As twilight came on, his father bore him back to the house, and laid him again on his little couch; and ere the glorious sun arose to lighten the earth once more, his spirit had passed away into that realm of perfect light where they 'have no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God does lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.'

In one corner Pompey had improvised for her a luxurious couch of hay and rugs, and in this fragrant retreat Evadne studied her strange new book.

The meal is all nectar and ambrosia, and now, filled and contented, we subside into sleep on comfortable couches.

I reached the teepee in which I had spent the night, and flung myself down on the rude couch.

It was the hour when Morvan's wife was accustomed to come and look for him ere they retired to the nuptial couch.

Then Beltane loosed off his sword and laid it upon the silken couch, but perceiving how she trembled, he set his arm about her and drew her to the open lattice where the moon made a pool of glory at their feet.

In the cool gloom of my little library I asked him if he would be good enough to excuse me a moment, indicating the broad couch beneath the window.

A score and more of barefoot friars were there, and some that looked like tinkers, and some that seemed to be sturdy beggars and rustic hinds; and seated upon a mossy couch was one all clad in tattered scarlet, with a patch over one eye; and in his hand he held the golden arrow that was the prize of the great shooting match.

Then Beltane ate and drank, and thereafter threw himself upon his narrow couch, but his fetters jangled often in the dark.

she said; And satisfied, turned where her lover laid; And to his royal couch she crept again; Her bliss will have despite of gods and men.

why liest thou with the vile In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch A watch-case or a common 'larum bell? Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge,

Low on his funeral couch he lies: No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies.

The Sweeter the tooth, the nearer the couch.

Then to the lone couch at death of day, Wearily, wearily; Rising at midnight again to pray, Wearily, wearily; And if through the dark those eyes looked in, Sending them far as a thought of sin.

"It's the exercise," said he, speaking his thought aloud, as he stretched luxuriously upon his soft, and fragrant couch, "after all, there is nothing like a little exercise.

Sikander again wept bitterly, and then the body was placed on a golden couch, and he attended it in sorrow to the grave.

[-12-] She accordingly prepared a luxurious apartment and costly couch, and adorned herself further in a kind of careless fashion,for her mourning garb mightily became her,and seated herself upon the couch; beside her she had placed many images of his father, of all sorts, and in her bosom she had put all the letters that his father had sent her.

Fuel of Jehannum, may Eblis be your bed, an unhappy couch!

Then he saw that the Cardinal was sitting at the farther end of the opposite couch, looking intently out; that one of the glass shutters was slid back, and that a cold, foggy air was visibly pouring in past the old man's head.

Nay, heed notold Benedict, I did my best and'tis a fitting couch, thisfarewell to thee, my Beltane" So saying, Sir Benedict sank weakly to an elbow and from elbow upon his face, and lay there, very still and mute.

Had she been making idols of these things in her heart? Miss Diana knelt beside the couch, comfortable as only old-fashioned couches know how to be.

The squirrel subsists upon the kernels obtained from its cones; the rabbit browses upon the Trefoil and the spicy foliage of the Hypericum which are protected in its conservatory of shade; and the fawn reposes on its brown couch of leaves, unmolested by the outer tempest.

It is rather the east wind, as it blows out of the fogs of Newfoundland, and clasps a clear-eyed wintry noon on the chill bridal couch of a New England ice-quarry.

But may the all-seeing Father send In fitting time propitious end; So our dread Mother's mighty brood, The lordly couch may 'scape, ah me, Unwedded, unsubdued!

Smoking's allowedhere, try that!" He commanded them, as it were, to take their ease,the women among cushions on a rattan couch, the men stretched in long chairs.