The old man drew back the sofa hangings and exposed two holes exactly like the othersin fact, the same holes.

At this, my heart bounded to such an extent that I could utter never a word (nor could Dawson either), for I expected nothing less than to find this friend was our dear Moll; and so, silent and shaking with feverish anticipation, we followed him down the tiled passage and round the inner garden of his house by the arcade, till we reached a doorway, and there, lifting aside the heavy hangings, he bade us enter.

as if mothers were such sort of logicians as to infer the future hanging of their child from the theoretical hangibility (or capacity of being hanged, if the judge pleases) of every infant born with a neck on.

" "Saw a hanging, and met a man who calls himself Mahommed ben Hamza.

I shook the hangings.

" The old man leaned forward eagerly: "Why do you think the woman helped him?" "Somebody helped him or the chips would still be there, somebody held back those hangings while he worked the auger, and somebody carried the auger away.

It was the day before Christmas, and even the Bowery, "the thieves' highway," had taken on the emblems and spirit of the season, and the young officer smiled grimly as he saw a hard-faced proprietor of a saloon directing the hanging of wreaths and crosses over the door of his palace and telling the assistant barkeeper to make the red holly berries "show up" better.

The wind, entering at the end of a session, displaced a hanging above the studio door, revealing in bold script upon the plastering Béranger's famous line: "Dans un grenier qu'on est bien á vingt ans!" "Did you write that there?" asked the girl.

It was possible, she thought, that another year it might be wiser not to shut up her palace at all, but so far to overcome her feelings as to exhibit the superb hangings, the banners, the damask, and cloth of gold, used in the mediaeval festivals and processions, and thus outdo the modern tinsel of Count Nobili.

I found my seed-bag hanging, dusty, over a rafter in the shed, and Harriet sewed a buckle on the strip that goes around the waist.

So much has been written about the decrease of crime that follows the reduction of penalties, and likewise about the numerous crimes of violence which generally follow public hangings, that it is hardly necessary to recall it to the reader.

Inside of the skins Stimson got up hangings of canvass, using the sails of the wreck for that purpose.

This makes it easier for men to kill and increases murders, which in turn increase hangings, which in turn increase murders, and so on, around the vicious circle.

If you were not this person, how can you explain the use of your horse, the use of your clothes, the locking of the stable-doorwhich you declare yourself to have left openand the hanging up of the key on its own nail?" It was a crucial questionhow crucial no one knew but our two selves.

I'll stay his journey, lest I meet a hanging.

We have mentioned the heavy hangings at the lower end of the room.

"Why didn't they postpone the hanging of the man until there was a clear day?" enquired Mrs. Harmar.

It belaced the shrouds as well as any sailor; and observing how the end of the rope was fastened to prevent its hanging, it did the same to the rope of which it had possession.

Suddenly he was aware that the curtains had been lifted, and turning around, he saw Madame de St. André standing in the light, one hand pulling back the velvet hangings, and, behind her, Monsieur de Beaufort and St. Aulaire.

Nell, busily plying her needle, repaired the tattered window-hangings, and made them whole and decent.

Your earliest practice, it may be, was in rigging the parlor hangings as a curtain with brown string from the pantry and safety pins.

Whoever permitted any Pagan riteeven the hanging of a chaplet on a treeforfeited his estate.

"Nay," said Black Roger, "Gui's black knaves being rent in pieces, Giles, we shall be saved the hanging of themha!

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefactor die sweetly, was only belonging to her husband.

A happy escape indeed, Jack!For the fire had scorched the window-board, singed the hangings, and burnt through the slit-deal linings of the window-jambs.