182 Verbs to Use for the Word blocks

In thoughtful silence, they walked the remaining three blocks to the boarding house where Miss Beggs lived.

I'd 'a' been all right if I'd cal'lated better, but I cut my block off too short, and I couldn't make Napoleon nohow; so I says, 'Well, Isaac Watts was an awful short man, so I guess I'll make him!'

He seems to recite a good deal to the mistress, and occupies the dunce's block quite regularly," Vincent retorted, with a provoking significance that set mamma in a brown study and suspended the comments on Kate's and Jack's probable sentiments.

"Then men come along with big saws, that have very large teeth, and they saw out each block.

They came here to prospect, and evidently found a block of ground which suited them.

Though our circumstances are comfortable, we are not surrounded by the luxuries which so often prove a stumbling-block to weaker brethren.

For all that, Lister stopped the sailor, who was going to throw another block.

The Indians wouldn't run their ponies more than an eighth of a mile, or a quarter, and we consented, because the poor little things didn't look as though they could run a block, they were so thin, and sleepy.

"If you are with Major Blinks, you had better ask him whether you may use your own discretion and, if necessary, remove breech blocks and abandon guns."

Give us five minutes; more if you can!" He laid the block on a cracker-box, and, keeping pistol and eye still on the thief, took his watch in his left hand, as the Boy shot through the door.

Nominally, the shares were worth a much larger sum, but she had found out that nobody else was willing to buy the block.

It took up a whole half block.

In the center of this lofty chamber stands a solid block of marble which is covered with inscriptions from the Koran in graceful, flowing Persian text.

And that day, when the tail-end of the parade of the Red Cross passed the main avenue, it broke off and went a block out of its way and attacked the I.W.W. hall, a good two-story building.

Come, Jug, let's leave these senseless blocks, Giving each other blows and knocks.

Nay, stay, minion; there lies a block!

I noticed a block and axe myself in the yard of a building near the town-hall, and on looking at them closely, saw they were stained almost black, with what I have little hesitation in saying was human blood.

Having satisfied himself that the chimney was so small that it was utterly impossible to pass even his head up it, he drew the two blocks of wood over to the window, and was able, by placing one above the other and standing on tiptoe on the highest, to reach the bars which guarded it.

The doctor looked at the headlines a second and then exclaimed, loud enough to be heard a block, "Great God!

"Climbing over piles of rock like refined sugar and passing several wagons carrying heavy blocks down the road, we arrived at the mouth of the principal quarry where the purest statuary marble is obtained.

They kneel before the altar, holding in either hand a small wooden block, about-five inches long, which resembles a split banana.

Linoleum block printing: carving the linoleum block, M-1; and A few points on the use of Speedball Linozip cutters, M-2.

" The next moment he was tearing away the blocks of slate and coal with both hands.

Mäzli must have found the conversation entertaining, for glancing over to the others, she let Lippo place the blocks whichever way he pleased, something that very seldom happened.

The latter prefers to make Madame Loisel and her husband chiefly of putty so that they may illustrate the blind thrusts of accident rather than the power of personality to turn stumbling-blocks into stepping-stones.

182 Verbs to Use for the Word  blocks