At this moment a spear struck the Governor in the leg just above the knee, with such force as to cause it to protrude two feet on the other side, which was so far fortunate, as it enabled me to break off the barb and withdraw the shaft.

She had a cousin Mathildelater the Baroness Gleichensteinwho also left a barb in the well-smitten and accessible target of his heart.

"Away, away, my barb and I," As free as wave, as fleet as wind, We sweep the sands of Araby, And leave a world of slaves behind. 'Tis mine to range in this wild garb, Nor e'er feel lonely though alone; I would not change my Arab barb, To mount a drowsy Sultan's throne.

The sticky substance in the bird's mouth covers the little barbs on its tongue, and thus he is able to catch a great many ants at a time.

They assailed the wretched master in his turn, darting their venomed barbs into his face and hands, and driving him nearly frantic.

And detaching her barb, as she spoke, from the cavalcade, she moved towards Gillian, accompanied by Lord Roos.

The horrible little gray creature, striking up over its back with spiked tail, drove the deadly barb half an inch into the orderly's naked ankle.

The warm blood followed the barb, and he lapped it eagerly in his hunger.

And deep repentance welled in me As I mused darkly on my sin; Yea, Conscience stung me, like a bee That gets her barb well in.

Upon the ascent of the needles again against the material, the loop is both given off the barb and is entered by the threaded needle, completing the stitch.

Peter's action held half a dozen barbs for the Captain.

No amethyst nor garnet is shining on his brow, No crimson sleeve, which damsels weave at Tunis, decks him now; The belt is black, the hilt is dim, but the sheathed blade is bright; They have housened his barb in a murky garb, but yet her hoofs are light.

The dear Mother seldom stays long, except when she finds me alone. (Having insinuated this barb into the flesh of her 'dear sister,' she takes up her crochet with an air of great contentment.

But why should you, who still succeed, Whether with graceful art you lead The fiery barb, or with a graceful motion tread In shining balls where all agree To give the highest praise to thee? Such harmony in every motion's sound, As art could ne'er express by any sound.

And Saladin, stunned and bewildered sore, The greatest prince, save in the grace of God, That now wears sword,mounted his brother's barb, And, followed by a half-score followers, Sped to his castle Shaubec, over against The cliffs by Ascalon, and there abode: And sullenly made order that no more The royal nouba should be played for him Until he should erase the rusting stain Upon his knightly honor; and no more

Your companion, while he helps you to pick the barbs out, calls the palm laughingly by another name, 'Suelta-mi-Ingles'; and tells you the old story of the Spanish soldier at San Josef.

See, see, He reins his docile barb with manly grace.

"One would think you blamed Ethie entirely, or at least that you were indifferent to her happiness," she said, removing her lace barb, and unfastening the heavy switch bound about her head.

Julian thought the wound a slight one, and seizing the double-edged barb to withdraw it, cut his fingers.

For Teresita smiled pleasedly and sent another barb.

He spurred his barb and rode away, Scattering the dust behind, And cursed the star that made his heart Inconstant as the wind.

They sang another note when I was younger, When from the rich East came my queenly pearl, Lapt on this fluttering heart, while mighty heroes Rode by her side, and far behind us stretched The barbs and sumpter mules, a royal train, Laden with silks and furs, and priceless gems, Wedges of gold, and furniture of silver, Fit for my princess.

We took on board a fine barb for Mr. Elton, which died after a few days at sea, in these tempests.

In one place a tomato-field had been wired; the green vines, laden with their rich red fruit, were intertwined with the steel vines bearing their vicious blood-drawing barbs whose intent was to make the red field redder still.

This brilliant poet, with his marvelous mastery of German lyric tones, expressed a wide range of poetic inspiration; but he loved particularly to conceive of himself as an apostle of liberty, an outpost of the revolutionary army, and none so well as he could tip the barb with biting sarcasm and satire.