" "And see the pretty girls waitingand hear the chink of gold?" "Ay, Senor.

WARING Late in the forenoon a pencil of golden light found a chink in jealously drawn draperies, and groped the rich dusk of the bedchamber till it came to rest, as if happy that its search had found so lovely a reward, upon the face of a young girl who lay sleeping in a bed whose exquisite adornment must have flattered even the exalted person of a princess.

We stopped up all chinks and crevices, that the fumes of these substances might not betray us.

For this latter reason, and also the liability to damage by sudden floods during the progress of the works, dams of Portland cement concrete, on account of their quick consolidation, possess advantages over those of hydraulic masonry apart from the necessity in the latter instance of constant supervision to prevent "scamping" by leaving chinks and spaces vacant, especially where large masses of stone or Cyclopean rubble are used.

But the ambassadors gave him no credit until they had searched every chink and crevice in the cavern, and dug up all the earth round the entrance.

If the pitch is naturally a clay one, it might be sufficient to use water only, and roll at the same time; but for renovating a worn clay pitch, a little strong loamy soil, washed in with water and rolled down will fill up all the "chinks" and holes.

The others replied 'Yes, we're all right,' and all were silent for a night and half a day whilst the wind howled on; the snow entered every chink and crevasse of the sleeping-bags, and the occupants shivered and wondered how it would all end.

He opened a cupboard in the panelling of the wall, and there followed the chink of glasses and the cheery buzz of a syphon.

The second part of "Absalom and Achitophel," which appeared in the autumn of 1682, contains the portrait of Og, cut in outlines so sharp as to remind us of an unrounded alto-rilievo: Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here's a tun of midnight work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home; Round as a globe, and liquored every chink, Goodly and great he sails behind his link.

But a log wall has oftentimes an open chink.

He could not open the gates of his fortress even a chink without letting in a flood before which it must topple into ruin.

Sure he ain't playing chink with ye?" "Oh, he's done right enough.

A scorpion or two had been found, which, firmly resisting to quit the chinks where they had grown and multiplied, had died by decapitation.

Mukoki set to work cutting fresh cedars for the floor; the two boys scoured every log with water from the lake and afterward gathered several bushels of moss for refilling the chinks.

A city gentleman, who had laid up a store of wealth, replied: The chink of gold with gold, transporting sound!

He run the chinks out, him and Petrak.

"There's no point in skinning a Chink just because he is a Chink," said the junior Tutt when his partner had explained the situation to him.

The bees, of both extremes alike afraid, Their wax around the whistling crannies spread, And suck out clammy dews from herbs and flowers, To smear the chinks, and plaster up the pores; For this they hoard up glue, whose clinging drops, Like pitch or bird-lime, hang in stringy ropes.

"Bring that copper-colored chink in here, if you'll be so good," directed Dave.

"Skinny, tell th' Chink to keep me a cup of hot coffee!" Old Heck snorted but said no more.

And as he passes, bending under the weight of his sacks, you catch the chink of the little empty coffee-cups without handles, which the itinerant Arab is soon to fill for his patrons from the portable coffee-pot in his left hand, or the tremulous "malpurwa jaleibi" of the lean Hindu from Kathiawar who caters for the early breakfast of the millhand.

By-and-by, they know there will come the chink of the coin again.

It took me a year to get my facts and it cost a good chink of the filthy, but I got them.

The door of communication was shut, but through it I could distinctly hear someone moving about and could occasionally detect the chink of metal.

And then,was it a fancy, or were her powers of hearing, intensified by excitement, actually equal to discern the chink of coin?