The mark of the cord is still visible on my husband's neck, and the cord itself (which he has brought home with him) I shall always preserve among my curiosities.
Then came the guards, sword in hand, and between them the three delinquents, each of whom had a cord round his neck, the end of which was held by one of the headsman's apprentices.
This amulet the learned man had worn, fastened by a silken cord round his neck, night and day for years.
Hanging lamps may not be supported by electric lamp cord itself, if there is more than one lamp in the cluster, because the weight is apt to break the electrical connections.
In such a case, the lamp should be supported by a chain, and the twisted cord conveying current to the electric bulbs, is woven in the links of the chain.
In another house I saw chests of clothing, and suspended from a cord were garments of various kinds, including a complete costume of the fraternity of the Dog Eaters.
The sun poured in on Elma, who forgot the habits of upright behaviour which she exhibited at Miss Annie's, and sprawled there with her fingers on the cord of the blind.
The handle was of gold, and therefrom hung a thick cord of yellow silk, with four beads and half a bead thereon.
They go downstairs; but you will tear up your sheets, make a cord of them fibre by fibre, then pass through your window and hang by this thread over an abyss.
On drawing the cord to them they broke it, and a piece had remained fastened to the chimney on the roof, but they had met with no other accident beyond almost entirely skinning their fingers.
Paul sees the converts in Colossae taken prisoners and led away with a cord round their necks, like the long strings of captives on the Assyrian monuments.
Surely there can be no stronger cord with which to bind us as sacrifices to the horns of the altar than the cords of love.
The agitation communicated to the cord is sufficient to shut the gates behind; they are thus imprisoned by the dropping of the gate, which in falling sounds a bell to wake the watching fisherman on the scaffold, should he be asleep.
It is composed of a hempen cord five or six hundred yards in length, to which are attached some thirty smaller cords, each furnished with a barbed hook at its extremity.
At the moment of his descent he places his right foot in this stirrup, or, where there is no such provision, he rests it on the stone with the cord between his toes.
Another cord is now thrown out with a running knot or loop, in which the body of the shark is caught about the origin of the tail.
This stone is in the form of a pyramid, weighing about half-a-hundredweight; the cord which sustains it sometimes carries in its lower parts a sort of stirrup to receive the foot of the diver.
The larger cord is attached to floating planks, which act as trimmers, indicating the place of this formidable engine of destruction.
She felt better by and by, and tried to play; but the cord kept pulling her back.
A party of Germans and Italians raided a temple where the Boxers were said to be drilling, but they only captured a few weapons and a quantity of the red cord which the Boxers use as girdles.
The other day we got hold of lots of the cord they wear.
The little apple-green cord keeps the obi in its place, and is the discord which makes the melody.
Just one little slim slip of apple-green appears above the golden fold of the obi and accentuates the harmony; it is the crape cord of the knapsack which bulges the loops at the back and gives the Japanese curve of grace.
Suspended from the rod of steel must be a silk cord about five inches in length, and attached to the cord a marble about the size of a child's playing marble.
Modern neurology soon discovered that these paralyses were quite unlike those seen when there is "real" injury to the brain, spinal cord or the peripheral nerves.
Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
While these studies of the structure of the cord have been going on, the ingenious and indefatigable Brown-Sequard has been investigating the functions of its different parts with equal diligence.
The physiology of the spinal cord seems a simple matter as you study it in Longet.
The microscopic anatomists had shown that the ganglionic corpuscles of the gray matter of the cord are connected with each other by their processes, as well as with the nerve-roots.
Strange back-blow of Fate, that the cord which had drawn her towards him should tighten to a noose round her neck.
Janet had drawn up close behind the young couple, and when the cord was withdrawn went upstairs as if with them.
A cord had been stretched across the foot of the grand staircase, and a policeman guarded it.
But, now, suppose the wing is closed, will not thiscord make a cumbersome fold, flapping loosely in the angle of the elbow?
An extremely elastic cord reaches over from the shoulder to the wrist joint, supporting a fold of skin that occupies the deep angle of the elbow, and that is covered with short, fluffy feathers.
When the bird is flying, this cord is stretched and forms the front edge of that section of the wing.
The reporter held it to his own ear, moving closer to Rick because the cord was just long enough to reach from ear to inner pocket.
The wiring went through the power cord into the electric outlet, and the impulses were actually transmitted over the power system and taken out of a plug in the basement.
Flaming gasoline ran along the cord in both directions, ran up the sides of the cans.
Rick struck a match and held it to the saturated cord of rags.
The fuse, a long cord saturated in sulphur, was merely a blind.
The silk cord attached to the pencil regulates the current which controls a pencil at the other end of the line.
Of the "angel" order, the wide, pointed sleeves are turned back to allow a narrow glimpse of satin, the fold held in place by a cord loop and a diminutive gold button sewn to the under arm seam immediately above the wrist.
The shorter mantle known as the "tappert" was open at each side, and had a large upstanding collar and hood, and married women affected a circular cloak gathered at the neck by a cord and falling in voluminous folds to the hem.
Mantles were semicircular in cut and held in divers ways, and their borders were adorned with rectangular metal plaques, each pierced with five holes, a double cord being passed through these holes and fastened behind.
A bride of Attica is immortalised in a long flowing robe of clinging rose colour, with a girdle of gold cord knotted and tasselled.
To accomplish a true reflex movement, a whole mechanism is necessary, set up in the spinal cord or the medulla.
They let us guess that, while at the end of the vast spring-board from which life has taken its leap, all the others have stepped down, finding the cord stretched too high, man alone has cleared the obstacle.
But the cord snapped in twain, and the arrow fell harmlessly to the ground.
He tied the broken cord securely, and drew it taut, pulling it back as far as he could repeatedly, but he did not waste in a trial one of the remaining arrows in his quiver.
Once again the cordproved true, and the speeding arrow cleft the Human Octopus in twain.
He pulled back the cord with all his strength, and to his great relief it held.
At no great distance from the centre of this cord rises abruptly a sort of woody promontory, in shape almost conical, its sides covered with thick underwood; above which is seen a bare and brown summit rising like an Alp in miniature.
Madame Gregoire, laying her hand on the cord as Monsieur Georges' thin voice was heard giving utterance to his usual evening cry of "Le cordon!
Why, like Job's mates, fill its poor belly with the east wind, or try to draw out leviathan with a hook, or his tongue with a cord thou lettest down?
I think I should like to be commissioned to build a castle with towers and gates of this very granite which you could hew out by the thousand cord from the quarry yonder.
The cord was made in England: A rough cord, a tough cord, A cord that bow-men love; And so we will sing Of the hempen string And the land where the cord was wove.
The marginal zone is less than half an inch wide and contains at the upper edge two perforations, which have been considerably abraded by the cordof suspension.
Beside the net and cord marks, which may or may not be the result of an attempt at ornament, there are ornaments made of fillets of clay.
Perforations have been made near the ends of this trough; these seem to be somewhat abraded on the outside by a cord of suspension or attachment which has passed between them along a groove in the apex or angle of the keel.
The body of these vessels is sometimes quite plain, but is more frequently covered with cord markings.
Another shows the impression of basket-work, in which a wide fillet or splint has served as the warp and a small twisted cord as the woof.
Where handles have been added, it will be found that the cordmarkings have been destroyed by the touch of the fingers.
The study of cord impressions is quite interesting.
There are, however, no holes for suspension except those made to represent the eyes, and these, so far as I have observed, show no abrasion by a cord of suspension.
The hooks pierce the ends of the bit of cornstalk about which the cord is wound.
Still others have one or more handles which connect the rim with the neck or shoulder of the vessel, leaving a round or oblong passage for a cord or vine.
The ornamentation consists of cord and net impressions, incised lines, stamped figures, indented fillets, and life and fanciful forms modeled in relief.
The cords have been about the size of the ordinary cotton cord used by merchants.
The result will be that the portion covered with cord will be same as before entering the bath, a black or dark brown, and the body of the feathers will be white.
Natural blacks or grays can be speckled as follows: Go through the same preparations of binding around stick with cord and degrading or bleaching them white.
