Campbell instead of my tattered shooting-jacket; and we crossed the river on the bamboo-raft.
Within was a square wicker throne, six feet high, covered with purple silk, brocaded with dragons in white and gold, and overhung by a canopy of tatteredblue silk, with which material part of the walls also was covered.
A group of Fuegians partly concealed by the entangled forest, were perched on a wild point overhanging the sea; and as we passed by, they sprang up and waving their tattered cloaks sent forth a loud and sonorous shout.
They had been living for some days on mussel-shells and berries, and their tattered clothes had been burnt by sleeping so near their fires.
He was dressed in a tattered old shirt and trousers, and had his head uncovered: he carried an old-fashioned gun and a large knife.
Then he put on again his tattered old dress and his ragged shawl and his coloured spectacles and the hat with the red feather sticking to the top, and he went to Beaver's house by the stream, hobbling along with a stick.
He put on the tattered old dress and the battered old hat with a red feather sticking from the top, and he wrapped the old shawl about his face, and he wore the woman's coloured spectacles and he carried a crooked stick.
Lee, the head of this establishment, was living in a shelter formed of tattered canvas and battered sheets of corrugated iron, but he evidently possessed the power of command and organisation, and was not without education.
The group consisted of two men, dressed partly in tattered European clothes, and partly in dirty, greasy kangaroo-skins heaped one on the top of another, and two women in equally disreputable costumes.
His respect for a gallant enemy was such that he did not even ask them to lower that tattered ensign, which still floated proudly at the mizzen-top, where Jamie had made it fast.
He seized the ensign, tattered and torn as it was, and tore it away.
And as the Duncan took her final plunge, and the tattered ensign went under, the Sapphire paid her last tribute of respect to a valiant foe by a salute of seventeen guns.
Two weeks after this, only three butterflies came to the glade, one newly painted, freshly emerged, the other two old and tattered and very weary.
From behind came the constant droning chant of the priest, lingeringly reading from a tattered Pali volume, an oil torch dripping close to his white turban.
Many of the twigs were now vacant, and most of the heliconias were tattered and forlorn, just able to keep at their fluttering level.
I see more of the world under my tattered garb than, perhaps, I should ever see in a better dress.
I still amuse myself amongst the populace in my tattered garb late in the evenings, and I shall sound your praises through Naples in a poem I mean to recite on the late eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Yet he quickened his steps toward the red house with the tarnished iron gate and the tattered creepers.
All through the night Henley thought of him as he had last seen him, opening the door of the red house with the tattered creepers climbing over it.
A ragged, tattered remnant of the wagon came back.
But with a light in his eyes and the look of a hero, Cahoots leaped from the tattered vehicle and began dragging out the body of his master.
Besides the young man's fierce disdain had reached such a pitch, that, notwithstanding his extreme sensitiveness, he felt no shame at exhibiting his tattered garments in the street.
About this place, with its tattered population, its dirty and nauseous courtyards and numerous alleys, Raskolnikoff dearly loved to roam in his aimless wanderings.
He was a man past middle age, with hair thin and grey, and a face worn and lined; his tattered clothes gave scant protection from inclement weather.
A few paces behind this tattered herald strutted the champion, Rory Dhu Mhor, swinging his kilt, and like the wild stag of his native mountains, haughtily sniffing the breeze.
Shann shivered as he sat up, hugging his arms to his chest, his tattered uniform soggy under that pressure.
Shann put another piece of his raft to work as a shovel, throwing up a shower of sand and gravel while sweat dampened his tattered blouse and was salt and sticky on his arms and face.
Though animal fur wore better than the nowtattered uniforms of the men.
I Alone and built of a pallid stone Across the levels looked her house And tattered plot, where nought had grown But withered trees which creaked their boughs.
Whenever a tattered battleflag appeared ladies rushed forward and strewed flowers before the standard bearers and loaded them and the color guards with wreaths and bouquets.
To see the furling of the tattered colors that one has followed for four years.
The long lines of blue with their glistening bayonets; the gleaming sabres of the cavalry; the tattered banners.
Even the poor, washing clothes in the street at the water-course, pull their tattered rags over their faces.
Here was Payne's translation of Villon which could certainly go, for it would fetch at least fifteen shillings, and he still possessed thattattered little French edition at two francs.
Then he covered the pile with a shroud of tattered stuff and wrote a letter offering them to the only bookseller in Oxford with whom he had never dealt.
One adviser discovered in a tattered volume of obstetrical theory that when the woman was older than the man the odds were on a male child.
Sylvia sat up in the big garret and read through one after another of the late Mr. Bullwinkle's tattered and heterogeneous collection.
I found him in bed, not as usual pipe in mouth and a tattered volume in his hand, but lying on his back, his arms crossed beneath his head, staring into the white curtains of which Blanquette was so proud.
To my consternation he thrust the tattered thing--it was an antiquated sixpenny edition--under my nose and commanded me to read.
Nothing in it save the rickettiness of a faded rep suite arranged primly around the walls, and a few bookshelves stuffed with tattered volumes suggested Paragot.
The old rep suite, the table with the American cloth, the coloured prints in gilt frames including the portrait of Garibaldi, the cheap deal bookcases holding Paragot's tattered classics, gave the place an air of familiar homeliness.
Sometimes it was Blanquette who slept, Narcisse huddled up against her, while Paragot and I read our tattered books, or sketched, or discussed the theme which I had written overnight as my evening task.
Tattered classics are cheap enough in France, and what mattered it if pages were missing?
You see a tattered lad selling matches in the street, and you think there is nothing between him and the bleakness of immensity, between him and utter abasement, but a few tattered rags and a feeble musculature.
A beggar would scarcely have thanked her for her blue merino; and the green silk frock looked like the tattered cover of a worn-out umbrella.
Mascarin had carefully consumed in a large fire every particle of the tattered garments that Tantaine had been in the habit of wearing, and laughed merrily as he watched the columns of sombre smoke roll upwards.
The boy's eyes glistened as the old man unpinned the tattered lining of his pocket, and holding the pin between his teeth, pulled out the banknotes, each one for a thousand francs.
The ruffian who had assaulted Andre changed his manner directly he entered the office; he threw his tattered cap upon a bench, passed his fingers through his hair, and shook hands with the superintendent; he then turned to Andre.
