With a little search, whooping to each other lest they stray away, they found a big dry stub that some gale had snapped off a few feet above the snow.

Presently, he threw away the stub of his cigar and crossed to a small mirror.

He tossed the stub of his cigarette over the balcony rail.

" Kelley took a stub of a pencil out of his vest pocket and wrote with great labor on the margin of one of the papers.

Horrible things, aren't they?such a nuisance remembering to fill out those little stubs.

Incidentally Wampus was smoking the stub of a cigar, as was his custom when off duty.

He took a last pull at his cigarette, pinched out the fire, and ground the stub under his heel.

He lighted the stub of a candle, and telling the boys to follow him, he led them up a creaky stairway.

He measured his range by a jackpine stub, and when two of the Woongas had reached and passed that stub he fired.

He lighted the cigarette, smoked it steadily, pinched out the stub and rolled another before he came back to anything like calm.

" I placed the stub of my gasper in the ash tray and lit another, to indicate that that completed Chap.

Once, with eager surplusage of energy, I pulled down a dead and partly rotten oak stub, long an eye-sore, with an important feeling of proprietorship.

I'll save her the stub!"

Ted sent his cigarette stub careening off into the shrubbery and grinned back at his uncle, a grin half merry, half defiant.

Talk to me about that, will you, if he didn't shoot its stub of a tail off that time!

Oh, spare me this stub of a sword! Give me no pity, nor spare me; Calm not the wrath of my Foe.

" "Well?" "He left no sword, but we still treasure the stubs of his check-books." HELL See Future life.

Jerry Simpson brought two matches from his pocket, inspected them gravely and returned one carefully; lighted the other with the same care, applied the flame to his tobacco, made sure that the pipe was going to "draw" well, blew out the match, and tucked the stub down out of sight in a crease in the bark of the log upon which he was sitting.

Even Lavinia Dorman's letters, whose cream-white envelopes, with a curlicue monogram on the flap, quite cover the litter below, have been, if possible, more satisfactory since she has adopted a fountain stub that Evan gave her at Christmas.

In his left hand he waved the stub of a cigar, and on his back was an admirable representation of Balaam's head, executed by some artist with billiard chalk.

On the rough bench-table, shaded by two slabs of bark, burned the stub of a tallow candle probably left by some hunting-party.

He did, however, carry a stub of a candlea requisite to most northern men who are obliged to build supper fires in wet forest.

But after a while the greengrocer came on his monthly mission, in his white apron and shirt-sleeves, and she compared stubs with him from a file on her desk and balanced her account with careful squinted glance and a keen eye for an overcharge on a cut of breakfast bacon.

Subsequent growth of wood may completely conceal the stubs which, however, will remain as knots.

Therefore, after this, I condemn my stub to long and deep silence, or shall awaken it to write to lords.