The head was withdrawn, and Jimmy heardheavy steps followed by the banging of a door.
He directed his gaze thither, and perceived the heavy face of Ogden hanging over the rail like a gargoyle.
She had a tight-lipped mouth and beady eyes beneath heavy brows.
For five days and four nights the ship had been racing through a placid ocean on her way to Sandy Hook: but in the early hours of this afternoon the wind had shifted to the north, bringing heavy seas.
All bore heavyloads of plunder in their arms, and Lugui was balancing a mince pie on the top of a pile of her mother's best evening dresses.
After exchanging one or two heavy blows with his foe Woof's courage returned, and he determined to dishearten his adversary by bluster.
With a cry of joy Martha turned the key with both hands; then she heard a sharp "click," and the next moment the heavy lid flew up of its own accord!
On his way home he purchased a heavy sack, and when he passed the wizard's door and the pink glass dog ran out to bark at him he threw the sack over the dog, tied the opening with a piece of twine, and carried him away to his own room.
As they reach heavy bearing the rate of growth will slow down and I will adjust the nitrogen to keep them from becoming too vegetative.
The hickory nut curculio[13] is much like the preceding two species, but it attacks chiefly partly grown hickory nuts, causing a heavy dropping in midsummer.
WARD: The soil around Rochester is very heavy like what we call slashland type of soil here in Indiana, and where this occurs we find that the hickory nut does very, very poorly.
In 1952 the Sweeney tree was bearing a heavycrop of nuts.
Unfortunately the use of such heavy equipment is not practical in rocky and hilly areas.
You can graft scions of that tree on other stocks and plant them anywhere you choose under differing conditions and it will have a heavy set of burs.
You are going to find it is going to be very difficult for if the soil is the least bit heavy or wet, the hickory nut does not do well at all.
Dunstan also reports a Mahan pecan grafted on a white or mockernut hickory stock that produces heavy crops of well-filled nuts.
Past Yields: The one characteristic that sets these trees apart from all other pecan trees that we have observed in the Maryland area is that they yield heavy crops of nuts every year.
Having read some place of the vigor, precocity and heavy bearing of the new variety, then called the Payne Seedling, I secured some scions of it from its originator and worked it on a young black walnut.
The question now is whether grafted trees propagated from the best of the Duvall seedlings will yield heavy crops of well filled nuts that will mature early under other conditions of soil and climate in other localities.
It began early and bore heavy crops, but the season is not long enough or hot enough.
We are inclined to believe that some or all of these trees may represent a line of pecan genetically constituted to bear heavy crops of nuts every year under conditions in Maryland.
The nuts were large in size during the off year when only a small crop was produced and they were small when there was a heavy crop.
Lecoq's anger disappeared like one of those heavy clouds which threaten in the horizon for a moment, and then are suddenly swept away by a gust of wind.
Once aware of his client's wishes and intentions, he had but one idea: and that was, to carry them out as inexpensively as possible, by skilfully evading the heavy costs to be paid by the inheritor of an estate.
Do you think that a heavy beard and a blouse are a sufficient transformation?
The victim of a robbery, finding his safe empty at the moment that he was called upon to make a heavy payment, he had been constrained to conceal his anger and resentment; but now he determined to have his revenge upon his insolent visitor.
Heavy curtains darkened the windows, and hung in front of the doors.
Almost every head and bosom sparkled with jewels; the palest cheeks were rosy; heavyeyes now shone like stars; and the glistening shoulders of fair women were like drifted snow in an April sun.
If the faithful servant had hitherto never breathed the secret confided to her probity, it was none the less heavy for her to bear.
Adjoining the parlor was a little card-room separated only by a heavy silk curtain, instead of a door.
Well, monsieur, I had this very day a heavy payment to make.
You will not, I know, add to my already heavyburden of sorrow, the agony of mourning your death.
It flew along the Rhone like a bird in a tempest, and after a few seconds appeared like a black speck in the midst of the heavy fog which floated over the water, then was lost to view.
The doors, and the partition where the wicket door is cut, are covered with thick sheets of iron; and a heavy grating protects the fireplace.
Thereupon Gharib rose and kissed ground, saying, "O King of the age, thou art a sovereign and I am but a poor man, and belike thou wilt ask a heavy dowry.
Then she seated him on the divan and said to him, "O my lord, doff thy heavy dress and turband and don these lighter vestments.
It happened to him one day of great heat that whilst he was carrying a heavy load, he became exceeding weary and sweated profusely, the heat and the weight alike oppressing him.
It was a real conquest, and established a heavy foreign rule in a highly prosperous and flourishing land--a rule which endured, it would appear, about three hundred years.
But there are also other causes, of which the principal one was the very perishable nature of the constructions, all their heavy massiveness notwithstanding.
An outer agent, too, was at work, surely and steadily destructive: the long, heavy winter rains.
During the floods in spring, or after heavy rains, small rafts may float from Mosul to Baghdad in about eighty-four hours; but the larger are generally six or seven days in performing the voyage.
Unfortunately a heavy shower fell before it was quite completed, and so saturated the bricks that they did not dry again before the following spring.
He'd concealed his tomahawk next to his hide under his heavy deerskin hunting coat.
She had a heavygrowth of hair, coal black hair all around her mouth and particularly upon her upper lip.
I reckon when Huraken packed the princess off somewhere else her corpse come to be a heavy load.
Jasper's woman is heavy with child," the toothless midwife grinned, moistening her wrinkled lips with the tip of her tongue.
And when the cross grew too heavy even for their stoic shoulders to bear they ventured unbeknownst to their menfolks to the Good Shepherd of the Hills to beg his intercession, his prayers for peace.
I asked them where they might be bound And what their heavy load might be.
He himself had to wear heavy boots in the mine in order to work at all, for Clate had to stand in water most of the time when he picked or loaded.
He knew the danger to life and limb from fallen trees, treacherous quicksand, swollen creeks, the peril of slipping mountain sides after heavy rains.
Poor Alvin's heart was heavy for he knew that he must go, And his Church contended "fighting was a sin.
The growth is soheavy that there are few bare rocks or naked cliffs.
There was a heavy snow on the ground, making a soft carpet for the swiftly moving feet of the mob numbering more than a score, as they hurried their victim away.
The whole force advanced and poured a heavyfire into the retreating Dervishes, who slowly withdrew, fighting.
These trips, which made a welcome respite from the heavy office-work and town-life at Headquarters, sometimes included a day's sport and recreation.
During the training season the work was veryheavy and necessitated a great deal of touring.
It was a sporting country, for there were plenty of jackals, and the ground varied from soft ricefields, enclosed by Irish banks, to hard rock and heavy sand in which prickly-pear hedges were disagreeably abundant.
The road onward proved rocky and sandy in places, and was very heavy going for tired men, but Diveryah was reached at 3 p.
Tuesday, March 1, the Brigade paraded and moved off along a fairly good track, heavy in places, for Aboudyeh, twelve miles.
There were also eight squadrons of cavalry, and two Maxim guns under Colonel Broadwood, six companies of the Camel Corps under Major Tudway, and some artillery, both heavy and light, under Colonel Long.
The rain keeps off, and I am afraid we shall have a famine if we do not get heavy rain soon, for the rice will fail.
Ringing drops fell continually, like heavy tears, and the wind blew on: but it seemed to him that it was Labda, the old Fate, babbling near him with her toothless gums the terrible tales of the Flavii.
At the end of one of these passages they saw a sexton who, chanting gaily, was hollowing the ground with heavy blows of his pick.
Suddenly, the jingle of weapons and the heavy step of horses.
Through the heavy Arabian perfumes, for the first time in his life he comes into contact with the odour of a corpse.
The mob halted, paralysed by fear, and the purple litter, swaying on the shoulders of the slaves like a skiff in a heavy sea, vanished into the darkness up the street.
The heavy and dusty morning of the twenty-second of July seemed the prelude to a day of burning heat, and the Emperor objected to wear a breastplate, and remained clad in a light silken tunic.
It was a soft and sunny afternoon, before sunset, but a heavy atmosphere came to the portico from the inner rooms.
The earth trembled under the soft and heavy tread of the Persian elephants, wearing huge plumes of ostrich-feathers on their foreheads.
The workmen were carrying up a heavy slab of marble, an antique bas-relief, stolen many years before and discovered in the hovel of a cobbler whose kitchen oven it had served to repair.
It was stiff, heavy with gold, encrusted with precious stones, and with lions and dragons embroidered on its amethystine purples.
In the next room could be heard the heavy snore of Mardonius.
The trees of the Mall are shaking their heavy tears upon me.
A full crew consisted of a stacker, a boy to pass bundles, two drivers for the heavy wagon-racks, and a pitcher in the field who lifted the sheaves from the shock with a three-tined fork and threw them to the man on the load.
I left California with the feeling that his life was almost ended, and my heart was heavy with indignant pity for I must now remember him only as a broken and discouraged man.
Instantly every head in the herd was lifted, even the old cows heavy with milk stood as if suddenly renewing their youth, alert and watchful.
Of course I did not realize, and I am sure my father did not realize, the heavy burden, the endless grind of her toil.
The heavy shovel blistered my hands and lamed my wrists.
As they streamed along homeward, heavy with their sloshing load, they seemed the personification of a desolate and abused race.
Then we all went into the little front room and the soldier laid off his heavy army shoes.
A twinge of pain went through my heart as I looked into their dim eyes and studied their heavy knuckles.
And then, to make the situation worse, in raising some heavy machinery connected with the self-binder, I strained my side so seriously that I was unable to walk.
He was a good-looking young fellow, but he had a heavy jaw.
It seemed like too heavy a hammer-stroke of Providence to believe in and keep her reason.
Harry then went close to Mrs. Addix, sitting with her head resting on her shoulder, still snoring with those puffs of heavy breath.
He had kept the secret as well as Maria; for him, as for her, a secret was a heavy burden, almost amounting to guilt.
The river was little more than a brook, except in spring, when, afterheavy snows, it sometimes verified its name of the Ramsey River.
Papa is tired, and you are a heavy little lump of honey," Ida smiled, entrancingly.
It was as if she held some splendid, heavy sword of victory which she had not the courage to wield.
In winter stabled horses are seen to excrete dark heavy urine, as they are fed on grain or proteids and drink little water.
He strides through the shrubberies and across Lucy's garden, crushing with his heavy boot-heel the last flower that had lingered on into the winter.
A nasty raw day, Kate," she remarked as we emerged from the hothouse into the moist, heavy air.
At the foot of a bill in the half-light, we reach some houses, still slumbering and wrapped in heavy grayness.
For the moment a heavy recoil presses us back and then a murmur runs along: "We've lost ourselves.
Paradis moves--a heavypallid ghost, for we two also are all white.
In the corners, heavy shadows are seen forming--human clouds that move and break up.
I make out a heavy mass half-way up the ghostly wall which comes loose and descends from it with a whinnying yawn, and I hoist myself into the niche which it had occupied.
We resume our march, very slowly and very ponderously, scattered over the now graying road, with complaints and heavy curses which the effort strangles in our throats.
The heavy face, greasily moist on the cheeks and nose, was serious.
Above the gap of his toothless mouth, his mustache made a heavy sallow lump.
For the purpose he is using a rifle with fixed bayonet, since he could not find a stick long enough; and the heavy giant, bald, bearded and asthmatic, wields the weapon awkwardly.
Several shells, falling on the same spot, have broken through the heavy earthen roof of the Refuge.
It is the melancholy light of the North Country, of a restricted and muddy sky, a sky which itself, one would say, is heavy with the smoke and smell of factories.
All the timber in the long frame-work of the cave, those heavy black vertebrae, cracked with an ear-splitting noise, and all the prisoners in the dungeon shouted together in horror.
Heavy explosions are shaking the earth--underground, in the dug-outs.
The king's officers were responsible for the maintenance of order, but in these lawless times they often used their power for their own advantage, imposing heavy fines and penalties on the poor, and extorting bribes from the rich.
I go to-day into a small shop where heavy oak beer-kegs are made, and watch the man working this refractory material into water-tight kegs that will stand hard usage at the hands of hard drinkers for twenty years.
At a heavy expense I procured the rods, and at last the pictures were hung up.
This work was so tedious, that a large truck was made, capable of receiving a very heavy load of timber, which might be transported at once.
I assure you that this light diet has not contributed, as might be expected, to assist a heavy head, and one feather is not sufficient to enable my genius to take wing.
The equinoxes now came on, and we had several gales of wind, with heavy rain--the slates blew off and rattled up and down all night, while the wind howled round the corner of the square.
After they have made ineffectual attempts to remove a heavy body, you will observe them to meet together, consult among themselves, and commence an entire new plan of operations.
And then the wind shifted, and shifted again, with squalls and heavy rain, until it blew from every quarter of the compass.
He heard the heavy plunge, followed up by the shrieks of the palanquin-bearers.
Yet such is the case in Switzerland, where there is a heavyfine if any one commences his vintage before the time prescribed by the authorities.
There she introduced him on tiptoe, taking elaborate precautions of quietness, which were all intended to impose upon John, and silence his heavy feet and country clogs to the greatest degree of silence possible.
Deep shadows lurked in the corners, and the heavy book-cases and window recesses only seemed to add to the gloom.
Olivia, who was drawing the heavy curtain across the window, was relieved to hear this.
You see, expenses will be heavythe first year, and we must not look for great profits.
Olivia had a good view of the lean, cadaverous face and peaked white beard; the heavy grey eyebrows seemed to beetle over the dark sunken eyes.
Olivia was putting a good face on things, but Marcus, oppressed with the heavy responsibility of three serious cases, hardly knew how hard she worked from morning to night.
Instead of the frost he had expected, the icy coldness of the air and the heavy aspect of the wintry sky were premonitory signs of a snow-storm.
He had descended an iron ladder and was pushed into a room, the door of which shut to with a heavy bang.
His lungs were oppressed, and the heavy air was not sufficient for proper respiration.
And then he clipped Holly two heavyones that knocked him nearly down a ladder.
There was heard a loud, wild cry, followed by a dull, heavy thud.
With a heavy heart Carl followed him, and in time the ship was reached.
In front was a level parade ground, and to one side the grounds sloped down to the edge of a small bay, while at the other they were flanked by a heavy wood.
A heavy step was heard behind them, and all turned round, to see the captain.
Barry was listening intently to a dull, heavy tramping sound, which was wafted faintly toward them on the breeze.
On the first floor over the rampart, there are seven heavy pieces, extra thick and strong at the breech.
In three forts which your Majesty has here, there are twenty-four heavy pieces, two small ones, and some culverins, as will be seen below.
This is another of the heavy afflictions that God has sent upon this land, for even the severity which has been shown by him to those who go from here is alone sufficient to make this land desolate.
Decrees for this prohibition, signed by his Majesty and by the Portuguese ministers, were passed and sent to Yndia, where they were published and ordered to be observed under heavy penalties.
Although I have had the pieces recast, using the metal which was left, there are only twenty-five heavy pieces and several lighter ones.
When he reached the number ten, very proud of his learning, she struck him a heavy blow across the face, saying to him "If I ever catch you making another figure anywhere I'll cut off your right arm.
Den he pull em up so dey toes jus touch de ground an smack em on da back an rump wid a heavy wooden paddle, fixed full o' holes.
These allowances were no doubt the return of a part or the whole of the very heavy duty then levied on salt.
Sums were borrowed at common interest and others as annuities, and heavy rates were levied.
Bells were in those days of universal ringing a source of very great expense, year after year heavy items being charged for ropes, ball-ribbs, clappers, or recasting the bells themselves.
Many years ago the twelve parish churches in Jersey each possessed a beautiful and valuable peal of bells; but during a long civil war, the states determined on selling these bells to defray the heavy expenses of their army.
No such heavy expenses were incurred in this parish as in St. Nicholas's for perambulation purposes or other feasting, and indeed the scale of the disbursements generally betokened St. Peter's to be much the poorer parish of the two.
And with a shudder and sense of pain and pity lying heavy at her heart, she hurried away, feeling doubly guilty in the discovery of this affliction.
Paul leaned and listened as if the first word had turned him to stone, till the paroxysm had passed, and with a heavy sigh my lady sank into a calmer sleep.
As she spoke, the girl glided into the deep recess of a bay window and drew the heavy curtains just as Paul's step sounded at the door.
They should be graded from rich, heavy grades at the bottom to the lighter tones at the gable peaks, preserving, through the intermediate section, a consistent harmony.
Furnish and set where shown in kitchen a heavy 30 gallon galvanized iron boiler with stand complete.
Balcony floors to be covered with heavy canvas and slushed over with metallic paint, to be graded away from wall of house.
There was a heavy dew; and, hot as he was, it made him shiver.
Like a heavy body dropped into water--not to disparage so worthy a gentleman by the comparison--it was in the nature of things that Sir Barnet must spread an ever widening circle about him, until there was no room left.
The messenger was not long in returning, followed by a pair ofheavy boots that came bumping along the passage like boxes.
The post had come in heavy that morning, and Mr Carker the Manager had a good deal to do.
It was in pursuance of a whisper in his ear from Florence, while the old man was absorbed in this pursuit, that Captain Cuttle laid his heavy hand upon his shoulder.
My Uncle is quite beaten down by his misfortune, it lies soheavy on him; and is quite unable to do anything for his own relief.
