If ever I meet at midnight more a jangling: I am cold, and yet I drop; buy a mat for a bed, buy a mat.
After a short conversation among the members of the party, breakfast was announced, and we entered the tent and took our seats on the ground around the Indian mat which supplied the place of a table.
With a delicacy of feeling scarcely to have been expected under such circumstances, Wau-bee-nee-mah stretched a mat across two poles, between me and this dreadful scene.
Bright-looking little children, quite unencumbered with clothing, were sporting about, and their two mothers were sitting on the ground, engaged in the manufacture of a mat for their lodge.
Shortly the serving woman appeared with their suppers, but neither moved, so she placed the two bowls on the floor mat near where Terry sat and withdrew noiselessly.
With some difficulty he made the boatman understand what he wanted, and take him to a hut, where they spread a mat for him with a rug, and he took a long rest.
He took Denham into the hut where he lived, and found him a mat to lie upon, the most luxurious bed upon which Ralph had stretched himself for many days.
Sunshine, as soon as she had told all she knew, being well fed and made comfortable, fell sound asleep on a matin the verandah, and rested from her fatigues.
Besides this, there was a Mat de Cocagne, with coloured shirts, ribbons, and other trifles fluttering at the top, for whoever chose to climb up and get them.
We here saw an opium-eater, lying stretched out upon a mat on the floor.
A straw mat was placed upon the ground, and covered with large leaves.
Here and there the tawny mat beneath is uplifted by the struggling plant life below it or pierced through by an underthrust of a sprouting seed.
When you done something serious Marster Mat Warren called in the 'whuppers' and they made your back bleed and then rubbed salt into the skin.
Once in awhile the slaves while makin' coffee for Marster Mat out of the wheat would burn a pan purposely and he would give it to them to make coffee with.
They never had no grease to eat only now and then Mat Warren he makes it look like them niggers is well fed and cared for.
Flap-jacks was something special for only Marster Mat Warren and the Missis.
Tear open a pillow and sometimes dere is a mat of feathers.
At such times we sat upon an angarep, while he sat upon a mat stretched upon the ground, with a number of his men, who formed a half-circle around him; he then invariably requested that we would tell him stories about England.
This surface was nearly covered with the usual mat tents, and in a few moments our camels knelt before that of the sheik, at which we dismounted.
My battery of rifles was now laid upon a mat for examination; they were in beautiful condition, and they excited the admiration of the entire party.
No bed is more comfortable for a warm climate than a native angarep with a simplemat covering; it is beautifully elastic, and is always cool, as free ventilation is permitted from below.
I cut away my line, as the hook was deeply swallowed; and after having washed this beautiful fish, I assisted Bacheet to carry it to the camp, where it was laid upon a clean mat at the tent-door for admiration.
The rock mantle and its shield in the matof vegetation.
It is characteristic of erosion and deposition within humid regions that all outlines become softened into flowing curves, due to the protective mat of vegetation.
This bed of peat appears to grow upward toward the surface and become joined to the shore end of the floating bog by decaying vegetation which is dropped from the bottom of the mat above.
This may be largely ascribed to the influence of the mat of vegetation, which protects the rock surface from more rapid mechanical degeneration, and arrests the sliding movements within the already loosened rock débris.
Unprotected by any mat of vegetation the materials of the desert surface are easily lifted and are constantly migrating with the wind.
Next behind the water lilies come the sedges, which form a mat of floating bog by their grasslike stems sinking down in the water and being there interwoven with the rhizomes below.
This mat of sedge is often so firm that cattle may advance upon it to the water’s edge, but it is separated by a layer of water from the bed of growing peat at the bottom of the lake (Fig.
As Mr. Pembroke walked him away, Clara heard Dexter croak: "What is she here for, Mat Pembroke?
All things else remain as they did by my last, so that your Excellence will be saved this week the labour of reading my long letter.
I shall be heartily glad to receive my Lord's order to authorize my return; but my business being now ended, I presume I may expect his pleasure at any other place.
I hope his Highness hath been pleased to give order for two or three ships to be at Hamburg for my transportation into England, and therein I entreat your favour.
And many of our allies have been found to colour our enemies' goods to the damage of England; but these matters will be proper for an examination elsewhere.
I hope you will pardon the importunity of my wife's solicitation, being for my return.
Hath your Majesty commanded any mention in those new articles concerning contraband goods?
For the Saturday before the trial gallop had brought Mat Woodburn a letter from Miller, the station-clerk at Arunvale, which was the station for Dewhurst.
He flew the ruin of men and horses broadcast before him on the grass, bounced twice, as Old Mat said, and cleared the fence in front with a foot to spare.
The only two who seemed not to know what was obvious to all the rest of the world were, of course, the two most concerned--Old Mat and his daughter.
It was when he was nineteen that Mat Woodburn found him out.
There were very few sporting men who remembered the day when Mat had not been a leading figure in the racing world.
Old Mat was fond of saying that the girl's mother could do what she liked with her, and nobody else could do anything at all.
And it was in the pursuit of his desire that he first came across Mat Woodburn.
In build Mat was very short, and very broad; and his legs were so thin that it was no wonder they were somewhat bowed beneath their load.
Along the line of the South Downs to be against Dewhurst was to be in with Putnam's, and the telegraph line between Arunvale and Cuckmere could tell many interesting secrets of the relations between Mat Woodburn and the station-clerk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
