" "And that object in the camp is, I believe, a wildcat, worrying over our fine ham," remarked Frank, quietly raising the hammers of his shotgun.

Forward!" They came together in an earnest struggle "My father will protect me; I want no other protection" Sukey's thumb lifted the hammer of his gun Packenham fell bleeding and dying in the arms of Sir Duncan McDougal Map of the period SUSTAINED HONOR.

When the service was over the old man said to Moffat, "My friend, you took a hard hammer, and you have broken a hard head".

A man is sent into the world to wield a hammer, a saw, and run an engine.

Perdosa deliberately dropped his hammer and joined the group.

I guess I must have been as near as fifty feet before Connie Bennett threw down his hammer and shouted.

Yeah." He thoughtfully lowered the hammer of the sixshooter and rammed it down to the trigger-guard behind the waistband of his trousers.

Only then she remembered to draw the hammer back; it was Brodie's ancient rifle and she struggled to get it cocked.

This, and much more, was in Adam's mind while the Auctioneer held his hammer poised, and Bellew went on lighting his pipe.

"Tell you what, boys," said Dabney: "next time we come out we'll bring a hammer and nails, and some oakum, and I'll calk up that old punt

The three that didn't get their's back got out their little hammers and for a while I had no one to talk to but myself or Wilbur, and he was trying to dope out a scheme whereby he could paste threesheets on the ocean and catch the incoming tourists.

Can you not let me pet and spoil my little flower-bird at least till I have tamed her, and trust me to chastise her as soon as she shall give reasonif I can find a tendril or flower-stem light enough for the purpose?" "Will you promise to use a hammer when you wish to be rid of her?" said she, glancing up for one moment through her drooping lashes with a look exactly attuned to the mingled archness and pathos of her tone.

Roy gave a cry of delight, and snatching the hammer from Ken took up the chisel and set to work on his bonds.

till Buzz's lungs were bursting, his eyes were starting from his head, his chest carried a sledge hammer inside it, his thigh-muscles screamed, and his legs, arms, neck, were no longer parts of him, but horrid useless burdens, detached, yet clinging.

But, slowly as they went, they came within sight of the house, at last, with its quaint gables, and many latticed windows, and the blue smoke curling up from its twisted chimneys,smiling and placid as though, in all this great world, there were no such thing to be found asan auctioneer's hammer.

In a pure state it is not malleable, unless when hot, and after it has been melted twice it will not bear the hammer.

Directly he had made up his mind that he meant to have a fish-curing establishment at Seal Cove, he had the plans drawn for the buildings, work which fell to Jervis and Mary; then, when these were ready, Astor M'Kree was set to work, with as many helpers as could handle a hammer or a saw with any degree of dexterity.

They pulled the candle up forthwith and put it in my hand, and I flung the plasterer's hammer into the bucket, where it hung above the well, and then got in myself.

In a couple of minutes it would have needed sledge-hammers and crowbars to break out by the lower entrance, even if the lock had not been a solid one.

The gods awake to new life and join Vidar and Vale, and the sons of Thor, Mode and Magne, who have survived the great destruction and who have been given their father's hammer, because there is to be no more war.

Like a flash he swung the hammer over his head and drove it at me, and at the same moment I fired.

" "That settled him," said the old lady, with a grim smile, as she lowered the muzzle of the gun, and gently let down the hammers.

He gripped the hammer in his hand joyfully, eager to smite featureless the face which had so misled him, brought such tragic sorrow to those he had loved.

"Don't give 'em time to think about it!" Whether it was this caution, or the very desperateness of the case, it would be hard to say, but true it is that Brill went at their opponents "hammer and tongs" from the very start.

Fired with this fever of epidemick patriotism, the tailor slips his thimble, the draper drops his yard, and the blacksmith lays down his hammer; they meet at an honest ale-house, consider the state of the nation, read or hear the last petition, lament the miseries of the time, are alarmed at the dreadful crisis, and subscribe to the support of the bill of rights.