No wonder they are restless, so often changing rulers, and until now seldom having kings who cared a farthing for them.
That was years ago, when we were first out of the kindergarten.
We have seen all the most important things in Siena," Katie Grimston explained, "but we had arranged to be here a week, and that gives us two days more.
The lock was either broken or forced from its socket by the concussion, and the lid flew back, thus disclosing to the curious eyes of John Hubbard various articles of valuable jewelry.
Looked at from behind, Blobbs was all shirt-sleeves and waist-coat, the back of his flat head resting like a lid on his shoulders.
He deposited the box, lid downward, upon the soft mattress of a diwan, so that I found myself upon all fours, like a mule with my face between my hands!
The lid closed upon me, ropes bound about the box, and the seal of the Wali affixed to it.
The lid of the chest was raised, and the interior seemed to be empty, but near it upon the table I observed a number of gold-stoppered vessels of Venetian glass and each of which was of a different color.
A thick, oily brown stream of vapor was issuing from its perforatedlid and bathing my face clammily.
U moest dan maar lid worden van de Witte sociëteit, dan konden we Woensdags en Zondags naar de muziek gaan hooren in de Tent--in plaats van zooals nu met allerlei volk er omheen te dwalen!
He pressed the gold ball clutched in the dragon's talons, and the lid flew abruptly open.
An inlaid dragon writhed its way across the top of the lid amid ornate arabesques.
Along the rim of the lidseven skulls were carved among intertwining branches of strange trees.
A small square lid on the top of the lion's head, opening with a hinge, supplies the requisite aperture for filling it with whatever liquor it was designed to hold.
It resembles a unicorn, and has an aperture in the neck, to which obviously a lid had been attached.
The lidwas unfortunately broken in opening the urn.
Only a small part of the lid remained, the greater part of it having been splintered and torn up by the plough.
The lidopens to the right, and she comes out to the left.
But no sooner was he well in, than the young man clapped on the lid and called out, 'Now press hard, just to see if he will be able to get out.
The lid sprang off the coffin with the shock, and the carpenter woke up and looked out.
When he was finished with this, he lifted the roof up on the barn again, like setting a lid on a box, and went in and told the squire that the job was done.
At length, however, the lock gave way, and the lid flew open, when, O horror!
The dragon pressed as hard as he could, but the lid never moved.
The lid rose a trifle higher; the colored lights overhead gave us a brief but clear view of it.
The lid of the black box seemed again about to rise when there came a sharp cry from Meka.
I saw convolutions of inner tissue under the transparent skin of membrane; a little tentacle, like an arm with a flat-webbed hand, was holding up the lid of the box.
All this time, however, her fingers were half unconsciously busy with the knot; and happening to glance at the flower-wreathed face on the lid of the enchanted box, she seemed to perceive it slyly grinning at her.
And so perhaps she might, if the enchanted face on the lid of the box had not looked so bewitchingly persuasive at her, and if she had not seemed to hear, more distinctly than before, the murmur of small voices within.
The entrance into the larynx is guarded by a movable lid of cartilage, called the epiglottis, which prevents food particles and liquids, on being swallowed, from passing into the lower air tubes.
The patient is told to look down, the edge of the lid and the lashes are seized with the forefinger and thumb of the right hand (Fig.
Excellent models can be molded from plaster of Paris as follows: Coat the inside of the lid of a baking powder can with oil or vaseline and fill it even full of a thick mixture of plaster of Paris and water.
Without cry or struggle, Adolph sank forward; and the box locked, as the lid fell under him.
He leaned across and tried the closed lid of the box; it lifted to his hand--and out on the desk dropped the little square of folded paper that had held the lock just out of catch.
