Soon they made the Medicine Lodge, and, first of all the warriors, Mik-a'pi was chosen to cut the raw-hide which binds the poles, and as he cut the strands, he counted the coups he had made.

That would not do; he must concentrate all his faculties, every energy, to bringing this coup, born on the inspiration of the moment, to a successful conclusion.

Soothed by the fragrant tobacco, and with an exquisite feeling of rest and freedom, I lay back in the corner and listened to Latimer's pleasantly drawling voice, as he described to me how he had accomplished his morning's coup.

Le bourgmestre chancela sous le coup

The first one who came up counted coup and took her.

As suggested by what has been already stated, each tribe of the Plains Indians held its own view as to what constituted a coup.

At certain dances and religious ceremonies, like that of the Medicine Lodge, the warriors countedor rather re-countedtheir coups.

"Tous les ans," says Sainte Croix, "pendant les jours consacrés au souvenir de sa mort, tout étoit plongé dans la tristesse: on ne cessoit de pousser des gémissemens; on alloit même jusqu'à se flageller et se donner des coups.

Often the dealing the coup showed a very high degree of courage.

" "Not dealsbut coups for themselves," he laughed, correcting Flockart.

The Pawnees were very strict in their interpretation of the term, and with them an act of daring was not in itself deemed a coup.

Such acquired traits bade fair in the end to defeat Mrs. Merrick's carefully planned coup, for the daughter had a premature love affair with a youth outside the pale of eligibility.

Even when he was on the point of being slain, he managed to execute a brilliant coup.

Across this stand, and within the enclosed space, were the roe-buck, fawns, and young wild boar goaded, while the King, the Dauphin, the Duc de Grammont, and the rest of the royal party, had their shots in succession, or, as it is technically termed, their "coup."

She held her coup in reserve, however, knowing her resource, and sat, as it were, with her finger on the spring, determined to carry through coolly what she had begun.

"He has just 'jumped the coup,' or rather been 'shooed out'.

Elles font les quatre cents coups!" which is equivalent to "cutting up like the mischief.

The Lone Wolf seems to have exercised a fair amount of ingenuity and prudence in making his coups; and inasmuch as he had no confederates, not a living soul in his confidence, there was no one who could sell him to the authorities.

MORT, mort tout d'un coup.

When he was gone, the Master called Bohannan and Leclair, outlined the next coup in this strange campaign, and assigned crews to them for the implacable carrying-out of the plan determined onsurely the most dare-devil, ruthless, and astonishing plan ever conceived by the brain of a civilized man.

"I don't believe there's another man breathing who would have had the courage to plan a coup like this.

I had played my grand coup, and lost.

FRAPPER, battre; donner un ou plusieurs coups; produire de l'effet.

The governor had postponed the coup from day to day, waiting upon the leisurely movements of Falkland; and at the end of the ends there remained but three hours of the final day of grace when the telegram came from Falkland with the welcome news that the Overland officials were on their way from Midland City to keep the appointment in Gaston.

Such was the master hold gained by M. Paul in the first minute of the struggle; long and carefully he had practiced this coup with a wrestling professional.