While this is going forward, Soo-ti will not stir from her room except it be to couch in the passage outside.

The evening was still and clear with that astral Arctic clearness, the sun just beginning his low-couched nightly drowse.

* O resting-place august of Alpheos, Ortygia, scion of famous Syracuse, thou that art a couch of Artemis and a sister of Delos, from thee goeth forth a song of sweet words, to set forth the great glory of whirlwind-footed steeds in honour of Aitnaian Zeus.

So, when they had uncovered his white head, they bore him tenderly into the great banqueting hall and laid him on goodly couch and cherished him with water and wine, wherefore, in a while, he opened swooning eyes.

From his snarling lips foul oaths fell, a steady stream, black blasphemies spewed up from the darkest dives of the Orientmost of them happily couched in the tongues of their origin and so unintelligible to his one auditor.

" And Tottie obediently couched himself in the allotted corner and shut his eyes very hard, though after a moment he remarked that the snow got into his neck.

The terms of that repeal were purposely couched in ambiguous language.

Moral and political aphorisms are seldom couched in such terms that they should be taken as they sound precisely, or according to the widest extent of signification; but do commonly need exposition, and admit exception: otherwise frequently they would not only clash with reason and experience, but interfere, thwart, and supplant one another.

EPIGRAM, in modern usage, is a neat, witty, and pointed utterance briefly couched in verse form, usually satiric, and reserving its sting to the last line; sometimes made the vehicle of a quaintly-turned compliment, as, for example, in Pope's couplet to Chesterfield, when asked to write something with that nobleman's pencil; "Accept a miracle; instead of wit, See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.

With the delicate if somewhat obscure periphrasis in which legislation concerning the Negro was traditionally couched, they enacted: "That the Governor be requested to correspond with the President of the United States on the subject of purchasing lands without the limits of this State whither persons obnoxious to the laws or dangerous to the peace of society may be removed."

and so delicately couched that he looked grave, and reflected that it was his duty to be courteous, and to answer such a call as that.