save yer life, I did, an' they was tight up t' me all the way.

But Sir JOHN is often drunk, says the Globe; he was tight before Prince ARTHUR, and he rushes to the bottle whenever the Fenians give alarm.

He had heard her voice; when that death-grip was tightest about his throat there had come to him that terrified cry: "Mon Dieu, you are killing himkilling him!" His breath came a little faster as he whispered the words to himself.