254 Verbs to Use for the Word trunk

" He went off to change some money and Lister went to his cabin and began to pack his trunk.

Are you the girl they say brought five trunks and three hat boxes?"

"Come help us open our trunk," she said, turning away suddenly.

Her friends carried her trunk and suitcases down to the Ekenge landing.

It lasts, however, only a few seconds, vanishing with magical rapidity, to be succeeded by others along the fire-line at irregular intervals for weeks at a timetree after tree flashing and darkening, leaving the trunks and branches hardly scarred.

" A heavy shower of rain was descending at this moment, and little Miss Honeyman, looking at her lodger, who had sat down and taken up her book, said, "Have your ladyship's servants unpacked your trunks?"

"We have sent your trunks and things on ahead," said Chief Edem.

In the house which had lately been occupied by Mahomed Issar, their commander-in-chief we found the trunk of a tree which the enemy were converting into a cannon.

We found the horses useful for dragging trunks, and but for them should have made a poor job of it.

Well, sir, that confounded elephant got his trunk in that tub of stale beer, and he never took it out till the beer was all gone.

The trainer couldn't do anything with them, and they bellowed and dodged mice and shied at rats, and Bolivar took his trunk and swatted pa clear across the ring.

" "Yes, I know, and the key is in that old cup on the stand, and I know how to unlock a trunk, don't I?"

"His hide resembled an old hair-trunk."

They threw off trunks, boxes and valises almost viciously, but when they lifted up the long box their manner changed and they laid it down as tenderly as if they had known something of Annie and her troubled life.

In her hand she held the rat trap with the dangling rat. "Gee, where did you get it?" cried Chet, jumping to his feet from where he had been kneeling with Billie, examining the shabby trunk.

Three or four times during the day a burst of loud, hollow, confused laughter sounded high up among the trees; but he saw nothing, although most likely the creature that had laughed saw him plainly enough from its hiding-place in the deep shadows as it ran up the trunks of the trees.

It is generally agreed that fairies were extremely fond of dancing around oaks, and thus in addressing the monarch of the forest a poet has exclaimed: "The fairies, from their nightly haunt, In copse or dell, or round the trunk revered Of Herne's moon-silvered oak, shall chase away Each fog, each blight, and dedicate to peace Thy classic shade.

Then he started to climb up the trunk, but found himself so chilled and stiff from jumping into the water, that he kept slipping down whenever he tried to climb.

Joe?Fuz?why can't you come along with us after you've checked your trunks?

Florrie was laying her sunshade rather forlornly on the top of the tin trunk and preparing to lift the trunk unaided, when Mr. Boutwood, stout and all in black, came gallantly forth from the house to assist her.

But he had no hemp-plants, and so he had to make his clothes of the soft dry sheath that covers the trunk of the cocoanut-palm (bunut).

She looked about the disordered room, saw the open trunk, the filmy cascade of yellow chiffon half on and half off the bed, the torn and crumpled spangled scarf, and Sylvia herself, her hastily donned kimono clutched about her with tense hands.

This night will I break open all the trunks, Rifle his caskets, rob him of his gold; And all the doctor's treasure shall be thine.

However, after much hauling and pulling, Billie finally succeeded in backing out of the closet, pulling the trunk after her.

Yon hollow trunk, That with its hoary head incurved, salutes The passing wave, must be the tyrant's fort, And dread abode.

254 Verbs to Use for the Word  trunk