He was particularly interested in the three-cornered situation concerning Radnor, Polly Mathers, and Jim Mattison, and I was as brief as possible in my replies; I did not care to make Polly the heroine of a Sunday feature article.
Mose saw the ha'nt in the night, and Arnold and I came down to investigate; we unfortunately neglected the office in our search, or we might have cornered him.
Women from Auray, in three-cornered shawls and wide white-winged caps, sit all day long sewing broad bands of velvet ribbon on black beaver hats, stretching it round the crown and leaving it to fall in two long streamers at the back.
You'll be astonished to find how often you'll be cornered by that little child--how many difficulties he will raise, that will require all your keenest wits to clear away.
She repeated to herself his words, again and again: "The wheat cornered itself.
Great heavens, it is the wheat that has cornered me!
Always the same figures on the same painted stand, marked with the same pattern of slanting roads and three-cornered grass-plots.
A three-cornered note on her dressing-table at bed-time: Sept.
Mamma had marked it in her sharp, three cornered hand-writing: "Correspondence, Mary.
Is it true that those little three-cornered things in the pink room with the china on them were washhand stands?
I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!
For this purpose, four-cornered pieces of a sort of white cotton fabric were worn, on which was printed a sign in red.
Whenever I cornered him on this point, manlike he turned the conversation to the painters and carpenters.
And the ladies around me were so completely cornered that no one attempted an answer.
We turned around in great surprise; the peasant of Nassau stood before us, with his three-cornered hat, and his packet at the end of his walking stick.
Trying to drive out a rat we've got cornered in here.
Well, with all his smartness he's corneredthis time.
They had supposed that the shed where they had cornered Dave was the Aegis hangar, and had dismantled the wrong machine.
Of course this boy thief has disposed of it, but if I get him cornered right he may be glad to tell where it is.
All I could do was to patiently untie my shirt while my teeth chattered, then fling a large, three-cornered taunt in his teeth and run.
The lot consists in part of the following: One three-cornered hoe, Gothic in its architecture and in good running order.
Not an old-fashioned three cornered cambric country cut handkerchief, but a new-fashioned three cornered cambric country cut handkerchief.
As a blind they put handcuffs on the old man and were going to do the same with Durham when he, finding himself cornered again, made a fight for it.
I offered to go out with a dozen men and scour the range, but he wouldn't hear of it--that was before he was cornered at Taloona.
Long ago she had played at ball with him in the great courtyard of the Gerano castle, when he had been at home for his holidays, wearing a black cassock and a three-cornered hat, like a young priest.
There, in the middle of the three-cornered open space, a flag in the paving marked the spot on which men used to be put to death.
I--I must see Gertrude, too; we will have a three-cornered talk.
It's doubled in halves and there is a three-cornered piece let in at the ends to give a bit more room.
But I'm going to show you how to make a little three cornered purse that doesn't need any sewing--only two glove snappers.
Illustration: The three corneredpurse completed] "It seems to.
Whichever way you turn, you see keen eyes peering upon you from under a three-cornered hat or a cowl.
Three of them, cornered and flogged, lifted the unconscious man and carried him toward the horse, the soldiers, meanwhile believing me to be an officer, standing in the attitude of attention.
As Jerry Swayne deposited their key upon its hook, he drew forth a small tri-cornered billet from the pigeon-hole beneath, and presented it.
There was quite a run on bottles before an hour, for the Hogan twins cornered the market by slipping around to the alley at the back of the store and securing the bottles that stood in a box in the back shed.
