The guilty man gripped his head between his hands, and like a beast that is smitten in the shambles he stood in a stupor, his body swaying slightly, a film upon his eyes, and his mind sullen and stunned.
Two or three men in sea-boots, with shrimping nets over their shoulders and pipes in their mouths, sauntered down the lane that led by the shambles to the shore.
Such men are not worthy of the name of troops; but they serve the Mexican purpose of hired slaughtermen in the Indian shambles which Mexico has created in Yucatan.
IT WAS VERY GOOD" (Genesis 1:31) I saw these shambles in my youth, and said There is no God!
So I took Monty's hand to bid him good-by, and limped off through the dark to try to find men who would come with me to the shambles below.
Then he shook his head as a young steer shakes it when the lash of the stock- whip cross his nose warns him back to the path on to the shambles that he would escape.
Not long after that I sat on the shambles at Suvla Bay, the particular spot in question being known as the Kiretch Tepe--Chalk Hill.
Or Pietro or Violante shambles off-- It cannot be but I surprise my wife-- If only she is stopped and stamped on, good!
From this and other sources, it appears that one of the chief evils complained of was due to the blood and offal in the shambles of Newgate Street.
Within the gate were the Grey Friars, Stinking Lane (now King Edward Street), and the Butchers' Shamblesin Newgate Street.
The chief meat markets within the city walls were Stocks Market and the flesh shambles of St. Nicholas, in Newgate Street and its vicinity.
The 'foreign' butchers, or those who did not possess the freedom of the city, brought their meat to shambles just outside the civic boundary.
The practice of feeding animals destined for the shambles exclusively on roots containing 90 and even 95 per cent.
As he stood there, above the ghastly shamblesin the waist of the Victorieuse, some one spoke behind him.
Picking his way daintily through that shambles in the waist came a tall man with a deeply tanned face that was shaded by a Spanish headpiece.
As for the survivors in that ghastly shambles that had been the Royal Mary, they were abandoned by the Spaniards to their own resources.
Through many roads, by me possessed, He shambles forth in cosmic guise; He is the Jester and the Jest, And he the Text himself applies.
The moucher now carries a bill-hook, and as he shambles along the road keeps a sharp look-out for briars.
People came to think that a shambles was a singular noun meaning slaughter-house, or place where cattle were killed; but really the shambles were the benches on which the meat was spread for sale.
The recreation to which Jack and Dick were bidden was a visit to the melancholy shambles where the heterogeneous mass of unclassified prisoners were detained.
He shambles about the stage, his words gurgle in his throat, his eyes roll like a bull's under torture; if he is not throwing agonised glances at the man with the limelight he is straining to catch the voice of the prompter at the flies.
His brain told him the shambles that was suddenly made of his instrument board and radio panel would never in all this world permit him to contact his Casablanca base.
Maybe their 110 would be "drowned" in that ocean of machine-gun and rifle fire, but not before Freddy and he had made that secret desert airdrome a shambles of burning aircraft that would block off all other attempts to take off.
I saw the shambles it was as I dived by the navigator's nook.
The Russians had advanced in the gloom of the shambles and were feeling about for Marr and the others of the crew who had escaped their onslaught.
The deck was a shambles where Marr's lead had scattered the Russian horde.
The shambles were commonly at the very corner of the Tol-booth or Moot Hall.
He accused himself of being the cause of her death through his attempt to rescue her from the shambles of Apheca.
At the shambles they stood a moment in endearing embrace, then silently separated.
The two women went together to the shambles of Astarte, both closely covered with the long veil, which concealed their faces and forms.
There will be no hope of peace until the peoples of the world recognize their brotherhood and refuse to be led to the shambles for mutual massacre.
The destruction of this shell-fire is making a shambles of human bodies.
Whole companies of them were annihilated, whole battalions decimated, yet the survivors were led to the shambles again.
St. Mihiel and Les Eparges and the triangle which the Germans had wedged between the French lines were a shambles before the leaves had fallen from the autumn trees in the first year of war.
Was it true then that Germany had a deadly enmity against us, and warlike ambitions which would make a shambles of Europe?
Then on the back side of the shambles be divers slaughter-houses, and such like, pertaining to the shambles; and this is called Mount Godard street.
Then is the shambles itself, and then Newgate market; and so the whole street, on both sides up to Newgate, is of this ward; and thus it is wholly bounded.
In 1319, William Spertyng, who was found guilty of exposing for sale at the shambles two putrid carcases, was sentenced to be put in the pillory, and to have the carcases burnt beneath him.
I lift My eyes from out the shambles where they lie; When lo!
