All of which was provocative of great hilarity to the onlookers, while her squalls and cries excited the leopards to spitting and leaping against their
bars. And, as she was borne away, she set up a soft wailing like that of a heart-broken child.
Thus, Tellson's, in its day, like greater places of business, its contemporaries, had taken so many lives, that, if the heads laid low before it had been ranged on Temple
Bar instead of being privately disposed of, they would probably have excluded what little light the ground floor bad, in a rather significant manner.
A fresh wind from the northwest sent a rough tumbling sea upon the coast, which broke upon the
bar in furious surges, and extended a sheet of foam almost across the mouth of the river.
Now observe the case of the several breeds of pigeons: they are descended from a pigeon (including two or three sub-species or geographical races) of a bluish colour, with certain
bars and other marks; and when any breed assumes by simple variation a bluish tint, these
bars and other marks invariably reappear; but without any other change of form or character.
"Now listen," said Polynesia, "to-night, as soon as it gets dark, I am going to creep through the
bars of that window and fly over to the palace.
In the
bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music.
"Yes," said Monsieur de Marquet, "but what you have not guessed is that this single window in the vestibule, though it has no iron
bars, has solid iron blinds.
"By the dead hands at my throat but he shall die,
Bar Comas.
Pete, in a white jacket, was behind the
bar bending expectantly toward a quiet stranger.
Bar fell into discussion with Horse Guards concerning courts- martial.
Every Chancellor was "in it," for somebody or other, when he was counsel at the
bar. Good things have been said about it by blue-nosed, bulbous-shoed old benchers in select port- wine committee after dinner in hall.
At the
bar, which ranged along one side of the large chinked-log room, leaned half a dozen men, two of whom were discussing the relative merits of spruce-tea and lime-juice as remedies for scurvy.
He and I drank, which seemed just; but why should Johnny Heinhold, who owned the saloon and waited behind the
bar, be invited to drink?
Not without reason was it often asserted by the regular frequenters of the Porters, that when the light shone full upon the grain of certain panels, and particularly upon an old corner cupboard of walnut-wood in the
bar, you might trace little forests there, and tiny trees like the parent tree, in full umbrageous leaf.
It was a leisure moment with the court; some low whispering passed between the bench and the sheriff, who gave a signal to his officers, and in a very few minutes the silence that prevailed was interrupted by a general movement in the outer crowd, when presently the Leather-Stocking made his appearance, ushered into the criminal’s
bar under the custody of two constables, The hum ceased, the people closed into the open space again, and the silence soon became so deep that the hard breathing of the prisoner was audible.
