While I collected myself I heard the grate of a boat being shoved off from the cove, and a few moments later made out lights aboard the Laughing Lass.

She should then lay a cloth (generally made of coarse wrappering) over the carpet in front of the stove, and on this should place her housemaid's box, containing black-lead brushes, leathers, emery-paper, cloth, black lead, and all utensils necessary for cleaning a grate, with the cinder-pail on the other side.

In all Kit's life that was the darkest moment, when he saw his mother led away, half fainting, and heard the grating of his cell door as he enteredentangled in a network of false evidence and treachery from which there seemed no way of escape.

"When at the foot of this ladder, cross a grating to port side, and then descend a second ladder, which you will find.

He reached an iron grating, where a fierce heat rolled up and seemed to scorch him.

The Phenomenon was rather a troublesome companion, for first the right sandal came down, and then the left, and these mischances being repaired, one leg of the little white trousers was discovered to be longer than the other; then the little green parasol with a broad fringe border and no handle, which she bore in her hand, was dropped down an iron grating, and only fished up again by dint of much exertion.

He saw a grating in the floor, close by his bed, and through it the torments of the lost.

See if you can get a pickaxe, a trenching tool, anything, and break down that grating and knock a bigger hole in the window.

"The blue ribands," says Bachaumont, "huddled up in the crowd, and elbowing Savoyards; the guard dispersed, the doors burst, the iron gratings broken beneath the efforts of the assailants."

my God!" shouted Sukey, and he writhed and leaped, until he displaced the gratings, scattering the nine-tails of the scourge all over his person.

While they waited they examined the iron grating for the door opening, but found none.

" "Rebels and traitors!" said Louis, in a tone like one who felt the harsh grating of the words.

When the article to be dressed is thin and delicate, the fire may be small; but when the joint is large, the fire must fill the grate.

Engine-room doors jambed, but I found the stokehold grating and got some way down the ladder.

I s'pose we've got a furnace,haven't we?and a coal grate, too.

He was astounded when he saw the ready-witted youth grasp the grating, swing in, strike the ladder, cling and slide.

Judith secured with ease, on all the public vehicles they utilized that day, a place on the outside edge of a platform, where she had fresh air in abundance and could hang over the grating to watch with extreme interest the intimate bits of tenement-house life which flashed jerkily by.

He conducted me into a snug little sitting-room, having no grate; but a wood fire on the floor under the chimney.

It took Ken just about five seconds to lay down his lamp and heave up the grating.

Jules dug the little trench according to Joyce's directions, and laid the iron grating which she had borrowed from the cook across it, and built the fire underneath.

He lighted two long waxen tapers, lifted the grating, and I followed him down the narrow steps into the vault where lie the coffins of the Catholic Sovereigns.

Half-witted people, only, will suppose I mean grate, for the most obtuse nincompoop must know that anybody can become a grate man by going into the stove business; but to develop yourself into a real bonâ-fide great man, like GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN or DANIEL PRATT, requires much study and a persistent effort.

Warm four ounces of butter, mix it with the same quantity of loaf-sugar sifted, grate in the rind of three lemons, squeeze in the juice of one, add three well-beaten eggs, a little nutmeg, and a spoonful of brandy; put this mixture into small tins lined with a light puff paste, and bake.

"And I won't, and I won't," added others, as they ran forward to open a grate.

That night the prisoners gathered the stone ballast in the hold into a heap under the grating, and standing on the stones forced open the grating, tumbling our people off, and several of the principal Indians leaped out and cast themselves into the sea.