Koogah, sitting next to him, indicated that he was not averse to taking a draw, and between two mouthfuls, with the oil thick on his lips, sucked away at the amber stem.

Conceding two stone, he fought a draw with the famous Billy McQuire, and afterwards, for a purse of fifty pounds, he defeated Sam Hare at the Pelican Club, London.

They turned up a slight draw, toward the hillside.

I never seen a draw like that.

"Watch my draw!"

She combed her hair with modest neatness, then opened the draw with much precaution, lest she should disturb poor Myra, who still slumbered on the hard mattrassdrew out a shawl and began to fold it as if to put it on.

tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate^; masthead, keelhaul. execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale^, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber.

From the barricade of the Petit Carreau they heard the night-strife draw near through the darkness, with a fitful noise, strange and appalling.

A mystery no less to gods than men! Not thus our infidels th' Eternal draw, A God all o'er, consummate, absolute, Full-orbed, in his whole round of rays complete.

Should the day be propitious, a run is now assured, unless some unforeseen occurrence, such as the fox going to ground, necessitates a draw for a fresh one; but in any case, owing to this marvellous knack of hitting off the line at the first check, our huntsman generally contrives to show a run some time during the day.

" "He was playing draw with Honey Hoke and Peaches Austin and me," Doc Coffin offered, oilily.

He didn't need much target practicejust the draw.

The wind howled through the branches of the trees above our heads, makin' us pull our blankets closer about us an' draw as nigh to the fire as possible.

We had reached the draw, it was lifted for the Speed, she had passed, and the wind was in her sail once more.

About the middle of the afternoon, Waring rode down a sandy draw that deepened to an arroyo.

"I speeded his draw up a bit, but he had the straight eye and the steady hand when I started with him.

"That was a right good-looking hand, toobefore the draw," he remarked at last, sweeping them into the discard.

Materials for either opinion were plenty; lava flow, saccaton flats, rolling sand hills sage-brush, mesquite and yucca, bunch grass and shallow lakes, bench and hill, ridge and groundswell and wandering draw; always the great mountains round about; the mountains and the warm sun over all.

I slacked up, patting myself on the back; and, as the trouble seemed all over, I was just about to turn for the ranch, when I heard horses galloping, and as the moon came out a little I saw a whole raft of redskins a-boiling up a draw not half a mile away.

A woman, too, is referred to in her famous hymn to Venus in these lines, as translated by Wharton: "What beauty now wouldst thou draw to love thee?

Shepherd, thou hast been heard with equity and law, And for thy stars do thee to other calling draw, We here dismiss thee hence, by order of our senate; Go take thy way to Troy, and there abide thy fate.

The latter continued up the draw, crossed a ridge, halted now and then in the manner of the wild creatures to see if he were being followed, and finally by a roundabout route returned to the lifeless form of his only friend.

He shook his head and declared the match a draw.

This does not mean, as some hasty readers may assume, that I foretell a "draw."

" "He's got my draw.