Ah, that tall lank preacher, who thought himself a failure: how long I shall remember him and the words he read and the mournful yet resonant cadences of his voiceand the barren church, and the stony religion!

Yet a deep silence prevailed during the whole night, except when the musical cadence of the solemn chant of the call to prayers showed the Greeks the immense numbers and the strict discipline of the host.

While in sweet cadence rising small and still The far-off minstrels of the haunted hill, As the last bleating of the fold expires, Tune in the mountain dells their water lyres.

Nothing pleased him so well as to sit with his wife, reading aloud to her while she worked; now translating from some foreign poet, now rolling forth melodiously the exquisite cadences of Queen Mab.

The late afternoon sky flaunted its splendour of blue and gold like a banner over the Pacific, across whose depths the trade wind droned in measured cadence.

"I know she done somp'n; I know she done somp'n," chanted Tump, with the melancholy cadence of his race.

" Long-drawn, like the mockery of a wail, the minor cadence wavered through the stillness, and died away.

In a soft, monotonous cadence, she sang the sad story of its little lifeits birthits captivityand the death of its murdered father, whom she exhorted it to imitate, and live to equal in courage and in skill.

An Irish voice was making the hush of the study musical with mellow cadences.

Never, by any chance, a merry, childish laugh of music in the broken cadences; tender or wild, a defiant outcry, a tired sigh breaking down into silence.

It is moved with cedar paddles, and the Canadians who managed it, kept time in their strokes, and regulated them to the sonorous cadence of some of their simple boat songs.

The mighty Chief on foot precedes the bier; His Warrior-friends, in grief assembled near: The dismal cadence rose upon the gale, And Zál astonished heard the piercing wail; He and his kindred joined the solemn train; Hung round the bier and wondering viewed the slain.

Yes, and there was still another sound which mingled its solemn cadences with the waking and sleeping dreams of my boyhood.

I sing with a tearful cadence For one who stands in the dark, And knows that his last, best arrow Has bounded back from the mark.

His voice thrilled with strength, and pulsed with tender cadences.

Few poets have approached him in the successful writing of blank verse, which has a delightful cadence as well as calm strength.

you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.

We would trust the general ear in such questions of syllabic rhythm, and would protect as far as possible the old harmonious cadences of our traditional speech.

" The law of Sequence by no means prescribes that we should invariably state the proposition before its qualificationsthe thought before its illustrations; it merely prescribes that we should arrange our phrases in the order of logical dependence and rhythmical cadence, the order best suited for clearness and for harmony.

But satire needs not those, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

" "Indeed, madam, I may say the time passes for them in a golden cadence of salubrious delights," said Miss Sallianna.

The real Burns, though indeed a genius of song, was far better read than the expectant world wished to believe, particularly in those whom he called his "bosom favorites," the sentimentalists Mackenzie and Sterne; and his sense of rhythm and melody had been trained by his emulation of earlier Scotch lyricists, whose lilting cadences flow towards him as highland rills to the gathering torrent.

Then she brought them straight to the bed, and stooping down gave me the only kiss with which she has honored meher show kiss, I call itsaying, 'My darling' (how soft she said it, too, with a little trilling cadence upon the sweet old word!)'My darling, you are not to speak, or even look, save this once: now I must cover up my dearie's eyes;' and she laid her cool hand over my eyes and held it there while they stayed.

But the band had now ceased mellowing out the favorite medley which begins with "Casta Diva" and runs over into the lovely cadences of "Gentle Annie"; and the abrupt transition from that mournful strain to a light cotillon air warned four hundred holiday-people that the festive dance was about to begin on the wide floor between the engine-room and the saloon.

Reverence and devotion fell from their lips in lyrical cadences whenever they spoke of Him, and they wreathed for Him garlands of words with which they loved to deck His memory.