For his own part, sitting back on the stool with his cap tucked under his arm and his hands folded about one knee, he met the faint, cold smile of the colonel with a broad grin of his own.

Mutely, doggedly, she pressed on, and rounding a bend in a long, lonely stretch of road, saw before her the tall, lithe form of a man, trousers tucked into boots, a tall staff in hand, making swift progress up the road.

The men had huge pistols and knives in their belts; their pantaloons were tucked in their boots; and they wore large broad-rimmed hats.

There was a frail, long-visaged boy of ten sitting beside his aunt in the back, with a girl of eight tucked between them.

It was biffbiff, and biff again, but not nip and tuck for long.

Their trousers either tuck inside the uppers of their boots and should be sufficiently long to do so without pulling out in a strained turn or fall, or they may be buttoned round outside the boots or folded and tied on with Norwegian puttees or swanks.

Now listen, for next I will tell how Robin Hood compassed the happiness of two young lovers, aided by the merry Friar Tuck of Fountain Dale.

And he adds: "How much more alluring than the naked fruit from the grocer's sack are these nuts, especially when dots for eyes and mouth are added, and a whole little face is tucked within this natural bonnet.

" The search was made, and it ended in William Dane finding the deacon's bag, empty, tucked behind the chest of drawers in Silas's chamber.

"In the hat?" cried Brass, in a sort of shriek, "Under the handkerchief, and tucked beneath the lining," said Mr. Swiveller, aghast, at the discovery.

There was one thing moresome sheets of paper covered with Braille characters, tucked beside Kirk's plate.

And he winked and blinked at stout Friar Tuck like an owl at the sun.

Then they are all drawn to the centre of the Anemone, carrying their prey with them; and the feelers, prey and all, are tucked out of sight.

Sure he towld me in a confidintial way, just before he wint to turn in last nightif it wasn't yisturday forenoon, for it's meself as niver knows an hour o' the day since the sun became dissipated, and tuck to sitting up all night in this fashion.

Enter WARMAN, SCARLET, and SCATHLOCK, bound; FRIAR TUCK as their confessor; officers with halberts.

Louise was reading in the hammock, and merely glanced at the little man, who solemnly stumped around to the back door with the three red volumes tucked underneath his arm.

Various articles of their wardrobe were tucked around the sides and corners, or under the roof.

It was nip an' tuck with both of us.

Where it was tucked over the small ears,and native refinement or the other thing shows very plainly in the ears,it lay full, and shaped into a soft curve.

Dresses tucked above their knees, Maids of noblest families, In the swift dance blindly wheeling, Circle in their wild career Round the steer, Kettledrums and laughter pealing.

But how much finer to die like Romeo with a kiss, quick as the true apothecary's drugs; to sink like Shelley in the blue water, with mind still full of the Greek poet whom he tucked against his heart; to pass hot with fever, like Byron, from the height of fame, while thunder presaged to the mountaineers the loss of their great champion in freedom's war!

" "How sayst thou?" roared Tuck from the choir loft.

" Then up rose Robin Hood and shook Friar Tuck by the shoulder.

She had a long apron thing that fastened over the shoulders and with tucks at the edge, and a strip of white stuff up round her neckay, she looked well.