Word: fastening
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...said, "Ruskin, don t you know-rocks and clouds-silly old thing", he had critical independence. An observer who called English trees "old Victorian ladies going perpetually to church in a land where it is always Sunday afternoon," he was more whimsy-realistic than imaginative. An artist who, to fasten the attention of a restless, primitive Spanish model (Dancer Carmencita), painted his nose red and ate his cigar, he had ingenuity, humor. An erect, burly, bearded man who waited days to cool off before thrashing an abusive farmer, _ he was gentle, temperate, poised, just. A portraitist who could block...
...June drew near and with it the hour at which Speaker Nicholas Longworth, Republican ringmaster, had decreed that the 69th Congress should fasten its portfolio flaps and go home for the summer. But the 69th Congress showed no intention whatever of obeying Mr. Longworth...
...into the lungs by way of the blood they clog the bronchioles, the tiny air passages, and so give one form of bronchopneumonia. They frequently are secondary invaders in diphtheria, scarlet fever and smallpox. In septicemia, bacterial blood poisoning, these germs may snake along to the heart, where they fasten themselves to the inner heart membranes; or they may grow to the lips of the heart valves, causing thereby valvular troubles. The toxins may cause rotting of the lobules of the liver and of certain passages of the kidneys. They are the causative agents of erysipelas...
...fasten the humble foot board...
...must have you to fasten...