" I looked at a bottle of chloroform standing conveniently near, took it up, and drew out the stopper.

A serious-minded little fellow in the class said, "Teacher, don't you think that when Jesus opened his mouth, and began to speak to his disciples, it must have been like taking the stopper out of a scent bottle?"

He understood that in Mudge's present condition one side of the flask was open to space and he could drink without removing the stopper.

It's putting a stopper in a volcano; if you don't allow a little fire and smoke, you're bound to have an earthquake.

Untying the bow of pink ribbon, she pulled out the heart-shaped glass stopper, and breathed the fragrance of "Parfait d'Amour, made from California flowers.

Then, before his very eyes, and long ere he could unscrew the metal stopper, he saw the contents of the closed glass phial sink and lessen as though some one were drinking violently and greedily of the liquor within.

"Don' reckon nobody could git a deed off on you wid stoppers in it, does you?"

" Again Laura and I sat and rocked,this time silently, for my head was full, and I was holding a stopper on it to keep it from running over; while Laura was really puzzled about the way to make a dog's eyes with Berlin wool.

On the maternal side I inherit the loveliest silver-mounted tobacco-stopper you ever saw.

Don't leave a stopper or a rag in the bore: it will cause rust to form at that point.

"I means nigger- stoppers," he reiterated, amazed in his turn.

[MEPHISTOPHELES bores, one of the party has in the meantime prepared the, wax-stoppers and stopped the holes.

The accident had happened in consequence of Henri having omitted to replace the stopper of his powder-horn, and when, in his anxiety for Joe, he fired at random amongst the Indians, despite Dick's entreaties to wait, a spark communicated with the powder-horn and blew him up.

"Enough to decimate France," he said, screwed the stopper carefully into place, and put the flask in his pocket.

A shot cut the main-spring-stay, just above his head; and before I had time to speak, the fellow seized a stopper, and caught one of the ends of the stay, applied the stopper, and was hard at work in bringing the rope into its proper place, and in preparing it again to bear a strain.

But the man who has that vial opens the windows and throws the stopper away, and all the air is sweet forever.

He touched the stopper of the decanter, and Inspector Badger ostentatiously consulted his watch.

A shot cut the main-spring-stay, just above his head; and before I had time to speak, the fellow seized a stopper, and caught one of the ends of the stay, applied the stopper, and was hard at work in bringing the rope into its proper place, and in preparing it again to bear a strain.

I broke away the parchment, and withdrew the stopper.

"Stand by, to cut away the stoppers of the best bower anchorto let it go, stock and fluke," said Captain G. "Man the fore-topmast-staysail down-haul; put your helm down!

This ascending and descending stopper is hollow, carpeted, with cushioned seats, and is watched over by two condemned souls, called conductors, one of whom is said to be named Ixion, and the other Sisyphus.

When, after passing fresh gas through the liquid for some minutes, no further inrush of air is noted on easing the stopper as before described after agitating the bottle, it may be concluded that the water is thoroughly saturated with sulphurous acid and is strong enough for immediate use.

Then she put the mirror back and drew out a bottle of hand lotion and examined the stopper.

I have some papers and envelopes here in my jacket, and a stub of pencil for the log-book, and while you are at your writing I'll fashion a stopper for the bottle and a buoy.

You notice that the Ushabti figures and the heads that form the stoppers of the Canopic jars are quite finely modelled.