A pair of these birds had built their nest, or rather hatched their young (for there was no nest), in a hole in a decayed ash tree about twenty feet from the ground.
A few years ago a pair of Salmon were seen on a spawning bed in the Wharfe, about forty miles from its mouth.
I believe nearer the source of the river they are earlier, but many fish are seen on the spawning beds in January; and I have even seen a pair so late as March; but this last is of very rare occurrence.
Being in a wood near my own house, I perceived a pair of these birds in one of the trees, and having seen them in the same place several times before, and being desirous of finding the nest, I sat down to watch their motions.
He never found a pair of spawning fish without also finding several waiters on Providence in the shape of small Trout, which were picking up the ova that descended the streams towards them.
But my object in addressing you is to ask whether it is true that the legislature of Tasmania has offered the prize of L500 for the first pair of live Salmon taken there?
Salmo Salar seems to think that one pair of Salmon will not spawn on the same ground, which has been previously occupied by another pair; but he has only to watch the same ridd for a week or two to be convinced he is mistaken.
Shorty carried the sack and the paper across the room and handed them to the weigher, who sat behind a large pair of gold-scales.
We just come down from Upper Camp," one said, as the pair staggered into the room with a fur-wrapped object which they handled with exceeding gentleness.
The ruse of the match was too obviously for the purpose of seeing the sled to be misunderstood, and Smoke noted every pair of eyes focus on the coil of cable and the crowbar.
Shorty surveyed his partner with simulated disapproval, and Smoke, vainly attempting to rub the wrinkles out of the pair of trousers he had just put on, was irritated.
Smoke and Shorty sprang at him like a pair of famished wolves.
By this time Smoke was straining at a pair of shoes.
In fact, your eyes are magnificent--a pairin a million.
There is also a wooden stool, and a pair of shoes beneath it.
Here we separated our pair and put them in another yard for a start in the morning.
What a pair of outcasts they looked, and how they existed on that wild bed of shingle!
He was interested in these, for one pair was his gift to Ada, the fruit of some midnight raid.
The pair were making a strategic movement to the rear, when the two girls who had exchanged shots with Chook at the corner passed them.
As she went up the stairs one shopman winked at the other and came across with a pair of hobnailed boots in his hand.
I'm afraid yer've worn yer last pair of that make," said Jonah.
The shopmen stood about, whispering to one another or changing the position of a pair of boots as they waited for the customers.
He was a German baron, who had forfeited his title and estates through killing a man in a duel; and never a milder pair of eyes looked timidly through spectacles.
That means a hat and a pair of gloves or a pair of boots less through no fault of my own.
Jonah spent a pound on brass rods and glass stands, and sold the lot in a month at sixpence a pair profit.
His face held you with a pair of restless grey eyes, the colour and temper of steel, deep with malicious intelligence.
These had a pair of youngsters who delighted in emerging from the depths of the spring and swimming out across the meadows in the shallow water where there was neither current nor river banks.
The wearer may also have a broad silver bracelet set with turquoise, a heavy string of silver beads with a massive pendant of the same material, and a pair of deerskin leggings with a row of silver buttons on the outer side.
Each parent pair was given a sacred jewel wand with which to bring water from the earth if no springs were found during the journey.
The same pair may remain dancing together throughout the night, or they may cease when either desires.
The hair is painted white and is done up into two long, stiff braids, which project from the sides of the head like a pair of horns.
Each pair was given a walking-stick—one of white shell to one, staffs of turquoise, abalone, and jet respectively to the others.
The elect pair kneel down on a fur mat and exchange rings.
Pair by pairthe crowd diminishes, until toward three or four o'clock, when the place is closed.
Even Solomon did not disdain to hear the rival wranglings of a pair of harlots, and to adjudicate between them.
She embraced the infidel and licentious doctrines of the age in company with her father, and the pair were so fond of each other that the most horrible suspicions began to gain ground.
The pair encouraged every practice that could shock modesty or outrage decency.
She was distinctly not at her ease for the remainder of the meal, and even at tea that afternoon, she kept an eye on the pair of them.
And suppose the pair of you can't manage him--what will you do then?
With them in his hands, he looked down on the pair again.
She eyed the pair of them with a suspicion she could not altogether hide, and Ford was careful to hold an impassive face.
He saw her meet Paul, saw the pair of them glance towards him and then turn their backs and walk down to the farm together.
A pair of bolts were thrust back, crashing in their sockets.
Their minds were rigid like a pair of stiffened corpses set facing one another; they never reached an imaginative hand towards the wonder and pity of the matter.
Its hard eyes rested on the pair of them over the raised revolver that threatened the Kafir.
Why, a couple of guns were as much a part of a man's dress in those days as a pair of shoes.
They worked together at quarter and center like a pair of shears.
When it is a rabbit, the face looks to the right and a pair of ears are conspicuous behind; when it is a duck, the face looks to the left and the ears have been changed into the bill.
Had the rower of the cobble turned in-shore at once, some of this might have been saved; but that would have been one pair of eyes the fewer, and every boat was wanted.
The other was engaged by an empty coal-scuttle with a pair of slippers in it, inexplicably.
A pair of boots, manifestly on a telegraph-boy's cold feet, play a devil's tattoo on the sheltered doorstep.
He began stripping off his wet and bedraggled clothes, thankful, as he remembered the loss of his shoes, that he had an extra pair of those specially-made ones.
He hunted through his duffel bag and found a pair of gloves to cover his hands.
I know a certain man on the Eastern Continent who obtained a pair when he was on that trip to the Terran planets.
After the Hermit has shown Edward some feats of archery, the joyous pair separate.
At the point of their journey at which we take them up, this joyous pair were engaged in singing a virelai, as it was called, in which the clown bore a mellow burden, to the better instructed Knight of the Fetterlock.
This reply was made while Gurth was buckling on the Knight's heels a pairof large gilded spurs, capable of convincing any restive horse that his best safety lay in being conformable to the will of his rider.
The Saracens produced from their baskets a quantity of charcoal, a pair of bellows, and a flask of oil.
They descended the stair with slow and solemn step, traversed a long gallery, and, by a pair of folding doors placed at the end, entered the great hall in which the Grand Master had for the time established his court of justice.
Even the natural obstinacy of Cedric sunk beneath these obstacles, where he, remaining on the point of junction, had the task of dragging a reluctant pair up to it, one with each hand.
Albert handed over the writ and his father put on a pair of spectacles and carefully read it through from beginning to end.
Each strip is raised from the surface by a pair of small wooden bridges, and is tuned by adjusting the interval between these.
One old chief, who had been ailing for a long time, hesitated to enter the Resident's house because he saw a pair of horns hanging up there.
The upper ends of the web are looped over a stout bar which is fixed to a pair of uprights about a yard above the floor.
If his suit makes progress, he may hope that the fair one will draw out with a pair of brass tweezers the hairs of his eyebrows and lashes, while he reclines on his back with his head in her lap.
It is provided with a pair of shoulder straps, and a strap which is passed over the crown of the head.
Its upper end is lashed to the platform, its lower end to a pair of stout poles lashed horizontally to trees, and its middle to another pair of poles similarly fixed.
The cross-piece forms a fulcrum for a pair of long poles joined together with cross-pieces, in such a way that their downstream ends almost meet, while up stream they diverge widely.
The common tube formed by this junction in turn converges with the tube common to the other pair of cylinders, and with it opens by a clay junction into a final common tube of clay, which leads to the base of the fire.
Two men squat upon the platform and each works one pair of the cylinders, grasping a piston-rod in each hand, thrusting them down alternately, and allowing the elastic reaction of the supporting rods above to draw them up again.
I had a pair of old spectacles, which Ginneral Jackson give me, and I knew that the glasses were jest as sound constitushinal glasses as were ever looked thru.
They took all but one pair of stockings, and the best night gown she had.
They pretended to be rale glad to see me, perticularly Stantin; but he needn't try to deceeve me, for under them spectacles of his I see a pair of hyena eyes.
It is then cast into an ingot, and flattened, by rolling between a pair of powerful smooth steel rollers, into a ribbon of 1-1/2 in.
His Majesty a fair pair of perfumed gloves with gold laces.
Primal Man (Adamas, homo perfectus et verus) and Gnosis appear as a pair of aeons, occupying a prominent place in the whole series.
It is one of the few birds that absolutely make no nest, but lays its pair of beautifully-marbled eggs on the ground, generally where the herbage is short, and often actually on the soil.
The head bears a pair of horn-like scutes, and the scutes of the carapace and tail, which are loosely opposed or slightly overlapping, form a number of transverse rows.
It is still the custom in the United Kingdom to present a pair of white gloves to a judge or magistrate who when he takes his seat for criminal business at the appointed time finds no cases for trial.
At the end of the second year she had worn out the second pair of iron shoes and the second iron staff.
At the end of the third year, when she had worn out the third pair of iron shoes and the third staff, she returned to her father's palace looking thin and worn and sad.
At the end of the first year she had worn out the first pair of iron shoes and the first iron staff.
She has a pair of pistols, which she is incessantly firing; she fears nothing in the world, and likes nothing which women in general like; she cares little about her person, and for this reason I think she will make a good nun.
The little circle of light revealed a pair of worn wooden steps leading downward.
Across his blond head, Gale and Virginia exchanged a smiling glance, tears not far from the surface of eitherpair of clear eyes.
HALL HOUSE Fortunate is he who, on opening up the old fireplace in the house he intends to remodel, finds hidden away behind plaster and paper a pair of old andirons and possibly a shovel and tongs, indispensable furnishings for the fireplace.
The upper walls are papered in a gray landscape paper, and the furnishings consist of a pair of Sheraton card tables.
In addition to these are banister and Sheraton chairs, as well as a fine example of girandole, uncommon from the fact that there is a pair exactly alike, and they are seen one on either side of the room.
I should strongly recommend everybody to keep their skates permanently fixed to one pair of boots.
It is also useful to have a knife, and a pair of scissors.
Suddenly the black lashes rolled upward; a pair of large, glorious dark eyes were revealed.
Then she shrunk back hurriedly into the shadow and watched the pair with bright, steel-blue eyes that glittered with the light of hate.
A pair of smoky glasses hid a pair of dark eyes that twinkled with curiosity as he advanced, exclaiming: "Hey-day, good friends!
Then commenced a frantic search that lasted so long that by and by the train that was to have taken the pair to Washington thundered into the station and away again, while he still pursued his unavailing quest.
When they had used some little effort at restoring her to consciousness, she opened on their faces a pair of large, dark, wondering eyes, at whose gaze Chester Franklyn's romantic heart leaped up in a sort of ecstasy.
See, papa has come back to me," she said; and he smiled on the pair of lovers.
A wheezy engine pump, a clock out of gear, a pair of worn-out shoes--he had a remedy for all.
Besides this he got, once a year, a pair of shoes.
He took with him his little all--his father's legacy of L20, a pair of capable hands, and a wonderful brain.
What was wanted was a dozen, fifty, a hundred threads to be made by a single pair of hands.
Mother Kirstine had conjectured that there must be something particular going on between the pairin the kitchen, and that was the reason she had not called Elizabeth.
Elizabeth wore that day a pair of particularly handsome shoes with silver buckles, which Salvé, with glad surprise, recognised as the ones he had presented to her many years before.
She fixed a pair of large, terrified eyes on him, which made the old man continue-- "And it is especially for little girls they look.
A deadly pale young sailor was staring down at him over the ship's side with a pair of eyes that struck him as resembling those he had once seen in the head of a mad dog.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pair" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
