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As for the seats devoted to counsel in the cause, they were crammed to overflowing with the representatives of the various defendants so crammed, indeed, that the wretched James Short, sole counsel for the plaintiff, had to establish himself and his papers in the centre of the third bench sometimes used by solicitors.
I got him without fee or reward, without a morsel of myrrh, or frankincense, nor yet amber, letting alone the honeycomb, all the learning that could be crammed into him. Has it brought him into our temple, in the spirit? No. Have we had any ignorant brothers and sisters that didn't know round O from crooked S, come in among us meanwhile? Many.
Here he is crammed again with the same facts, the same rules, and the same ideas, borrowed from the same people, that are being dinned into scores of other young men who are working for their degree. Having gone conscientiously through this routine, he takes his degree with the rest. This aim being accomplished, his educational career is over.
Put mine in my pocket, please, my hands are so dirty. And I'll tell the others to fetch theirs. This was indeed a happy thought, for now with four generous handfuls of air, which turned to biscuit as Martha crammed it into their pockets, the garrison was well provisioned till sundown.
"Why have you crammed up one of your windows with a dressing-glass?" asked Aunt Beatrice, putting a picture straight. "Because I can't see myself in that dark corner," returned Mildred, demurely meek, but waiting her opportunity. "See yourself! My dear child, you hardly ever want to see yourself, if you are habitually neat and dressed sensibly. I see you've adopted the mannish style.
Louis' day, at the concert held every year on that evening at the Tuileries, the crowd was so dense that a pin would not have fallen to the ground in the garden. The windows of the Tuileries were decorated and crammed full, and all the roofs of the Carrousel filled with all that could hold on there, as well as the square.
Accordingly we crammed half a dozen tobacco pipes with sulphur, and, setting foot to foot, began to smoke, and kept a constant fire, until Macmorris dropped down; then I threw away my pipe, and taking poor Murphy in my arms, 'What, are you dead? said I; 'if you are dead, speak. 'No, by Jesus! cried he, 'I an't dead, but I'm speechless. So he owned I had obtained the victory, and we were as good friends as ever.
"For Cynewulf," says a critic, "'earth's crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God." Cynewulf has inserted his name in runic characters in four poems: Christ, Elene, Juliana, a story of a Christian martyr, and the least important, The Fates of the Apostles.
"Now, Ethel, Ethel, you soft little fool you're only twenty-five, you know. And of all the adorable babies waiting in a nursery " One day she found Fifth Avenue crammed and jammed with a huge parade. She had her chauffeur get as close as he could, and with intent and curious eyes she watched the suffragists march by. What hosts and hosts of women, how jolly and how friendly.
The wheat they had been selling at 5l. a load ran up to 50l. With their purses thus crammed full, what were they to do? There was nothing but drink, and they did drink. In those days the farmer in his isolated homestead was more cut off from the world than the settler at the present time in the backwoods or on the prairies.
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