"Be careful what you are about," warned Trendon, addressing his superior officer sharply, for Barnett had all but let his charge drop.

It is only needful to add a minute drop of fluid containing Bacteria, to water in which tartrate, phosphate, and sulphate of ammonia are dissolved; and, in a very short space of time, the clear fluid becomes milky by reason of their prodigious multiplication, which, of course, implies the manufacture of living Bacterium-stuff out of these merely saline matters.

And, while my eyes might well pour forth those bitter drops of pain, The drought of self-consuming grief has quenched the healing rain.

'We will all drink,' she said, 'to my coming marriage,' This made Carmel turn pale; for Adelaide had never been known to drink a drop of liquor in her life.

He told me afterward, casually, that before we landed he had seen a drop of blood on the bank, when it was two or three rods off.

"In Marlborough there is the clang of the car gongs and the rumble of cabs and the tramp of feet upon the pavement until it seems as if the weary world were never to be at rest, but this house is so quiet I could almost hear a pin drop.

I don't know whether he took a drop or not, but they generally keep a barrel of old rye in the lumber shanties, and my opinion is that Mark was invited to take a horn, in which case, I'm bold to say, the horn was taken.

And now I've got a drop of cocoa left, so I'm going to propose a toast.

There's one thing certain, howsomever, which is that jest now an hundred of our people could walk through the entire encampment without bein' called upon to spill a drop of blood.

Others declare that she had smeared a needle, with which she was wont to braid her hair, with some poison possessed of such properties that it would not injure the surface of the body at all, but if it touched the least drop of blood it caused death very quickly and painlessly.

This bond here gives you no drop of blood; the words expressly are, a pound of flesh.

"Doctor, is our friend in shape to walk along with us now?" "He will be, in two or three minutes, after he drinks something I'm going to give him," replied the medical man, shaking a few drops from each of three vials into a glass of water.

It reveals a people who, without shedding a drop of blood, calmly and deliberately abolished one government, substituted another, and erected it upon foundations which have hitherto proved enduring.

The duke replied, "True it is that we are men (as you say) who have seen better days, and though we have now our habitation in this wild forest, we have lived in towns and cities, and have with holy bell been knolled to church, have sate at good men's feasts, and from our eyes have wiped the drops which sacred pity has engendered: therefore sit you down, and take of our refreshment as much as will minister to your wants.

For the sensation it produced made him resolve he would never again taste a drop of intoxicating liquor.

He stands beside him, dark and tall, Holding a sword, from which doth fall Into his mouth a drop of gall,

I heard his slow, cynical voice interrupting me, and felt her hand drop from my arm.

He slipped down from the tree, gathered the large moist leaves that clustered near the pool and held them to the burning lips, Jones swallowed the drops with a hideous gurgling avidity, clutching the boy's hand ravenously to secure a more copious flow.

Put a small piece of butter on each mushroom, season with pepper and salt, and squeeze over them a few drops of lemon-juice.

Cut the peel into thin slices, and place these in a fanciful device at the bottom of the mould, and fill in the spaces between with currants and sultanas; then add a few slices of sponge cake or French roll; drop a few drops of melted butter on these, and between each layer sprinkle a few currants.

When Antipholis of Syracuse had sent Dromio away, he stood a while thinking over his solitary wanderings in search of his mother and his brother, of whom in no place where he landed could he hear the least tidings; and he said sorrowfully to himself, "I am like a drop of water in the ocean, which seeking to find its fellow-drop, loses itself in the wide sea.

ottle and drained the drop of spirit he'd left in it.

It's" Gray looked up and caught the woeful drop of the face before him, and hastened on to add, "It's better than silverit's nickel.

Two horses were killed under him, and he took a third when necessary, so that he fell not to the ground and lost not a drop of blood.

My theory is that the prongs are hollow, like a hypodermic needle, and leave a drop or two of poison at the bottom of the wound.