We need, and Labour demands, a fair, frank treatment of African trade, and that can only be done by some overriding regulative power, a Commission which, so far as I can see, might also be the same Commission as that we have already hypothesized as being necessary to control the Customs in order to prevent gun-running and the gin trade.

The first part of him that is set a running is his eye-sight; when that is once struck with terror all the costive physic in the world cannot stay him.

You must then hurl a stone at his head, as I said, and stop his running, so that my mare may gain the lead."

Towards sundown we came upon a recently inundated plain, and a mile further struck a grassy channel thirty yards wide, which had barely ceased running, the soil for some distance on either bank being a strong red loam, yielding a fair supply of pasture.

Seldom indeed had the old hall despite its many years, seen such a running to and fro, heard such a patter of flying feet, such merry voices, such gay, and heart-felt laughter.

He had hoped from the very first that his Molly would win the cup, even while Lesbia was making all the running, as he said afterwards.

Until I stopped I had not known the pace I ran; and I had a vague sympathy and understanding, never felt before, for those who left the running.

Now they heard hasty running, and Edi and Ritz came rushing along.

She wouldn't get many silk-dresses, and she'd have to fix her old bonnets over two or three years hand-running.

He will then shuffle along at a prodigious pace constantly looking round from side to side, and no doubt in his heart anathematising the horse that forces the running so persistently.

On distilling the fresh herb with water, it impregnates the first runnings pretty strongly with its grateful flavour.

The loose horses did not leave camp, but kept up a constant running and snorting for some time.

He was still fussing with certain of the petty details that make or mar the smooth running of an establishment like his, when his ear, trained to detect the first note of discord in the babble which filled his big room by night, caught an ominous note in the hum of the street crowd outside.

Let me cut one legg of, to marre his running.

Enter MOUSE the Clown running, crying, Clubs! MOUSE.

We had several hours on the floe practising ski running, and thus got some welcome exercise.

" "That will save my running and their chasing," I laughed; "though I'm afraid a long wait in Rock Butte won't improve their tempers.

Surveying the animal carefully, he untied the lariat and slipped a running noose over his nose; then giving a light bound, he was on his back in a second, and away went the horse and his rider, circling round and round on the prairie.

Whenas St. Francis had made the sign of the cross, right so the terrible wolf shut his jaws and stayed his running: and when he was bid, came gently as a lamb and lay him down at the feet of St. Francis.

When we took up the running, my body, instead of a leaden clog, seemed to be a thing of air and feathers.

growled Mount, as Elerson uncoiled the pack-rope, flung one end over a maple limb above, and tied a running noose on the other end.

Thus Manuel and his wife came uneventfully to August; all the while there was never a more decorous or more thoughtful hostess than Queen Freydis; and nobody would have suspected that sorcery underlay the running of her household.

If I say, What think you of my horse's running to-day, I use the NOUN running, and suppose the horse to have actually run; for it is the same thing as if I had said, What think you of the running of my horse.

On the appearance of a suspicious sail, the blockader, all vigilance, (Jack excepted) awaits in silence the running of the devoted cargo, when suddenly discharging one of his pistols, the air in a moment rocks with a hundred reports, answered successively by his companions.

I know what to look for when I've dreamt of wading through muddy water three times a-hand-running.