70 Verbs to Use for the Word billet

This we did and found pretty good billets.

Mrs. Chapone, when she was Miss Mulso, had written 'four billets in The Rambler, No. 10.'

If getting billets is William's job, getting rid of them is the Babe's affair.

"Silas offered him the billet of foreman.

Full of these meditations she rose, and soon after received from the subject of them a billet, containing these words: To the charming MELANTHE.

In half an hour, he sent a little billet, expressing his concern for the vehemence of his behaviour, and prayed to see me.

When day appeared, twelve miserable wretches were found crushed to death between the openings of the raft, and several more were missing; but the number could not be ascertained, as several soldiers had taken the billets of the dead, in order to obtain two, or even three rations.

And all the time that I was holding up the billet to the light, to try to get at its contents without breaking the seal, [for, dispatched in a hurry, it had no cover,] there stood he, laughing, shrugging, playing off his legs; now stroking his shining chin, now turning his hat upon his thumb!

I ordered Dorcas, on putting the last billet under the door, and finding it taken up, to tell her, that I hoped an answer to it before I went out.

Uncle Bill had slipped over until he could reach a billet of wood beside his bunk.

" "What, sir?" "This letter for you, from a lady," said Roundjacket, smiling, and drawing from his pocket an elegantly folded billet.

The moment we are tired of fighting and want billets, the Squadron sits down where it is and the Skipper passes the word along for William.

His company was to be relieved that day, and to go back from the trenches to rest billets, behind the lines.

On taking leave she found means to slip a little billet into Horatio's hands, unperceived by any of the company, which, as soon as he had a convenient opportunity, he opened, and found these words in French: To the agreeable HORATIO.

She rung her bell for Dorcas; and, with her door in her hand, only half opened, gave her a billet for me.

Months had passed; Roswell had seen his last billet of wood put in the camboose; had tried various experiments for producing heat by means of oil, which so far succeeded as to enable the ordinary boiling to be done, thereby saving wood; but, when a cold turn set in, it was quickly found that the schooner must go, or all hands perish.

She handed her a dainty billet, scented with bergamot.

Robin, you must know, is the best Man in Town for carrying a Billet; the Fellow has a thin Body, swift Step, demure Looks, sufficient Sense, and knows the Town.

here she showed a billet and rode close to the wall and hid it neath the ivy"and a famous adventure which I've half a mind to pursue, afterI've 'suaged my hunger.

He sat down at the table, tore a leaf from his Field Service Pocket Book, and wrote: The Supply Officer of the District is at liberty to occupy this billet only at such times as it is not required by the troops of the Combatant Services.

This portion, which turns on the spike, has a fairly broad square end covered with small holes, while at the opposite end hangs a billet of wood.

Some of her guests, having billets for the church reserved for them, entered their carriages and drove thither; the others, being weary with the long wait and excitement of the morning, accepted their hostess's invitation to breakfast, content to hear later of the celebration of mass in the Church of Saint Louis.

and he hurled a billet at the dog's head as he was going down for the second time.

'Oh, you are in utter ignorance that your vagabond suitor, Lyddiard, left a billet for you this morning,' he resumed in the same sarcastic strain; 'and you are quite unconscious that you were carried in a coach to his residence; but the lynx-eye of jealousy watched you, and you have converted a friend into a foe.

There lay a little scented billet, among the documents on his table, that had at first escaped his attention; he took it up wonderingly, and broke the seal.

70 Verbs to Use for the Word  billet