He lost count of time as he struggled toprize it out, and did not stop until he grew distressed from the pressure.
At last he explained what he had found below, and added: "My suggestion is that we bore out an opening for the saw; then we could cut the stanchion through and prize the cross-timbers off.
Such a state of blind reliance and utter leaning, however, has a certain tendency to disintegrate the will, and by so doing it prepares the spirit to be a melting prize of the winner.
I will work and do battle unceasingly, but I will have too the prize of battle to clasp it, savour it richly.
Each told of the gifts that could alone the prize of her love obtain.
Gentle Lily with this Album my warmest wishes take, I know its pages oft thou'lt ope and prize it for my sake, For, though a trifling offering, it bears the magic spell Of coming from the hand of one who loves thee passing well.
The maiden blushed and whispring low, "I prize not wealth or pride, But, brother, to thy future home bring back a gentle bride.
Of this prize Andrew got just a quarter, Bob gathered up one-third, David got two-sevenths, while Charlie and Edgar divided equally what was left of that stock.
Widow Wilson has a smart son, who is reputed to have once won a prize for puzzle-solving.
The following is a prize puzzle propounded by me some years ago.
Three years before this "garden to look out from" won its Carnegie prize it was for the most part a rubbish heap.
A certain garden to which we early awarded a high prize was, and yet remains, among the loveliest in Northampton.
The place to which it belongs took a capital prizein the Carnegie Flower Garden Competition.
Also no garden can take the capital prize twice nor ever take a prize not higher than it has taken before.
A competitor in the district where the capital prize is awarded may take the third prize, but no one may take the third in the district where the second has been awarded.
The second prize cannot be bestowed in the same district in which the first is being awarded, though the third can.
In our Carnegie prize contest nothing yields its judges more pleasure than to inculcate the garden rules of perspective to which we have just referred and to see the blissful complacency of those who successfully carry them out.
I have now in my mind's eye a garden to which was awarded the capital prize of 1903.
Again, no garden may take the same prize two years in succession; it must take a higher one or else wait over.
In Northampton, in our Carnegie prize contest--so called for a very sufficient and pleasant reason--our counsel is to avoid all mimicry in gardening as we would avoid it in speech or in gait.
With no triumphant hope or prize in store, Without a thought to see my home again.
Know'st thou the golden prize which thou didst strive So eagerly to win, which seemed to thee The shining crown of all thy famous deeds?
Take it, then, That prize that thou so stubbornly didst seek, Even Death!
Dover returned to Bristol in October, 1711, with a prize of great value, after sailing round the world.
For a while all was coleur de rose, prize after prizesimply falling into their hands.
Carrying this rich prize to Zanzibar, they plundered her of a large amount of money.
He was not one of the original crew of the George galley, but was taken out of a prize and joined the pirates of his own free-will.
Their next prizewas a fine Virginian galley, twenty-four guns, crowded with convicts being transplanted to America.
Alone once more, Davis had prodigious success, taking prize after prize, amongst others the Princess, the second mate in which was one Roberts, soon to become a most famous pirate.
His first prizewas the John and Hannah off the coast of North Carolina.
Their second prize was a Glasgow ship loaded with herrings and salmon.
In this ship he sailed to the coast of West Africa, and the first prize he took was the Cadogan snow (Captain Skinner), at Sierra Leone.
After theprize had been converted to the pirates' use, Ingram was appointed gunner.
Sailed with Captain Heidon from Bantry Bay in the John of Sandwich in 1564 to search for a good prize in which he might go a-pirating on his own account.
When the pirates took a prize, it was Harper's duty to see that all the casks and coopers' tools were removed from the prize to the pirate craft.
They prize their Canoes very highly; we have been anxious to obtain Some of them, for our journy up the river but have not been able to obtain one as yet from the nativs in this neighbourhood.
For this he obtained the prize of merit; and in the rest of the campaign, having given many proofs of his judgment and daring, he was honoured and trusted by his general.
The pirates asked Cæsar twenty talents for his ransom, on which he laughed at them for not knowing who their prize was, and he promised to give them fifty talents.
No one received the prizeunless he was winner in all.
They regarded Sicily not so much as a prize to be won, but as a stepping-stone to greater conquests, meaning from it to attack Carthage, and make themselves masters of the Mediterranean sea as far as the Columns of Herakles.
Some of the winners on the former occasion now won the prize again, while others were defeated.
After Alexander left the funeral pyre, he invited many of his friends and chief officers to dinner, and offered a prize to the man who could drink most unmixed wine.
In that case there will be no prize money for any one concerned, but that is perhaps a minor consideration.
If she destroys her prizes she must forgo the prize money and find accommodation for the crews and passengers of the ships destroyed.
If she sends them into port she must either put a prize crew on board or escort them herself.
A far more important consideration is that before destroying the prize the captor must take its crew on board and provide food and accommodation for them.
Empire; and that this loss was partially made good by the prize ships and merchandise taken by its own naval vessels and privateers.
Our heroes found their prize lying in a little cove just above the bridge.
Poor Jack looked ruefully at his expensive "outfit," which Clifford seemed to prize so little, and then he asked his cousin to tell him what specialties of costume and accouterments were best fitted to the Shrewsbury region.
If he took a prize in cabbages at the local vegetable and flower show, the 'Riversford Gazette' had a column about it.
Would it not be wrong to reckon on winning such a prize as that, without some trouble, and toil, and anxiety?
For centuries before the Russian empire was consolidated by the wisdom, the enterprise, and the conquests of Peter the Great, the Russians cast longing eyes on Constantinople as the prize most precious and most coveted in their sight.
The encounter now began in earnest between Prussia and Austria for the prize of ascendency.
After one hundred years of war, Russia discovered that this prize was no nearer her grasp.
His white steed curvetted under him; and as soon as the last prize was awarded he briskly seized a gilded lance, and cleared the lists by a daring leap, to the great delight of the admiring spectators.
But Linda, seriously, I just know you'll take the prize for the most beautiful woman!
I am one of a throng surrounding a smooth-handed faker who is selling prize boxes of soap and giving away dollars.
A "girl" was the most desired thing in the world, a prize to be worked for, sought for and enjoyed without remorse.
His heart was in this competition, for, though the first prize in the mixed foursomes does not perhaps entitle the winners to a place in the hall of fame, Ramsden had the soul of the true golfer.
It is true that, as far as the actual prize was concerned, it made little difference.
If we had to keep the sun kindled up and going by private corporate action, or act of Congress, and to be taxed for the support of customs officers of solar heat, we should prize it more than we do.
I suppose she wanted to impress me with the value of the prize I've drawn, dear.
Here he learned that the rich prize had been wrecked in the storm and the captain and half the crew drowned.
But from the wreck of this great prize thirty-six thousand crowns' worth of jewels came ashore.
I think the Agricultural Society ought to offer a prize for the finest toad.
He offered a prize of fifteen cents to the one who should first eat the contents of his dish, not using his hands, and hold up the saucer empty in token of his victory.
I sat writing late one night, copying a prize essay,--a merely manual task, leaving my thoughts free.
The stores, munitions, and artillery were to be the prize of the victors, except one field-piece, which the garrison were to retain in recognition of their brave defence.
To take an example, the Clark hickory, which took the prize one year, the next year fell so far down that it would not take any prize.
This amount must be charged with the Bowditch hickory prize fund, $25, which leaves $59.
She was pretty, but--a prize white Persian kitten is pretty; also it has little claws.
Although I gave Joseph no instructions, and he made no suggestions, by common consent we hastened on as if a prize were to be bestowed for our good speed, at the end of the journey.
It's as if they wereprize pigs at a fair, and were of no importance except for their dollars," sighed Molly.
So he told them; and that there was not a knife in the unruly camp which he did not prize above the reverendest throat in Athens.
And he was just going to kill her, when certain pirates happened to land at that very moment, who seeing Marina, bore her off as a prize to their ship.
