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One sometimes sees women's coats made with innumerable fancy buttons or tabs as decoration.
Of course the people who shipped that gold may smell a rat and keep tab on him, but he'll see that he gets clear.
She should not wear the long coat, but she can effectively modify it to suit her needs, by only having a skirt, or tabs, or finishing straps in the back.
It used to be said of you in the flush times that you kept tab on the real estate transfers when everybody else was too busy to read the record.
When the score is vantage out, I put all the red tabs I can into my voice, and his tone changes.
Your cautious folk are all the time falling down wells because their eyes are up in the air, keeping tabs so that they can dodge shooting stars.
No, if you never heard of voting the bonds you certainly haven't kept very close tab on affairs in this Strip.
The other three, like them, all wore the Socialist button and the little tab of red ribbon that marked them as members of the Fighting Sections.
"Well, let's see," said Cub, picking up a pencil and beginning to figure on a tab of paper before him.
The very fact that one stops to probe into that hidden land of thought shows that he is keeping tab on himself with a sharp eye.
These unknown tab-bearers made a greater impression than the others; and besides, their importance and their power were increasing.
I've been keeping tabs on Billy, and to see him grin, and look so happy and proud gives the thing away.
Forgiveness is not a question of mathematics; not a matter of keeping tab on somebody: not seven times but seventy times seven.
I wonder now, Hugh, if you've got tabs on all the fellows, so that you could tell who made any footprint in the mud?
I haven't found a man yet that I could trust to keep tab on him, and I don't know what he's doing; but I can guess.
Bart carried back with him a hammer and some nails, a broom, a marking pot and brush, pens, ink and a couple of tabs of paper.
If you got a prisoner to look after you can't do your own work; you got to keep tabs on him.
"I stopped payment on it when he wouldn't pick up the tab for some drinks I invited him to have!"
I've been keeping tabs on your play at short, and honestly, I want to say, you're doing mighty well.
He was that, it is true, but he was something else besides; something which tabbed him a mortal set apart from his fellow mortals.
Without turning your head scarcely you can keep an eye on Martin's drug store, keep tab on the comings and goings of the town's two doctors, and the hotel's arriving and departing guests.
Next the slide is removed, and the tab marked "Safety Cover" pulled out as far as it will come and torn off.
Said Lydia, and picking up the cloak she turned over the tab at the neck, by which it was hung up.
Martin slid the driver's license into one of the slots, the registration tab into the other.
I couldn't cut in, because I have so many troubles of my own getting home from any place at all that I haven't time to keep tab on other people.
I thought the few white folks in this country kept tab on anything as important as a new railroad.
As it was early in April and cool, upon this occasion Aunt Susan wore ear tabs, over which she tied a thick, green veil, when it grew warmer in the sunshine she removed the veil.
She was going out to theaters every night, and going to dine with lots of delicious 'red tabs' whose work was over here, whom she had not seen for a long time.
Or am I to die miserably while you take tabs on my blood pressure, or do I merely lose an arm while you're sitting with folded hands waiting for the laboratory report?
And a pair of thick, nailed boots, with all four tabs sticking out, and a tie slipping round to the back of his neck.
Such a relationship would help me, of course, to keep tab more easily on Raymond during the long course of his life.
If it were not for the close tab which that energetic young secretary kept upon things, Lawson would have run the concern into the ditch long ago, whispered the ambitious ones.
Perhaps they mean to keep tabs on us, and if we are lucky enough to discover Uncle Felix, they hope to jump in, and snatch away the prize before we can warn him.
I drop my pencil signing a tab, and when I look down it is floating in a pool of champagne.
There is no night on the coast in summer; and even though we were a Mission ship we found it a real difficulty to keep tab of Sundays.
If you wish to keep tabs on your plantings, use a long stake, with place for tag at the top, in each pan or box.
It was hanging up in the glass case above the bench where he worked, with my name on a little tab attached to the ring.
Jack, you and Teddy keep tabs of the rear, and shoot if you see the least suspicious movement.
I think he was sent down here as a sort of spy, to see just what we were doing, and get tabs on our men.
They searched about here, there, and everywhere, but not so much as the tab of a lace could be found.
A little group of men with scarlet staff-bands on their caps and tabs on their collars climb out of the cars and move off the track into the grass of the hollow.
I knelt down and lifted it cautiously by a leather tab which was attached to one side of it and peered through.
It is the occasion for a thrill when a "Brass Hat" arrives, for he at least has the little brilliant red tabs on his tunic!
He had to put the camera down and work the tab controls that trimmed the plane with his left hand while his right kept it steady.
I have kept tab on Edgar Rice Burroughs' writings because he teaches evolution in a way that makes it easy for the ordinary reader to grasp.
We'll keep tabs on one another that way, you see, and each side will know just how much the other has done.
Worth's question drew the lawyer's glance, and he stared at them apparently a good deal taken aback, while Worth added, "Seems to keep pretty close tab on your movements."
I rather think I can get this bird there and back without being seen, but perhaps they may catch Allah keeping tabs on us at that.
He was measuring every inch of the man with an eye that had been trained for years to keep tabs on a multitude of marked and measured men.
What agency conveys medicinal substances and ointments into the system when tabbed on the skin?
I see, you hope to keep tabs on our course by ear, when the eye fails us; is that it, Jack?
Just as my hands were both engaged a gust of wind lifted one of my hair tabs and exposed almost the whole of my left ear.
He and Blakely have been helping me keep tab on Matthews to prevent the very thing that's happened.
He'd always kept close tabs on the coal question, so that, when he got ready to start, nothing would satisfy him but small holdings in half a dozen parts of the country.
"Come up to my room in an hour or two, and I'll put you next," said Douglass, cautiously; "some of this gang is keeping tab on us."
I was mentally estimating the total of the pile of tabs Nick pulled out of the cash register, like a fighter on percentage trying to count the house.
The officer was evidently a lieutenant or something of the sort, because he had impressive-looking shoulder tabs on his uniform.
Albert slipped into the first suit that came to hand, blessing the seam tabs that made dressing a moment's work.
For a while it was okay, but I guess they finally drove themselves nuts, keeping tabs on each other.
To prepare for the first exposure, simply pull out from the pack the paper tab marked "Safety Cover."
Upon pulling out the twelfth tab the pack is rendered light-tight, so that it may be safely removed in any light.
His job was to keep tabs on them, and that he would now have an exceptional opportunity to do, he cheered himself.
I took a seat on the gallery, with the fixed resolve to count how many shots would be fired, and this is the result of my tab.
That would have required blasting through a lot of granite and did not really seem worth the tab.
He must be more careful about keeping tab on his money, but also it was wonderful to find more than you expected.
Outer short sleeves became a feature, opening in the front, showing the full under one or a tight one; the waist became very short and its tabs larger.
Please see "Definitions and Notes" (under the References tab) for descriptions of the new fields.
The tabs, which are the narrow strips that hang out from the ends of the pieces while on show, are kept for a time as references.
It was splendid work, and the trio of boys who kept tabs on what their patrol leader was doing, felt a genuine thrill of admiration for Rob's skill.
Jessie, removing the tabs from her ears, likewise gained some understanding of what was going on outside.
Unknown to Marjorie, she had determined to constitute herself a vigilance committee of one to keep tab on Mignon.
The nurse opened a drawer, producing a needle which had plastic tabs on either side of it; "This is called a butterfly needle," she told me.
I have been keeping tab on the number of new bullet holes in my machine each day, marking each with red chalk, so that I won't include any of the old ones in the next day's count.
An elderly female should, as we have said, always wear a cap; and her cap should have tabs or broad strings to tie under her chin.
Factories need instruments that keep tab on electrical equipment to make sure electricity is being used efficiently.
And several others, like Elmer for instance, might keep tabs on the bunch by following them on their wheels.
The special had full swing for the east, as headquarters was keeping tab of the train every minute.
The usual crowd that kept tab on arriving trains lounged on the platform, and watched the various passengers alight.
We repeated them in new "tabs" beside the heading of our paper on March 28th, with an amended English translation facing them: "All has come right."
That particular "flat" is then lashed to its neighbors with a "tab line," much as you lace your shoes.
She was short in stature and slender, her pale face shaded by gray curls, and upon her bowed head was a lace cap with long tabs of the same costly material.
As he had been elected the commodore of the fleet, and kept tab of the charts, they always depended on what he said as being positive.
Intelligence converts desire into plans, systematic plans based on assembling facts, reporting events as they happen, keeping tab on them and analyzing them.
The world seems new at every dawn, seems new and queer, and strange; and we can scarce keep tab upon the ringing grooves of change.
We took no count of the distance, we lost all tab of dates, but camped where game was plenty, pushed on when the sun was shining, holed up when the wind was too cold, and mostly lived by hunting.
The tab can be readily turned down into the palm of the hand whilst the arrow is applied to the string.
The tab is then replaced on the tips of the fingers and applied to the string, with the arrow at the bottom of the opening between the parts a and b.
Or was he playing cat and mouse with the Wellington, and keeping tabs on its flight almost due eastward?
I casually moved up to the seat alongside his, on the other side of the aisle, where I could keep good tab on him.
At the rear of the lower part of the cavalry jacket, about where the upper ornamental buttons are on the tail of a frock coat, are two funny tabs, about the size of small pin-cushions.
He had been just about long enough in making his appearance to tab up with the completeness of his toilet.
Walking over, he stepped close to the table, watching the play, and from where he could keep tabs on Bud Haines' every move.
"That's the advantage of living on the other side and coming back to meet the younger generation," said Anne; "they haven't kept tab on the years."
Naturally they had kept tab on his movements, where he went and what he did being of some moment to them.
One would have thought that Madame must have played the spy with us, must have listened at the door, must have kept tabs for herself on the different phases of our relations.
And still pressing the wet ball to her eyes she came back to me, to her chair with the lace tabs, and sank into it.
Then Grant was left alone with the tab to a wonderful possibility to turn over and over in his mind.
He dropped still lower, with a practiced eye keeping tabs of the wind and waves that were being kicked up.
When in the nature of things Jack finally concluded the other should have reached his objective, he craned his neck, and started to keep close tabs on the motionless airplane.
Keenly he kept tabs on the others and was finally thrilled to note the pleased nod Jack gave as if wholly satisfied.