His hands shook, but he gave the pump a few strokes and turned the valve wheel.

Some days after his return, in the morning as I was putting on a log in the fire-place, not suspecting harm from any one, I received a most violent stroke on the crown of my head with a club two feet long and and as large around as a chair- post.

He just rowed around a little while, making dandy feather strokes, and then he said, "Mr. Ellsworth didn't send that money over to Daniel Boone and Buffalo

When Little John reached the stand he found none fighting, but only bold Eric walking up and down the platform, swinging his staff and shouting lustily, "Now, who will come and strike a stroke for the lass he loves the best, with a good Lincolnshire yeoman?

""I heard the stroke of four and of five," I said.

"And you not able to swim a stroke!"

I counted the sonorous, deliberate strokes, and then, in the silence that followed, my hands began to tremble with the suspense.

I counted eleven, but had I missed one stroke?

" And with these words he dealt one stroke, A cruel stroke and true, It reached the Moor, it struck his heart And pierced it through and through.

At first they were timid, and only took little strokes, but, after a while, they grew bolder, and did very well.

"And he knew what it was the instant he felt the stroke.

Soon after I perceived that I had suffered a paralytick stroke, and that my speech was taken from me.

"I feel like pulling a strong stroke from the first," answered Tom.

Bato asked nothing for himself, even holding his head forward to await the stroke, but in behalf of the rest he made a long defence.

They had eaten narcotic berries, got sun-strokes, wandered till they lost their wits.

'Now meet the stroke like a man!'

Now she was laying large strokes of blue crayon on the pastel, bringing out its flaming splendor in strong relief on the background of a clear summer night.

Marloe, fired with jealousy, and having some reason to believe that his mistress granted the fellow favours, he rushed upon him to stab him with his dagger; but the footman being quick, avoided the stroke, and catching hold of Marloe's wrist stabbed him with his own weapon, and notwithstanding all the assistance of surgery, he soon after died of the wound, in the year 1593.

One hits, another misses; one flies, another pursues; one is aiming a stroke, while another discharges his blow.

For some time he heard her with that quietness which a long use of praise has given him: she then redoubled her strokes, till at length he turned suddenly to her, with a stern and angry countenance, and said, "Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

70 With brawny arms repeat the stroke.

he cried, and the men increased their stroke.

Each pump therefore gives steam to and starts its neighbor, and then finishes its own stroke, pausing an instant till its own steam valve, being opened by the other pump, allows it to make the return stroke.

Forward the ship's bell sounded two double strokes, then a single, followed by a wail in minor key: "Five bells and all's well!" ...

In handwork, too, at this stage, practice takes an important place: a child is willing to hem, to try certain brush strokes, to cut evenly, and later on to use his cardboard knife to effect for the sake of a future result if he has already experimented freely.