The English designs with a large centre ornament and corner-pieces are rich and impressive, and we may fairly give Day and his fellows the palm for originality and effectiveness among Elizabethan binders.
Her lips were slightly apart and one arm was stretched out, palm up, with fingers almost closed upon something that she had found at last and must never let go.
Long ago the grimness had gone out of everybody's laughter at the tricks he played with it,--presenting it with the palm the wrong way, making it squeak suddenly and wagging it about from the wrist as a greeting to his friends.
What a joke to palm off the daughter of a Queen's Road jeweler on the early-Victorian mother of the worthy George!
He felt the metal door-knob burn the palm of his hand.
Upon the outskirts of the town now, he found himself approaching a large building in the European style, with wide verandas and a cultivated garden filled with palm trees.
On the practical side, that voyager will achieve success who plans his route in Spain so as to evade the Fonda del Norte at Burgos, which is the stronghold of dirt, and the Hotel de Paris at Madrid, which takes the palm for extortion.
Thus, bearing our victorious palm leaves, we moved forward to meet the palms themselves.
It was as if, before she turned to him, he had weighed the whole thing in his open palm and even heard a little the chink of the metal.
The treacherous cracked thing you wanted to palm off on me, and the little swindling Jew who understood Italian and who backed you up!
The broad trunk of the coconut palm tree behind which he lurked protected him from being seen by anyone on the hotel's wide, sweeping porch.
Only the soft rustling of palm fronds came to his ears.
As they walked toward it to find Mrs. Brewster and the twins, the swarthy man with the camera who had been at the airport earlier, stepped from behind a palm tree and watched them go.
Line up on that tall palm tree, couple hundred feet down.
The blood began welling up, running into my palm and along the fingers to the floor.
I took her little hand, all warm and moist from the bullet-moulding, and I kissed the palm and the delicate, rounded wrist.
The pitiful voice in the sunshine touched me; I opened the window and tossed a shilling to the child, then hid behind the curtains while she kissed herpalm at my window.
As I halted, he dropped the rifle into the hollow of his left arm and raised his right hand, palm towards me.
I picked up a lump of chalk, balancing it in my palm as boys do a pebble in a sling.
At my expression of horrified surprise Sir William hesitated, then struck his fist into the open palm of his left hand.
There goes a critical opinion that, though common fame would have Austerlitz to be the greatest battle of the Napoleonic wars, the palm ought really to be given to Friedland.
To Hugo we concede the palm among all writers, ancient and modern, as a delineator of battle.
He would treat his patrons decently, and not palm off upon them a lot of old legends.
The Tonhalle is a spacious building finely decorated with rare plants and flowers, and brilliantly lighted with gas jets springing from artificial palm trees.
The names they palm off as American are very funny to an American, because they are never heard of over there.
He thrust out his hand and caught the stranger's palmin his.
At the same time take hold of the left hand with your right hand, applying the inside part of your thumb to the middle of the palm of the hand.
You never picked up the Duchess, and you're trying to palm this tale off on to me to save yourselves.
Following this path I discovered a boat-house thatched over with palm leaves.
The whole edifice was about thirty feet long by fifteen deep and divided into two portions, one for sleeping and one for living, by a palm leaf partition.
The framework of poles let into palm trunks, since they could not be driven into the rock, had been put together on the further shore and towed over bodily by canoes.
The first thing I saw was the palm roof of our house upon the rock.
Just then a poor woman arrived with a baby in convulsions to whose necessities he was obliged to sacrifice his supper, after which came a man who had fallen from a palm tree and broken his leg.
Over the volcano and the lake, over the island with its palm trees, over the seas beyond, this calm brooded.
The overhanging rock formed one side of the house; the ends were of palm leaves tied to the poles, and the roof was of the same material.
You are safe," she began, glancing first at the palm ropes that lay upon the rock and then at my wrists, one of which was cut.
Before we had been many days on that island he had built us a kind of native hut or house roofed with palm leaves in which, until provided with a better, as happened afterwards, we ate and he and Bickley slept, leaving the tent to me.
I knew it was our house, for just above me was a palm leaf of which I had myself tied the stalk to the framework with a bit of coloured ribbon that I had chanced to find in my pocket.
Moreover, he wove a net of palm fibre with which he caught abundance of fish, and made fishing-lines of the same material (fortunately we had some hooks) which he baited with freshwater mussels and the insides of fish.
Spend an hour or so in the Palm House at Kew Gardens, and you will get a faint idea of what it is like.
The baskets are made from the stalks of the palm leaf, and the finished article sells for a sum--reckoned in salt or cowries--approximating to about one farthing.
Inquiry revealed the fact that they were palm nuts, out of which they were manufacturing artificial pearls to make up into waist-belts.
Ensigned with a princely coronet, and within two palm branches.
Ensigned with the Royal Crown, and between twopalm branches.
On most of these bindings the King's initials within a palm spray appear, and sometimes the edges of the leaves of the books have designs painted upon them, only showing when the book is open.
WR (William Rex) within palm sprays and ensigned with a Royal Crown.
Ensigned with a Royal Crown of foreign design, and enclosed between two palm branches.
It was little wonder that the Babylonian regarded the palmas the best gift that Nature had bestowed upon him.
In fact fuel was scarce in the country; few trees were grown in it except the palm, and the fruit of the palm was too valuable to allow it to be cut down.
The palm stems, in time, became pillars, and Babylonia was thus the birthplace of columnar architecture.
In its palm there lay a little phial containing a colorless solution.
Chayne caught them in his and was aware that in one shut palm she held something which she concealed.
But Chayne had checked her as surely as though he had laid the palm of his hand upon her lips.
He bore a palm and a sword; with the palm he touched the Spirit, and it was transfigured; its white wings spread without a sound.
In one hand he held a green palm branch, in the other a sword of flame: the palmto bestow on the pardoned soul, the sword to drive back all the hosts of Hell with one sweep.
What is this alternative proposed to man by all His creeds, between stewing in an eternal caldron and wandering in a white robe with a palm in his hand and a halo to crown him?
For your sake I now covet every palm of glory, every triumph of success.
After having arisen, he generally placed his hands behind him, the back of his left hand in the palm of his right, the thumb and fingers of his right hand clasped around the left arm at the wrist.
His hat was an ingenious plaited arrangement of manacca palm leaves.
She appears to be reading, by the light of a taper, from the open book held before her by an angel, while another is bringing her the palm of sanctity.
All eyes were upon her as the bishop, with paternal tenderness, came down from the altar steps to where the young girl knelt and placed the palm in her hand.
I can't tell you how many times this year I have been asked to show the palm of my hand and cross it with silver.
I spread out the palm of my hand and she looked at it a long time with her bright black eyes.
Lianhan Shee" And as she spoke, with the holy water in the palm of her hand, she advanced cautiously, and with great terror, to throw it upon the stranger and the unearthly thing she bore.
There were certain leaks that a fingerprint or a palm print was discovered on the bolt of the rifle.
Is there anything about the palm prints that you can tell us in addition to what you have given us?
