Her papa was dead, so she dug a hole and buried him, and went right back home.

When he brought it, I increased his astonishment by proceeding to bore a hole through the top of my trunk.

In searching for a good place to make our beds, I found a hole, and I called to my companions that I had found a fine place for a nest.

It was too true; the unhappy wretch had cut a hole in the bellows and crawled in.

Buffon says that the Ptarmigan avoids the solar heat, and prefers the frosts of the summits of the mountains; for, as the snow melts on the sides of the mountains, it ascends till it gains the top, where it makes a hole, and burrows in the snow.

The serpent which swings unable to enter nor to leave the hole is the picture of the word which once spoken and heard can never go back.

It is an interesting old place, with a moat all around it and high solid stone walls, where one still sees the hole that was made in the wall by a cannon-ball sent by Marechal de Turenne as he was passing with his troops, as a friendly souvenir to the owner, with whom he was not on good terms.

In concloosion, feller citizens, feelin' in rather a poetical mood to-day, I will close with the follerin' tribute to Wall Street and its inhabitants: "Imperious SEIZER, dead, and turned to cla, Mite stop a hole to keep the wind away;" Onless from Wall Street, was blowin' raw.

The waxed thread fills the hole better too, and what is of as much consequence as anything, it sticks so that the last stitch doesn't slacken before the next comes, but holds so tight that, although the leather is very springy, it cannot make it slip.

" I suppose that it would be very easy to pick holes in the details of Kant's speculations, whether cosmological, or specially telluric, in their application.

And then when you're asleep they tear a little hole in your neck with their sharp claws, and they suck the blood with their red lips.

"Just as Abraham always said; the rats have been nibbling matches in the store; they've burned a hole through the floor, and set fire to that keg of gunpowder.

And once, when Charlie sat down on the ice, to punch with his knife a hole in his strap, so that it would fit tighter, something happened.

So, by my skill in herbs and leechcraft, Roger, having a hole in his arm, recks not of itbehold here he cometh, and Walkyn too, and Laus Deo! with a trout!

Then, cautiously, and with many misgivings as to whether it was not a mad act that I was attempting, I climbed slowly down, using the rope as a support, until I reached the hole.

" "What knocks a hole in the burglar theory is the fact that Sir Horace was fully dressed when he was shot," said the inspector.

Then, perchance, while we gaze awe-stricken, along comes a merry squirrel, chattering and laughing, to break the spell, running up the trunk with no ceremony, and gnawing off the cones as if they were made only for him; while the carpenter-woodpecker hammers away at the bark, drilling holes in which to store his winter supply of acorns.

The divers had bolted on plates to cover the holes in the vessel's bilge before one fell ill and his mate's nerve went.

He knew the expenses were eating big holes in the incomes of his three nieces, yet they never complained nor allowed their enthusiasm to flag.

Then they open a hole which has a heavy iron bar in it, the steam lifts it, in trying to get out.

He showed me a hole in his jaw, made by your hook at the mouth of the Bog river.

Tantlatch drummed with his knuckles on a spear-heft across his knees, and gazed idly along the path of a sun-ray which pierced a lacing-hole and flung a glittering track across the murky atmosphere of the lodge.

The 159th Brigade got into Hebron on the night of the 5th of December, but instead of going north of itif they had done so an enemy cavalry patrol would have seen themthey set to work to repair the road through the old Biblical town, for the enemy had blown holes in the highway.

Adjoining this they discovered a narrow hole leading to a further cave, which was below high-water mark.

I was far too shaken and nervous to think of entering that dark hole then, and so returned to the house.