No sooner would one get posted up than they would tear it down to make room for another.
I'd like to tearthe heart out of every German for the work they have done to the French and British and Scotch and Irish--oh, I know what I'm talking about.
It seemed as though I could never tear myself away from that tiny house shaded by tall trees.
Her thin hand no longer gripped the tear in her dress and her little breasts were exposed.
When my Ellen was here living with me I let her think me cold and unfeeling while something within me was straining and straining trying to tear itself loose.
She had on a dress made of cheap cloth and there was a tear on the shoulder.
Deep within her there was a feeling that something was about to happen, something that would lift her out of herself, that would tear her away from her past and the past of her people.
His wife never broke it as the children did when they came running to pull and tear at him.
Ah, dear boy, how can you talk of joy when you lie feverish at night, coughing as though you would tear yourself to pieces.
If I choose to tear off my finery, I’ll tear it off at once, this minute,” she cried in a resonant voice.
And only yesterday I made up my mind to tear my amulet off my neck, on my way from Fenya’s to Perhotin.
At night I used to lie sobbing into my pillow in the dark, and I used to brood over it; I used to tear my heart on purpose and gloat over my anger.
In the morning I would get up more spiteful than a dog, ready to tear the whole world to pieces.
I shall tear three thousand from him and fling it to you.
It must be noted again that our monastery never had played any great part in his life, and he never had shed a bitter tear owing to it.
Maximov, it appeared, could not tear himself away from the girls, only running away from time to time to pour himself out a glass of liqueur.
The hounds catch him, and tear him to pieces before his mother’s eyes!
She paused for a moment, while a tear or two ran over her cheek, and hers were not the only eyes in the court that shed bright drops.
Why didn't ye fly at the fellow's throat when he shewed you the paper, and tear it all to pieces in a minute?
She listened for a moment in silence, with her eyes bent down, and evidently full of thought, and then looked up in his face, with something like a tear upon her eyelashes.
The unhappy youth gazed at it, with eyes of eager fire--and oh, what would he have given to snatch it from the hand of him that held it, and tear it into a thousand pieces that moment!
None would undertake it; and as the night went on, one by one the people who had been assembled dropped away, and left her standing there, still gazing out into the darkness, but unable to tear herself from the spot.
She jumped up, and the withered ferns and branches that had covered her long length and had been gathered closely upon her as she shrank to her proper size fell as forest leaves do when sudden storms tear them.
Thunder shower," said Jimmy; but it was a tear from Eliza.
Radcliff, folding his arms, and stretching out his legs with an air of easy and reckless insolence, but suddenly drawing up one of them, as he noticed the tear Lion's teeth had made.
And so it is regarded as one of the risks ordinarily taken by an employé, and therefore he can get nothing whenever he is injured through the operation of a defective machine caused by the natural wear and tear of time.
If a tenant should agree to return and deliver the house at the end of the term in good order and condition, reasonable wear and tear only excepted, he would be obliged to rebuild the house if it burned down.
We often see attached to the end of a draft a little slip with the words: "No protest; tear this off before protesting.
She was weeping horribly--with low, fierce, choking sobs, as if some agony in her soul were trying to tear itself out.
And at last six men came and watched and stopped her at the door, and she went very near to tear them all asunder.
And I had a little rod beside me, and I made a hit at him with it, and with that he dropped the candle and made at me as if to tear me.
Of so thin a texture is the web of life, and so slight the thing that suffices totear it.
The tear was still on her lid when she heard a step behind her, turned and saw des Ageaux--to her des Voeux.
He hailed the human in her with delight; he could have blessed the weeping girl for every tear that proclaimed her woman.
Could I but receive on the deck of my own ship the holy relic upon which I swore the fatal oath, kiss it in all humility, and shed one tear of deep contrition on the sacred wood, I then might rest in peace.
I will have it, even if he has swallowed it, though I tear him limb from limb!
To-day, a smile on the lips of a Magyar is taken for a crime of defiance to tyranny, and a tear in his eye is equivalent to a revolt.
You will then see a mournful tear in the eye of humanity, and its breast heaving with sighs.
You then would in vain shed a tear of compassion over our sad fate, and mourn over the grave of nations: nor only so; but the victory of absolutism could not fail to be felt even here in your mighty and blessed home.
Tear out life's Wisdom-written page, And dash its trophies down!
As he was unable to obtain the banana from this, he soon began to gnaw and pull at it, and as he was succeeding all too well in his efforts to tear the box to pieces, he had to be returned to his cage.
Immediately on admission to the cage, Skirrl began to gnaw at the boxes, trying with all his might to tear them to pieces.
He also shook the box and tried to pull it about and tear it with his teeth, but to the two poles lying nearby on the floor of the cage he gave not the slightest attention during a thirty minute period of observation.
Her sharp teeth cut to the bone, and it was impossible for the larger and stronger monkey to tear away.
George, as a large hottear stole down his pale cheek, and fell with a loud report on the warty surface of his bare foot, "he was lost at sea in a bitter gale.
No syllable Of sorrow vexeth me, no tear drops wet My teeming lids, save those that leap to tell Thee thou'st a guest that overweepeth yet Only because thou jokest overwell.
Mrs. du Preez, also, had to be taken leave of, and shed a tear or so at the last.
There was a grandeur in the spectacle which kept me on deck, and it was not till after the steward had frequently summoned me to supper that I could tear myself from it.
Miss Gibbons watched her tear open the big envelope addressed to Rose in the handwriting that always went with the California post-mark, and saw her take another unopened letter out of it.
But she stole the time, nevertheless, to tear the wrappings off her "form" and gaze on its respectable nakedness for two or three minutes with a contemplative eye.
And now and then while these frenzies possessed him, he would tear off handfuls of the cotton and expose his cooked flesh to view.
The scenes I then encountered would provoke a smile and a tear at the same moment.
No tear was in her eye--no muscle in her countenance moved.
I resolved totear adversity by the beard, and face every obstacle.
