His shell was all of two feet in diameter, and his scaly arms, as they hung loosely over the side of the rock, were as large as the wrists of a man.

He caught a stabbing wrist with his right hand and twisted sharply even as he drove his left fist into the man's face.

Beaumaroy removed his hand from her arm, but she caught his wrist in one of hers and stood there, holding on to him, breathing quickly, her eyes now set on the figure on the throne.

His first impulse was to raise his hands to his aching head, but he could not do this on account of two iron bands that held his wrists to a stanchion.

Now that I've got you, there ain't a chain of diamonds on earth I'd turn my wrist for.

There was an unextinguished fire in the eye of the captive, and an expression of fearless indignation in the proud bearing with which he strode by the side of his captors, that clearly told how bravely he would sell his life but for the cords that tightly bound his wrists behind him, and were held by a powerful Cree on each side.

However, his long, supple fingers closed over her wrist like steel and she got quickly and easily to her perch and clung nervously to him.

They lopped heads and feet and wrists from their bodies.

" Ina had burned her plump wrist on the oven.

He was holding her wrist between his fingers.

Even as he jerked it forth, I crushed his wrist within my fingers, forcing his fore-arm back.

" In the same way the mothers in Esthonia put some red thread in their babies' cradles as a preservative against danger, and in China something red is tied round children's wrists as a safeguard against evil spirits.

They tied his hands as tightly as possible with hard new cords, fastening the right-hand wrist under the left elbow, and the left-hand wrist under the right elbow.

Then he set the point of his sword upon the pavement of the court and the pommel thereof he set against his breast, and he drew the bonds that held his wrists across the edge of the sword so that they were cut and he was free.

Then he adroitly gathered both her wrists into one of his bony hands; and having rendered her powerless, he slipped by her and cast open the door.

Under the arch of swords, the new recruits, now standing upright, stretched one by one their wrists over the goblet.

A drawing, a photograph, or an engraving sensibly framed without a white mount round it to spoil it pained her as much as my wrists without cuffs on them.

When we pressed into the crevice I wore the ropes on my wrists against the stones as much as I could, trying to cut the bonds on the rough points of the walls.

Which,to come down, or to help?" and Harry flung himself over the rail, clasped one hand and wrist around a copper water-pipe that ran down there, reached the other to something-above the window,the mere pediment, I believe,and swung his feet lightly to the sill beneath.

With his right hand he drew out his clasp knife with a sharp point, which he always had about him, and cutting off his wrist at the joint, fled with his comrades without being stopped by the excessive pain of his horrid wound.

Old Abe followed cautiously, bathing his temples and his wrists before sousing all over.

And he leaned over and touched my right wrist below the glove.

She swung her fan to and fro, playing with it childishly, looking at the light through it, and again dropping it until it hung from her wrist by a ribbon. '

The handle was only sixteen inches in length, but the lash was twenty feet long, made of the toughest seal-skin, and as thick as a man's wrist near the handle, whence it tapered off to a fine point.

He was not aware that one of the most cherished and fascinating accomplishments of Miss Barbett during her childhood had been her ability to throw her wrist out of joint.