Upon his release Captain Mitten found that the life preservers had been stolen from his boat, and the flattened bullet removed from his bunk.
When the "Edison" was about 200 feet away the sheriff commenced shooting--but let Captain Jack Mitten tell his own story.
Mitten was denied a chance to communicate with his Everett friends in order to get bail.
The arrest of Captain Mitten and acting engineer Oscar Lindstrom made twenty-one prisoners in all, and these were jailed without any charge being placed against them.
Peck and Mitten were set at liberty with the rest as a result of this show of solidarity.
Regarding the launch "Wanderer" the sheriff was asked: "Did you strike Captain Mitten over the head with the butt of your gun?
Scotty Fife, the Port Captain of the American Tugboat Company, told Captain Mitten that he had straightened up the things on the "Wanderer!
As to the holding of Mitten in jail for a number of days on a charge of resisting an officer, and his final release, McRae was asked: "Why didn't you try him on that charge?
The mitten form has its thumb just right, on one side.
The tree which shows the greatest difference in the form of its leaves is the sassafras, whose oval leaves grow on the same stem with mittens and double mittens--a mitten pattern with a thumb on each side.
After that the other mitten went, the cravat followed, and the axe went next.
He was soon up with the man again; then a mitten was thrown down for his inspection.
Miss Mitten had two very quiet and subdued little pupils that morning.
I hope you will do your best to give her no trouble you can possibly avoid," and with these words Miss Mitten took her leave.
The Choral, "Mitten wir im Leben sind," is finished, and is certainly one of the best sacred pieces that I have yet composed.
Her trunk is down at the Grand Trunk depot with the rest of her clothes in it, together with the mate to the mitten she had when she killed herself.
The only fresh clues he had discovered thus far were the marks on finger and thumb, the fact that the girl was a Canadian, and that she had possessed but one mitten instead of two.
It was more reasonable to believe that she had mislaid it among her belongings; inasmuch as those belongings, according to Paul's logic, were doubtless contained in her trunk, that was probably where the missingmitten would be found.
See here, do you think I'm trying to hold out a yarn mitten on you?
He shook hands ceremoniously, yelled at his panting dogs, and went swiftly on his way, waving a mitten on high as he vanished around the next bend.
He scooped a mitten full of snow and raised it to his lips, then spat it out, still dry.
But the point was that the swine Underhill had handed her the mitten just because she was broke, and that was what Ronny thought so bally rotten.
Underhill can't dash about all over the place giving the girl he's engaged to the mitten because she's broke, and expect no notice to be taken of it.
Over the rabbit pelts I wore my regular woollen socks, duffel neaps, and caribou-skin mitten moccasins.
He picked up the moccasins and mitten again on the point of his stick, scanned the bank sharply to make sure his quarry had not gone that way, and led the procession once more down along the rocky shore of the stream.
As they passed the magenta mitten Black Dan picked it up and examined it ostentatiously.
He had removed the mitten from his right hand, which grasped his revolver.
The rope jerked him forward, and Ross scrambled awkwardly until one of his captors hooked a fur mitten in his belt and heaved him to his feet once more.
Ross looked down at his left hand, encased in a mitten of bandage under which he very gingerly tried to stretch a finger.
The mitten pawed again until it touched Kelgarries' arm; then it flexed a little as if the hand under it was trying to grip.
It was years before I heard the last of that mitten; when I failed at anything they said, "John had his mitten on, I guess.
It is true I had my mitten on, but there was a mitten, or something, on my wits also.
I returned home full of excitement at what I had seen, and gave as the excuse why I did not shoot, that I had my mitten on, and could not reach the trigger of my gun.
Then he tried it on other relatives, and step by step advanced till he could make almost any man in America cough up pieces of this upholstered mitten which he wears in public.
Then the other man spits out his loose teeth and hits his antagonist on the nose, or feeds him with the thumb of his upholstered mitten for some time.
He did not put themitten on, but, instead, struck the fingers a dozen sharp smashes against his leg.
But the man knew, having achieved a judgment on the subject, and he removed the mitten from his right hand and helped tear out the ice- particles.
He pulled the mitten on the right hand, and beat it fiercely against his knee.
He stripped the mitten from his right hand and fetched forth the birch-bark.
He pulled on the mitten hastily, and beat the hand savagely across his chest.
This mitten," he began enlarging on the idea, "this mitten is from Siberia.
And now here was a mitten belonging to no one he knew.
This mitten is made open, and when finished is sewn up.
When the thumb is long enough, cut off the silk and fasten it on at the bottom; increase 4 stitches, (2 on each side) and net round until the hand part of the mitten is long enough.
The mitten must be netted on a foundation of 48 or 50 stitches.
This mitten may be made of one, two, or three colours.
Fasten on the silk at the bottom of the thumb, add 1 stitch on each side, and net the alternate rounds of the pattern until the mitten is long enough to be finished like the thumb.
Cut off the silk, and fasten it on at one side of the thumb, make 2 stitches on each side and continue to net until the mitten is long enough.
Increase over the last added stitches 3 times, and net several rounds until the mitten is long enough for the thumb stitches to be joined together.
Tommy Barker had one mitten with a white thumb, which his blind grandmother had knitted on in place of a torn thumb, and little Seba Sage had but one mitten; but that one was very dark red, not the vivid scarlet of the ravelling.
Berta had not heard about the ravelled mitten; she did not know that Tilly was trying to knit it into shape again so it would never be known that it was her mitten that was ravelled.
It is an excellent plan to "run" the tip of a mitten on the wrong side, as you do the heel of a stocking, since it makes it wear longer, especially if intended for rough usage.
Bessie Fairfax was on speaking terms with nearly everybody, and Miss Mitten called her the moment she appeared to help in setting a ring for "drop hankercher.
Fanny Mitten has married a clerk in the Hampton Bank, and Miss Ely is married; but she was married in London.
I stooped, put an arm around Scotch and told him that I had lost a mitten and that I wanted him to go down for it to save me the trouble.
He had misunderstood me and had gone back to guard the mitten instead of to get it.
There, in a world of white, Scotch lay by themitten in the snow.
Without food or companionship, in a region cold, cheerless, and oppressive, he was watching the mitten because he had understood that I had told him to watch it.
In a region cold, cheerless, oppressive, without food, and perhaps to die, he lay down by the mitten because he understood that I had told him to.
There in the snowy world of white he lay by the mitten in the snow.
He had misunderstood me, and had gone back to guard the mitten instead of to get it.
Subconsciously she drew off her heavy mitten and looked at the hand that had lain in his.
With a swift movement she slipped her hand from the mitten and once more placed it within his, and this time there was nothing unconscious in the pressure of Brent's clasp.
And, as she had done upon the river, she drew her hand from her mitten and passed it slowly across her cheek.
MacFarlane staggered a few steps forward and fell, then, on hands and knees he crawled back, groping and pawing the snow for his mitten and rifle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mitten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
