Now, looking up, he saw her lips curved and scarlet, and her eyes brimful of laughter, and fain would he have taken up the brush yet dared not.

Leave them alone; and, taking fresh subjects, dip your brushes in brains, as old OPIE or somebody else said, and go to work with a will.

He was compelled to lay aside the brush, which accounts for the water in this corner not being frozen, as the contract stipulated.

The artist, who was seated at his easel, held up his brush as a signal of silence, and did not even raise his eyes till he had finished the touches on which he was engaged.

She dropped the brush, and ran toward him with a great rustle of her flowing silks.

It is said that Lorenzo di Credi also lies here, and Albertinelli, who gave up the brush for innkeeping.

"I'm going to take another nap, girls, and if anybody dares to wake me up, I'll throw my hair brush at them.

For some time after rigging this contrivance, whenever anyone reported "tracks," Mac and the Boy would hasten to the scene of action, and set a new snare, piling brush on each side of the track that the game had run in, so barring other ways, and presenting a line of least resistance straight through the loop.

Forthwith he drew his sword and fell to cutting down the brush, whereat friar Martin, girding up his frock, took Walkyn's sword and fell to likewise.

" Seizing a marking brush and a piece of paper, Chow Hop quickly wrote out Pennington's name, correctly spelled.

"Do you know, I believe that Mary cares for Mr. Ferrars," Mrs. Burton blurted out, with considerable nervous trepidation, turning her back on Katherine, and wielding her brush as if her life depended on her accomplishing a given number of strokes per minute.

The rest of the male hands were engaged during the day in weeding the cotton for the last time, and in the nigh, in burning brush on the new lands clearing for the next year's crop.

Wash the potatoes well, and if necessary, use a clean scrubbing-brush to remove the dirt from them; and if possible, choose the potatoes so that they may all be as nearly the same size as possible.

You might have written in the margin of your play-book"Let there be a few rushes laid in the place where Back-winter shall tumble, for fear of 'raying his clothes:" or set down, "Enter Back-winter, with his boy bringing a brush after him, to take off the dust, if need require."

He never seriously touched a brush again, for all his energies were needed in the defence of himself and his invention from defamation and attack.

Thus too before the painter dares to ply Paint-brush or canvas, he is wont to write Sketches on scraps of paper, and invite Wise minds to judge his figured history.

" Picking up the hair-brush, he held it out at arm's length to Angy.

He had ignored his mess-mates at their second-class table; but when the new passengers from Colombo came to dinner, he heard behind him the swish of stiff skirts, felt some one brush his shoulder, and saw, sliding into the next revolving chair, the vision of a lady in white.

When I had, with great labor, adjusted these, as I thought, firmly, I perceived that some of the wax was on the hairs and would make them yet coarser, and they were already too coarse; so I washed my little camel's-hair brush which I had been using, and began to wash them with clear alcohol.

He surveyed their carefully packed contents with a certain grim and fantastic amusement, handled the silver brushes, shook out a purple brocaded dressing-gown, laid out a suit of clothes for the morrow, even selected a shirt and put the links in it.

He stopped at the drug store and bought a tooth-brush and a tube of paste.

As a method of teaching the first principles of Logic to children it has proved most useful; the subject, usually considered very difficult to a beginner, is made extremely easy by simplification of method, and both interesting and amusing by the quaint syllogisms that the author devised, such as No bald person needs a hair-brush; No lizards have hair; Therefore No lizard needs a hair brush.

Hopes to resume his brush.

One sees in its perfection of color the "Indian paint brush," with its red of purest dye, and adjoining it solid fields of blue lupinethe colors of Harvard and Yale, side by side, challenging birds and all creatures of the air to a decision as to which of them bears itself the more bravely.

I see their idea clearly nowI see it perfectly clearly; they are trying to drive me to break my brushes.