I had a hook or two, and a piece of twine in my pocket, but they were of no sort of use in common fishin', for I had no kind of bait, and couldn't get any.

The hills are hearing the awesome cries; The sand lies thick in his dripping hair, And his hoofs are twined with weeds and ware.

That enormous serpents infested her cradle, licking her face and twining around her limbs?

"Bedmy bed!" With her arms twined about the immediately supporting form of her daughter, her entire weight relaxed, and footsteps that dragged without lift, one after the other, Mrs. Horowitz groped out, one hand feeling in advance, into the gloom of a room adjoining.

But the poet bid her farewell and remained under the porch, with the green branches shading him, and the flowers twining round the pillars, and the open door of this beautiful house behind him.

Ah, bind them fast with triple twine Of Memory, the wild woodbine That still, being human, stays divine, And alone is age's youth!...

The boy taught the girl to make twine from reindeer sinews, to treat skins, to make shoes and clothing of hides, to make combs and tools of reindeer horn, to travel on skis, and to drive a sledge drawn by reindeer.

A noble river, the child of many hill streams, twined through it in shining links.

"Now," said Jonas, "make another little sharp stake for the marker, and tie the other end of the twine to that, near the sharp end.

Wherefore let some one of the young men his fellows twine for Kleandros a wreath of tender myrtle for his pankratiast victory.

the Conqueror be, The generous Beast Does to the Yoke submit his noble Breast; While Gemini smiling and twining of Arms, Shews Love's soft Indearments and Charms; And Cancer's slow Motion the degrees do express, Respectful Love arrives to Happiness.

Wherefore must The evil deeds and guilt reciprocal Of our two fathers twine like serpents round us?

I got Miss Twining to bed, and she quieted down a little.

She stood where the pink-blossomed climber streamed up the columns of the little porch, and her arm was twined among the strands to draw them to her face.

Every time my venerable friend on the coach-box extends his twig with a few yards of twine at the end of it, which he denominates "a whupp," the suddenness of the accelerated motion makes his great, round head flop from the centre of his short, thick neck, and come with such violence on the unstuffed back, that his hat is sent down upon the bridge of his nose with a vehemence which might well nigh carry it away.

"The trees [in the Forest of Bombast] are close, spreading, and twined into each other."Ib., §617.

I carried a bucket and a brush, and Elzevir a plasterer's hammer and a coil of stout twine over his arm.

This may be more easily accomplished with a needle and twine than with skewers.

Small twigs cluster around the trunk all the way from bottom to top and give the tree the appearance of having a vine twining about it.

Miss Twining among them.

Dr. Burney wrote to the Rev. T. Twining on Christmas Day, 1784:'The Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey lay all the blame on Sir John Hawkins for suffering Johnson to be so unworthily interred.