"March your army at once to the Land of Oz, capture and destroy the Emerald City, and bring back to me my Magic Belt!" roared the King.
Had you not lost your Magic Belt we might have some chance of defeating Ozma; but the Belt is gone."
"The Belt was captured by a little girl named Dorothy, who lives in Kansas, in the United States of America."
'As you have hitherto always behaved well in my service I will not send you to prison; but leave your place instantly and never let me see your face again.' So the Herd-boy went back to his hut, and taking his loaf and
belt with him, he went to the nearest town.
"How it does look!" and Rose gave a glance of scorn at the loose belt hanging round her trim little waist.
Alec for the oatmeal diet when she saw a lovely ivory workbox; became resigned to the state of her belt when she found a pile of rainbow-coloured sashes; and when she came to some distractingly pretty bottles of attar of rose, she felt that they almost atoned for the great sin of thinking Phebe the finer girl of the two.
"By using the Magic Belt. All I need do is to wish you with me, and there you'll be--safe in the royal palace!"
"Oh, we must give Ozma time to put on the Magic Belt," replied the girl.
For Ozma had agreed that while Dorothy slept she and Toto should be transported by means of the Magic
Belt to her own little bed in the Kansas farm-house and the little girl laughed as she thought how astonished Uncle Henry and Aunt Em would be when she came down to breakfast with them next morning.
He was smallish in stature, but well set and as nimble as a goat; his face was of a good open expression, but sunburnt very dark, and heavily freckled and pitted with the small-pox; his eyes were unusually light and had a kind of dancing madness in them, that was both engaging and alarming; and when he took off his great-coat, he laid a pair of fine silver-mounted pistols on the table, and I saw that he was
belted with a great sword.
Harvey sat up to unfasten the belt, facing the head that had no face under its streaming hair.
I had to look at his face while I was takin' the belt off.