Had she or some of her band observed Green coming out of the bank and thrusting a fat wallet into the inside pocket of his overcoat?
He wore his overcoat, and he used the plain, gold band which had decorated his little finger.
I think of the stifling fumes of fried food, the dim haze in the kitchen where my supper waits me; the children, the band of drifting workers, the shrill, complaining voice of the hired mother.
Were they a band of slaves, victims to toil and deprivation?
General Taylor knew the danger and destitution of the band he left to hold his camp opposite Matamoras, and he paused for no regular approaches, but opened his field artillery, and dashed with sword and bayonet on the foe.
The rays of blazing lightwood within a wood-cutter's small cabin fell upon him as he stood motionless beneath a tree, and revealed his water-proof riding-coat and the gold band upon his cap.
Bowles' little band of Indiana volunteers still acted with them.
The time between our devoted band and eternity seemed brief indeed.
The heroic band is all of a sudden assailed in the rear, between the trench and the fort.
What is left of the company goes on fighting, but its effectives are terribly reduced, and this tiny band comes to take refuge near us.
This little band was at once cut off, the French having reopened fire with the machine-guns; these made a retreat impossible for them, while in the transverse gallery the smoke had dispersed.
The troops in blue-grey caps who stroll round the central square where the military band plays are not so very different, in their bright uniforms, from the men-at-arms of bygone days.
In the French Army a double band of oak leaves round the cap denotes a General commanding a division.
The band paraded with ludicrous dignity about the field, and at last found seats near by and for the fifth time began its programme.
Hillton’s band was already on the ground, having accompanied the football team the evening before, and with the arrival of the wearers of the crimson a day of hard work began for it.
The field was already bright with blue banners when the boys arrived and the St. Eustace band was busily at work.
An honorable youth in a band of licensed military marauders.
The earliest form of vehicle and harness, and upon which all improvements have been built up, are the Indian pony with two long poles attached to his belly-band and a rawhide rope around his neck.
Of the length of tugs and traces it is to be said that they should be of such length that the back-band lies on the middle of, not in front or behind, the pad, when the horse is pulling.
If a horse in a well-fitting collar is properly put to a cart by his harness, with saddle firmly fixed in its place, and back-band loose to allow the shafts to play in their tugs, he will work from fixed draughts without being injured.
A nose-band properly adjusted should have the width of two fingers between it and the horse's jaws and should fit snugly and not too far up over his nose.
Nothing looks more slovenly than trace points or back-band points or bridle billet ends sticking out of, and beyond their loops.
The brow-band should so fit that it does not rub the ears.
His sole garment was a tiger’s skin slung over one shoulder and falling apron-wise over one breast down to a little below his waist, his sole ornament a wide head-band of brass in which one great red stone burned.
Noises, detonations, the rumbling of carriages, the galloping of horses, and a band playing the Marcha Real announced the arrival of His Excellency, the Governor General of the Philippine Islands.
With the band of music came the Alcalde, the officials of the town, the friars, with the exception of Father Dámaso, and the Spanish employees of the Government.
The band in the procession could be heard playing a slow, majestic march, but the Señora, leaping about furiously was keeping time to different music than that the band was playing, that music which resounded within her.
In front of them long draperies of class colors festooned the railing, and class challenged class with cheers and songs, and the Hillton band struggled bravely with a popular march.
In this story Mr. Altsheler has again conducted his now famous band of hunters and scouts over ground made historically celebrated by warfare and ambuscades in the early days of our pioneer life.
We left after the sixth race, while the band played with as much vim as if for the first--"God save the Queen!
Then he desired Will Rogers to call a special meeting of the band for that very evening, as he wished to make them a communication of the greatest importance.
The very air seemed filled with a pleasant mystery, and when the members of the band reached Range Hall they were fully impressed with the idea that something big was about to happen.
And now that Carl Reitberg seemed to have finished he stole a look at him, and leaned over and coolly helped himself to a cigar which, by the breadth of the gilded band about it, might have cost a small fortune.
The door flew open, and in a twinkling a forlorn little band dashed forward, Alec at their head, the Major and the Commander following.
A bandsounded in the distance, and presently a British regiment swung by, the natives on either side salaaming to the colours, which Dick saluted in naval style.
It declares that such tract belongs to and shall be held by the Eastern Band of Cherokees as a tribe.
Following this award of the arbitrators Mr. Johnston submitted a proposition for the transfer and assignment of these judgments to the Eastern Band of Cherokees.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs in trust for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina.
To this treaty the Chicamauga band of Cherokees refused to give their assent.
For months together the affrighted band kept watch night and day; their children were laid to sleep in their cots dressed, to be ready for instant flight, and the boat was always kept afloat, with its oars and sail in readiness.
Yet it was no easy task to inspire others with his own courage, or to impart his hopeful spirit to a desponding band of men.
Of the six gold bracelets two are quite simple, and closed, but consist of an ornamented band one-twenty-fifth of an inch thick and one-fourth of an inch broad.
They had even the secret of introducing gold between two surfaces of glass; and in their bottles, a gold band alternates within a set of blue, green, and other colors.
These were two wooden bars, forked at about half their length, padded so as to protect the shoulder from friction, and connected at the lower end by a strong broad band passing under the throat.
Sometimes the harp was played alone, or as an accompaniment to the voice; and a band of seven or more choristers frequently sang to it a favorite air, beating time with their hands between each stanza.
Onwards they went, spreading gladness everywhere, till the cold heart of Akrisios himself was touched with a feeling of strange joy, as he saw the band of youths and maidens who came before them to the house of Teutamidas.
There was a Mission Band and a Helping Hand among the children.
Ben slipped the rubber band around his wallet and replaced it airily.
There is no Flower Band now, Father," whispered Polly in turn.
Between the intervals of the band the bells, in discordant chorus, regaled 'the ears of the groundlings.
I might be in the midst of a band of such desperadoes as only half a century of periodic revolution can produce.
A narrowband of canvas sewed on the reef-line to support the strain of the reef-points.
Are short pieces of rope or chain which secure the lower dead-eyes and futtock-plates of top-mast rigging to a band round a lower mast.
In astronomy, a band of light encircling the head of a comet on the side near the sun, and passing round it, so as to form the commencement of the tail.
A reef-band that crosses a sail from the outer head-earing to the tack diagonally, making it nearly triangular, and is used to contract it in very blowing weather.
The musicians of a band are called idlers in large ships.
When David, in a voice vibrant with new-found gladness, finished an eloquent address to a United Band of Workmen, he found Mr. Winthrop waiting for him.
The sound of a distant band hurried them from the table to the balcony.
Very simply, with no brass band of a formal organization, secretaries, or reports, the younger girls of the town are brought together to learn how to sew and cook and keep their household accounts.
At length, a bandof irregular cossacks attracted us in the latter direction, while Ney explored the former.
A band of Cossacks from Twer had nearly captured one of his officers, who was only a very short distance from him.
A band of Cossacks, which was soon perceived in the midst of them, sufficiently accounted for this disorder.
Two marines of the guard were cut off from their column by a band of Cossacks, who seemed determined to take them.
The esplanade consists of four rows of lodging-houses and two hotels, in front of which is a strip of grass, on which a band plays twice a week during the summer months, and the school-children twice a day all the year long.
If we hadn't run into the sponge lady we'd have stripped the copperband off our keel.
Her skirt was kilted high and folded over a broadband which kept it well above her knees.
