Now upon a certain dawn he had hid himself within the shadows and waited with bated breath and heart strangely a-throb.

AN APRIL WELCOME Come up, April, through the valley, In your robes of beauty drest, Come and wake your flowery children From their wintry beds of rest; Come and overblow them softly With the sweet breath of the south; Drop upon them, warm and loving, Tenderest kisses of your mouth.

" I could hear behind me the little indrawn breath of disappointment at the failure of the direct attack.

in this universe, Where the least things control the greatest, where The faintest breath that breathes can move a world; What!

He saw again the young brother, handsome, easy-going to a fault, but with a sense of honor so fine as to shrink in indignation from the slightest breath of shame; read again the closing words of the farewell letter which he had read for the first time on the day now so long ago, which he would have given worlds to recall, and which, from out the shadowy recesses of eternity, laughed at his futile wish.

An occasional bat would flit like a doubtful shadow across his eyes, but a cool breath of air was roaming about as well, which was not of the night at all, but plainly belonged to the morning.

Its delicate branches yield to the mountains' gentlest breath; yet is it strong to meet the wildest onsets of the gale,strong not in resistance, but compliance, bowing, snow-laden, to the ground, gracefully accepting burial month after month in the darkness beneath the heavy mantle of winter.

I felt a sharp breath on my neck, an ejaculation of surprise at my very ear.

Through the open windows came the cool, fragrant breath of morning; the sky was beginning to blush at the coming of the sun.

" "Oh, that is a large question, involving too much mental strain in a garden of roses, where the senses sleep and one is content with mere breath and the faintest motion.

Shall he for this resign his vital breath? What!

Nothing in my hand I bring; Simply to Thy cross I cling; Naked, come to Thee for dress; Helpless, look to Thee for grace; Foul, I to the fountain fly; Wash me, Saviour, or I die! While I draw this fleeting breath, When my eyestrings break in death, When I soar through tracts unknown, See Thee on Thy judgment-throne; Book of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee!

Screened as we were from the lightest breath of wind, it was cruelly hot in that hiding-place.

7. To that high Capital where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay He came; and bought, with price of purest breath, A grave among the eternal.

The bed of roses has disappeared before the icy breath of the winter king, which sends the thermometer down sometimes to seventy degrees below freezing point.

Shaking with fright and half suffocated by the poisonous breath of the monster, I came out of my tent and crawled down to the sea, feeling that it would be better to plunge from the cliffs and end my life at once than pass such another night of horror.

This fellow expelled a sudden heavy breath as if throwing off an oppression.

Now looking upon this, Beltane drew a deep, slow breath and turned upon the youthful knight with eyes grown suddenly fierce.

" I could hear behind me the little indrawn breath of disappointment at the failure of the direct attack.

Ah, never master that drew mortal breath Can match thy portraits, just and generous Death, Whose brush with sweet regretful tints is laden!

Black are my steps on silver sod; Thick blows my frosty breath abroad; And tree and house, and hill and lake, Are frosted like a wedding-cake.

The fresh dawn was filled with the balmy breath of the pines and all the odors of the Lebanon.

The air was cool and wonderfully fragrant, but with every perfumed breath came also a pallid memory....

The crowd about the table drew audible breath.

Worms are the torment of some children: the symptoms are, an unnatural craving for food, even after a full meal; costiveness, suddenly followed by the reverse; fetid breath, a livid circle under the eyes, enlarged abdomen, and picking the nose; for which the remedies must be prescribed by the doctor.