It fell on to a blade of yellow grass and ran down the blade, then stopped so as to gather itself into a little round drop before touching the ground.

At length, after attaining an elevation of about 12,800 feet, I found myself at the foot of a sheer drop in the bed of the avalanche channel I was tracing, which seemed absolutely to bar further progress.

Those two tiny drops would kill a score of people, and kill them instantly.

And, while my eyes might well pour forth those bitter drops of pain, The drought of self-consuming grief has quenched the healing rain.

It is here the danger lies, as there is a sudden drop and the water rashes through at a tremendous rate, leaping and seething like a cataract.

unconcern'd And freely did her Soul a passage find; Whilst I transported had almost forgot The Reverence due t'her sacred self and Place, And every moment ready was to kneel, And with my lips gather the precious drops, And rob the Holy Temple of a Relick, Fit only there t'inhabit.

He went no farther than the gate, to be sure, and then he returned for the rest of his rod: but before he got back with it, Keziah Kinzer hurried home from a call on Mrs. Foster, bringing a tremendous account of Dab's heroism; and then his own pride over what he had done was only a mere drop in the bucket, compared to that of his mother.

" "We'll let the subject drop, Steve," he said, hastily.

It fell on to a blade of yellow grass and ran down the blade, then stopped so as to gather itself into a little round drop before touching the ground.

Average drop of shot of standard shotgun loads over various ranges.

Even when the attenuated thread was broken, and the golden rain descended in slow, infrequent drops, Kaviak stood waiting, always for just one drop more.

" The thumb was accordingly cleansed and dried afresh, when Thorndyke, having pricked his own thumb with a needle, squeezed out a good-sized drop of blood on to a card.

Her thoughts were so occupied with this unexpected interview, that she took no notice of the golden drops which the declining sun was showering on an endless procession of pearl-crested waves; nor did she cast one of her customary loving glances at the western sky, where masses of violet clouds, with edges of resplendent gold, enclosed lakes of translucent beryl, in which little rose-colored islands were floating.

The distress I was in, made these complimentary speeches not flatteries, but sweet drops of comfort to my degraded heart, almost broken with misfortune and remorse.

The fourth drop of blood, by Randle McKay, pseud, of Richard W. Rowan, and Lassiter Wren.

Now he remembered that it had been torn down the year before; there was a straight and perilous drop beneath the window.

Oh!" with a slight drop in her tone and the temperature of her expression; "do you mean John Consadine?

"Buck," he said finally, with a swift drop to friendliness, "hit's got to be stopped.

How contrary to its spirit and precepts, that, "Lands intersected by a narrow frith, Abhor each other, Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.

Those sacred drops were but enshrined for future use, and God has now unsealed their receptacle with His outstretched arm.

One of those pure drops Does (as my lives blood in a soddaine trance) Surround my heart.

He unscrewed the top of a large flask and took a very considerable "drop."

Ye tender arms, the same dear mould have ye As his; how from the shoulder loose ye drop And weak!

But deafer far to the voice of conscience grown The type that cuts me off a pound of bone Wherefrom an ounce of fat forlornly drops, And calls the thing two shillings' worth of chops; More steeped in crime the heart that dares to fleece My purse of eighteen-pence for one small piece Of tripe, whereof, when times were not so hard, The price was fourpence for the running yard!

Should in the ether soar, As if no care would ever find, No sorrow reach them more; When soon an arrow from below Should wound them in their flight, And many a crimson drop should flow Before they fell in sight.