Perley saw the gates firmly barred with hurdles and barbed wire, and all tied up with rope, when he and his wife left the Lodge late last night.
They themselves did not seem to be doing anything, although a large coil of barbed wire and a number of hurdles lay near them.
Forty dollars' worth of Miss Hewitt's well-made hurdles will make you a very useful paddock and save scores of dollars in veterinary bills.
The name of pluteus was given generally to all kinds of covering with hurdles or with skins.
They make a great number of stakes hardened by fire, and pila employed in sieges; they establish with planks the floors of the towers, and by means of hurdles make parapets and battlements.
The vineae were small huts constructed of light timber work covered with hurdles and hides of animals.
Against this was placed a fence of hurdleswith battlements (loricam pinnasque); strong forked branches were placed horizontally at the junction of the hurdle-fence and the rampart, so as to render them more difficult to scale.
But at last the hurdles and stones at the sea end of the weir were completely left by the tide, so that we could walk down, and then, as the water shallowed more and more in the triangular inclosure, we looked out eagerly for fish.
It was sentenced to be dragged on hurdles and then burnt.
In any case he will be happy about it, and his happiness will be the best possible stimulant in aiding him to clear hurdles or to seek new paths to pleasant places.
Round the kraal in which my hut was situated when I lived among the Umzimvubu was a fence, made somewhat in the manner in which hurdles are built in England.
Now those that were at work covered themselves with hurdles spread over their banks, and their engines were opposed to them when they made their excursions.
However, the Jews cast great stones from the walls upon the hurdleswhich protected the men, with all sorts of darts also; and the noise of what could not reach them was yet so terrible, that it was some impediment to the workmen.
You must see the hurdles the warden taught her to jump over.
They were pretty high hurdles and absolutely beyond a Shetland-Arabian pony.
Beyond these was a row of hurdles with an open gate, and then a number of obstacles, while a railed pen occupied a corner of the field.
Then the dog seemed to understand what was required, and circling round the flock with swift, graceful leaps, drove them along the hurdles and round the other end.
Handy Man, Milkmaid, and Bandmaster were running in the order named as the first of the two hurdles was reached.
It was a formidable mile to the winning post, a stiff fence, then the water jump, bigger than the first, and two hurdles brushed in the straight, the last being close to the winning post.
The "fossels" means the fold-shores, or the stakes to which the hurdles are shored up, and fastened with a loose twig wreath at the top.
A hole in thehurdles to enable the lambs to get out of the fold.
John Selwood and Richard Hickes tenants unto Sir Giles Mompesson for his farm at Deptford and his Rowless-thing called Hurdles at Wiley.
Flake' hurdles are used to divide a field, or for cattle, the ordinary sheep hurdles being too weak for the purpose.
The ring of twisted hazel by whichhurdles are fastened to their stakes or shores.
A 'draught' is not a rod, but a bundle of long wood suitable for hurdles or pea-sticks, bound with a single withe.
Another of the Arabian steeds carried the hurdles off victorious with his hind feet, but did not fall.
Then came the hurdle-race, with the hurdles woven from cedar and scantling.
Brooklyn men upsetting the hurdles behind him, and Vom Baur took the second heat in 16-2/5.
Clare of Worcester ought to get the high hurdlesaway from Hine, who is Andover's best man over the sticks; but Hine will undoubtedly take first in the low hurdles.
Syme won the final of the low hurdles easily, after coming in behind Harris in his heat, and Brooklyn was closed out of any points in the event by Harris and Pell.
The first of the manyhurdles in the steeple-chase planned for them was the Ogons Wood, whose machine-guns had shattered the attacks of the 79th on September 29th; but this was ancient history in a battle whose processes were so swift.
The race-horse proclivities of the 2nd, having been developed on no level speedway but over all the hurdles of modern defense against all arms of fire, were accentuated by the rivalry of the Regular and Marine brigades.
Thousands of wattled hurdles were purchased in Hampshire, and laid flat on the mud along the main routes to the tents and sheds, but they were quickly trodden in out of sight.
Among the traditions of Yabberton it is related that the farmers, being anxious to prolong the summer, erected hurdles to wall in the cuckoo, and that they manured the church tower, expecting it to sprout into an imposing steeple!
You don’t have much chance to think about home when you’re leaping hurdles or trying to bust your own record for the hundred yards.
Again and again his white-clad form rose and fell down the line of hurdles until the last one was surmounted and he had crossed the finish running like a deer, swiftly and lightly.
Don had fivehurdles set up out here, and I told him I’d beat him over if he’d give me a start.
Monday you’d better go back to the low hurdles again and try taking about three of them.
Wayne and Don and Dave saw most of the contest from where the former was putting Perkins over the high hurdles in a fraction over record time.
Both you fellows must try and get over the hurdles lower.
They’re fixing the low hurdles over there; hope Don will win.
Hurdle racing on skates is a difficult accomplishment, even when low hurdles are used, and success depends not alone on speed.
Other trial heats followed until the contestants for the sprints and the hurdles were sifted down to a few for each event.
Don had won the high hurdles in magnificent style from a Polytechnic youth by a short yard, a St. Eustace hurdler securing third place.
Bawcombe then plucked an armful of bracken and threw it over his body to cover it, and going back to the hurdles sent the boy home, then spreading his cloak at the hedge-side, laid himself down on it and covered his head.
He had been screened from the sight of the birds by a couple of hurdles and some straw, and there were feathers of the birds he had shot scattered about.
Whenever the hurdles were shifted to a fresh place and the sheep had to be kept in a corner of the enclosure until the new place was ready for them, it was old Watch's duty to keep them from breaking away.
I'd like you to get a couple of padded hurdles and put them up for a shelter for her.
Then, when they had all passed, we were conducted through some more short cuts to another set of hurdles covered with green boughs, and these were a little higher.
The Open Steeplechase I had ridden over hurdles up the country once or twice, By the side of Snowy River with a horse they called 'The Ace'.
Ann Hicks said the hurdles were put up because it was so disagreeable to have people looking in at her window.
The hurdles were continually advancing and encroaching on the Park.
Croquet hoops on the grass near these hurdles seem to have a great attraction for them.
I was very much amused once to watch him on some iron hurdlesat the end of the garden.
It did not look an easy jump and the grass was slippery and soft, but the chestnut accomplished it cleverly and the bay flew at the hurdles with every sign of confidence.
He dropped another length behind as they crossed the next field and labored over the sticky plowing; then there was a low fence and ditch, a narrow meadow, and then the hurdles Nasmyth had mentioned, filling a gap in a tall thorn hedge.
The Flesh they lay upon Hurdles in the Sun to dry, and when it is thoroughly dried, it is sewed up in a Basket, and set at the Feet of the Corpse, to which it belongs.
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