And the Queen answered, "I never thought that such a stripling could have the skill and strength to overthrow an animal which made nothing of an army, and I expected that he would have left his rags there.
While he was speaking thus, the lizard said, "Resolve quickly and do what I tell you; or you will leave only your rags here.
Are these the thanks I get for freeing you from rags that you might have hung distaffs with?
So, my son, do not put your safety into peril, or you will leave your rags there.
While they were eating, Pippo from time to time turned to the cat and said to her, "My pretty puss, pray take care that those rags don't slip through our fingers.
My dearest love, drive such a thought from your mind; do not believe in dreams, or that I could love any other woman; you were the first new coat of my love, and you shall carry away with you the last rags of my affection.
She was sitting with the rags scattered round her when John walked in on the evening of the third day.
There were rags everywhere--on the table, and all about the kitchen; she sat in their midst like a witch among the autumn leaves.
Should there be inflammation about the wound, the application of warm wet rags will serve to allay it.
I had nothing to say in reply to this, I took myself and my rags upstairs out of sight, and spent the next day in bed, with a leech to my eye, and plasters all over my body.
Hot tears of grief and envy--human passions are much the same in rags and in silks--fell when they saw I had no more.
Even the clothes that are given to the poorest in exchange for their rags are of different cut and color, made so with this one end in view.
Their odd old-mannish or old-womanish appearance, due more to their grotesquerags than to anything in the children themselves, betrays their race even without their chatter.
He slept with his clothes on to keep him warm, in a pile of rags just inside the door.
He brought her, shivering in even worse ragsthan his own; it was a cold winter day.
I could not describe, if I would, the condition of the child when she was raised from the mess of straw andrags in which she lay.
The feeblest ray of daylight never found its way down there, the hatches having been carefully covered with rags and matting; but freshets often did.
Just about then he was discovered by an artist, who paid him to sit for him in his awful rags with his tousled hair that had not known the restraint of a cap for months.
But I crawled in, and found this little thing lying in a bundle of rags with its hands bound and dried grass stuffed in its mouth.
There was the sled nearly packed for the journey, and watching over it, keeping the dogs at bay, was an indescribably dirty little boy in a torn and greasy denim parki over rags of reindeer-skin.
I got present for Father Brachet"; and turning over the rags and nondescript rubbish of the hat-box, she produced an object whose use was not immediately manifest.
Indicating flags or rags are hung on small nails on each gate to show the attendant at the shed, when the wagon arrives, the character of each ewe, that he may intelligently care for her and her lamb at once.
To clean the water trough when it becomes dirty there is an endless 1/4-inch rope passing through the trough and over the pens; to this are attached rags or gunny sacks, which are drawn through the trough.
Tacked to the top board of panel in each pen there is a small canvas sack containing three different colored small rags or flags to indicate whether the ewe claims her lamb, has twins, large udder, or is ready to turn out.
The bootmaker and his wife were repairing him, which they did by driving nails into him, so as to tack down the rags over the tatters.
Illustration: The recovering of Uncle Popacatapetl] On the counter there lay a very odd-looking old gentleman, dressed in rags and tatters in about equal proportions.
A man, dressed in theatrical rags and wearing the characteristic scarlet cap, stood immediately within the entrance, and ostentatiously rattled a money box at regular intervals.
I was dressed in the rags we had collected for the purpose, Belle managing this part of the job with as much glee and interest as if dressing a bride for a wedding.
I disguised them by rents and ragsas much as possible.
Another actual case was based on an implied warranty of the quality of rags sold to a paper manufacturer.
They wakened about ten next morning with throbbing headaches, and clad in greasy canvas rags, each stretched out in a forecastle bunk with a bag of other greasy rags for a pillow.
Just before noon he saw two men thrown out of the forecastle by the huge first mate, and in spite of their canvas rags he recognized his two enemies.
You are, here in this beanery with your glad rags on.
Gay had three cookies, Timothy two, and Rags one; but there was no statute of limitations placed on the water; every one had as much as he could drink.
Miss Vilda "held still," and Rags jumped on her skirts.
Rags held his breath in suspense, and wondered if he had been put under a roaring cataract, and then ploughed in deep furrows with a sharp-toothed instrument of torture, only to be left behind at last!
As Jabe drew the wagon up beside the fence, Rags bounded out to meet them.
Timothy and Rags now went to the pump, and Rags was held under the spout.
Rags darted up the steps with sniffs and barks of ecstatic delight.
The person thus adjured flew in from the porch, leaving a serpentine trail of red, yellow, and blue rags in her wake.
Please, Miss Vilda, may I take Gay to see it, and will it hurt it if I wash Rags in it?
Rags stole away to Jabe (for even mixed dogs have some delicacy), and Miss Vilda went down on her knees beside the sleeping boy.
He had his original dollar and eighty-five cents in money; Rags and he had supped like kings off wild blackberries and hard gingerbread; and, more than all, he was young and mercifully blind to all but the immediate present.
Prone bodies half rose out of the shroud of mud that dripped in tails and liquid rags from their limbs, and these deathful apparitions cried also, "Let's go!
As he brandishes that ax of Post-Tertiary Man, he would himself pass for an ape-man, decked out with rags and lurking in the bowels of the earth.
Volpatte was shivering, and his little strapped-up eyes burned with fever in the enormous dump of rags set upon his shoulders.
When the cloth is lifted to allow some one to enter or leave, the glare brutally besplashes the disordered rags of the wounded stationed in front to await their treatment.
And of all that moment I have best retained the vision of a whimsical trench covered with many-colored rags and tatters.
You see, to-morrow one starts scratching again, and cleaning his old rags and his catapult.
Some thigh-bones protrude from the heaps of rags stuck together with reddish mud; and from the holes filled with clothes shredded and daubed with a sort of tar, a spinal fragment emerges.
To see him thus pricking and unhanging from the air strips of viscera and rags of flesh, you could take him for a butcher at some fiendish task.
Volpatte's head--enveloped in rags with a big knot on the top and the same dark yellowish stains as his face--looks like a bundle of dirty linen.
And as for rags and bones, young fellow, that’s just about what it will come to.
Uncle Corny, if you must be vulgar, because you have no proper sense of things, the least you can do is not to holloa, as if you were driving a truck of rags and bones.
The beggars in their rags on the other side got uneasy then.
Two other moving bundles ofrags came slowly down and joined them--one apparently a man, the other looking rather like a woman.
I will go and look for your bits of green stuff; green rags you use for your pulp, and a trifle too green, I am afraid.
I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
Jim throwed some oldrags over him, but he needn't done it; I didn't want to see him.
Allow me to entreat you to have some regard for my crape dress, which will be torn to rags by these bushes through which you are hurrying me, with such speed.
But how true that "Rags are royal raimant, when worn for virtue's sake.
I was obliged to silently sit by, while my rags and misery were exposed.
They only succeeded in obtaining permission for her to ride an animal, and she continued her journey in this manner, holding the child in her lap with a fewrags round it.
I will do my part towards relieving this distress, but not exactly in the mode which he seems to prefer--not by applying a cataplasm of lamp-black and rags to the public wounds!
While that one hundred millions remains, the country can place at defiance the machinations of the Bank of the United States, and its confederate politicians, to perpetuate the suspension, and to continue the reign of rags and shin-plasters.
