Wait a bit," said Sindri, and with that he threw a lump of gold upon the fire and went out, charging his brother not to stop blowing for an instant.
Presently Sinfiotli called to Sigmund and said: "I at anyrate shall not starve for awhile, for the queen has thrown in a lump of swine's flesh wrapped in straw.
Sometimes the whole party goes in a lump to a common destination, more frequently the joyous freight is delivered, as the journey progresses, in this valley or that village, where wagons are waiting to receive it and carry it home.
Now he's in the game, and he looks like the rest of the Lannings--a good lump of daring and defiance.
But as the rebelliouslump was fashioned again by the deft hand of the master, so might this refractory people be broken and built up anew by the Divine master hand.
She would have laughed if there had not been a great lumpin her throat.
And he knew she swallowed over a great lumpin her throat.
Abraham, handing me a lump of marine soap as he spoke.
Their washbasin is, no doubt, the ocean over the side, and I suspect a little lump of grease, used at long intervals, serves them for the soap they need.
She tore the lump in pieces, and laid it before them.
Though terribly wounded herself, she crawled to the place where they lay, carrying a lump of flesh with her.
Coronel," said Captain Jeronimo, "for many a long year now I have clung to my position on this lump of earth and watched the waves wash over it.
How many men have fought and bled for this tiny flooded lump of clay!
Take five gallons of boiling water and pour it on five pounds of lump sugar, five lemons sliced and without their pips, five ounces of bruised ginger, and five ounces of cream of tartar.
Then strain it through a jelly-bag, and to every pint of liquid add half a pound of lump sugar.
Grate a little nutmeg and a little ground ginger very finely into a jug, pour the claret in, and add a lump of sugar which has been well rubbed on the rind of a lemon.
Put the barley into a quart jug with one lumpof sugar.
Of course, when the experiment was concluded, they never failed to find a lump of gold at the bottom.
The alchymists watched this precious mess with intense interest, expecting that it would agglomerate into one lump of pure gold.
She picked up a hard lump of snow and sent it crashing through the rear ice-window!
I know that will turn black and blue," said Lucy, pointing to the lump on Agnes' forehead.
No one can make such buns as mammy," said Olive, old as she was breaking hers in half, to find the lump of sugar soaked with lemon juice that she knew was inside.
It was like a small lump of lead right down at the end of his throat.
In another was a lead pencil; the fifth was a cake of sweet chocolate, and the sixth package was a little lump of modeling wax.
He kicked a lump of ice off into space; the staff officer glanced at him and looked away hurriedly.
It cannot be to their advantage to be so long on the way, as they are paid a lump sum to get us to Baghdad, and we are not feeding them.
Hostess (holding up the property lump of sugar in the tongs).
Tea is the most usual meal on the stage, for the reason that it is the least expensive, the property lump of sugar being dusted and used again on the next night.
Hostess replaces lump and inclines empty teapot over tray for a moment; then hands him a cup painted brown inside--thus deceiving the gentleman with the telescope in the upper circle.
Ray took a wallet from the pocket of the coat that was hanging beside him, and drew from it a little lump wrapped in worn tissue paper.
He saw with astonishment, as he put another lump of sugar into his cup, that this letter bore a New York postmark.
One of the early African travelers, Mungo Park, tells us that the children of central Africa will suck a piece of rock salt with the same avidity and seeming satisfaction as the ordinary civilized child will a lump of sugar.
The shells in a lump of chalk are held much more loosely than those in a lump of limestone.
The crystallization of water when it freezes, as we shall see hereafter, arranges its molecules in such a form as to make a lump of ice of given dimensions lighter than the same dimensions of water would be.
Let us go back a moment to our experiment with the lump of clay.
If we should examine a piece of ordinary bituminous coal we should find that there are lines of cleavage in it parallel to each other, and that it is an easy matter to separate the lump on these lines.
A island's a island the world over--a lump o' land what's floated out to sea.
For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
