Cats and small dogs you can carve alive, when a woman has strapped them down for you, and the poor things are trying to lick you.
Strapped on his back he carried an oblong block of wood, like a great club-foot, and nearly as large as himself.
With their packs strapped upon their backs, Sam picked up his musket, and Kitty the axe.
She had insisted upon carrying something, so a small pack had been made up for her and strapped in Indian fashion across her shoulders.
Each carried a heavy flint-lock musket in his hand, while at his side swung the inevitable powder-horn, hung low enough so as not to interfere with the small pack strapped across the shoulders.
Then he rolled up some of the garments and his two blankets into a pack that could be strapped upon his shoulders, and, as he did this, his comrades came trooping in, stamping to shake the snow off their leggings.
Then he set his lips tight as, with his pack strapped on his shoulders, he opened the door and looked out at the dimly shining snow.
There Nasmyth changed his clothes for the dry garments he had brought in a valise strapped to the pack-saddle, and an hour after supper he fell quietly asleep in his chair.
He hurried to the deck, strapped a life-preserver around him and leaped into the sea.
As Phillips was sending the message I strapped his life-belt to his back.
It was hardly more than daylight when they left, and I could not tell just how many bodies they strapped on the ponies.
As she watched him, erect in saddle, his blue overcoat tightly buttoned, his revolver belt strapped outside, she no longer felt any consciousness of the surrounding desolation, or the nearness of savage foes.
By the time Hughes returned, he had everything strapped for the saddles.
Overcoats were taken off, and strappedto the saddles, carbines loaded and slung, pistols examined and loosened in their holsters, saddles recinched, and curb chains carefully looked after.
Mechanically the Sergeant loaded his rifle, and strapped the old Confederate haversack to his saddle pommel, staring again, half unbelieving, at the faded inscription underneath the flap.
Arizora's streets were jammed with cars--fantastic desert coursers stripped to the nines and with canteens strapped to the running board.
Then he suddenly started forward and said something to his followers in the native tongue, which caused each to fling down the small bundle that was strapped to his shoulders.
Your grandmother Craddock's haircloth trunk is strapped on behind her carriage there, and Rufus will drive you home.
When the last box had been strapped I hastened to our old lodgings on the chance of seeing the Honourable George once more.
It appeared that all luggage would be strapped to the backs of animals and thus transported.
When they had strapped around my waist a large pistol in a leather jacket, I considered the effect picturesque in the extreme, and my friends were loud in their approval of it.
One pair wood blocks for 1 1-4 brass sheaves, strapped with tails.
Strapped under the clothes, around the man's waist, was the familiar collection of Disan artifacts.
Brion and Ihjel were strapped in when the jump-drive cut off abruptly, lurching them back into normal space and time.
Turn off that dying brontosaurus and get strapped in," he called through the thin door.
When Ihjel had given him the missile weapon he had asked no questions, but had just strapped it on.
It was strapped tightly there with a band about his chest, a cord like a necklace chain up to his thick hunched neck, and other chains down to his belt.
I had scrambled back to the doorway; I knew he could not see me so long as the cage remained strapped to his shirt front.
There was a heavy bag Strapped tightly on his shoulders, and the rain Sizzled when it hit him.
Every one remembers the torture inflicted on women in the good-old-times, when they were strapped to posts on the flats at low tide, and allowed to watch the cruel slowness of approaching death.
The dulcimer was somewhat like a modern zither, and may be said to contain the germ of our piano; for it was in the form of a flat case, strapped to the body and held horizontally in front of the player.
These were all portable, and some, such as drums and dulcimers, were strapped to the body, all of which points to the eminently warlike character of the people.
Each of them had four pistols sticking in his belt and a repeating rifle strapped on to his saddle.
They were picked up, strapped together as they were, by the other troopers, and carried to Lymington.
These, after a few turns had got "locked," and of course held Quackenboss as firmly as if he had been strapped to the saddle.
Only a portion of them chanced to have their blankets strapped upon the cantles of their saddles.
The back of the driving-seat was hinged and folded forward at night, so that the six-foot mattresses which were strapped back to the van sides during the day could come down over it.
The tool box, also, was on the foot-board, so the spare tyre had to be strapped inside the caravan above the driving seat.
Rollo opened his trunk again to put the other things in, and then locked and strapped it.
I have it here," and he tapped the great valise strapped on his horse's back.
