Toward the middle of the afternoon the main flood cloud lifted along its western border revealing a beautiful section of the Sacramento Valley some twenty or thirty miles away, brilliantly sun-lighted and glistering with rain-sheets as if paved with silver.

Then, striking to the westward and the south, they came at last to the northern borders of Sherwood Forest, without in all that time having met so much as a single band of the King's men.

To keep us busy with troubles of our own, German propaganda and German money in Mexico raised on our southern border a threatening spectre of war.

While these revolutionary movements were destroying the power of Mexico in the interior of the Province of California, and the expedition under General Kearneyignorant of the fact that the work had been done alreadywas approaching its eastern borders for the same purpose, the naval force of the United States in the Pacific, under Commodore Sloat, had been assisting in the work of conquest.

Its walls were hung with an exceedingly pretty gothic paper, in green, but over each window was a chasm in the upper border; and as this border supplied the arches, the unity of the entire design was broken in no less than four places, that being the precise number of the windows.

His table was covered with papers, among which were several letters with the broad black border which I had before observed.

And then there were checks green in the middle with brown borders: these were the orchards, where the grass-carpets were already turning green, although the trees and bushes around them were still in their nude, brown bark.

When the blooming season is over, plunge the pots in a shady, well-drained border, and when the leaves start afresh turn the plants carefully out of the pots, so as not to injure their roots, and re-pot in fresh soil.

The smaller Foraminifera now give way, and are found in lessening proportion to the larger; the coccoliths first lose their thin outer border and then disappear; and the clubs of the rhabdoliths get worn out of shape, and are last seen, under a high power, as infinitely minute cylinders scattered over the field.

draws up inner border of foot.

Having worked up their courage to the highest pitch by these means, they fixed their camp at the extreme borders of their country in the way of the enemy; and sending messengers to Philip to inform him of the critical situation in which they stood, they obliged him to suspend the war in which he was engaged, though he had gained possession of Jamphorina by surrender, and had succeeded in other respects.

But in most, I think, it was a love of bold adventure, and especially the craving to push the white man's province beyond the narrow borders of the Tidewater.

But still on the south border of Kansas there camped a landless and homeless multitude.

On reaching the posterior border of the navicular bone it widens out to form the plantar aponeurosis.

The colour of the Artillery is black with a yellow border, that of the Engineers black with a red border.

Here were long herbaceous borders, backed by the mighty sloping walls of old red sandstone, which, like an ancient fortification, supported the terrace above.

1, External face of cartilage(a) its upper border, (b) its posterior border, (c) its anterior border, (d) its inferior border; 2, the os pedis; 3, wing of os pedis.

It appeared in blue paper wrappers, with a woodcut of a basket of flowers within an ornamental border.

1, Superior articulatory surface; 2, anterior border (grooved portion of); 3, anterior border (articulatory portion of).]

The Belladonna (Belladonna Lily) should be planted in June in a sheltered border in rich, well-drained soil.

In this sense the Roman aristocracy had been at all times hereditary; in fact, it had displayed its hereditary character with great naivete in the old custom of the senator taking his sons with him to the senate, and of the public magistrate decorating his sons, as it were by anticipation, with the insignia of the highest official honourthe purple border of the consular, and the golden amulet-case of the triumphator.

A little thin flowery border, round, neat, not gaudy, and the Drury Lane Apollo, with the harp at the top.

The city stands partly on the sandy border of the river, partly on a low range of rocks.

Malcolm and his successor William followed him in his wars and attended at his courts, and whatever Henry's actual authority might be, in the eyes of his English subjects at least he ruled to the farthest borders of Scotland.

Portraits of the sculptor, Titian, and Pietro Aretino are introduced into the decorative border.