As he and Mac came out, Andrew was undoing the last fastening that held the canvas to the stakes.

They had walked softly about the room, had looked through a door opening into another room beyond, had examined the fastenings of the windows, and had ended by looking minutely over the carpet.

Having loosened the fastenings, he reluctantly gave the envelope to the Valaisan.

Can't you get forward and cast off that line?" "What do you mean?" cried Podington, as the boom gave a great jerk as if it would break its fastenings and drag him overboard.

Near the north-west corner of the church was a window, from which he contrived to draw the fastenings, so that he could open it.

The king himself dashed at the windows, which were firmly closed, and by an unusual effort of strength tore down the fastenings and admitted air into the room.

By this time, I am able to rise to my feet, and so manage to secure the fastening at the top.

I immediately cut his fastenings and bade Friday tell him of his deliverance.

A lock on the door is not the least of its recommendations, and by way of securing myself against all surprize, I have contrived an additional fastening by means of a large nail and the chain of a portmanteauI have likewise, under pretext of keeping out the wind, papered over the cracks of the door, and provided myself with a sand-bag, so that no one can perceive when I have a light later than usual.

And, in verity, I shifted my hand and loosed the fastenings of her garment, so that her pretty shoulders did be bared.

Poor Maud lost the sense of her own danger, in the nervous desire to see the long-forgotten gates hung; and she rose once or twice, in feverish excitement, as she saw that the leaf which was raised fell in or out, missing its fastenings.

" Renshaw complied with his request; but as Nott proceeded to gravely nail down the fastenings of the hatch, he turned impatiently away to complete his examination of the ship.

Stevens inserted the sharp end of the crowbar between the box and the lid and, bearing down with all his strength, burst open the fastenings.

We are told that he lived in a cottage of the simplest and even meanest description: it neither needed nor possessed a fastening of any kind, for within it there was no furniture except a lamp and the poor straw pallet on which he slept.

In consequence of feeling this unusual tenant, the fish compressed its jaws together, thus rendering the fastening so much the more secure.

No fears of midnight ruffians disturbed the sweetest slumber, and the best house required no fastening but a latch, lifted by a string.

As she turned and went toward the house, I saw the glitter of the Panama chain about her thin and sallow throat, and, by the motion of her hands, that she was retwisting the same wire fastening that Eben Jackson had manufactured for it.

The chair had been screwed to the floor, but the weight of impact ripped the fastenings out of the heavy planking.

After sliding back the fastenings, Jim stood leaning slightly forward, the torch in one hand, while the other rested against the shutter, which was not yet pushed open.

Thus Dicky was saved a scandal which would have followed and hampered him all his life, and I was spared the fastening of a shameful verdict upon me.

Down below, in one of the dark, empty streets, Police-constable Bennett turned the handles of doors and tested the fastenings of windows, with a complete scepticism as to the value of his labours.

Then, as if maddened by the force which impelled him, he dashed furiously forward, the reel answering to his movements and the line always taught, he rose to the surface leaping clear from the water, shaking his head furiously as if to throw loose the fastenings from his jaw.

Besides, the lightning flashed so brightly that I was able to grope my way through the long line of empty rooms, tighten the fastenings, and shut the windows.

At the least word, however guarded, That sought to try the fastenings of his life With prying hands, how mute and dark he grew,

" Felicite, kissing her on the forehead, laughed, saying: "Oh, the sun is my friend!" Then, moving with short, quick steps, she crossed the room, and turned the fastening of one of the shutters.