The she-wolf, too, left her litter and went out in search of meat.
For she knew that in the lynx's lair was a litter of kittens, and she knew the lynx for a fierce, bad-tempered creature and a terrible fighter.
The mourners, too, enveloped and swathed in their skirts and gowns, were unable to bestir themselves, and so with entire safety to himself Don Quixote belaboured them all and drove them off against their will, for they all thought it was no man but a devil from hell come to carry away the dead body they had in the litter.
"You shall be soon satisfied," said the licentiate; "you must know, then, that though just now I said I was a licentiate, I am only a bachelor, and my name is Alonzo Lopez; I am a native of Alcobendas, I come from the city of Baeza with eleven others, priests, the same who fled with the torches, and we are going to the city of Segovia accompanying a dead body which is in that litter, and is that of a gentleman who died in Baeza, where he was interred; and now, as I said, we are taking his bones to their burial-place, which is in Segovia, where he was born."
Let me give you some.' They had rested the
litter on a pile of paving stones.
"The fool should have known that we desired her alive," grumbled Malbihn, grasping a corner of the cloth and jerking the cover from the thing that lay upon the
litter.
His shot-gun lay beside him in the
litter. All he had to do, muzzle to head, was to press the trigger and blow his head into nothingness.
Half an hour later, as the creaking
litter jolted up the hill path that leads south-easterly from Shamlegh, Kim saw a tiny figure at the hut door waving a white rag.
The children seemed to tumble about and amuse themselves like a
litter of rough, good-natured collie puppies.
There was not
litter enough, when she had swept the floors and cleaned the grates, to even half fill the housemaid's bucket which she carried with her.
Crooks being still too feeble to mount the saddle, was carried on a
litter.
Six Delaware girls, with their long, dark, flowing tresses falling loosely across their bosoms, stood apart, and only gave proof of their existence as they occasionally strewed sweet-scented herbs and forest flowers on a
litter of fragrant plants that, under a pall of Indian robes, supported all that now remained of the ardent, high-souled, and generous Cora.
The Alpine
litter is sometimes like a cushioned box made fast between the middles of two long poles, and sometimes it is a chair with a back to it and a support for the feet.
Beside him rode a stout Saxon franklin, Ellen's father, Edward of Deirwold; behind those two came a
litter borne by two horses, and therein was a maiden whom Robin knew must be Ellen.
Instead of a neatly glued floor, swept by the bees with the fanning of their wings, there is a floor
littered with bits of wax, excrement, dying bees scarcely moving their legs, and dead ones that have not been cleared away.
