For the coarseness of the drawings there exists no shred of excuse.
Nothing was left of the tales; not a shred of paper, not a scrap of writing.
And huddled on the floor beside him was an idiot fondling a pipe, with a shred of pemmican at his lips.
As Gilks's guilty confidant he had retained to the last some sort of influence; but now, with that blow, the last shred of his superiority had gone, and he stood there beaten before ever the fight began.
The last thing he had expected was that this boy, whom he supposed to be utterly in his power, should thus rise in revolt and shake off every shred of his old allegiance.
After division the foetal end is wrapped in a shred of bark-cloth, and coiled down on the abdomen.
Within was a shred of masi, torn, no doubt, from his clothing and a handful of withered leaves of some bush shrub.
In every mouth there was a sinner rent By teeth that shred him as a heckle[865] would; Thus three at once compelled he to lament.
And he: 'Though every hair thou from me shred 100 I will not tell thee, nor my face turn round; No, though a thousand times thou spurn my head.
The lean of the mutton may be shred down small, and seasoned in a similar manner, and used when required; or it may be corned with salt, and used as a joint.
Shred down the suet small, removing any flesh or cellular membrane adhering to it; then mix amongst it intimately 1/2 oz.
So long as he claims any shredof initiative his English subjects continue in a perpetual chafe and grumble of disloyalty; as soon as the Crown has been rasped and sand-papered down to a decorative zero their loyalty knows no bounds.
The sun was now high and not a shred of mist remained in all the river basin.
Through the Bight of Tyee his father's barkentine Kohala was coming home from Honolulu, ramping in before a twenty mile breeze with every shred of canvas drawing.
Whatever shred of reputation Blue Chunder, as he then became known for a time, had was soon decimated.
Par gathered up every shred of evidence from his case, along with a bottle of Jack Daniels, and made a bonfire.
I don't believe that there's a shred of a case against you, and I doubt whether Boyle can bluff the government officials into making a move in it, even with all his influence.
When he had finished, he drew out his tobacco-sack and rolled a cigarette, and, as it dangled from his lip by a shred of its wrapping, he turned to her.
Not let them alone, but deftly shear And shred and reduce to--what may suit Children, beyond dispute?
She longed to test herself, to find whether, in the gap between the Christian Yuki and the Princess Hagane, a shred of herself still clung.
I long to be in the field with men; to share their handful of cold rice, their shred of salted fish.
Dodge picked a bit of leaf from the earth and began to shred the frail, brown lace.
Or tatters of pale aster blue, descried By the roadside, Reveal whither they fled; Or the swamp maples, here and there a shred Of Indian red.
Can it be, this thing like a shred Of the firmament torn away, Is a boarded train that Death and his crew Consorted to waylay?
Hulot, left without a shred of doubt, sat sunk in ominous silence.
But I would suggest that if I am to use the influence with which you credit me to the best advantage, or to preserve a shred of it, I had hardly better state the fact quite so bluntly as that.
At that very moment a cock crowed, and the weird procession vanished and left not a shred or a bone behind.
Breed had held his lead but a clean race of over a mile confronted him, the flat affording not one shred of cover.
Please don't say shred the meat and sprinkle in salt, pepper, and mustard, but tell us how to shred the meat.
Shred by shred he pieced together what little he knew, and always he arrived at the same futile end.
But there is no shred of respectworthy evidence that anything of the kind happened.
