The world has witnessed many powerful empires which have passed away, and left "not a rack behind."

Leaving the window, I groped my way along the wall until I reached the rack where the man's coat and hat hung.

THE PURPLE HEAD Half ignorant, they turned an easy wheel That set sharp racks at work to pinch and peel.

Soon after his arrival, his uncle ordered his waiting boy, who was naked, to be tiedhis hands to horse rack, and his feet together, with a rail passed between his legs, and held down by a person at each end.

Over the fire she had erected a cooking rack; and water was already boiling in a small bucket suspended from it.

" "Yet you found the rack?" "I felt for it.

"I had searched the hall-rack for them; I had searched his closets; and was about owning myself to be on a false trail, when I spied this little door.

Flora, in her own way, felt all the moment's rack and stress, but some natures are built for floods and rise on them like a boat.

He saw a rack of postcards in an art supplies store window.

As we returned, I called in at an ironmonger's, where I bought some thin hemp rope and an iron rack pulley, like those used in Lancashire for hauling up the ceiling clothes racks, which you will find in every cottage.

Des Esseintes strayed into a large room sustained by iron pillars and lined, on each side of its walls, with tall barrels placed on their ends upon gantries, hooped with iron, their paunches with wooden loopholes imitating a rack of pipes and from whose notches hung tulip-shaped glasses, upside down.

This hatred, malice, faction, and desire of revenge, invented first all those racks and wheels, strappadoes, brazen bulls, feral engines, prisons, inquisitions, severe laws to macerate and torment one another.

To keep the beds off the wet earth, two rows of short posts were driven along the sides in the tent, and poles were laid across the tops, thus forming racks to support the pine boughs upon which the beds should be made.

Then lower the rack somewhat, and allow the steak to broil to the degree required.

"The palm makes an excellent hat-rack," said Scott, slinging his revolver and his water-bottle over the little upward-pointing pegs which bristle from the trunk.

Her glance conveyed a scornful reproach that he could eat at all in such circumstances, and, that there might be no mistake as to her own feelings, she ostentatiously pushed the toast-rack and egg-stand away from her.

So enraged was the chancellor at her fortitude, that when the lieutenant of the tower refused to obey his order to screw the rack still more tightly, he seized the instrument himself, and wrenched it so violently as almost to tear the "body asunder."

In the middle air, and stay The sailing rack, or nimbly take Hold by the moon, and gently make Suit to the pale queen of night

But an hour ago a fellow climbed upon the great iron gate and, failing to bring it down, implored his comrades to pull him by the legs, thus sustaining the rack.

Break open the caches, tear down the fish-racks, and let the feast be big.

If the oven has tendency to become too hot upon the bottom, a thin, open grate, broiler, or toasting rack, should be placed underneath the tins to allow a circulation of air and avoid danger of burning.

It is twining the rack with flowers; and hanging a man with a cord of gold.

I passed my viva-voce examination at the hands of the young lady at the desk, paid my fees, got my testamur, and was shown into the torture-chamber, where the head executioner was busy adjusting his racks and screws.

He gave the boy a cent to hold his horse, although nothing except a bushel of oats could have urged the old bone-rack into motion.

I had often wondered how our people had been able to bear the rack and thumbscrew of the Spanish Inquisition; but when my turn and my comrades' came for torture, I realized that the same spirit that helped our ancestors was working in us also.