Presently Beltane brought him beside the river, and while the youth drank, laid bare an ugly wound above the knee and bathed it with his hand, and, thereafter, tearing a strip from his ragged cloak, he bound it tight above the hurt, (even as he had seen Sir Fidelis do) and thus stayed the bleeding.

She tore bits away from her own under-garments and made soft pads over each wound; with their butcher-knife she cut a long strip from a blanket.

I whirled, and saw to my great joy a strip of sky westward between the cliff and the rock.

It might be as well to try that lock, but he would have to cross a very wide strip of moonlight in order to do so, and he feared to attract attention to his extreme inquisitiveness.

Whip the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, mix with them the pounded sugar, and cover the apples very smoothly all over with the icing; blanch and cut each almond into 4 or 5 strips; place these strips at equal distances over the icing sticking up; strew over a little rough pounded sugar, and place the dish in a very slow oven, to colour the almonds, and for the apples to get warm through.

Troops that had held the last strip of Belgian soil through all those bitter years with a tenacity the Huns could never shake.

And he took out of his pocket an oblong strip of printed paper: * *

And as he gazed, little by little, that great tumult of the waves grew less; they no longer lifted themselves up, wave following wave, to beat upon the cliff, and make it tremble; but sank lower and lower; and at last drew off from the precipice, leaving at its foot a long narrow strip of sand and shingle exposed to sight.

And the hide of his back is of steel, and his under parts are of iron; but along the midst of his back, over his spine, there lies a narrow strip of unearthly steel.

There was a touch of evergreen in one corner; she had laid a strip of bright cloth over the rickety little table, and in ten minutes she had given the hut a semblance of permanent livableness.

The only feasible method of approach to the spot I now sought would be by following this narrow strip of beach, yet this might be attempted safely, as my movements would be concealed by the darker background of the high bluff at the left.

In one of the huts were found several strips of bamboo, and some fishing-nets, rudely made of the fibres of the bark of trees.

" For herself, since her own strength must be kept up, she cooked a strip of the meat on the coals.

Origin of the Public Domain%.In 1784 Massachusetts ceded her strip of land in the west, following the example set by New York (1780), and Virginia (1781).

What a becoming thing is it for him that serves at the Altar, to fill the dung cart in dry weather, and to heat the oven and pull [strip] hemp in wet!

" "On your honour?" He rose silently and went to his desk, unlocked one of the drawers, and drew from a hidden place a thin strip of paper.

A pin is stuck into the center of the end of the cylinder, and the workman commences by fastening the strips of fern stalk to it.

broke in Shade swiftly; "don't you say anything to the bosses about this"he shook the strips in his hand"not till I've had a chance to talk to you again.

Then I walked round the little church, knee-deep in the long grave-grass, and noted the broad pilaster-strips of the apse, the stone eaves ornamented with billets, the bracket or corbel heads just beneath, fantastic, enigmatic, and not two alike.

Two or three times Johnnie reminded Shade of his promise to bring the little strips back, and always he had an excuse ready for her: he had been very busythe metal he wanted was out of stockhe would fix them for her just as soon as he could.

In the middle of the floor stood the Boule cabinet, and before it, with his back to the door, stood a man ripping savagely away the strips of burlap in which it had been wrapped, talking to himself the while in a sort of savage sing-song, and pausing from moment to moment to glance at a huddled bundle lying on the floor against the opposite wall.

Ice covered all the lake save a narrow strip next the land.

" In North America, according to Franklin, the Crees used to hang strips of buffalo flesh and pieces of cloth on their sacred tree; and in Nicaragua maize and beans were worshipped.

She bought off Roumania by giving to her a strip of land in the country called the Dobrudja (dō brood′jȧ) between the Danube River and the Black Sea.

Juli gave her four reales and added some strips of jerked venison her grand-father had got, for Tandang Selo had again devoted himself to hunting.