The thong about his neck was alone sufficient to bind him, apart from the others around his body and ankles.
Then one of the hunters seized his knife, and stepping up to the chief was about to cut the thongwhich bound Klitonda's hands.
There upon the shore, securely tied with a moose-hide thong was a large canoe, which evidently belonged to the Chilcats.
In fact so powerful did he seem standing there that the Chilcats placed another thong about his wrists for greater security.
And presently after I heard from afar his high, melancholy "cooee," and the crack of his thongin the afternoon air as he hastened out to his charges.
Then when the boys were about two-thirds of the way to the village, something came sniffing at their heels, and there was Pincho, with the thong trailing after him; he had gnawed it in two.
He had no intention of being left behind, and the shepherd had to cut a thong off his sheepskin cloak to tie up the determined beast.
The tightening of the thong drew up the edges of the shoe until they overlapped and entirely encased his foot.
Through these holes he rove a thong of hide, and then rounded away the corners of the piece.
A wrong way to put on the thong is, in the first instance, to pass the loop of the thong through (instead of over) the keeper (Fig.
Some authorities might take exception to the way the thong is put on in Fig.
The chief use of the thong in hunting is to recover the crop if it happens to be pulled out of the hand when opening a gate, before doing which, one or more turns of the thong are consequently taken round the hand.
The thong is about three feet ten inches long, is furnished with a lash, which is about a foot long, and is attached to the keeper, which is a leather loop at the end of the crop.
It also enables us to warn off hounds who approach too near our horses' legs, on which occasions the whip should be held at arm's length, with thong and lash vertical.
Men generally like a thong of white pipe-clayed leather, but as the colour is apt to come off and soil one's habit, a brown leather thong is best for ladies.
If a crop is used for hacking, say in the Row, the thong should be taken off, for it would look as much out of place there as a pink hunting coat.
Daoud took the tawidh by its thong and tied it around his neck.
He felt fingers at his collar, and after a moment the thong slid free.
She reached out to touch the little leather capsule tied by a thong around his neck, the only thing he was wearing at the moment.
The thong was wet at first and scarcely touched her.
At one end there was a thongwith a loop in it, and it smelled of tiger.
We came sidling up to a nervous young cow, and Taku dropped from my neck long enough to slip the thong over a hind foot as she lifted it.
His offence had consisted, so far as I can remember, of stealing and eating the thong which bound two portions of the sledge together, something about as appetizing as a bootlace.
It is only fair to the commander to say, however, that it was one of a series of petty thefts, and that the thong of a sledge might mean life or death to the whole party.
It snagged on a rawhide thong that supported the holster and his fingers were loosening in the partial grip when Billy Morgan shot him.
Now he was galloping across the fields, leaning forward on his horse's neck, with his thong in his boot and the spear resting in the stirrup.
Had the thong broken, or even had its loop about the reptile's neck slipped, the poison-dripping fangs must have lashed Lennon's face.
In a trice the Indians had each of the frightened pair bridled with a leatherthong fast about the lower jaw.
The Indians drove a stake firmly into the sand and tied the rattlesnake to it with a three-foot thong cut from the pony skin.
A contrivance like this will often be found useful to replace a buckle and strap; by twisting the lower thong more tightly, its length can be shortened as much as may be required.
The beads are cleft down the middle, which gives them a slight springiness, that more effectually secures the caps that are placed upon them: the ring is tied by a thong to the belt or button-hole.
The two ends of both, d1 and d2, are thickened and pierced, so as to admit of tying a thong across their mouths, as shown on one side of d2.
He will effect this best by dispensing with the "bow," and by simply using a string or thong of a yard or four feet long.
The thong is gathered together, and wound in a figure of 8 round the two horns, where it henceforward remains while the animal feeds, and by clutching at which, he is at any time caught.
But if you have not any string at hand, cut a thong from his leathern apron, or tear a strip from you own linen.
The preferable plan is to make eyelet-holes round its rim, and pass a thong through, drawing it pretty close: the tray is kept in shape, by sticks put inside and athwart its bottom.
A crupper under his tail, or a thong as a breeching may be used.
The knack of holding on a Japanese clog or the lighter sandal by gripping the thong that passes between the great toe and its mate is not acquired at the first trial or at many to follow.
I stepped back hastily and knelt on one knee to tie the thong myself.
On his feet were straw sandals, secured only with a leather thong that passed between the great and second toes.
With the crotched stick, he pinned Shaggycoat's neck to the ground, while with a piece of buckskin thong taken from his pocket he made a tight fitting collar for the beaver's neck.
One of the men took a thin buckskin thong and sewed up the wounds by piercing the skin and running the thong through it.
The simplest kind of bow--a bent stick with a stout leather thong fastened at each end.
This is to tighten the thong by pressure of the hand against the disc while using.
A halberdier came and severed the thong that fastened Margaret Wilson to my stirrup leather, and led her away.
He slackened thethong a trifle, and as he slouched off I was conscious that my prisoner looked up at me as though to thank me: but I dared not meet her eyes, and she spoke no word.
The hard thong was cutting my ankles, and--oh, heaven!
I returned to assist Raoul, but, impatient of my delay, he had already mounted, and was dragging up the thong after him.
The sudden jerk caused the thong to vibrate like a bowstring, and the bull lay motionless on the grass.
The thong that bound my wrists was cut, leaving my hands free.
Mounting again upon my comrade's shoulders, I grasped the thong high up to test its hold.
A thong of leather stretches from head to foot of the komse, which the mother can thus sling on her shoulder when going about, and by this thong the baby can be hung up to a tent-pole or to the branch of a tree if its mother is busy.
I then drew out my knife, for the Indians had not attempted to rifle us, and cut the thong which was round my arm, without awaking the Indian who had the other end in his hand.
For if they remain asleep, let us wait an hour or so, and if you can cut the leather thong which the Indian holds in his hand, and then watch your opportunity, I will do the same, and we may escape.
When the Indians had returned from the canoe, our feet were unbound, and we were again led away by the leather thong which was fast to our arms.
My companion, as the thong entered into his flesh, seemed pleased, saying, "Now my martyrdom is commencing.
Tying the thong firmly around his waist, his game thus carried made no burden, and left his hands free.
A buckskin thong fastened to the outer edge of each of the goggles, and tied behind the head, kept them in place.
He drew a stout buckskin thong from his pocket, and at intervals of about two inches made five slip nooses.
I caught only the barest glimpse of the thong gleaming in the corridor light.
He sank to his knees and I kept right on hammering away at him, hitting him first on the right temple and then on the left and not even stopping to take the thong away from him.
In Roscommon and in the Munster counties a thong is called a fong.
