The waistbelt is rarely in sight, but the broad belt across the hips, on which the dagger comes to hang as a balance to the sword, grows richer and heavier, the best work of the goldsmith or silversmith being spent upon it.
The loose folds of this surcoat are gathered at the waist by a narrow belt, the sword hanging from a broader beltcarried across the hip.
The Lower Old Red Sandstone strata are separated from the foregoing series by a fault and forma curving belt extending from Corloch on the east coast south by Brodick Castle to Dougrie on the west shore.
An enviable black and white sport beltto wear with her riding habit.
She punched another hole in the belt Betsy gave her Christmas.
The letter which Mimi had quickly thrust in her belt when she took Chloe in her arms, crackled as the two girls sat down on the bed.
They stretched their prone forms, like four gray and red-brown serpents, from the piney foothills above the Black Belt to the craggy Appalachians.
The loose end of the belt danced and stung against the boy's bare legs.
Beyond the lily leaves was a belt of tall reeds, swayed only by the birds which have their home among them.
The ordinary arrangement of share tenancy under which the negro in the cotton belt now works provides that the landowner shall furnish a cabin in which the family may live and an acre or two for a garden.
They are fewer in the black belt and in those counties and States where whites are in an overwhelming majority.
A study of election returns of some counties of the black belt shows occasional Democratic majorities greater than the total white population.
Be sure always to fasten to your belt the implements you need, for you do not know when the time will come.
After being seated a short time, he told his wife to bring in his belt or hunting girdle.
He did likewise, only keeping on the narrow magic belt with the tiny little animal sewed in it; for he felt that in this alone was to be his reliance and preservation.
He tried, and the belt moved nearly over the monster's head, but he could get it no further.
They then requested the eldest to try and slip the belt over the bear's head, who appeared to be fast asleep, as he was not in the least disturbed by the attempt to obtain it.
Mudjekewis and nine brothers conquered the Mammoth Bear, and obtained the Sacred Belt of Wampum, the great object of previous warlike enterprise, and the great means of happiness to men.
A belt of yellow sand skirted the lake shore in front, and a tall, thick forest formed the background.
Putting him in one corner, she spread the belt over him.
She had just untied the belt to which the implements were fastened, when suddenly the event, to which her brother had alluded, occurred.
Then the leader went forward and touched the belt around the animal's neck.
But the youngest got the most splendid and beautiful, as the bottom of the belt held the richest and rarest.
The Prince sat for a moment or two upon the gray stone balustrade, looking to where the level country took a sudden ascent and ended in a thick belt of pine trees.
Away in the distance the glimmer of the sea shone like a thin belt of quicksilver.
The long belt of main road, which passed within a few feet of him, seemed almost deserted.
Between the forest and the fen there runs a long belt of land, at its narrowest point not more than five miles wide, consisting partly of open pasture, partly of chalk down.
But the climax of the pageant was the novice's investiture with sword and spurs and belt in the cathedral.
Monte Rosa lifts her crown of peaks above a belt of clouds into light of living fire.
A Sam Browne belt of wide blue leather marched across his extensive diagonal in a gentle curve.
The car was now approaching an open belt of country.
They dressed in a simple way, in a long smock of linen or silk, which fell almost to the feet, but was tucked up into a belt round the waist, and worn longer or shorter, as they happened to choose.
Here he lay and slept till evening, and then took the new clothes which Helen had given him out of his wallet, and put them on, and threw the belt of the sword over his shoulder, and hid the Luck of Troy in his bosom.
He covered the front of his body with his great shield, that hung by a belt round his neck, and he smote four Trojans and wounded a fifth.
This garment was much like the plaid that the Highlanders used to wear, with its belt and brooches.
In the 17th century wooden cases were hung to the belt to contain powder charges.
Great masses of syenite and diorite were intruded during the Tertiary period, and within the curve of the folded belt a line of recent volcanic cones stretches from western Baluchistan into eastern Persia.
Caspian, where it terminates in the Apsheron peninsula; the steppes of the lower Kura and Aras on the south of the Caucasus, and a narrow coast-belt between the Anti-Caucasus and the Caspian.
At its southern end the Kattegat is blocked by the Danish islands, and it communicates with the Baltic proper by narrow channels called the Sound, the Great Belt and the Little Belt.
These two dialects are separated by the belt of Brahui and Sindhi speakers who occupy the Sarawan and Jalawan hills, and Las Bela.
We camped the first night in a little beltof timber that bordered a small stream, now nearly dry.
Then, with firmness, she thrust through the belt of priestesses, and clasped the almost fainting and despairing mother to her heart.
As he passed along the path under the verandah where she stood, she took one of the half-faded roses from her belt and flung it at him.
I picked up my Winchester and belt and placed them in his hands, saying, "Romero, these are yours.
Taking off my belt and pointing to my Creedmoor, I said, "I'll take your carbine.
I stopped to buckle the belt another hole tighter, when all at once about 100 buffaloes came thundering down the slope from the northeast, in a mad rush for the water.
I started up the stream on a run, and as I ran I was taking cartridges out of my belt and reloading the magazine.
I was near the wagon; the Enfield was in the front end of it, and the cartridge-belt around my waist.
I took the money belt from my waist and handed it to Mr. Booth, who took from a purse in his pocket a ten-dollar bill and a two-dollar Clark and Gruber bill.
The belt is for Ralph and his initials are on the buckle so of course there could be no misstake and the fur gloves are for you in the car next winter if you will please accept them with my love.
There was a frock of fine brown and white checked gingham, with flame-colored silk stitchings on the belt and cuffs and collar, and a little chemisette of sheer white lawn.
As the reef widens, the polyps of the circumference flourish, while those of the inner beltare retarded in their growth and at last perish.
Along the eastern coast of the Adriatic, as far south as Montenegro, lies a belt of limestone mountains singularly worn and honeycombed by the solvent action of water.
On the eastern part of this belt the folds are steeper and more numerous than on the western side.
Both by sedimentation and by subsidence the trough had now become a belt of weakness in the crust of the earth.
Figure 246 exhibits a few small bosses of granite near Baltimore as examples of numerous areas of igneous rock within the Piedmont Beltwhich represent bodies of molten rock which solidified deep below the surface.
If the strata of the folds of the Alps were smoothed out, they would occupy a belt seventy-four miles wider than that to which they have been compressed, or twice their present width.
The retreating ice sheets, which left smooth plains and gently rolling country over the wide belt where glacial deposition exceeded glacial erosion, have made travel and transportation easier than they otherwise would have been.
And now from Mexico well-nigh to the Arctic Ocean this belt yielded to lateral pressure.
A section across the Appalachian folds in Pennsylvania shows a compression to about two thirds the original width; the belt has been shortened thirty-five miles in every hundred.
The outer rim thus becomes a barrier reef and the inner beltof retarded growth is deepened by subsidence to a ship channel, s's' representing sea level at this time.
Southern Oregon and California west of Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges; most common in the oak belt of the foothills.
While oaks and pines may be intermingled, though they naturally prefer different soils and situations, and in the Rocky Mountains the pine-belt lies above the oak region, spruce and oak trees do not grow in the same soil.
He instantly placed his tomahawk in his belt and sheathed his knife, then fastening his gun to his belt by means of a spring, commenced climbing the first favorable tree he reached.
At that instant Mayall gave him a thrust with his long hunting-knife, which he had drawn from his belt with his left hand.
At the first chance a belt was passed around their prisoner, and his arms securely buckled to his sides.
He was dressed in the rough woollen tunic of the common citizen, girded with a belt of untanned leather, whilst his feet were shod with a kind of sandal, having strong leather soles.
Underneath his cuirass they found a stout leatherbelt buckled round his waist.
Attached to the belt was a pouch securely fastened, and from this the Emperor drew several scrolls of papyri--the paper of the ancients, made from the Egyptian plant of that name.
Not as now, but from end to end, a continuous belt of buildings circumscribed the bay; for this enchanting strand was the favoured region for the retirement and residence of the wealthy.
Martialis uttered his thanks, and, after some more questions in connection with his mission to Rome, the Prefect buckled the courier's belt underneath his cloak and departed from the cell.
He drew his poniard from his beltand placed it in her hand.
As a moral life-belt that uniform has never been equalled.
The application of a carefully adjusted padded belt is sometimes useful.
The establishment of the neutral Indian belt was manifestly contrary to the established policy and obvious destiny of the nation.
