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When restless, it would struggle about with its hands up in the air trying to find something to take hold of, and, when it had got a bit of stick or rag in two or three of its hands, seemed quite happy.
You hear a low crack, that's all and the man drops down like a limp rag." Not even Ricardo's head, slightly inclined on the left shoulder, had moved; but when he ceased the greenish irises which had been staring out of doors glided into the corners of his eyes nearest to Schomberg and stayed there with a coyly voluptuous expression.
We were driven by this terrible storm for five days without a single rag of sail in which time we proceeded 250 leagues on the ocean, approaching towards the equator, the temperature of the sea and air always improving, till at length, by the cessation of the storm, it pleased God to relieve us from our danger.
John uncovered a corner of the nearest sheet and brought out a clock without hands. "First article! Who'll bid? I think the hands have all struck like the mill-hands down East. Five cents do I hear ten? Going gone," cried the Colonel. A rag doll came next and brought a penny. There was high bidding over a heavy band-box. When it went for half a dollar to Mrs.
'Have you any oil? said another voice, hardly audible; 'let me put some on the wound.... I have got a clean rag. I peeped through the chink again; the woman in the jacket was still busied with the vagrant's sore foot.... 'A Magdalen! I thought. 'I'll get it directly, my dear, said the woman, and, coming into my room, she took a spoonful of oil from the lamp burning before the holy picture.
"If you tell, they'll go down to the wood, and find that brother of mine, and bring him in, and here he'll be lying in clover, and doctored up, and enjoying himself, while poor we are slaving about in sunshine and rain, and often not getting anything to eat, or a rag to cover us."
Finally he left the room and returned with a frayed newspaper in his hand, which he smoothed out upon his knee. "It's the Pantiles Gazette, Mr. Spring, as gossiping a rag as ever was printed. I expect there will be a fine column in it if ever it gets its prying nose into this day's doings.
"There is but one, and he has a white flag," said Boone, who had discovered a small rag attached to a pole borne by the Indian. "What can he want?" inquired Glenn. "He wants permission to bury the dead," replied Roughgrove. "He's the very rascal we let loose last night," said Sneak. This was true.
Her seventeenth birthday was past now, and it seemed to her mother that her young daughter had grown of a still more exceeding prettiness. Poor Mrs. Day often longed for a sympathetic ear into which to breathe her maternal admiration. With Bessie the subject of Deleah's beauty was like a red rag to a bull.
In Maryland, after a very obstinate fight, a rag money bill was carried in the house of representatives, but the senate threw it out; and the measure was thus postponed until the discussion over the federal constitution superseded it in popular interest.
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