He had not changed his dress since the preceding evening; his throat was bare, his waistcoat thrown open, and on the torn and rumpled cambric of his shirt-front were drops of blood.
There were only a few drops left, besides those even then being vaporized in the carburetor.
For when an aeroplanedrops a bomb on a given objective, it does not do so when directly above, but just before it reaches it.
The men eating their supper at the long deal table sat with shirt sleeves rolled up and collars open at the throat, and the sweat drops glistening on their browned faces, brick-red arms, and lean throats.
A cloud swept over the sun, and a few heavy drops splashed down on them, then faster and larger they came, and then, with a sudden burst, the cloud opened and the water fell in sheets.
Fierce fell on them the opposing winds, the ship was helpless driven; And with the ocean's flood were blent the thunder-drops of heaven.
And, while my eyes might well pour forth those bitter drops of pain, The drought of self-consuming grief has quenched the healing rain.
And when about his neck I cling, He drops his eyes and bows his face, As if, from thought of other arms He longed to slip from my embrace.
Who drops the lance to take the pen, he does a deed of shame.
Like dazzling pearls the tear-drops streak The pallid beauty of her cheek.
I know that thou art a valiant man, that thou hast slaughtered more, Among thy Christian enemies, than thou hast drops of gore.
The mounting sense gathers fresh forms and strange fire from the ashes of dissolving self, and drops the world.
This omnipotent act drops [15] the curtain on material man and mortality.
We must compare our father's conduct to a fat dog, that carries its tail upon its back, but when affrighted, it drops it between its legs and runs off.
Low bending o'er the rugged bier The soldierdrops the mournful tear, For life departed, valour driven, Fresh from the field of death to heaven.
What hinders these women from rushing to the help of one another, just as two drops of water on a leaf rush together and make one?
The mourners who mourn for such as these must give place to another and more august band, who have sounded lower deeps of anguish, and drained bitterer drops out of our great cup of trembling.
From her dank locks, wherever she doth pass, The diamond dew-drops dripping to the grass.
Beneath the eaves there is another chair, And a bruised lily lies upon the walk, With the bright drops still clinging to its stalk.
For youth reaches ever forward, And drops from its eager clasp The realized gifts of fortune, Some phantom of hope to grasp.
In and out among the jars of pickled limes, lollipops and gum-drops he doubled, the cat following, always managing to head him off when he made for the barrel.
The crowd, which sees swords gleaming, and drops of blood flying in the air--the crowd falls back and crushes itself.
Drops of blood beneath his coat stained the fine linen that clothed his chest.
The cardinal was indeed very ill; large drops of sweat flowed down upon his bed of agony, and the frightful pallor of a face streaming with water was a spectacle which the most hardened practitioner could not have beheld without compassion.
Separate yourselves at intervals of fifty paces so that if a shell drops on the road we won't all get it.
KATE drops the broom nervously and kisses him obediently.
A few cold words Of thanks, a complimentary phrase or two, And then he drops the subject, thinks no more About the matter and is quite annoyed When, as may happen once or twice a day, I accidentally allude to it!
O the bleeding dropsof red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, fallen, cold and dead.
Then Mary, on beholding such performance arbitrary, Suffused her eyes with saline drops from glands called lachrymary, And all the pupils grew thereat tumultuously hilarious, And speculated on the case with wild conjectures various.
Played by the band, it reached the very soul, And down the veteran's cheeks the tear-drops stole.
The light behind him showed its flat tin covering glistening and smooth, with a myriad of soft warm drops splashing and stippling upon it.
The rain beat down steadily, no longer in scattered drops but in sheets.
As though acting on cue the horizon to the west had split asunder, and the red lightning ran down the skies in zig-zag streaks, like cracks in a hot stove, and lusty big drops spattered on the porch roof above them.
Pattern produced in gelatine by the diffusion of drops of silver nitrate and sodium carbonate.
The drops immediately diffuse {61} through the gelatine, and the result after a time is the production of a beautiful purple rosette.
It may be noticed that the least prominent angle of the hexagon is opposite the small drop which is farthest away from it, whilst one of the smaller drops has already begun to be swallowed up by the large one.
Liquid cells with a fringe of cilia, obtained by sowing coloured drops of concentrated salt solution in a weaker salt solution.
On the surface of our horizontal salt solution we sow a number of drops of a more concentrated salt solution at equal distances around the circumference of a circle.
Pattern produced in gelatine by the diffusion of drops of concentrated solutions of nitrate of silver and bromide of ammonium.
Then with a pipette we introduce into the solution, in a regular pattern, a number of drops of liquid coloured with Indian ink.
The forms of these artificial cells depend on the number and relative position of the drops which represent the nuclei, and on the molecular concentration or osmotic tension of the solution.
If the gelatine has been treated with a drop of potassium ferrocyanide solution instead of salicylate of sodium, a few drops of FeSO4 will give a blue pattern.
We find that under similar conditions the time between the sowing of the drops and the formation of this line of precipitate is longer when the gelatine is more concentrated.
In the figure, six smalldrops are placed around a large one, and the smaller drops have begun to be deformed and to move towards the larger drop.
Tissue of artificial cells formed by the diffusion in gelatine of drops of potassium ferrocyanide.
Three drops of something that'll do up a man in five minutes.
Having in this unexpected way secured the very poison he most desired, Hewson poured into the sink all but the few drops he had heard constituted a fatal dose.
Bennett said that three drops in half a glass of water were all you could take with safety.
Drops of perspiration had long been falling from her forehead and her bare arms.
Rub the spoon with garlic, mix thoroughly, stir into it the yolk of an egg that has been beaten light with two tablespoonfuls of cream; add a few drops of lemon juice or tarragon vinegar and serve.
Add to the fish a level teaspoonful of salt, a dash of black pepper, a tablespoonful of chopped parsley and a few drops of onion juice; mix this carefully with the paste and turn out to cool.
The chill drops still spangled everywhere from the recent rain.
That 's it," he said, wagging appreciative grease-drops from the candle.
At the command front, given when the ranks are aligned, each man turns his head and eyes to the front and drops his left hand by his side.
The attack quickly dropsthe point of his bayonet until clear of his opponent's rifle and describes a semicircle with it upward and to the left and engages.
Number one executes the movement ordered, as above; number two quickly drops the point of his bayonet and circles it upward to the original position.
She had seen a few drops of some colourless liquid poured into a wineglass of water; and when it had been swallowed, the ghastly pallor of the face had changed to a more natural tint.
All is as a scene of magical enchantment, till the curtain dropsamidst thunders of applause, and you are led out by your friends in a state of mental aberration.
