With a jeering laugh the sailors seized the frightened man, roped him tightly to the desired prop, and, procuring a lot of glass bottles, pelted him with them until their arms were tired.
Those dens of iniquity offer their services and even actually aid in the procuring of abortions, and in showing how and where a good haul can be made by robbery or burglary.
His retreat cut off, and without the means of procuring supplies in that remote country, the valiant warrior found himself at the end of his resources.
For the cheapest method of procuring a hard jelly, see N.
This agreeable aromatic tonic is an effective help to concoction; and we are under personal obligations to it, for frequently restoring our stomach to good temper, and procuring us good appetite and good digestion.
Thompson, of Liverpool, has at length succeeded in procuring for Justin the place of agent or manager to Lord Stewart, a rich Irish Catholic, whose head grows daily weaker.
Your engineering talents would have been invaluable in inventing some method of procuring the gold dust, or rather of separating it from the soil, which would have been much more effectual than the rude way in which we went to work.
The remainder of the party, including myself, proceeded to the ravine with our implements, and after working a few hours we succeeded in procuring more gold than we had obtained in any two days during the past week.
Hypnotics are medicines that relieve pain by procuring sleep, such as hops, &c.
On the way Parthomasiris appeared in Elegeia and took the diadem from his head, in the hope of procuring investiture through this humiliation, as Tiridates had once done.
These connections had perceptible consequences only in so far as the earlier tales regarding the procuring of silk gradually gave way to better knowledge.
The pueblo of Zuñi was surveyed by the writer in the autumn of 1881 with a view to procuring the necessary data for the construction of a large-scale model of this pueblo.
The motive that led to the occupation of this mesa was defense; the cause that led to the selection of the particular site was facility for procuring a water supply.
It may not be thought minute to mention, that Napoleon and his attendant had difficulty in procuring admittance to the Tuileries at so late an hour.
And thus the acquisition so much desired as the means of procuring peace, had become, by this catastrophe, the cause of the most irreconcilable enmity.
I shall leave town tomorrow, having staid solely to do any service in my power in forwarding this business, which I sincerely wish and hope may be the means of procuring peace on fair and honourable terms.
This they did thoroughly, after procuring a lantern; but without finding any thing to reward their diligent search; and they finally drove off.
The difficulty of procuring cord suitable for use with embroidered work makes the appliance illustrated at fig.
The still more important duty of vindicating his Indian treaties and procuring their ratification engaged his closest attention.
Stopping only a few hours for rest, and procuring a good horse and equipments from the ever friendly Flatheads, he again took the saddle, and on the third day staggered into the governor's camp on the Teton.
Stone, who raised and commanded it, assisting him in procuring arms and equipments.
But he found much difficulty in perfecting the same, for the several journeys he was necessitated to undertake before it could be done, and the expenses of procuring such discharge, amounted to sixty pound.
However, he did not seem to have taken this much to heart, for in a short time he followed her example and married another wife; but finding no method of procuring an honest livelihood, he took a short method of living, viz.
However, the magistrates were of another opinion, until at last by procuring two men to be bound for his good behaviour, he was carried before a wealthy alderman of the City and there discharged.
Nor were his fatal conjectures on this head without cause; for Bewle, though as Little always declared he had drawn him into such practices, put him into an information he made for the sake of procuring a pardon.
Wherefore, leaving his mother's house, he abandoned himself to procuring money at any rate to support those lewd pleasures to which he had addicted himself.
He entertained at first great hopes of a reprieve, at least in order to be transported, and for obtaining it he spent a great deal of time writing to several friends who he thought might be instrumental in procuring it.
Danilo's incapacity, however, seems to have stopped short, as we shall see, at theprocuring of cash.
This may sound rather far-fetched; he may have also used Catholicism merely as a threat by which to induce the Russians to assist in procuring the Exarchate.
A certain Colonel Peter Szejadinac objected to the Austrian policy and came to Arad for the purpose ofprocuring some alleviation for the Serbs, but he was broken on the wheel.
Forty years ago, the Dutch Colonial Government despatched Haskarl, one of the officials of the Buitenzorg gardens, to Peru for the purpose of procuring cinchona seed.
Of the extent of his services in procuring their removal, I have spoken in another place.
Your alarmed petitioners throw their eyes round every where, to discover new sources, capable of procuring them more success, in future.
The most noteworthy circumstance, in this connection, of Paul's life was the indirect effect of female frailty in procuring his murder.
Ruffiani multiplied in its streets, procuring by force or corruption multitudes of victims to fill the taverns and brothels of the city.
Where they aid in procuring food or luxuries for the tribe, they are held in more esteem; while in places where the chief burden of providing rests upon the men, they are treated with severity.
They did not find as much trouble inprocuring a divorce as they had anticipated.
He had great difficulty in procuring a divorce, and in the mean while he and Anne had become so intimate that she began to exhibit proofs of the connection which could not be concealed.
He found himself reduced to the bitter alternative of procuring immediate bail, or going directly to Newgate.
There was now but one day between him and the accomplishment of his dearest wish, and that was spent in procuring a licence, and adjusting the preparations for the grand festival.
Like these, they have no staple export to offer in exchange for the various commodities which they import from foreign countries, and are obliged principally to rely on the expenditure of the government for the means of procuring them.
However sincere their reformation, it must be evident that with a blemished character, the difficulty of obtaining employment and procuring an honest livelihood, would be almost insuperable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "procuring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
