As he drew it out, I thought it must be a yard long.
Charlie was heard shouting across the stable-yard to his brother: "Harry, Harry!
Her eyes never regarded them, however, but, fixed on the slabs that paved the tower at a yard or two from her feet, seemed to be gazing far out to sea, for they had an infinite objectless outlook.
I peeped up the inn-yard as I passed: not a man or horse was to be seen.
The real facts on which this incident is founded were, that the horse (not mare) remained in the Post Office yard quietly from 11.
I do not pretend to correctness, To oneyard or even a dozen; No need for extreme circumspectness, The margin's too ample to cozen.
After it was over they went on up to Newburyport, found a berth and set out to look for a yard where they could have the two cruisers patched.
A small yard with a picket fence and gate surround the yard, which had tall hollyhocks, rearing their heads high above the fence.
My mother and father lived at the cabin in the yard and my mother did the cooking for the family.
We would have beans, cooked in a big kettle in the back yard, cabbage and potatoes, with corn pone bread, baked in a big oven In the yard and plenty of good buttermilk to drink.
Their quarters were in the yard of their master; and they were as comfortable as any slaves--with plenty to eat and clothes to keep them warm.
Bacon and "pone bread" baked in the yard in an oven that had legs and lid on top was the chief food and his favorite.
Mother was out in the backyard so I said to myself, I'll get the gun and kill that hawk.
Everbody had a brush fence 'round the house to keep the stock in out o' the yard and one day I seen a big bird sail down on the fence and run under it.
The road to Brussels was practicable everyyard for such a purpose.
The size of the quipus varies much, sometimes the main cord being five or six yards long, and at others not more than a foot; the branches rarely exceeding a yard in length, and being sometimes shorter.
They lost it again, yardbyyard and from house to house, till the pilot station was once more in the hands of the Mataafas.
Those who slept under Doctor Parr's preaching now prolong their nap, I suppose, in the church-yard round about, and can scarcely have drawn much spiritual benefit from any truths that he contrived to tell them in their lifetime.
The church-yard is very small, and is encompassed by a gray stone fence that looks as ancient as the church itself.
The one church-bell in the distant town Chimes softly forth for twelve o'clock; Another clang of the door-yard gate, A sudden hush in the tender talk.
The door-yard gate swings to with a clang, She must not sadden her father so; She springs to her feet with a merrier air, And pinches her face to make it glow.
There's quite a big yard in the back, with a few scrubby old pear trees, a double row of mangy box-bushes, and other traces of what must have been a garden.
Not far from us was a row of these here pelicans--foolish things with bills a yard long and so heavy they have to rest 'em on their necks.
You run about, my little Maid, Your limbs they are alive; If two are in the church-yard laid, 35 Then ye are only five.
The timber for this vessel had been hauled to the ship-yard by dogs; the tar they had prepared themselves, while rigging, cable, and anchors had been dragged nearly two thousand miles through one of the most desolate regions of the earth.
There were some demonstrations of displeasure in the yard of the Capitol and a couple of eggs and a stone or two were thrown through the window before which I was standing.
He stood in a small balcony overlooking the yard in front of our City Hall and the intervening street.
Many a time have I seen a ship's crew strain and heave on warps and cables for hours together, and only gain a yard by all their efforts; but many a time, also, have I seen a single yard of headway save a ship from destruction.
He fastened the canvas "sail" to a cross-yard above and below.
In fly-fishing the cast is not made from the reel as in bait-casting; the line is drawn from the reel a half-yard at a time with the left hand.
Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a church-yard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
In consideration of the fact that Flame's mother had run all the way from the icy-footed chicken yard to answer the telephone it shows distinctly what stuff she was made of that she gasped nothing else.
And each arrival complicated by the yelpings and leapings and general cavortings of four dogs who didn't see any reason in the world why they shouldn't escape from their forced imprisonment in the shed-yard and prance home with her.
Very boisterously in the yard just outside the window the four dogs scuffled and raced for sheer excitement and joy at this most unexpected advent of human companionship.
It was not from the chicken-yard that she had come running this time but only from her Husband's Sermon-Writing-Room in the attic.
Intermittently from time to time they fell back into the frozenyard in a chaos of fur and yelps.
The noise in the school yard ceased with a suddenness that was surprising.
So Sam drove carefully around the piles of iron and scraps and, making a wide detour at the pump, drove out of the yard again.
The one at Brockenhurst, where the ponies are penned into a dirty yard by the station, has little charm for a looker on.
Just at the top of the bluff and well inside the Black-Crane yard stood a wonderfully handsome fir tree, a truly splendid tree, for in all Lakeville there was no other evergreen to compare with it in size, shape or color.
Taking the short cut through the Tuckers' back yard she found Bettie feeding Billy, the seagull, one of Bob's numerous pets.
I'll get a ladder so we can climb up to the top of the fence, and look over," spoke Ned, as he and Tom went out into the yard back of his house.
The two chums left Tom's shop, and were soon in the yard of Ned Newton's house.
Mr. Damon, as they alighted in the yard of his house, about an hour later.
One look into the yard of Andy's house showed to our hero the old miner sitting at the door of the airship shed.
A few minutes later the airship slid inside the great cavern, as easily as if coming to rest in the yard of Tom's house.
The people crowded outside the yard in the street, and the provisions were handed to them over the fence, while the clothing was thrown to them from the upper windows.
The yard was filled with boxes and barrels of bread, crackers, biscuits and bales of blankets.
At half-past nine every evening it was let out into the back-yard and vanished.
The night is dark as pitch, sir; I couldn't see a yardfrom the door; but I heard a voice.
I remember the blessing he asked, so meek, so full of gratitude, with as fine a turkey as ever came from a barn-yard tempting him to be short, and he with hunger stamped deep into every line of his face.
Ten minutes had gone by--ten minutes beyond the time, and the gallows still loomed up from the prison yard empty.
The wagon drew up by the door yard gate with a flourish worthy of the Third avenue.
A crisp frost had swept every flower from the beds, and all the soft tints of green from the door-yard and garden.
