"Eyelet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my boy, they are. I was afraid that Martha had had an accident with the fungi, and had prepared a substitute from my old shooting boots, but I can't see either eyelet or nail. Can you?" ...
— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn
... of their padded armour, and looking exceeding fierce and valiant the while; until, after a greater or less time, according as the combatants are equal in skill or not, one of them gets a scratch across the nose, or small eyelet hole in the cheek, which terminates this caricature of a duel. Since "young Germany" finds amusement in so harmless a practice, it might very well be allowed them; provided they afterwards, like good boys, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various
... hang it up by the eyelet, until it ceases to drip; then put in the stopper. The small amount of moisture left in will help to keep it flexible. It should be kept hanging, if possible, as folds in the rubber predispose it to crack. It should be kept in an even temperature, ...
— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell
... with new black mufflers round their necks in place of collars—for the larrikin taste in dress runs to a surprising neatness. But their boots were remarkable, fitting like a glove, with high heels and a wonderful ornament of perforated toe-caps and brass eyelet-holes on the uppers. ...
— Jonah • Louis Stone
... them to look back. Then they saw a sight that sent the blood to their hearts, for there behind them, leaping down one by one on to that narrow footway, were men armed with naked swords, six or eight of them, all of whom, they noted, had strips of linen pierced with eyelet holes tied beneath their helms or leather caps, so as ...
— The Brethren • H. Rider Haggard
... garmond, garment, costume. governance, discretion. hals-ribbane, neck-ribbon. hoiss, hose. hud, hood. kirtill, skirt. lasit, fastened. lesum, lawful. lufe, love. mailyheis, eyelet-holes. pansing, thought. patelet, ruffet. quhyt, white. rewth, pity. sark, shirt, chemise. scho, she. schone, shoes. seill, knowledge. set, suited. sickernes, security. suld, should. tepat, tippet. ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... she slipped into the covert and drew the door to, noiselessly. But her curiosity overmastered her fear, and, firmly believing some magical rite was about to be performed, she sought for means of beholding it; nor was she long in discovering a small eyelet-hole in the carving ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... through a magnifying-glass, with now and then a tower, however, and frequent buttresses, to keep its height of fifty feet from toppling over. The top was ragged, and fringed with a few weeds; there had been embrasures for guns and eyelet-holes for musketry, but these were plastered up with brick or stone. I passed one or two walled-up gateways (by the by, the Parts, Latina was the gate through which Belisarius first entered Rome), and one of these had two high, round towers, and looked more Gothic and venerable with ...
— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... as many gags as we could conveniently stow in our pockets, we next stationed ourselves in couples alongside three occupied hammocks, and while one of the twain loosely and quickly passed the lacing through the eyelet-holes the other stood by with the gag, which, at the proper moment, was slipped into the victim's mouth and lashed securely, the hammock lacing at the same moment being hauled taut and made fast; and in this way each prisoner ...
— The Log of a Privateersman • Harry Collingwood
... from the eyelet she was working, but Dr. Grey had turned his head towards his sister who had fallen asleep in her chair, and the orphan could ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson
... business in which he was engaged, and animated with anger against his impertinent intruder, the rencontre speedily began to assume another face, amidst cries of "Well done, grey jerkin!"—"Try the metal of his gold doublet!"—"Finely thrust!"—"Curiously parried!"—"There went another eyelet-hole to his broidered jerkin!"—"Fairly pinked, by G—d!" In applause, accompanying a successful and conclusive lunge, by which Peveril ran his gigantic antagonist through the body. He looked at his prostrate foe for a moment; ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... head-stays, braces, bowlines and lifts, were dangling in all directions, while the canvass that was open exhibited all sorts of rents, from that which had been torn like cloth in the shopman's hands, to the little eyelet holes of the canister and grape. It appeared, by the subsequent reports of the two parties, that, in this short but severe conflict, the slain and wounded of the English amounted to seven hundred and sixty-three, ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... inherited, I know not how, but the original sin of which has more than once nearly cost me my life, I said, without addressing my superior officer, or any one else directly, "I should like now to scale my pistol through that coffin. If I miss, I can't hurt the old woman; and an eyelet hole in the coffin itself will only be an act ...
— Great Sea Stories • Various
... the eyelet forming punch, C, the eyelet forming die, e, and the punch, G, arranged and operating substantially as herein described, for the purpose ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various
... shroud and eyelet, Rocking in the windy trough? No more panic; Man's your pilot; Turns the flood, and we ...
— Behind the Arras - A Book of the Unseen • Bliss Carman
... behind me and lifted one of the nooses from its hook. Its own weight had nearly closed the loop, for the steel eyelet spliced into the end ran very easily and smoothly on the well-greased rope. I opened the loop wide, and leaning towards Piragoff from behind, quietly dropped it over his shoulders, pulling it tight as it fell to the level of his elbows. He sprang up, but at that instant I kicked ...
— The Uttermost Farthing - A Savant's Vendetta • R. Austin Freeman |
