" It was a cheering sight, they say, To see how well they kept their way, How Ferangís impelled her horse Across that awful torrent's course, Guiding him with heroic hand, To reach unhurt the friendly strand.

The usual effect of punch is to cause people to see double; but, on this occasion, the mistake was the other way, for two boats had touched the strand, instead of the one announced by the commodore, and they brought with them the whole party from the Wigwam, Steadfast and Aristabalus included.

He would cut the last strand with the West.

Her face was flushed with a lovely colour, and the breeze lifted loose strands of her nut-brown hair, as she squatted back on her heels in answer to the stranger's salutation.

At this presage of the difficulties awaiting me, I felt one strand of the rope sustaining me above this yawning gulf of shame and ignominy crack and give way.

I hastened back by sea and land, Forced homeward by remorse and fear; But no glad barking swept the strand, Nor did he meet me on the pier!

He took several strands of thread together, and drew them through and through a piece of cobbler's wax, then took a bristle and put it in at the end cunningly, in a way Willie couldn't quite follow; and then rolled and rolled threads and all over and over between his hand and his leather apron, till it seemed like a single dark-coloured cord.

He has complete control over his two thin sticks, can pick up with them a single strand of wool, or half a mattress.

He sat outside the cabin, braiding a leather hat-bandeight strands, and the "repeat" figurean art that I never could master.

No wonder she sang as she gave a last fond pat to the pretty dress and tucked a wandering little strand of hair into place.

He found one Italian family making "willow plumes" in two narrow roomsone a bedroom, the other a kitchenevery one at work, twisting the strands of feathers to make a swaying plumeevery one, including the grandmother and little dirty tots of four and sixand every one of them cross-eyed as a result of the terrific work.

While crowded against it a bolt of lightning had struck the fence, followed the metal strands, and killed the animals touching or nearest to it.

This cable formed a strand between East and West; if any evil chance should break it, life would end there and then for nine members of the Legion, brave men all.

For it became a matter of immense importance to know, not only the depth of the sea over the whole line along which the cable was to be laid, but the exact nature of the bottom, so as to guard against chances of cutting or fraying the strands of that costly rope.

Kennedy began by dropping two strands of wire down to the ground in the back yard behind Vincenzo's shop.

Impulsively he drew her to him, and for a moment buried his face in her warm, white neck, kissing the curling strands of her brown hair.

He left a strand from the fringe of his buckskin hunting shirt, caught on a splinter.

On the deck lay the strands of rope with which he had been secured-they had been severed by a sharp knife, the ends discolored with blood stains.

Many bullets came very close to him, but none touched him, and he went on cutting wire after wire, quickly and methodically, grasping the strand well in the jaws of the nippers, gripping till the wire parted and the severed ends sprang loose, calmly fitting the nippers to the next strand.

Howe'er it be, There is no hand that I would gladlier grasp, Either on earth or in the nether gloom, When the grey keel shall grind the Stygian strand, Than stern Euktemon's.

But God his former mind retains, Confirms his old decree; The generations are inured to pains, And strong Necessity Surges, and heaps Time's strand with wrecks.

She held up a strand of it to demonstrate this fact.

And again it seemed as if words found scope, The sorrowing words of a farewell Hope: "I will meet thee again in that deathless land, Whenever thy foot shall imprint the strand; And the loveliest things that have here been mine, Shall there in eternal beauty shine; For there I shall live and never die, Part of a glorious Eternity; For the death of Time is To be forgot,

The fellow's eyes saw the severed rope on the floor, and he smiled, kicking the strands aside contemptuously.

"The four strands are good, but the six are betterwhen Joaquin Murieta lays the strands.