MacLean thrust a handkerchief into his bosom to stanch the bleeding.
She made no exclamation, said nothing good or bad; only drew her hand across her brow and eyes, as though she strove to thrust away a veil or mist that troubled her.
Blenheim I charged a whole regiment of Frenchmen, with a wound in my breast into which you might have thrust your hand!
Taking off his riding glove he ran his finger along the bindings, and plucking forth The History of a Coy Lady looked at the first page, read the last paragraph, and finally thrust the thin brown and gilt volume into his pocket.
Her lips trembled, her eyes half closed, and with a hurried and passionate gesture she rose from her chair, thrust from her the scarlet blooms, and with one lithe movement of her body put between her and the window the heavy writing table.
But there had thrust itself into their company a plague spot, and the girl in green taffeta and a matron in silver brocade, between whom stood the hateful presence, indignantly stepped out of line and declined to dance.
They were thrust on the Church of England in a rather disreputable way.
But some of them had no real vocation for the position into which they had thrust themselves.
He saw himself surrounded by dead bodies; hideous faces covered with blood thrust themselves forward towards his.
The enthusiastic Savoyard lacked almost everything for the position into which, at the bidding of his General, he had thrust himself.
There they were thrust violently into the chapel, and the crowd tried to make Farel prostrate himself before an image of the Blessed Virgin.
June 30th, by the accidental thrust of a lance at a tournament held in honour of the approaching marriage of his daughter Elizabeth with Philip of Spain.
With an easy turn of his staff he parried the vicious sword thrust of the boy cacique and sent his polished maquahuitl spinning through the air.
Two big round tears trickled down her cheeks, but she received the parchment calmly and thrust it into her bosom.
The little grandmother thrust a shrivelled claw into her peaked, shrunken bosom, and drew out a paper, crumpled and yellow as herself, covered with strange crabbed hieroglyphics, whose hue had long since faded.
He felt her breast heave convulsively under his face; with her hands she thrusthim away.
Had I not been still smouldering over yesterday's trick, I could have pitied them for the unwelcome job thrust upon their unskilled and apparently even unweaponed hands by the machinations of the Poison God and the orders of Ben David.
In such a frenzy of anger as only unreasonable people are subject to, she caught the child, shivering with terror, and thrust him into the water.
My chaotic thoughts were beginning to settle themselves,--to form a nucleus about the first circumstance that thrust itself definitely before them.
Then he thrust them deep in his pockets, standing very straight.
A woman appeared and little Rackby was thrust out among the able seamen.
There were steps, then, just as I had expected, the door was thrust back and she stood there letting in the fresh air of heaven, a slender sheaf of gray in her long coat and small fur toque.
The other pencil he thrust crosswise so that the pointed end stuck out between the second and third finger and the blunt end between the index finger and thumb.
Fists on hips, head thrust out, one saw him casting up the sum of his treasure-trove.
He thrust the weapon into my innocent hand and began to pull at my bougainvillea vine as if it were in his way.
With his eye for queer details, he remembered that print and associated with it the yellow-rutted road, the rusty alders in the meadow beyond, and the pale spire of the church thrust into a November sky.
The girl's arms were lifted toward him; she whirled, thrust Peter back, and fled over soft and treacherous hassocks of the purple weed.
A muffled head was suddenly thrust out from under the straw, a voice cried: "A hospital on wheels!
More than half of them are stripped of honor and dignity on your altar of vengeance, and thrust into the arms of repulsive avarice.
He distinctly saw all this; it even seemed as if he heard the sobs of the women, and wailing bitterly, he thrust his hands in his floating locks and ran to and fro.
Thrust Block, taking off one of his six collars, which hurt his neck.
I asked, rousing myself from the lethargy into which my morning paper had thrust me.
It is of course necessary that the box in which the discs A are set, shall be strong enough to withstand the thrust which the screw occasions.
All steam vessels when set into motion, will force themselves forward with an amount of thrust which, setting aside the loss from friction and from other causes, will just balance the pressure on the pistons.
Is there any ready means of predicting what the amount of thrust of a screw will be?
In, some screw vessels the amount of thrust actually exerted by the screw under all its varying circumstances, has been ascertained by the application of a dynamometer to the end of the shaft.
Thrust of the screw propeller, modes of receiving.
The plummer block for receiving the thrust of the shaft is shown in fig.
Nearly every neutral nation finds new domestic problems thrust upon it and old problems made more difficult.
The intent of the German thrust was to drive the Russians far back and establish easily defended positions from which the Germans might detach forces for operations against Italy and the Allies in the west.
He thrust me into the buttock with a bodkin or a pin, [He discovers the needle.
By the mass, here is a gash, a shameful hole indeed, And one stitch tear further, a man may thrust in his head.
There were kicks from behind into faces, swords thrust into the eyes of those on the second row, who in turn were putting out the eyes of the third row.
After meditating a half minute, he thrust one of his claws into the shell to assure himself that it was really empty.
They were just going to do it, when the captain of a vessel took me prisoner and thrust me into the citadel of Belver, where I spent three years in the harshest captivity.
Du Portail made Cerizet a sign to accept the role so abruptlythrust upon him.
Phellion, stopping short in the middle of the salon and posing, with his hand thrust through the bosom of his waistcoat from right to left, in the well-known attitude of Odilon Barrot.
To counteract the thrustof arched and ribbed vaulting the device of buttresses was hit upon.
Yet so clear and certain was the sound of the voice that he could not rest, but went to the entrance and thrust out his head.
Then he set his shoulder to it and thrust mightily; but the door did not so much as creak.
But a response to our present demand does not legitimately thrust on you the final consideration of the whole broad question of suffrage, on which many of you may be unprepared to give an opinion.
State of New York took no action at all in the matter; it was the General Government which thrust itself forward and took up the question.
Since this great question of woman's rights was thrust upon me, I am asked to define my position; wherever I have traveled in the fifteen months I have had to do so.
There are men in this town to-day, to my certain knowledge, who have had this boon of citizenship thrust upon them, who scorned the name, and who freely claimed allegiance to a foreign power.
At this stage the Democrat thrust in the stereotyped rebel phrase: "but only according to the Constitution.
Father Gumilla declares that serpents will die if a tobacco leaf be thrust into their mouths.
But the burden was too heavily laden to be so easily thrust aside.
Fortunately, the sense that a man must not fight with his fists in the presence of ladies made him thrust his hands into his pockets.
Luck has thrust into my hands a tremendous lever; and I mean to use it.
We did not like to put the bit in, so the immense iron ring which was usually round his chin hung round his neck and clanked like the clapper of a bell, while the nose was thrust through that part meant for his ears.
Virtue is thrust upon me, in other words," said Phyllis.
But her frock was a stout blue gingham, fortunately, and a projecting branch-stump was thrust through it, holding her in a horizontal position along the bough.
The other is the seizure of Anthony Burns on the free soil of Massachusetts, and his surrender, without judge or jury, to a Slave-Hunter from Virginia, to be thrustback into perpetual bondage.
Many people in the villages, wanting to be sure that their prayers and wants would be remembered, wrote their names on slips of paper and thrust them into the pilgrim's hand.
I pushed many priests aside; I thrust my sword through many idols.
Nero called desperately to his servants to send for a gladiator to thrust him through with a sword, but no one would go.
She was instantly thrust through with a multitude of wounds in every part of her body, and died weltering in the blood that flowed out upon the couch on which she lay.
The burden of being grown-up suddenly arose, thrust itself upon her, and grew great and terrifying and not to be borne.
Barbara felt a harsh resentment at his persistence, and an added anger that it should be thrust upon her on this day when her heart was so bitter sore.
Barbara endured the scrutiny for a moment or two, then her dark cheeks flushed, her lips pouted, and she impetuouslythrust herself again into his arms.
A low, green point, deep-plumed with sedge, thrust out from the nearing shore to meet her.
He was giving some little order, when the two horsemen, riding up to him, thrust him against the icy watering-trough so unexpectedly that he fell over it.
Experienced and ready in emergency, the old woman thrust ashore, laid the moveless little figure down upon a mossy hillock, and in a very few minutes succeeded in bringing it back to conscious life.
Mistress Mehitable had just time to thrust aside her needle and the fine fabric she was fashioning before Barbara flung herself into her arms, sobbing passionately.
Her chin was square and thrust forward aggressively, with a gray-bristled wart at one side of its obtrusive vigour.
