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The drag-net of a newspaper catches all sorts of poets and poetry, good, bad, and indifferent oftener the bad and indifferent, rarely the good. The drag-net of the Free Press was no exception to this rule; but, one day, it fetched up from the depths of the hard commonplaces of our New England town life a genuine pearl. We will let Mr.
And yet it was Dryden who, in speaking of Persius, hit upon the happy phrase of "boisterous metaphors"; it was Dryden who said of Cowley, whom he elsewhere calls "the darling of my youth," that he was "sunk in reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great and small."
To call yourself a prisoner, when you are only a visitor here, and could come and go just as you like at least, not quite, for it wouldn't be safe; but it will be soon." "What's that coil of new rope for?" "That?" cried Waller. "Oh, that's a new rope for my drag-net. The old one was quite worn out. You shall help me to fit this on if you like." "Thank you. I'll help you if you wish."
Jay Gardiner's thoughts were not any too pleasant as he wended his way to his boarding-house. He had always prided himself on his skill in evading women, lest a drag-net in the hands of some designing woman might insnare him. Now he had been cleverly outwitted by an eighteen-year-old girl. He suddenly lost all pleasure in driving.
While he had gazed with fascinated eyes at the faultlessly beautiful face of Bernardine, his heart had gone from him in one great, mad throb of passionate love. "This lovely bird has walked directly into my drag-net," he muttered. "Why should she not be mine, whether she loves or hates me?"
Also who the party was that was handin' out advance dope on such confidential details as board meetin' motions Well, that was more so. Next time it might be a tip on something important. Mr. Robert suggests this. "There is to be no next time," says Old Hickory, settin' his jaw. So we starts the drag-net. First we went over the directors who had been present.
The day was showery with strong bursts of sunshine between the slanting summer rains. All along the great highway, in sun and shade, women, children, the coloured people, all the white men left by the drag-net of the war, were out in the ripening fields, by the roadside wall, before gates, in the village streets. They wept with pride and joy, they laughed, they embraced.
Morgenthau's strenuous representations, with the result that these Russian Jews were gathered together as in a great drag-net and herded to Jaffa, amidst suffering unspeakable. There they were met by the American cruisers which were to transport them to Egypt. Up to the very moment when they set foot on the friendly warships they were robbed and horribly abused by the Jaffa boatmen.
"What is trawling, eh?" repeated the old sailor, humming and cogitating for a minute or so. "Let me see; ah, yes, you let down a trawl and catch your fish in it, instead of using a line or drag-net." "Sure, Captain," cried Mrs Gilmour, laughing at this, "that's as good as your definition of steam the other day!
Indeed, the pelicans enclosed the fish with their united wings in a regular line as close and compact as a trawl or drag-net. As the circle gradually contracted, the fish began to jump into the air, and to dart about in all directions, leaving many a muddy streak to mark their course.
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