When the workmen found it was impossible for me to break loose, they cut all the
strings that bound me; whereupon I rose up, with as melancholy a disposition as ever I had in my life.
"'All right,' said Long-Fang, 'then will I, too, be a strong man.' And he got himself corn, and began to make fire-brew and sell it for
strings of money.
Again she struck the
strings. She sang in another language, which Saxon deemed must be French.
We suitors shall have to contend for it with might and main, for we shall find it no light matter to
string such a bow as this is.
They came from all directions, and there were thousands of them: big mice and little mice and middle-sized mice; and each one brought a piece of
string in his mouth.
" I can't unwind the
strings. I can't lift up the paper.
"That I will, mother," said Sanchica; "but mind, you must give me half of that
string; for I don't think my lady the duchess could have been so stupid as to send it all to you."
At the same time Robin Hood threw back the cowl of horse's hide from his face and bent Guy of Gisbourne's bow, with a keen, barbed arrow fitted to the
string. "Stand back!" cried he sternly.
"Now, my dear, suppose you take them and hook them to that little
string Nora fixed across the window.
He traveled lightly; but his yew bow must needs have a new
string, and his cloth-yard arrows must be of the straightest and soundest.
"Our business is with the Scots," quoth the elder; "for it was the Scots who cut off daddy's
string fingers and his thumbs."
He would use a bit of
string this time, and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at an angle of forty-five, and trying to reach a point three inches beyond what was possible for him to reach, the
string would slip, and down he would slide on to the piano, a really fine musical effect being produced by the suddenness with which his head and body struck all the notes at the same time.
One evening he tied two cats together by their hind legs with a
string about six feet in length, and threw them from the wall into the midst of that noble, that princely, that royal bed, which contained not only the "Cornelius de Witt," but also the "Beauty of Brabant," milk-white, edged with purple and pink, the "Marble of Rotterdam," colour of flax, blossoms feathered red and flesh colour, the "Wonder of Haarlem," the "Colombin obscur," and the "Columbin clair terni."
Lucy was naturally pleased that cousin Tom was so good to her, and it was very amusing to see him tickling a fat toad with a piece of
string when the toad was safe down the area, with an iron grating over him.
By these means little Tommy, for so the bird was called, was become so tame, that it would feed out of the hand of its mistress, would perch upon the finger, and lie contented in her bosom, where it seemed almost sensible of its own happiness; though she always kept a small
string about its leg, nor would ever trust it with the liberty of flying away.
