Word: barking
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...described the "flavor" of Rosemary Clooney's voice during melancholy moods as being "cinnamon." My ears didn't think that they had tasted that one yet, so I consulted Webster. It says there that cinnamon is an "aromatic bark...
...ashamed of it, and you have no reason to tease him. I rely on your good manners, your charitable natures and your kind hearts." But these virtues are not well developed in schoolboys. Edmond's colleagues chained him to posts in the school yard and forced him to bark. "Who takes you out before breakfast," they asked, "your mother or your father...
...grave," says Thornton Wilder, "they will write: 'Here lies a man who tried to be obliging.' " And he gives a nervous bark of laughter-the laugh, slightly louder than the occasion warrants, of a man accustomed to putting strangers at their ease...
...most prominent and prosperous farmer in the district, former Mayor Johannes Steenbock occupies one of the handsomest houses in the tiny Schleswig-Holstein village of Bark. Its tall, sloping roof covers two attic floors and provides frequent shelter for refugee farmworkers streaming into Germany from the Russian-held East. The refugees, like Farmer Steenbock's large family, find plenty of room on the lower floor and seldom, if ever, visit the attics...
...stage of human affairs." His stage was the toughest strip of the Sydney waterfront. He organized a wharf laborers' union. Hobo life had given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said, "to peel the bark off a gum tree," or "galvanize ten dead bullocks to a trot." A gnomelike figure (5 ft. tall, under 100 lbs.), among the muscular wharf lumpers he was said to be "too deaf to listen to reason, too loud to be ignored, and too small to hit." He was soon...