The storm was reflected in every gesture, and not one cheerful note, not to say song, came from a single bill; their cowering, joyless endurance offering a striking contrast to the spontaneous, irrepressible gladness of the Ouzel, who could no more help exhaling sweet song than a rose sweet fragrance.

I kept my lofty perch for hours, frequently closing my eyes to enjoy the music by itself, or to feast quietly on the delicious fragrance that was streaming past.

In their two chairs, necessarily close together since the nook was so cosily narrow, her shoulder now and then brushing his as she moved, the faint fragrances from her gown and hair blown across his face by the night breezefor them his pipe hastily laid asidethey sat talking softly or in a pleasant silence.

" He said a great deal more on the subject, and spoke so prettily and ingeniously, as almost to make a convert of me; when, on bringing my nose once more to the flower, I found in it the same exquisite fragrance as ever.

The flowers of the oleander gave out a delicate, almond-like fragrance, and grew in such dense clusters as frequently to hide the foliage.

The air was steaming with delightful fragrance, not rising and wafting past in separate masses, but diffused through all the atmosphere.

The subtle fragrance of her hands pervades His senses; in his veins he feels the flow Of her warm breath, which entered into them That moment he had caught her as she fell; Her words of love sweep like a surging tide Across the quiet of his self-control.

Down by the river an alligator was sunning himself, and the resinous breath of the pine trees swept its aromatic fragrance over Louis as he lay at full length in a hammock with his hands behind his head.

As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow, But crushed, or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

he cried, very much as though he had been hailing the "main-top," whereupon the Sergeant emerged from between the clothes-press and the dresser with a black bottle in his hand, which he passed over to Peterday who set about brewing what he called a "jorum o' grog," the savour of which filled the place with a right pleasant fragrance.

Already she was learning the great lesson which many more fortunate lovers miss, that the rarest fragrance of love lies in its bestowal.

Thus while God spake, ambrosial fragrance fill'd All Heavn, and in the blessed Spirits elect Sense of new Joy ineffable diffus'd.

She almost gasped for breath in the exotic fragrance of the unseen blossoms.

But as it pricked the contents of the plate a savory fragrance rose and the reader looked.

She had on a gown cut sloping in the neck, and through the opening he inhaled all the living perfume of the woman, the pure fragrance of her youth, warmed by the sunshine.

Thou alabaster, Broken at last, to fill the house of God With rich celestial fragrance!

His grimy hand touched the shining hair, half-unbound; he raised one of the marvelous tresseshis hungry lips swept it lightlyor did he but breathe a divine fragrance?

He had nearly reached the further end when a sudden fragrance swept across his pathpure, intoxicating, exquisitely sweet.

On the shallow, sun-warmed steps he sat playing with fir-cones, fingering their scaly curves and sniffing their dry, brown fragrance.

There, o'er his dogrose fence, the chestnut foal, Shaking his silver forelock, proudly stands, To snuff the balmy fragrance of the morn: Up comes his ebon compeer, and, anon, Around the field in mimic chase they fly, Startling the echoes of the woodland gloom.

The roses twining round her feet Breathe gentle fragrance rare and sweet, She sings a merry rustic air In holland brown.

{120b} I frequently used to visit the plantations of nutmegs and cloves, and refresh myself with their balsamic fragrance.

Down the field, toward the corner, cutting in sharply, as though a door opened (or a page turned to another lyric), came the cloying, sweet fragrance of wild crab-apple blossoms, almost tropical in their richness, and below that, as I came to my work, the thin acrid smell of the marsh, the place of the rushes and the flags and the frogs.

Then comes the golden evening, and its light stays long upon the trailing vines, while the great lilies gleam whiter and their breath floods the air with unearthly fragrance.

He lifted his head, the strain of his long self mastering wearing thin almost to the breaking point at last, for once all but at the mercy of the dominant emotion which possessed him, his love for the girl at his side who stood so close he could feel her breathing, got the faint violet fragrance of her.