Captain Marryat gives the following recipe for its preparation:"Put into a tumbler about a dozen sprigs of the tender shoots of mint; upon them put a spoonful of white sugar, and equal proportions of peach and common brandy, so as to fill up one third, or, perhaps, a little less; then take rasped or pounded ice, and fill up the tumbler.

The trench in front should be smashed past any shape for stopping our charge if the gunners are making any straight shooting at all.

When Mr Yellowley went away, after nearly six months' sojourn, during the latter part of which, so wonderfully was he restored by the air and the water and the medical care of Mr MacMichael, he enjoyed a little shooting on the hills, he paid him a hundred and fifty pounds for accommodation and medical attendanceno great sum, as money goes now-a-days, but a good return in six months for the outlay of a thousand pounds.

When I first knew them and talked about them they were tender little shoots of green just modestly showing above the ground, and now they're a forest primeval.

There was a strong wind blowing, and accurate shooting at such a long distance was out of the question, so I must regard it as an exceptionally lucky shot which broke his leg.

" Little by little, each day it grew; Little by little, it sipped the dew; Downward it sent out a thread-like root; Up in the air sprung a tiny shoot.

Fast shooting ain't any good when it's one man agin' fifty, and these boys mean business.

" Before the girl could respond beyond an answering smile and "good morning," the new friend had put his own alpenstock into her hands and gone to the roadside, where, with unerring judgment, he selected a long, straight, tapering shoot of ash, and hewed it deftly with a monster jack-knife drawn from his trousers pocket.

He has an exceptionally fine nose, and makes a very useful dog for rough shooting, being easily taught to retrieve.

They will grow in smoky districts, and may be increased by cuttings of firm side-shoots under a glass in summer or by layers in September.

The leaf-buds below will put forth, and grow into leafy shoots, which, turning upwards, soon hide the vase in a green circle.

But, because of their better shooting and their better nerve, the whites often make the better hunters.

A noble-growing and handsome tree, with smooth shoots, and stipules that become transformed into sharp, stiff spines.

I turned in thoroughly depressed, but awoke the next morning refreshed, and determined to retrieve my careless shooting of the day before.

This is a neat, twiggy shrub, growing from 2 ft. to 3 ft. high, with slender shoots, and very pleasing, shining green serrated leaves.

But it was often necessary to spend more than half of the four hundred rounds allotted to a normal counter-battery shoot in destroying the trees round the target, before the airman could get a good view of it.

The days stole by, and Antoine tended the fragile shoot, wondering what sort of blossom it would unfold, white, or scarlet, or golden.

Then again we have the lines in which the satyr heralds the early dawn: See, the day begins to break, And the light shoots like a streak Of subtle fire; the wind blows cold Whilst the morning doth unfold.

A cherry tree on a slope below them throws up a wave of blossom that breaks all creamy white against their feet, and a clump of willows trail their palest green shoots in front of all.

"That is the case for the prosecution which I will endeavour to establish to the satisfaction of the jury," said Mr. Walters, in concluding his speech, "Of course it is impossible to produce direct evidence of the actual shooting.

"Give me your hand," I cried in despair, seeing how tightly she still grasped the tough fibrous shoots growing in the crevices of the rock, whereof she had taken hold.

And, when he heaves against the burning load, Reluctant, to invert his broiling limbs, A sudden earthquake shoots through all the isle, And Ætna thunders dreadful under-ground, Then pours out smoke in wreathing curls convolved, And shades the sun's bright orb, and blots out day.

On the rightwhen shall we see it again?rose a young 'Bois flot,' {164} of which boys make their fishing floats, with long, straight, upright shoots, and huge crumpled, rounded leaves, pale rusty underneatha noble rastrajo plant, already, in its six months' growth, some twenty feet high.

The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing, when, trailing with him clouds of glory, this happy-starred, full-blooded spirit shoots into the spiritual land.

It is usually of strong erect growth, with stout shoots, wreathed with bright yellow flowers towards the end of winter.