West, revolver close at hand, cut thongs from the caribou skins.

The morning came, and like one under the influence of some hideous nightmare I became aware that the savages were loosening the rawhide thongs.

At first the significance of it did not come to him; then he straightened himself with a jerk that tightened the thong about his neck until it choked him.

In another flash he had drawn his knife and severed the thongs that held the man at the stake.

There we were bound quite as securely and cruelly as before, the thongs cutting fresh welts into our wrists and ankles; but the relief caused by the change of position was so great that it seemed as if I had every reason for thankfulness.

He didn't wait to cross and tie the thongs.

Oh, the men lashing the sleds and drawing tight the thongs.

He found rawhide thongs.

For days afterward Bigbeam was busy sewing together the furs, as Red Dog had arranged them, and attaching thongs of buckskin so that the wonderful garment could be tied at her neck and waist.

"Grasshoppah sett'n on a swee' p'tater vine," The Boy droned sleepily as he untied the leathern thongs that kept up his muckluck legs "Swee' p'tater vine, swee' p'ta" "All those othahs"the Colonel waved a hand in the direction of Pymeut"I think we dreamed 'em, Boy.

At his meals, when the dishes were not done to his liking, or when his slaves were careless or inattentive in serving, he would seize a thong and violently beat them, in presence of his guests.

His bold antagonist his quivered store Then Rustem raised his bow, with eager eye Choosing a dart, and placed it on the string, A thong of elk-skin; to his ear he drew The feathered notch, and when the point had touched The other hand, the bended horn recoiled, And twang the arrow sped, piercing the breast Of Ushkabús, who fell a lifeless corse, As if he never had been born!

He did this by plaiting babiche thongs in the same manner that one does in making the web of a snow-shoe.

Not content with slaughtering an enemy who meets him in honorable battle, defending his wife and home, he thrust thongs of ox-hide through the prostrate Hector's feet, bound him to his chariot, lashed his horses to speed, and dragged him about in sight of the wailing wife and parents of his victim.

" Howland thrust his wrists behind him and about them Jean twisted a thong of babeesh.

The guards unfastened the victim's wrist-thongs and the man staggered to his feet.

The screw held it in a firm grip, adding a thong to a battering-ram, making a terrible whirlwind around the cannon, an iron lash in a brazen hand.

They wound thongs about him, bound him, tied weights to him, tried to pull him down with them; but still he floated, floated, danced on the fiery waves of pain, with barbed light pouring down on him from an arrowy sky.

I most that love you, wind, when you are fierce and free, In these dull fetters cannot long remain; Lo, I will rise and break my thongs and flee Forth to your drift and beating, till my brain Even for an hour grow wild in your divine embraces, And then creep back into mine earthly traces, And bind me with my chain.

For though West's hands were tied, it would be the work of only a minute to burn away with a live coal the thongs that bound them.

At length they were reduced to such a degree of want, that they endeavoured to chew the thongs and skins which they tore from their shields, after softening them in warm water; nor did they abstain from mice or any other kind of animals.

Behind the semicircle of men, three or four deep, were ranged the ranks of youthboys and girls from six to fourteenstanding as silent as their elders, but eager, watchful, carrying king salmon, dried deer-meat, boot-soles, thongs for snow-shoes, rabbits, grouse.

[Footnote 2: the thongs or chains attaching the sheath of a weapon to the girdle; what the weapon hangs by.

A flicker of steel amid the greena score of fierce faces all about him, and Beltane was seized from behind, borne struggling to his knees, to his face, battered by unseen weapons, dragged at by unseen hands, choked, half-stunned, his arms twisted and bound by galling thongs.

From their hill of encampment descended the De Danaans, with their long slender spears gleaming like bright gold, their swords of golden bronze firmly grasped, their left hands griping the thong of their shields.