They then rushed up to the child, seized it and broke its little arm and leg bones into three or four pieces, then wrung its neck too.
I couldn't play their bones straight, but I played their brains straight.
Ichabod became the object of whimsical persecution toBones and his gang of rough riders.
Ichabod, who had no relish for this strange midnight companion, and bethought himself of the adventure of Brom Bones with the Galloping Hessian, now quickened his steed in hopes of leaving him behind.
Know that the loudest roar of the million is not fame; that the wind bag, are ye mad enough to mount it, will burst, or be shot through with arrows, and your bones too shall act as scarecrows.
This is the real record of the appearances of God in the history of a nation; this, which all men to the marrow of their bones can believe, and which teaches all men what the nature of this universe, when you go to work in it, really is.
Cœlo tegitur qui non habet urnam=--He who 15 has no urn to hold his bones is covered by the vault of heaven.
As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.
Hac sunt in fossa Bedæ venerabilis ossa=--In this grave lie the bones of the Venerable Bede.
Sero venientibus ossa=--The bones for those who come late.
Vox manet=--The voice and bones are all that's left; the voice remains.
Thus, in the letter of the faithful of Smyrna preserved by Eusebius, they mention that they gathered up the bones of their bishop Polycarp, (a disciple of S.
By the memory of your father, by the bones of your chiefs, seek not an end so wicked.
The bones of the drowned dead should henceforth roll undisturbed by me, whether on tangle or minted gold.
Robertson was the same as the foreigner who visited Grisapol in spring, and now, with many others, lay dead under the Roost of Aros: there had their greed brought them, there should their bones be tossed for evermore.
The crack of breaking bones was distinctly audible as the officer's head snapped back.
By gingerly feeling of his injured body, he discovered that no bones were broken, although he was terribly bruised.
Their eyebrows are large and overhanging, their cheek bones are prominent, their noses are heavy, mouths large, and under jaw bones strong and marked.
The beach is strewn with the bones of whales, and in places they are thrown up tons of them in heaps.
January, suffered a thousand deaths at Andersonville, where his feet rotted off, and where he was reduced to forty-five pounds in weight, his bones alone almost weighing that much.
We have already noticed the curious custom of burying the spear-head in the same vase with the bones of the Anglo-Saxon warrior.
With pious care it is restored to the sacred fane from which it had been abstracted; it again becomes part of the chancel or chantry beneath whose pavement lie the bones of him of whom church, chantry, and statue are alike the monuments.
A low fever had rendered him exceedingly weak; he could not eat the wretched food of the prison; his face grew haggard, and his bones shone through the flesh with almost skeleton-like distinctness.
He turned the sleeve of his loose garment back to expose the emaciated arm with the bones showing through the loose skin.
His fingers were squeezed until the bones cracked; his veins swelled in agony; yet no sound escaped his lips.
She was taking the old woman back with her, for, oddly enough, Zama had never felt at home in the new land, and often craved that her bones might be buried in the old soil.
There were amongst them two human skulls, the bones of some large animals, and some turtle-bones.
He was shown giganticbones in proof of the story, the bones, no doubt, of some marine monster.
Their cheek-bones were much bruised and flattened, and some had both their little fingers cut off.
For not once in two years does a wanderer chance to come this way, and long before that time the wolves and the vultures will have dispersed the bones of the fallen.
I have no doubt you fancy I am, he would make no bones about it but pack you straight off to a nunnery and so cut you off from the world for ever.
What good will it do me," he muttered, "when my bones are rotting in an unmarked grave, to bequeath a feud to perhaps unborn generations?
But it shall not avail, I swear on the bones of St. Anthony!
No bones were broken, however, though the shock had been great.
Among the dog biscuit and bones was the torpedo model which he had dug up from the palm pot in the conservatory.
I added as I grasped his hand and, in return, he almost broke the bones in mine wringing it.
He was dazed and considerably overcome; but as he staggered to his feet with my help I saw that no bones were broken.
Follow after -- follow after -- for the harvest is sown: By the bones about the wayside ye shall come to your own!
If there should follow a thousand swords to carry my bones away, Belike the price of a jackal's meal were more than a thief could pay.
Leonard; "my very bones ache with the tutoring I get from my father at home.
If it had not been for Sir Reginald, I should be by this time a reckless freebooter, without a hope in this world or the next; if it had not been for you, these bones of mine would long since have been picked by my cousins, the Spanish wolves.
On the way back to camp, Blondey shied at a heap of decaying bones that were still attached to a magnificent pair of antlers.
They brought him home with sixteen broken bones and really quite a few pieces of the wheel, improved to Rococo.
So, come, straddle your tombstone again, and make the bones beneath it jog.
Under his beautiful feathers thebones project to spoil the contour of his round plump body.
But if Mr. Swainson was right, that was just what was not buried there; there were no bones there.
An elderly man with high cheek bones and curly gray hair looked out.
Your creed does not lead forward; it leads backward, to the troglodyte in his cavern, splitting the leg-bones of his victim to extract the marrow for his cannibalistic feast.
What I mean is that our civilization has grown to be a gorgeous shell; a mere mockery; a sham; outwardly fair and lovely, but inwardly full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
He was a cannibal, and bought charms from Cathel, with which to entice young men, women and children into his dreadful den, which was surrounded with heaps of bones of those he had killed and devoured.
Fractures or displacements of bones can therefore be readily detected.
Your bones grow brittle and break, or they go all soft, you shrivel up and become white, or swellings come out on you and you get bigger and bigger until you die.
The boneshave been picked up, passed from hand to hand, scrawled upon, joked over.
The monks might have spared thebones and buried them; they might have left the ruins as they were.
Children's bones have more gristle than those of older people; so children's bones bend easily.
Then you have two flat shoulder-blades, and two collar-bones that almost meet in front, just where your collar fastens.
What is the difference between the bones of children and the bones of old people?
Because the spine is made of little bones with cushions between them, it bends easily, and children sometimes bend it more than they ought.
What is the use of the little cushions between the bones of the spine?
You have learned about the twenty-four little bones in the spine, and the ribs that curve around from the spine to the front, or breast-bone.
Suppose a boy should break one of the bones of his arm, how could it be mended?
What other bones may be injured by wrong positions?
When people are old, their bones contain more lime, and, therefore, break more easily.
Then it seemed as if iron bones protruded in a ravenous grip, and closed upon him in an iron band; and cold nails touched his heart, and slowly, slowly sank into it.
