We had eaten our supper, and I was smokin' my last pipe before layin' myself away, when all at once the forest was lighted up like the day.

" "But toward evening we'll be preparing supper," objected Laura, and the boys threw up their hands in despair.

After some experiment he got it to draw, and so cooked us our supper on it.

He was very good, and took us there and gave us supper and beds.

Mrs. Perrine and her usual burying-colleague, "Mis' Browst," had gotten up a snug supper of fried oysters, and between that and the fresh relish of horror from the funeral were in a high state of enjoyment.

Those concerned, however, will probably never forget Diggory's bursting into the room as they sat finishing supper, and striking every one dumb with amazement by saying to Mr. Blake, "Please, sir, some fellows are stealing our fireworks, and I've locked them up in the shed."

After having returned from one of these little sallies, Major Brown, Captain Sweetman, Lieutenant Bache and myself were taking supper together, when "whang!" came a bullet into Lieutenant Bache's plate, breaking a hole through it.

"Susan, will you bring some supper to the dining-room, for Miss Morris and me?

"Want meat fer supper?" asked the landlord, a tall, gaunt man who considered himself dressed when he was in his shirt sleeves.

Lister ordered the best supper the French-Canadian landlady could serve, and then began to talk while he helped his companion.

Where small rooms and large parties necessitate having a standing supper, many things enumerated in the following bill of fare may be placed on the buffet.

Pindar solemnly proposed to the captain that they should go and enjoy an oyster-supper, in company; and, the proposal being cordially accepted, they rose in a body, to take leave.

He came up eagerly, and flung down an armful of fuel for the morning, hoping to find supper ready.

"We're jest goin' t' set down t' supper, and I'm sure you'd like a cup of tea.

The lions and panthers of the mountains of Beni Arasis sometimes descend to the plains to drink, or carry off a supper of a sheep or bullock.

There was a public bonfire near the mill, speeches were made, and afterward Mr. Merrick served a free supper to the villagers, in the hall over Sam Cotting's General Store, where the girls assisted in waiting upon the guests, and everybody was happy and as hilarious as the fumes of good coffee could make them.

"My partner's there, waiting supper, and another man who has known me all his life.

Some few children skip ropes, or step carefully across the cracks of the sidewalk for fear they spoil their suppers.

Called by the unusual disturbance, Mandy left the supper she was putting on the table for Johnnie and ran into the front hall.

Well, she was at the bottom of the Yukon, and her crew would like some supper.

Everything went right until he got within may be a mile of home, when he heard, from a point of land, a little to the left of him, a sharp, fierce bark, and turning that way, he saw a great shaggy, fierce-looking wolf trot out from behind a boulder and squat himself down on his haunches, and eye him as if calculating the probabilities of his making a good supper.

The house furnished no supper; but a woman attended with mutton-pies, which any body might purchase.

The captain was much more potential in providing a supper at the evening station than the orderly, who was looked upon with some suspicion when he told the story of his protégés.

Unavella had spread her supper in the porch.

" There was a mad rush for canoe partners, and a hasty gathering together of guitars and mandolins, which would certainly be in demand for the evening sing-out which would follow supper.