Robin dodged his blows lightly, then sprang in swiftly and unexpectedly and dealt the stranger such a blow upon the short ribs that you would have sworn the tanner was trimming down his hides for market.
"Why, marry," replied Robin, "this fellow would not let me pass the footbridge, and when I tickled him in the ribs, he must needs answer by a pat on the head which landed me overboard."
The track she had made when drifting while her heart stood still within her iron
ribs looked like a tangled thread on the white paper of the chart.
Sancho was by this time plastered and had lain down, and though he strove to sleep the pain of his
ribs would not let him, while Don Quixote with the pain of his had his eyes as wide open as a hare's.
"Amazing is the poverty of my
ribs!" thus hath spoken many a present-day man.
Mayhap I may chance to catch a sight of the dainty brown darlings thus early in the morn." For there was nothing he loved better than to look upon a tripping herd of deer, even when he could not tickle their
ribs with a clothyard shaft.
There are twelve
ribs, you know, and the two lower ones are called floating
ribs, because they are not fastened to the breastbone.
Timmy coughed and groaned, because his
ribs hurted him.
But you've located the diagnosis all right enough--it's under my coat, near the
ribs. Say!
Are those her
ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate?
And so Billy expounded the why of like in terms of realism, in the camp by the Umpqua River, while Possum expounded it, in similar terms of fang and appetite, on the
rib of deer.
In the North Sea lies a dead sea-cat-- that shall be their roast meat; and the
rib of a whale--that shall be their silver spoon; and the hollow foot of a dead horse--that shall be their wineglass.'