" Before Dave could prevent it, Dan started a determined over-tossing of the book pile.

The captain-major saw this and that the ships had an absolute need of repairs; and also because they had no more water to drink, because, with the tossing about in the storm, many barrels had broken and given way; under such great pressure, he stood in to land under sail, for the weather was moderate and was beginning to be favorable; all were praying to God for mercy, and that he would grant them a haven of safety.

The general history of the district consists in the usual tossing to and fro between the various powers which have at different times been strong in the neighborhood.

Empty rags and blankets lay strewn over the floor, no snoring, no tossing in them more.

Sea-sickness, in a crowded boat, and the retching of the waves, soon turned everything and every one topsy-turvy; every being, in fine, bearing a stomach which had not been seasoned to such tossings among anchors and halyards, was prostrate.

" What an extravagance to bracket as equally exploded absurdities the opening of a letter and the tossing off of the wrong glass of poison!

quiescit Si quis aquas timet inquietas," says the wistful poet; and the tossing on the waves of the world thus gives me the tonic sense of contrast to my peaceful life which it would otherwise lack.

For that reason she looked more anxiously than before for some sign of him riding towards her through the fields of flowering mustard that heaved in the wind like the waves on some strange, lemon-colored sea tossing between high, green islands of oak and willow.

He had joined in the blanket-tossing with vigor.

Then sometimes uplift, on a rocky peak, A lonely form betwixt the sea and sky, Watchers on shore beheld her fling wild arms High o'er her head in tossings like the waves; Then fix them, with clasped hands of prayer intense, Forward, appealing to the bitter sea.