A little sprinkling of the romantic and contradictory runs through it.

There was a plentiful sprinkling of soldiers throughout the car and one or two sailors.

A game without runs is not usually half so interesting to the crowd as one in which there is free batting and a generous sprinkling of runs.

Deep ruts and a liberal sprinkling of small boulders collaborated to keep the horses stumbling, plunging and pitching as they strained back against the singletrees.

It is true that Thiers says he will maintain the form of government established in Paris as long as he possibly can; but he only promises for himself, and it results clearly from all this that we shall not keep the Republic long, since its definite establishment depends in fact on the majority in the Assembly, while the Assembly is royalist, with a slight sprinkle of imperialism here and there.

As I entered the Platz, or market-square, of the little town, chiefly with a view to the nearer inspection of the cunning workmanship of the aforesaid carcanets of silver, a light sprinkling of April rain began to moisten the pavementone of those unheard, unseen, revivifying showers, which weep the earth into freshness, and the buds into maturity.

He was bareheaded and the sun glistened on a wrinkly forehead, topped by a thin sprinkling of hair.

By following a winding ravine we gained the crest of this singular platform, which we found formed of a fine-grained sandstone, with some beautiful specimens of crystallised quartz on its higher parts, over which was a slight sprinkling of vegetation, consisting of a few small gumtrees and patches of coarse grass.

Were it not for its ununiformity and for the occasional sprinkling of trees over its surface, it could be compared to a patch of rolling prairie in miniature.

I must have some odd sprinkling of an hundred pounds; if so, soI shall think you thankful, and commend your son as a man of good gifts to my father. ACADEMICO.

Just a moment before taking the pan out of the oven sprinkle the surface of the cookies lightly with granulated sugar.

The partial sprinkling had already caused many of the dancers to withdraw to the cafés, and to the most sheltered parts of the park.

We were ready to fire at any of the enemy we could see, and when the actual attack started, at the end of the bombardment, we were going to keep up a perpetual sprinkling of bullets along their reserve trenches.

It has, moreover, to meet the exigencies of the day, a pretty sprinkling of cuts and plates, respecting the number of which we do not quarrel; in the choice of some of them we must, however, dissent from the editor.

Both the well-spread pallor of the whitewash and the sable sprinkling of coal dust put him beyond any chance of a felicitous public appearance.

Cromwell had summoned his two sons, Richard and Henry, seven peers of royal creation, several members of his council, some gentlemen of fortune and family, with a due proportion of lawyers and officers, and a scanty sprinkling of persons known to be disaffected to his government.

When he knocked, the door was opened by a tall man, who said: "Right smart sprinkle, stranger!

There was also a "right smart sprinkling" of ladies present who were well dressed and adorned with rich jewelry, and their position seemed to be that of paying teller at the gambling tables.

Of course most of the dwellings were tentsdog tents many of them; but there was a surprising sprinkling of wooden shacks, some of them of considerable size.

And then Then came a dream; to say one little word, One easy wicked word, we both might say, And no one hear us, but the lictors round; One tiny sprinkle of the incense grains, And both, both free!

Here, also for the first time, we noticed the gouty-stem trees; whilst the slope of the hill we ascended was covered with a tolerable sprinkling of grass.

As far as Adrianople the population was Bulgar, but south of that city it was succeeded by a Greek element, with a considerable sprinkling of Turkish settlements, as far as the sea.

Half a dozen young victims of this malady met daily in one of the cells of a great art beehive called "Raphael's Rooms," and devoted their shining hours to modelling fancy heads, gossiping the while; for the poor things found the road to fame rather dull and dusty without such verbal sprinklings.

A vessel filled with holy water is placed at the foot of the bier, which the priests and relatives of the deceased sprinkle on the body.

If Germany had had fewer professors and a decent sprinkling of cricket and football grounds perhaps things might have been different.