But, in order to clog Murat's movements, the Emperor resolved to make use of the spiritual power, which for six years he had slighted.
Thus the two questions on which Napoleon had counted as certain to clog the wheels of the Coalition, as they had done in the past, were removed, and the way was cleared for a compact firmer than any which Europe had hitherto known.
The Yule-clog is still burnt in many farm-houses and kitchens in England, particularly in the north, and there are several superstitions connected with it among the peasantry.
The Yule-clog was to burn all night; if it went out, it was considered a sign of ill luck.
The brand remaining from the Yule-clog is carefully put away to light the next year's Christmas fire.
I trust the same; for since ye have smit Down my great enemy, Tediousness, Ye have won me forever, doubtless, Although ye have won a clog withal!
Murray says that so far as yet found the word appears first as an opprobrious nickname of William de la Pole, the Duke of Suffolk who was murdered in 1450, whose badge was a clog and chain such as was attached to a tame ape.
The dust takes the form of slime, and, in some arrangements of apparatus, tends to clog up the overflow pipe, thus arresting the passage of gas and causing the engine to stop.
Clog dancing and cognac helped to get me from The Hague back into Antwerp in time for its bombardment and capture by the German forces under General von Beseler.
I happened to perform the clog dancing at a critical moment during a trip on a Scheldt River barge, thus diverting the attention of the river sentries from my lack of proper papers.
But I am sure that neither of you would feel disposed to be a clogupon your husband.
Paul Henning was the last keeper of the Clog beanuighte; and when any of his connexions died it was rung by him in front of the namna gul, the old women who, according to the Irish fashion, caoine and bewail the dead.
Both the rounded form and the inscription on the Clog beanuighte, are evidence of its being of a later date than the simpler quadrangular form; and it is unhesitatingly assigned by Dr.
The gardener beats the ass till he is weary, and then fastens a clog to the animal's leg and ties him to a post.
After great exertion, the ass contrives to get free from the post and hobbles away with the clog still on his leg.
The idea is much like that in the German proverb, "The clog is bound to the dog's neck.
Can any low-born care pursue her, 470 Can any mortalclog come to her?
III After the line, 'Can any mortalclog come to her', followed in the MS.
But to clog a light song with a long preludium is to corrupt the nature of it.
If we were as rich as your uncle, I should feel it to be both a duty and a pleasure to keep an elegant table; but limited means are a sad clog to one's wishes.
Even now, when the Spanish ships were proved to clog the enterprise, he persisted in merely counting numbers, and in asserting that Villeneuve might still neutralize the force of Calder and Cornwallis.
Even in historic times this process has continued and been an enormous clog on human progress.
But why record the feeble disjointed efforts of a soul struggling with her clog of earth?
But they had no house, and could not furnish one without incurring debts which would be a severe clog on their future industry.
A careful study of the picture of the clog almanack will reveal other curious matters of interest.
The more perfect the incorporation of the lamp-black with the water the easier the ink will flow, the less liable it is to clog the instruments, the more even and sharp the edges of the lines, and the finer the lines that may be drawn.
Probably the origin is this:--Cares and troublesclog the heart as cockles clog a ship.
Leaf-mould rose and obliterated, streams in their winter freshets brought sand and soil to clog and to cover, and in course of time our home was ready for us again, and we moved in.
A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.
A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them.
All these secretions contain more or less solid material which, unless removed, accumulates on the surface of the skin toclog up the glands and, in some cases, to putrefy and decay.
Then more varied and more suitable food must be consumed, food which will be capable of absorption by the tissues and not clog the intestines and poison the system.
Coffee should be ground as fine as coarse corn meal--not so fine as flour, or it willclog the strainer--and it should be freshly ground each time coffee is made.
There we could see the clog but the animal was crowded back under the logs so we could see but little of it.
Then I got another clog and set the trap at the back of the pen at the place where the bear had torn off the top of the bait pen.
I told him that he had better let me go, as I was afraid that he would take a hold of the clog and pull the trap loose from the coon's foot, but Frank grabbed a stick and jumped between the logs.
That is the bear, he is trying to climb that tree, I do not think he will make it, for the clog is fast between those two small saplings that stand by the large tree.
The bear had gone only a few yards, when he had gotten fast in some saplings, and he had gnawed the brush and raked the trees and "raised Ned" generally; but had finally released the clog and had gone on down the hillside.
After a while Smoky came with the clog and he had cut it off where it was considerably too large for the ring in the chain.
No, there is nothing in it, I can see the clog there all right.
Getting another clog I concealed it under the edge of the bank and set the trap under the bait that I had hung in the bush.
Here I found the clog that had been fastened to the trap.
When I came to the trap there was an ugly bear in it and he had the clog fast in some roots and among some fallen trees.
This would make the ring or chain secure to the clog, as it would give the ring no chance to work about, while I would make a bed to set the trap in and have the trap set by the time that he got the clog ready.
I now took one of the traps at the pen, leaving the clog and all appearances as though the trap still remained there.
I took hold of the clog and carefully dragged the skunk to the creek and sank him in the water.
Also to measure the size of the ring in the trap chain and cut the clog off so that when the ring was put down over the end of the clog, sixteen or eighteen inches to a prong, it would fit the ring fairly close.
If the trapper uses a clog instead of a stake to fasten his trap with, and his traps are close to water, he can use a long pole or a hook and gently drag the skunk to the water and drown it.
