At length I asked them when the Suttee would take place; and was answered by one of them, that it would certainly be performed on the following day; and that he had seen the funeral pile himself.

If you'll listen a moment, may be you'll find that he has a friend in the neighborhood now who will drive a pile in another place.

Johnny went a little farther in and found a pile of cabbage leavesa pile of them, mind youhe really didn't know what to think of his mothershe certainly was the limit!

Since corn-growing has again been taken up all over the district, thanks to our victory, he might have got a good pile of crowns together if he had simply changed the old mechanism of his wheel which he leaves rotting under the moss.

" By this time J.W. had gathered up a pile of books, pamphlets, reports, and papersenough, he thought, to serve as the raw material of a Ph.D. thesis, and he said to Mr. Drury, "Would you mind if I took this home?

On one side lay a huge pile of boneshuman bones; and on the other numberless spits for roasting!

The Indians had stopped dancing, and were engaged in heaping up a great pile of burning logs.

In the mean time the Saguntines, exhausted with famine, the assaults of machines, and the sword, and their fidelity being at last carried to desperation, raised a vast pile in the market-place, on which they destroyed, with fire and sword, themselves, their wives and children, and all that they possessed.

Thus hemmed in, Church had a double duty to performthat of preserving the spirit of his followers, several of whom viewed their situation as desperate, and erecting piles of stone to defend them.

Fanny and her cavalier came up just as Verty had collected a pile of the chestnuts, and prepared some stones for the purpose of mashing them out.

" "But she has left a nice pile of wood close beside you, Mrs. Riggs.

In one place they were building new piles; in another they were pulling down old ones.

He now sees Veenah approach the funeral pile, who, at the well known sound of his voice, shrieked out, "he lives!

He spread the cards out in the bottom of the boat, making four piles all suits together.

But the merchant raised a finger and nodded and pushed the whole pile of beautiful things over to him.

All this time I worked very hard; the rains hindering me many days, nay, sometimes weeks together: but I thought I should never be perfectly secure till this wall was finished; and it is scarce credible what inexpressible labour every thing was done with, especially the bringing piles out of the woods, and driving them into the ground; for I made them much bigger than I needed to have done.

She read and laid the pile by on the table behind her.

45.Auxiliary throw No 5.] Two plain ones up, two plain with black spots up, buffalo's head up, and two half moons up wins a pile.

" While Moffatt talked Mr. Spragg took up the pile of letters on his desk and sat shuffling them like a pack of cards.

His pardner came round the pile and his eyes fell on their common sleeping-bag, the two Nulato rifles, and other "traps," that meant more to him than any objects inanimate in all the world.

In passing the immense pile of St. Pancras on the way from Euston to King's Cross, George Cannon had waved his hand and said: "Look at that!

The loops are cut so as to form a deep pile.

In this case she will place a pile of plates on the table or a dumbwaiter, within reach of her master and mistress, and leave the room.

"What am I to do with this?" she inquired, counting carefully the uncounted pile, in a manner which at once dispelled my impression that her surprise was due to childish ignorance of its value.

Between her and the young man was a large pile of guineas, which appeared to be her exclusive property, from which she repeatedly, during the play, tendered one to his acceptance on the event of a hand or a trick, and to which she seldom failed from inadvertence to add his mite, contributing to accumulate the pile.