For in such nights of cold, when there is no snow to cover them, the flowers that have crept into their roots to hide from the winter are not even able to dream of the spring;they grow quite stupid and benumbed, and sleep outright like a polar bear or a dormouse.

Because she left the cushion untidy, and as for the little bear's chair, why, she sat that right out.

Here the great burly brown bears delight to roam, harmonizing with the brown boles of the trees beneath which they feed.

In the "Monitor" and its type the means of offence were two 11-inch smooth-bore cast-iron guns, followed later by larger guns of 13 and 15 inches of similar type.

" "An opinion, sir?" "Yes, sir; have you been thus long in the profession, or in contact with the profession," added Mr. Rushton, correcting himself, "without learning what an opinion is?" "Oh, sirI think I understand nowit is" "A very gratifying circumstance that you do," said Mr. Rushton, with the air of a good-natured grizzly bear.

She is a dreadful bore, for she lives in such terror of dropping dead with her heart-complaint that she doesn't take any pleasure in life herself or let any one else; so the sooner she goes the better for all of us," said Polly, in a desperate tone; for things looked very black to her just then.

but he learned a little piece of wisdom by that cuff that sent him down the bank, and got a little insight into the nater of an angry bear.

How did she fear her fellow-brutes, and shun The shaggy bear, though now herself was one!

Seizing my rifle I looked up, and walking toward us on the beach, just 110 yards away, was a good sized bull bear.

But right before us down a steep-fall hill, A monstrous ugly bear did hie him fast To meet us bothI faint to tell the rest, Good shepherdbut suppose the ghastly looks, The hideous fears, the thousand hundred woes, Which at this instant Amadine sustained.

The furry bear.

The cause of Clarissa's unhappiness was also apparent; for chained to a sapling nearby, rolling its great head foolishly from side to side, sat a tame bear.

" Much I marvell'd this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore;

,or, in other words, the difference, oftentimes, between success and ruin, between comfort and discomfort, between being a welcome and a hated visitor, between being honored as an able merchant and contemned as a mean man or an unmitigated bore.

Four barrels are fired almost instantaneously, and the deadly "twelve-bore" of your companion is seldom fired in vain.

For the hungry man nothing is superior to the taste or for the building up of sinews and muscles than the steak of fat young bear.

In Eagle Harbor, on Kadiak Island, a native, three years ago, during the month of January, saw a female bear which he killed near her den.

This memorial bore also the signatures of the celebrated Alexander Hamilton; Robert R. Livingston, afterward Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the United States, and Chancellor of the State of New-York; James Duane, Major of the City of New-York, and many others of the most eminent individuals in the State.

Bravoa Geminiflora (Twin Flower).This hardy bulbous plant bears lovely racemes of coral-coloured flowers in July.

"To be sure, Norris was a sad bore!

But right before us down a steep-fall hill, A monstrous ugly bear did hie him fast To meet us bothI faint to tell the rest, Good shepherdbut suppose the ghastly looks, The hideous fears, the thousand hundred woes, Which at this instant Amadine sustained.

Anazeh' came too, growling like a hungry bear, and after a couple of blood-curdling threats hurled at Suliman ben Saoud's back he took up position in the open door, facing the crowd, and dared any one to try to follow.

This new uncle, she reflected, might become an intolerable bore, if she encouraged his frank familiarity.

Never did poor hunted bear feel more conflicting emotions, when, surprised in her den, she stands over her offspring with uncertain heart, groaning with a mingled sound of tenderness and rage.

There is a cinnamon bear in one of the outside cages, whose claws remind one sharply that cinnamon and cloves go together, and that clove is a tense of the verb "to cleave."