Thus the chalk is no unimportant element in the masonry of the earth's crust, and it impresses a peculiar stamp, varying with the conditions to which it is exposed, on the scenery of the districts in which it occurs.

" One morning, soon after breakfast, a little group was gathered round Carton's desk in the big school-room, discussing the value of some foreign stamps, when a small boy came up to them, saying, "Is Trevanock here?

One of Eveena's favourite quotations bore the unmistakable stamp of Zveltic mysticism: "Symbols that invert the sense Form the Seal of Providence; Contradiction gives the key, Time unlocks the mystery.

This post-office stamp, 'New York,' is not genuine.

she added with an impatient little stamp of her foot "It seems to me they're never around when you want them.

This post-office stamp, 'New York,' is not genuine.

she added with an impatient little stamp of her foot "It seems to me they're never around when you want them.

KIMBLE, RALPH A. Commemorative postage stamps of the United States.

The Kalandar who gives a hair's head, An easy path doth tread: The Kalandar of genuine stamp, As Háfiz gives his head.

A hundred yards below we espied a dance in a negro garden; a few couples, mostly of women, pousetting to each other with violent and ungainly stampings, to the music of tom-tom and chac-chac, if music it can be called.

Then, calling Cavendish, a tall, fair young man, who had now recovered from his touch of fever and had returned to the Consulate, he commenced to check the number of those adhesive stamps, rather larger than ordinary postage-stamps, used in the Consular service for the registration of fees received by the Foreign Office.

It is absolute nonsense, therefore, to say that sin or crime (I mean intelligent sin or crime) put an ugly stamp on a man.

"I most certainly do; and if you stop to think, Andy, I guess you'll say the same; or perhaps, now, you didn't happen to examine the case as closely as I did, that day last spring when we crossed over to Cranford, to pick up a few rare stamps for our collection at Snyder's old curio store.

Were it not for the occasional stamp of her fore leg, or the impatient side-toss of the head, to keep off the swarming flies, she might be carved out of marble.

It pleased Allerdyke, too, to see that the young man was attentive to his own personal appearancehis well-cut garments bore the undoubted stamp of the Savile Row tailor; the silk hat which covered his crop of sandy hair was the latest thing in Sackville Street headgear; from top to toe he was the smart man-about-town.

He was clean-shaven and had regular features, and all of his movements bore the indefinable but unmistakable stamp of culture.

Of course, he has not Gerald's gracefulness; but his bearing seemed manly, and there was no obvious stamp of vulgarity upon him.

But even these are fragmentary and confused, bearing upon them the ineradicable stamp of alien writers and much second-hand thought.

But it has left an indelible stamp on the tenor of his moral writings.

" It now remains, gentlemen, to determine upon the literary stamp of M. Flaubert and upon the strokes of his brush.

There are to be three signatures of Ministers, that is, of Privy Councillors, to authorise the stamper, who is to be nominated by the King to affix the royal stamp to instruments in the King's presence.

" Each of the men now armed themselves with two or more of the largest stones they could find, from the heap that had been provided for the occasion; and in a few seconds a loud stamping upon the floor informed Mr. Walters that all was ready.

she commanded, accompanying the vigorous action of her hand with an equally emphatic stamp of a shapely foot.

It is, however, true that, like Greene's, his heroes are rather of a classical than a medieval stamp, and he also chose to lay the scene of the action in Greece rather than in his native land, as was the habit of Spanish writers.

They have, however, and deservedly, some admirers of a better stamp.