Theblockade once raised, they might embark immediately, and set sail for England or Spain, without fear of being molested.

And the streets are oriental--some of them three feet wide, some six, but only two that are over a dozen; a man canblockade the most of them by extending his body across them.

But toblockade and watch a coastline is one thing, toblockade and watch the whole surface of a country is another, and cruisers and privateers are things that take long to make, that cannot be packed up and hidden and carried unostentatiously from point to point.

The next instant Bruin was at the foot of the tree; but, as this species of bear does not climb, he contented himself with turning the chase into ablockade. Night came on.

The general told me that the city was in a state of closeblockade, and that all he could do was to give me a passport to the commander-in-chief of the rebels at Quilmes.

As for himself, he had never seen theblockade so complete; he heard his stomach sounding a parley, and he considered it very much out of place that evil destiny should capture his philosophy by famine.

Monk had just declared himself in favor of the liberty of the Rump Parliament, a parliament which General Lambert, imitating Cromwell, whose lieutenant he had been, had just blocked up so closely, in order to bring it to his will, that no member, during all theblockade, was able to go out, and only one, Peter Wentworth, had been able to get in.

And he told tales ofblockade -long weeks of swaying at anchor, varied only by the departure and return of steamers that had used up their coal (there was no change for the sailing-ships); of gales and cold - cold that kept two hundred men, night and day, pounding and chopping at the ice on cable, blocks, and rigging, when the galley was as red-hot as the fort's shot, and men drank cocoa by the bucket.