The cottagers evidently loved the little nests in which they dwelt, and did their best to make them beautiful, and succeeded more than tolerably well,so kindly did Nature help their humble efforts with its verdure, flowers, moss, lichens, and the green things that grew out of the thatch.

I'm in a pretty nest!

When Miss Wimple reached her humble little nest, she knelt beside her bed and prayed, tearfully, to the God who averts danger and forgives sin; but she did not sleep all night.

Did he give us the beautiful stork above On the chimney-top, with its large, round nest? Gottlieb.

On the sides hung some edible nests of the salangane, but not of the same kind as those found in the caverns on the south coast of Java.

KRISS KRINGLE Just as the moon was fading Amid her misty rings, And every stocking was stuffed With childhood's precious things, Old Kriss Kringle looked around, And saw on the elm-tree bough, High hung, an oriole's nest, Lonely and empty now.

" Thumbkins thanked Mamma Meadow-Lark again, and told her of his nice warm cozy little nest beneath the mushroom.

It was a small comfortable nest, shut in entirely from the snow and wind.

On a bracket of shell-work, which Flora had made to support a vase of flowers, was a deserted nest, bedded in soft green moss, which hung from it in irregular streamers and festoons.

The bird that sings on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest; And she that doth most sweetly sing, Sings in the shade when all things rest.

You have sharp eyes, Rap; it is very thick, and for a good reasonit is a two-storied nest!"

There eke the soft delights, that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the calm pleasures, always hovered nigh; But whate'er smacked of 'noyance or unrest Was far, far off expelled from this delicious nest.

Dear Birds of Brussels, do not crave The long, long route by which we came; More safe than any restless wave The sheltered nest of Auderghem.

Its singular nest.

Well, if he means settling, he's made himself a very cosy nest."

From the tower the scene was like the rushing of rats from a disturbed nest.

Birdie shall abide in the paternal nest, and sing the old home-songs, and walk in the old home-ways, until she has a nice new nest of her own.

Their peculiar manner of protecting their pensile nests, by hanging them from the extremities of the lofty branches of an elm or other tall tree, enables the bird to rear its young with great security, even in the heart of the city.

The burgher, safe behind his wall, Within his rocky nest, the knight, Against us have conspired, and all Firmly to hold their own unite.

I stretched myself, fully dressed as I was, upon the sofa, and this gentle nest disturbed by me subsided into its graceful silence.

The council breaks up, "Being abroad, the earth was overlaid With fleckers to them, that came forth; as when of frequent bees Swarms rise out of a hollow rock, repairing the degrees Of their egression endlessly,with ever rising new From forth their sweet nest; as their store, still as it faded, grew, "And never would cease sending forth her dusters to the spring.

Squirrels dislike wet weather more than cats do; therefore they were at home rocking in their dry nests.

They may have already brought out one brood in thick, deep grassy nests, well lined with rabbit fur or Snow Owl feathers, that they know so well how to tuck under a protecting ledge of rock or bunch of grass.

It now began to wish it was in its snug little nest with its former companions.

It is very noisy, is common in the neighborhood of houses, and builds a big domed nest.