We didn't even mind the fact that some of the oak's outer branches were pine, some were spruce, some were cedar.
There is a right way to fold the ends of this outer wrapper, and a wrong way.
If you use the thumb and finger you squeeze the tiny bulb at the outer end of the sting, and inject the poison into your blood.
When down, the frame rests on swinging legs made of inch iron pipe and attached to the frame at the outer corners.
The quills let go of their original owner very easily, but being barbed on their outer end they bury themselves in the soft parts of the attacking animal.
Take off theouter husks and draw the rest back, exposing the entire ear.
The sea-wall you build, and what main floodgates you establish in it, will depend on the state of the outer sea.
Sauntering one day in his outer courts, he notices a certain female beggar; necessitous female of loose life, who tremulously solicits charity of him.
They put on their outer garments and left the cabin.
He never touched the root, but over-shot the mark and disappeared with a loud scream of amazement and alarm into the outer world.
And all the while he listened for a sound from the outer world which must soon come.
An outer circle is composed of the young men and maidens, who, singing Easter hymns, march round and round the fire in the direction of the sun, till the blaze dies down.
Among the Upper Lillooets the hut in which the girl lodged was made of bushy fir-trees set up like a conical tent, the inner branches being lopped off, while the outer branches were closely interwoven and padded to form a roof.
When the brand has thus served to bless the fire on the domestic hearth, it is extinguished, and the remainder is preserved, partly in a cranny of the outer wall of the house, partly on a tree to which it is tied.
In South Uist and Eriskay, two of the outer Hebrides, a salt cake called Bonnach Salainn is eaten at Hallowe'en to induce dreams that will reveal the future.
As soon as she could do so Lucetta left him, nodded and smiled to Elizabeth-Jane, and joined her husband at the other end of the enclosure, where she could be seen leading him away by the outer gates, so as to avoid passing Henchard again.
The daughter carried in her outer hand a withy basket of old-fashioned make; the mother a blue bundle, which contrasted oddly with her black stuff gown.
There is an outer chamber of the brain in which thoughts unowned, unsolicited, and of noxious kind, are sometimes allowed to wander for a moment prior to being sent off whence they came.
It was with a gentle delicacy of manner, surprising to Elizabeth, that he showed her out of the office and through the outer room, where Donald Farfrae was overhauling bins and samples with the inquiring inspection of a beginner in charge.
But all this was concealed by the thick, muffling, outer veil; they also had horsehair visards through which they could see without being seen.
Once being anxious to see the outer aspect of things he crept up the towering city wall where there were many foreign soldiers; but one gave him a cuff over the ear and told him to get down.
He had gone at his fast jog-trot not in through the city gate as they had all supposed (for that was only a feint), but round the city along those desolate outer stretches which recall the sandy deserts of High Asia.
A low broken gateway at last announced the end of the outer city and the spot where he would pass into the open country.
One day something prompted him to give them the slip, and very calmly he marched down the outer street of the suburb which led to his father's hut watching narrowly to see how his return was taken.
He had indeed forgotten all about the outer city gate.
They had descended on the outer city in their thousands and were setting fire to the shops after they had looted to their fill.
He was down the fifty feet in less than thirty seconds--standing on the sand of the outer city.
As he threw his light about the interior, he heard a chuckle in the outer chamber where he had left Pierre.
During all this conversation the voice of the half-breed had been frequently heard, alternately cursing and coaxing the lads to enter the outer chamber where he could talk with them.
After a moment's inspection of the fellow, he stepped into the outer cavern.
Mechanically I obeyed, leaped into the outer office, and had scarcely done so, than there occurred a loud explosion.
In this we are able to distinguish rather smaller outer layer cells (o.
The thorax wall is muscular and bony, and resists the atmospheric pressure on its outer side, so that the lungs before this is cut through are kept distended to the size of the thoracic cavity by the pressure of the air within them.
The outer edge of the upper jaw and the cheek arch are made up of three paired bones.
Blood, it may be mentioned, first appears in the area vasculosa, the outer portion of the area opaca.
The epidermis is continued over the outer face of this as a thin, transparent epithelium.
They were fortunately all wearing good stout boots, and their outer clothing, in that charming climate, was of minor importance.
Jenny, in the mean time, opened the outer door, and then the smell of burning wood was plainly perceptible.
The thin varnish of outer culture, which constituted the whole so-called refinement of this privileged class, began to give way under the influence of streams of wine which were incessantly poured over it.
Grisby came into the room from the outer shadows of the hall.
The sycophant of the outer world seldom even awaited his first word before bursting into premature mirth.
O'Hara and Quarrier with Marion Page and Mrs. Mortimer were immersed in the game, already stony faced and oblivious to outer sounds.
With us, the social system, as an established and finished system, has too recently been evolved from outer chaos to be characteristic of anything except the crudity and energy of the chaos from which it emerged.
They require the spectacle of fasting and prayer--a view of a candidate seated in sackcloth and ashes in outer darkness.
We have a large circle of friends--an inner and an outer circle--but I am always glad to add to the number.
The leaves are very small and very numerous; and, by a curious freak of Nature, all the spines seem gathered together on the calyx, or outer covering of the flower-buds.
Some operators cut the tongue on the lower or outer side of the stem; but this has a double disadvantage.
The lower animals are first sacrificed in the outer part of the temple, and in the presence of the multitude their blood is drank by the masked Gots.
After the proper ceremonies have been performed, the throat of the animal is cut, in the outer part of the temple, before the multitude, and the blood is carried into the shrine by the priest, or by the prince.
In another minute we were whirring down an incline with a rush and a rattle, through the subterranean passage tunnelled into the solid limestone which runs to the outeredge of the Dürrnberg.
These booths form the outer depositories of the merchandise of the fair, and are generally filled with small and inexpensive articles.
The Rath recommended him to write to the English Embassy in my behalf, and allowed him to send me outer clothing better suited to the interior of a prison than the best clothes I had donned to spend the holiday in.
There was a charcutier living close to the outer walks, and when nothing else could be had, we purchased some of his curiously prepared delicacies, and smuggled them in under various guises.
The outer staircase and courtyard were filled by an anxious crowd.
These surcoats were lined with fur, a band of which, wide or narrow as the case might be, bordered the outer material.
There he passed slowly along in front of the shop, and before the apprentices returned to close the outer shutters he said to Christophe in a low voice:-- "I am Chaudieu.
At that instant some one rapped cautiously on Tourillon's outer door, and the glover went downstairs to open it himself.
Humble as Lecamus seemed to the outer world, he was despotic in his own home; there he was an autocrat.
Preparations were also made for blocking up the lower windows of the house so that, in case of the enemy succeeding in carrying the outer wall, a stout resistance could be made within.
Behind, the barricade was as level and smooth as it was difficult upon the outer side.
Harry followed the Pretender into the outer room, shambling awkwardly.
Ten minutes sufficed for their donning their thickest outer garments and soothing the agitation into which the announcement of their journey threw Mrs. Pouncey.
It was in the late afternoon when we rode into Glastonbury town, past the palisadings of the outer works, and then among cottages, and here and there a timber house of the better sort, till we came to the great abbey.
Then I ran boldly round the outerpalisade and came to the great gate.
Let the one be the outer and the other the inner court.
Even then he has only reached the nearest fixed star, and, of course, has only just entered upon the outer limit of creation.
Looking forth from the threshold by which he lay, he saw pale moonlight and mist making a white haze together on the outer air.
One night Fair Brother was lying asleep, and his head was filled with dreams of the outer world into which he longed to go.
