It was in topping these mounds that a better arrangement of the fringes suggested itself.
The two boys, as to whose capabilities to write a topping revue Miss Verepoint had formed so optimistic an estimate, proved to be well-grown lads of about forty-five and forty, respectively.
I know two boys who could write us a topping revue," said Miss Verepoint.
Riding south after the others left, Bull had covered only a few miles before he spied a lone horseman topping a distant ridge.
Topping a black hill that rose abruptly from the plain behind it, a huge wooden cross stood blackly out against the smoldering reds of the evening sky, futile emblem of the simple faith that had relied upon it to save the station.
We followed the track of the lion--as the puma is locally called--but after topping the hill it led along a bare slope and was lost in a clump of high dry bush, where it was quite hopeless to find the creature.
Presently I passed over a stream, and latertopping a low bluff I found myself on the shores of a lake, the distant gleam of whose waters Cattle and I had seen on the previous day.
It was a topping night, the air was as soft and warm as cotton-wool and the moon was on the sea.
You see, Cromer Court is rather a topping old place, family for generations and all that.
We had gone perhaps half a mile, and were topping a low rise that would sink Cedar City from view, when Laban turned his horse around, halted it, and stood up in the stirrups.
Had we broached in those great, over-topping seas, the boat would have been rolled over and over.
He sat on the chair like a large-paunched gorilla, his round head topping the fatty mound like a coconut.
I'm longing to watch the boys topping off bad ones in the big corral and jerking Three Bar steers.
Bangs was topping a horse that strenuously refused to be conquered and as they looked on the animal threw himself.
After topping the crevasse ridge we got on a better surface and came along fairly well, completing over 7 miles (geo.
Island could be seen distinctly behind, topping the huge lines of pressure ridges.
It shone through the maze of mingled twigs for miles till I finally lost it in topping the plateau, passing from loose sand to clayey bottom and fairer growth in moister and more fertile soil.
We turned out in the morning and had a bath and dressed, and had a topping breakfast, and then went on deck.
They had a topping of sand-bags, with intervals for air passage; and a tent, stretched lengthways from the top down to ground, afforded the men shelter and accommodation.
One shell from this howitzer topping the hill pitched within a yard of the guard tent underneath, which was full of men.
His well-cut face, seen in profile, was purplish-red to the crisp, scarlet waves topping his high square forehead.
And another broad arrow of dazzling blue-white light showed motor-lorries packed with spiked helmets and green-grey tunics, behind the kepis topping men in blue coats and red breeches.
That this sort of misunderstanding should have occurred on such a topping day and at a moment when they were to be torn asunder for about thirty-six hours made him feel--well, it gave him the pip.
It's going to be another perfectly topping day," he observed, eyeing the shimmering landscape, from which the morning mists were swiftly shredding away like faint puffs of smoke.
Prime it was, though, considering the creature's designs; and I again marvelled that in all the years of my association with his lordship I had never suspected what a topping sort he could be at this game.
A couple of chaffing old beggars they were, but they had found me a topping dead sportsman of their own sort.
Anyhow, he'd had a short life and a merry; a topping time!
That young, young face topping the athlete's body that towered above her own, that spring and lilt of his walk had never before made such appeal to the sense of physical beauty that was in her.
Oh, I say, Bob, I'd made up my mind to stand you a topping lunch at some hotel or other.
III* O'Reilly treated the two lads to what Eves described as a topping lunch, and afterwards spent half an hour in a close examination of the specification.
But I think self-interest well understood will take me to Topping Abbey, for Sir Hugo has invited me, and proposes--God bless him for his rashness!
Going back too quickly, she stabbed down, topping it badly.
But speaking the normal mother tongue, a first-class boy is marrying a topping girl, which is all that matters.
Why, then," ventured the Ranger, "this must be a topping place to find fossils.
Just then a petite young woman rode up, her bobbed curly hair and sun-flushed cheeks topping a red silk blouse joined to her khaki riding breeches by a fringed sash that reached half way to her elkskin boots.
Topping a rise, they came suddenly upon his birthplace.
Oxydiamine violet B; the topping is done with 4 oz.
Diamine brown M, topping afterwards in a bath of 1/4 oz.
As in very few cases only the desired shade can be obtained in the first instance by bottoming with direct colours, topping generally has to be resorted to.
The shades dyed with the direct dyes may be materially brightened and new shades produced by topping with any of the basic dyes, which are applied in a fresh warm bath.
Method of Cutting: Close Cutting, Ordinary Cutting, The Long Cut, The Topping Cut; II.