Lem Wattles horse had succeeded in dyin after bein at it for two weeks.
Lem Wattles what never had his name in the paper before except when he used to get arrested, showed me a piece about two feet long with his face on top.
Female similar, but without thewattles on the head and neck.
The noise, of course, brought Mrs. Wattles screaming and swearing to the door.
After Carter and Simpkins had taken their leave of the staff of the Tocsin I watched a very moving scene from the window, when they bade good Mrs. Wattles farewell.
They obtain entrance here by means of thatWattles woman, who is evidently in their pay.
As I made my way down the yard leading to the street, I encountered Mrs. Wattles at the back door of her shop.
I was satisfied with it, and would have settled everything in a few minutes, but Mrs. Wattles was not to be done out of her jaw.
The chief characteristics of health in a fowl are brightness and dryness of eye and nostrils, the comb and wattles firm and ruddy, the feathers elastic and glossy.
Their comb consists merely of two little points, and their wattlesare very small: their colour is that of a pure white.
This remark may have been the reason why Big Tom's wattles grew so scarlet each time he sang, but it is to be doubted.
Houses were constructed of wattles interwoven between wooden beams and plastered over with clay, and of turf and stones; these were no doubt thatched with heather, straw, or reeds.
It may be, too, that temples constructed of wattles and clay were associated with the circles.
You see the white top of his head, the crimson wattles of his arched neck, the long beard and the glint of his eye, for he is only forty paces away; but do not fire, as the least twig may deflect the ball.
Finally she came to the thick-growing wattles near the fence, and a gleam of blue cambric showed through the leaves.
He found her where the wattles grew thickest, leaning on the fence, her flower-face turned to the young rising moon.
She-oaks and peppermint had given shade to the flocks of the early settlers; wattles had bloomed their brief delirious yellow passion against the grey-green foliage of the gums.
On damp or marshy ground wattles were aflame: great quivering masses of softest gold.
And Mr. Wattleswattles on, in an ecstasy of acquisitiveness: Hold this consciousness and say with deep, earnest feeling: I CAN succeed!
Soon after this, I found and felt in myself that I was delivered from the burden that had so heavily oppressed me.
And from a hut of wattles and clay a little peasant girl came with a bundle of hay in her arms, and gave first one of the oxen and then the other a wisp.
Churis, with the edge and head of an axe, was breaking off the wattles that strengthened the roof.
No comb, head said to be surmounted by a longitudinal crest of soft velvety feathers; nostrils said to be crescentic; wattles well developed; legs feathered; colour black.
Comb absent, or small and of crescentic shape; wattles either present or replaced by a beard-like tuft of feathers.
The covering being spread over the wattles as tightly and snugly as the materials would admit, all was secured by hay ropes and pegs.
The comb is merely two or three spikes, and the wattles are rather small.
A large comb or heavy wattles are rarely seen on the hen at any age; but the comb of the male is high, deeply indented, and his wattles double and large.
When a hen is near to the time of laying, her comb and wattles change from their previous dull hue to a bright red, while the eye becomes more bright, the gait more spirited, and she occasionally cackles for three or four days.
Their combs are generally double--or rose, as it is sometimes called--and the wattles small.
The wattles are of good size in the cock, while those of the hen are slightly less.
The wattles are very small; the comb, as in other high-crested fowls, is very diminutive; and the skin and flesh white.
The female's comb and wattles are smaller than those of the cock; she is less in size, and her colors are more dull and sombre.
He went with seven score young men to cut wattles to build his church.
He built his little cell of wattles and clay, for stones are scarce at Clonard, and with such help as he could procure he also built his church quite near his cell, and in all probability of similar materials.
Under Tom's supervision a drawbridge of wattles was rapidly constructed and thrown over the trench at the southern gate.
A few poles cut up there among the hills and brought down to the shore, a sufficient quantity of wattles to form the roof and sides, and a covering of coconut-palm leaves, and there you are.
The sorrel nag had been to the Wattles more than once before its young master's time, and, besides, its natural instinct led it to gallop along where its fellows had been before.
But that calm night-time was glorious for thought, and before long he had determined that, come what might, he would wait for another hour or two and ride back to the Wattles and set Leather free.
He must get to the Wattles soon, or he would be too late.
For now it seemed such a very simple thing, and he wondered that the men from the Wattles and the government police had not gone straight for and made some efforts to get down to the bottom of the great gorge.
If he felt that you were anywhere near, he would soon go over to the Wattles again.
The boy felt old as he galloped on in the direction of the Wattles Station.
Brookes told the same tale he had told Mr Dillon when he rode over to Wattles Station, embellishing it with cuts--that is to say, showing his wounds.
Then he would ride up to the Wattles just when they were going to tie up Leather, take his place beside him, and, with presented gun, dare any one to touch his father's servant.
How much more latent talent may now be slumbering from the very same cause which kept Mr. Wattles from publicly revealing his discoveries, viz; want of encouragement--ridicule!
I need not say that many a Bulgar had licked the wattles before I had finished.
A curious foreboding of evil came over me as I placed those wattles tenderly along the west bank of the Piave.
You can't do much with just wattles and a little sherbet--I mean you can't expect the public to be interested in Persia at such a moment as this.
But in some few cases the loss has been gradual, and has been effected partly by selection, as with the rudimentary combs and wattles of certain fowls.
With fowls which have large top-knots and beards the comb and wattles are generally much reduced in size; though there are exceptions to this rule.
In certain breeds of fowls the comb and wattles are reduced to rudiments; in the Cochin-China breed scarcely more than rudiments of spurs exist.
With the carrier-pigeon, by increasing through steady selection the wattles on the upper mandible, he has greatly modified the form of the lower mandible; and so in many other cases.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wattles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
