Kneel, Orson, bendbend thy long shanks, look'ee" and forthwith on their knees fell Jenkyn and tall Orson with pleading eyes and eager hands outstretched.

" With this he rings the bell for our reckoning, and so ends our discussion, neither Dawson nor I having a word to say in answer to this last hit, which showed us pretty plainly that in reaching round with her long leg for our shins, Moll had caught the Don's shanks a kick that night she was seized with a cough.

The dye was made by digging up red shank and wild indigo roots which were boiled.

Having donned a nightshirt of coarse cotton, he knelt for several minutes in a devout attitude by the side of his bed, then rising opened the window, took the turnip from the bureau, and snuggled it beneath his pillow, inserted his bare shanks between the sheets, and opened at a marked place a Bible bound in black cloth.

In the orchard many caballeros fresh from the rodeo were camped, their waiting-time spent chiefly in talking of the thing they meant to do or hoped to see, while they polished spur-shanks and bridle trimmings.

He was dressed in threadbare black; a pair of long leather gaiters, buckled high above his knee, protecting his thin shanks through moss and pool; and the singularity of his appearance was heightened by a wide-leafed felt hat, over which he had tied his handkerchief, so as to bring the leaf of it over his ears, and to secure it from being whirled from his head by the storm.

Death, I am a rorging (roaring?) boy; but, come, stir your shanks nimbly or Ile hough ye.

He has made a day on us; put his Argyle-shires will have wearied shanks.

You've won the gold cross, you little spindle shanks!"