Just a little idea of my own, Bates," said Rusty, coming forward and removing the placard from the back of the chair to a place on the wall.
A placard announced American Bar; American and English Drinks--as bald and unashamed as that.
A placard announced that should the temperature of this inferno make one thirsty, innumerable bocks might be had at sixty-five centimes each.
Jed explained why the placard had been prepared and affixed to the door.
Then, with tacks and a hammer, he proceeded to affix the placard to the inner side of the door, that facing the room where he and Captain Sam were.
He hustled out, stopping to tear from the outer door the placard directing callers to call at Abijah Thompson's.
I returned and informed Pharos, who immediately placed his skinny finger upon the placard before him.
A news-seller was standing in the gutter on the other side of the street, holding in his hand the usual placard setting forth the contents of the papers he had for sale.
He turned aimlessly into Wentworth Street, and studied a placard that hung in a bootmaker's window.
Peter loosened the knife, took the placard down and turned it over, examining it critically.
McGuire paused again, the placard in his hands, reading the line which so clearly announced that fact.
The placard had indicated the possibility of chicanery on the part of McGuire.
He stumbled to the window, the placard still clutched in his hands, and peered at the woods as though seeking to pick out the single tree marked for his exacerbation.
On Friday morning he insisted on having Peter show him the tree where the placard had been discovered, and Peter, having taken lunch with him, led him down to the big sugar maple, off the path to the cabin.
All the while Peter was turning over in his fingers the placard bearing the strange message to "Mike" McGuire from the mysterious "Hawk.
He rolled the placard up and went toward the house.
It may be only a joke, sir--and I hardly know whether I'm even justified in calling it to your attention, but I found this placard nailed to a tree near the path to the Cabin.
The light was almost too dim for reading, but the writing on the placard was very large, and Toby, by standing on one of the bags, was able to make it out.
He pointed to a placard on the wall above the sacks.
As I left the Palais-Royal I came across a placard which openly asserted that the Orléans princes were not Bourbons, but of the house of Valois.
Very likely it was set up by the very same compositors who had printed the placard stating that the Orléans princes were Valois by descent, and not Bourbons.
One placard at a time would strike the eye," said Mr Vavasor, counting the expense up to himself.
One placard will do that, if it's big enough; but it takes four-and-twenty to touch the imagination.
Well, first of all there must be a German placard down on the street- door, and then they must make the rooms known.
Pelle had studied both German and English in the prison, and he made up the placard himself.
This placard was torn down; but, as usually happens, it had already been read by the entire population.
Most elaborate and beautiful costumes might be used, but the simple device of a placard upon each child's breast bearing the name of his part will answer the purpose.
He knew perfectly well that somewhere in the house would be a placard over a bathtub with the legend: Please leave this tub as you would wish to find it.
For a long time this strange placardwas the sole topic of conversation in all public places.
In the midst of the commotion, a second placard was issued to the following effect: "If any one desires to see the brethren of the Rose-cross from curiosity only, he will never communicate with us.
The king was extremely concerned when the placard was shown him, and added double guard at night; but the duke treated the whole with contempt, and prepared to proceed himself with the fleet to relieve La Rochelle.
His challenge was accepted by James Murray of Tullibardine, the baron who was said to have charged Bothwell with the murder, in a placard affixed to the Tolbooth gate.
He was mounted on a miserable hack, his legs being tied to his stirrups, and an insulting placard fixed on his back.
One dug-out showed a placard announcing: “Anzac Villa--To Let for the Season.
Over the door of the other one was a placard on which was printed "Only 25c to see the great Nubian terpsichorean evolutions.
Over one of these doors was a placard on which was painted, "See the 18 months old Soudanese baby dance.
Walking down the principal street, I noticed a large placard fastened to a board hanging on a wall; thought it was a proclamation and stopped to read it.
When you have found him and acquainted yourself with his scent, you will go in the night and placard one of these upon the building he occupies, and another one upon the post-office or in some other prominent place.
Even the "gingerbeer" had gone from the shieling now; but it would not be long before humanity returned once more with placard and paste-pot to appropriate the spot to base uses.
Only the placardon the shieling had been damaged by the winter storms.
A placard was seen upon a tree beside the way, and he called a passing neighbor to read to him these words: "Meshell Coosy.
They threw his purse of ill-gotten louis d'or into the river, and sent him swinging from the edge of a ravine, with a vine about his neck and a placard on his breast.
The placard was read by two men sitting outside a beer-house, who were the men who had stolen the fruit.
In going to London, I first saw, on a placard at the station, that Matthew Arnold was dead.
Another time, when his fruit was stolen, the Herr Major issued a placard offering a reward of a hundred marks to any one who would deliver up the thief.
