The man I saw digging wore green goggles, a jersey, a battered sou'wester, and hip-boots of rubber.
The following day he and his mother were in the battered City.
An armored shoulder, backed up by the muscles of his kind--their power rarely demonstrated publicly--battered the door to splinters and Loman stepped through.
But, on the whole, the night was quiet, or might be called so by comparison with other nights, and the quietness lent colour to the belief that the Hun was quietly evacuating his badly battered front line.
And when they had got the battered trench, the bombers were sent to clear a communication trench leading out of it and held by the Germans.
He and about forty others, with two officers, had tried to hold the battered remnant of trench they were occupying, and did actually continue to hold it after the rush of the German front had swept far past them.
An odd figure was standing there, looking like a tramp, with worn and battered clothing, a Derby hat with holes in it, and dark hair straggling over his forehead.
The way in which he took off his battered hat enlightened me further, as did his little wistful smile.
And by the looks of your shield I would have been worsebattered than I was yesterday.
The Manteuffel’s stern had been wrecked till the structure of the ship above the armour looked like a tangle of battered girders.
Officers of the Reserve were driving up in motor-cars and cabs, many of them with their old battered uniform-cases, that had seen service in the field in distant parts of the globe.
Looking down the British line from the battered afterbridge of the Thunderer, it was evident that other ships were finding difficulty in keeping station.
The German ships closed on her, coming in to less than 2000 yards, when their guns battered her with ever-increasing effect.
With a shout of joy, the boys battered vigorously at the rock; piece by piece fell, and soon the hole was large enough for us to enter.
On the smooth face of the perpendicular rock I drew out in chalk the size of the proposed entrance, and then, with minds bent on success, we battered away.
Incessant rainbattered down above us; constant gloom hung over the desolate scene.
I'm going to honor them with the care of my battered bones in the yacht here.
This had a strong fort, which was battered for four days by the American cannon, when its walls were so shattered that the Mexicans gave it up.
For four long hours these two iron monsters battered each other with cannon balls.
At dawn most of the latter were manned by Italians, while the captured ships, with the Italian colours flying and bearing evidence of the terrible conflict, were on their way due north to Genoa, accompanied by the battered British vessels.
Fire vomited from all the vessels' battered works, and the scuppers ran with blood.
Poking through the ruins, he unearthed broken instruments and a single, battered case that had barely missed destruction.
All of the controls had been battered into uselessness, the floor was a junk heap of crushed equipment, intertwined with loops of recording tape bulging like mechanical intestines.
He was exhausted, battered and bloody--but cheerfully happy.
He battered at the metal door with his shoulder without budging it.
Twas a cutlass swipe, or an ounce of lead, Or a yawing hole in a battered head-- And the scuppers glut with a rotting red.
The next day Polly finds herself and Dick, hero-lover, on the old battered ship and alone.
But the nice boy had never lived and never would live with anybody on such terms, and his clear young voice lacked the plangent irony of the battered idealist.
Just now, with the sweat cooling on his back and a battered binnacle offered to him for repair, he took refuge in dry malice.
If he does, there comes on a loathing for it which is intense, so that the sight of the old battered manuscript is as bad as sea-sickness.
They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
A few minutes, and he stood, a towering figure, on the platform above, waving his battered hat in salute to the old camp.
Herb, subduing his shout to the requirements of a settlement, but sending his battered hat some ten feet into the air, and recovering it with a dexterous shoot of his long arm, by way of giving his friends an inspiring send-off.
What a golden place of light and warmth to be in, while in the East one's friends were being battered by blizzards.
Well, if this is how Quebec manages her affairs, she deserves to have her houses battered in.
The fort held out bravely through a terrible cannonade; but no relief was sent, and the walls were battered down.
I must have that old sign down," added Ashley, stepping into the street and looking up at the battered board crazily hanging from the beam above; "we must have another one up instead.
He pulled out his battered sou'wester and waved it in the direction of Quebec.
It had a worn front, with a shining brass door-plate that made it look at a distance like a battered old beau with a big new eye-glass stuck in his blind eye.
But meanwhile it was only Tuesday, and he was nearing the battered and nail-bestudded front door of La Sarthe Chase.
They were in a tier of the car that wasn't battered in the smash up.
He recalled a night like this when he and Fireman Fogg had run alone a battered locomotive over the same stretch of road on a Special for President Grant of the Great Northern.
Having been battered just enough to feel all one aching bruise, Ross had lost interest in the future.
At that moment, the battered louvres swung inward and a harried figure appeared in the doorway, eyes frantic, disoriented.
Waves of rain batteredagainst the creases in his face.
But farther down, near the careenage at the river mouth, a battered frigate rode at anchor.
An old battered blubber-room lamp hung from a beam overhead, and gave just sufficient light to make darkness visible.
Geneviève pushed open a battered gate, walked up to the door and knocked.
