At General Sheridan's request I was to accompany the expedition; he introduced me to all his friends, and gave me a good send-off.

Retracing our steps for a quarter of a mile, and taking a cut-off through the sage brush, we followed another trail upon our right up through a steep, dry coulee.

You probably have not heard of it here, but it is an assured fact that the railroad company are about to build a cut-off that will shut out Tower completely and put Hardup on the main line.

They have lost the old inner hearing of divine sound, and but one here and there can still catch the faint, far-off and ineffable music.

Marie de Medicis was, however, slow to discover the falling-off of her long-cherished favourite.

"Good stuff!" said the stranger, as he sat down, filled the glasses, and drank his off.

I first walked around the sea-ramparts, enjoying the glorious look-off over the blue waters.

"Facing the kick-off from the Academy, and doing the light hearted and the fantastic toe with the girls.

The voyage from Honolulu to the farther Pacific was not so long that we forgot the American send-off we got in that Yankee city.

If ever all the truth comes out, I fancy it will transpire that Liane's getting a rake-off from some vintner.

" "It's story-writin'," declared Peggy "Say, Skim, I put ye onter this deal; don't I git a rake-off on thet fifty dollars?"

* "A change in the rule governing the playing-off of tie games in the world's series should be made.

The more I see of what is called the Native Town in Bombay, the more satisfied I am of its great superiority over that of Calcutta; and I gladly make this admission, since I have found, and still continue to find, so great a falling-off in the style of the dress, whether it relates to form, material, or cleanliness.

And thus was it for, maybe, a little month; and in that time had the voice of Naani grown so weak and far-off that even I that had the Night-Hearing, could scarce make real its meaning.

The best men in the world in their own natural dispositions or in private life (for this reason) often become the most dangerous public characters, from their pliancy to the unruly passions of others, and from their having no set-off in strong moral stamina to the temptations that are held out to them, if, as is frequently the case, they are men of versatile talent or patient industry.

You can save me if you like, or you can hold-off and let me go to prison.

People said, naturally, that imprisonment for bigamy would have included the taking-off of collars;

The future Scott, or Lawrence, or Chantrey, may be indicated afar-off in the barbarous ballads, drawings, or carvings, of an early nation.

I left word in the store that if Sam got back before I saw him he was to wait with Aleck in my office until I returned, an' off we started like a baseball on its way from the box to the catcher.

Just under the golden flood of light that streamed through the morning clouds, lay afar-off and indistinct the crags of an island, with the top of a light-house visible at one extremity.

Every one of the senses so cut off would mean a diminishing or cutting-off of a part of the world of the ego.

Never do I mind such a gay set-off for the journey.

I suppose she needed that blow-off, like an engine too full of steam.

He thinks, too, that he notices a decided falling-off in the demand for milk even at this price.

This defection parallels the falling-off of membership in the various churches (except again the Roman Catholic) in proportion to the increase in population.