He struck match after match and melted pellet after pellet of wax, then absently he took from his pocket a gold seal-ring and made, with its shield, several impressions on the wax.
Wilson stung the pellet to Robbville, which Ty annexed without leaving his office.
Why did not you pinch a flower In a pellet of clay and fling it?
Make haste from your unreal eminence, And measure lengths with me upon that ground Whence this mud-pellet sings and summons you!
Then he flies with this pellet to the place where the nest is going up.
Miss Naylor, who had been rolling a pellet of bread, concealed it hastily.
His reply shot out of his smile like a snipped bread pellet "D'you remember, in Frazer, the tribe that buries the bride up to the waist?
The little pellet of gray hair spoke of feeble old age involved in this wholesale massacre with the vigorous manhood of the island; and here was a story of unsuspecting infancy amusing itself on the eve of destruction with its toys.
He moved the thimble and pellet about, now placing it to all appearance under one, and now under another; "Under which is it now?
A single particle of ice falling from a cloud; a frozen raindrop; a pellet of hail.
As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in the powder runne.
Euripides had chosen the other way; "men pelted him, but got no pellet back"; and it was not magnanimity but arrogance that prompted him to such silence.
Why did you not pinch a flower In a pellet of clay and fling it?
He had been stopped by one single little pellet in the great sinew of the hind leg, which had partly cut it through.
The effects of shot are very strange, and sometimes almost inexplicable: as when a hare which has received a pellet through the edge of the heart runs a quarter of a mile before dropping.
Not till the excitement had subsided did the under keeper find that he had been hit; one pellet had scored his cheek under the eye, and left a groove still visible.
Hans slipped the pellet into his pocket and re-entered the hut, where he found his brothers in loud dispute about the sparkling golden water.
He went in and found the huntsman who had given him the pellet which turned into the crystal ball.
Keep this pellet carefully, and when you seek the sparkling golden water, as I know you will, don't forget to bring it with you.
One old gentleman had a shot through his nose; and an old fellow with a hat on, over the window, had received a pellet in the right eye!
A stray pellet might easily blind a man or a horse.
Then you cool it again, moulding and pressing it back to a little pellet upon the glass of the lampshade.
The medium at once told the Chief which pellet contained his mother's name, then read it, and in a few moments told where she died and where she was buried.
Mind-reading will have to be rejected as an explanation, because the Doctor subsequently read a name that was on a pellet that I had not opened, and knew nothing about until I subsequently read it.
I picked up the pellet from the desk where I had put it with a number of others, and handed it to Mayor Ellert, who, without examining it, deposited it in his vest-pocket.
With the first pellet which it detaches, it lays the foundation of a round tower, as an outwork, immediately over the mouth of its nest.
Every pellet which it afterwards carries off from the interior is added to the wall of this outer round tower, which advances in height as the hole in the sand increases in depth.
When this wasp has detached a few grains of the moistened sand, it kneads them together into a pellet about the size of one of the seeds of a gooseberry.
Each ant, then, carried between its teeth the pellet of earth it had formed by scraping with the end of its mandibles the bottom of its abode, a circumstance which I have frequently witnessed in open day.
Illustration] The pellet bow, the subject of the illustration below, is an instrument with which many tribes make excellent practice with small pellets of hardened clay.
The pellet is then worked into the tube with the tongue, and is propelled by a violent effort of the lungs.
He first tried the tube by blowing a pellet through it, and, if he felt he could blow through a longer tube, he added another piece of tin at the proximal end.
The pellet is placed in the mouth, into which the butt of the tube is also introduced.
The Member of the Haouse was just saying that this bill hit his constitooents in their most vital--when a pellet hit him in the feature of his countenance most exposed to aggressions and least tolerant of liberties.
I did n't say all that; if I had said it, it would have brought a pellet from the popgun, I feel quite certain.
Wetness ran down my spine and a drop of sweat dropped from my armpit and hit my body a few inches above my belt like a pellet of icy hail.
There were finger-marks upon his neck showing that he had been seized, and the poisoned pellet pushed forcibly down his throat.
Then again, look at the neck, there are the marks of long, slender fingers, showing that someone must have grasped the man by the neck, and forced the pellet into his mouth.
By all the Gods--and that remnant of pellet in the dead man's mouth!
If the bottom be at all muddy, then the plummet should be as light as possible, or into the ooze it will sink, and when this is known to be the case, the depth may be obtained by the aid of a small pellet of bread and bran.
Should it drop off the hook before the depth is obtained, the pellet should be made a little stiffer.
I have seen an angler fishing under these conditions for chub with cheese paste miss five fish out of six, the damson-like pellet being pulled clean out of the mouth of the chub, without the slightest chance of hooking the fish.
On the other hand, never use a too small hook for too large a pellet of paste, with the hook embedded in the centre, instead of the point just protruding.
After prodding about, first in the plaster, then in a wooden lath at the back, the detective gave vent to a second sigh as a leaden pellet dropped into his hand.
Drew dropped a pellet of lead into the trembling hand of the old-time detective.
When the pellet is prepared, it should be laid over the mouth of the gun in such a quantity as to require squeezing and plugging in.
