Almost a dozen planes in all were moving in a great circle, their motors lazily droning, and the pilots ready to enter into squadron formation on signal.

I droned steadily away, interrupted only by cries for fresh supplies of wine; as I went on the audience paid less and less attention.

As we return towards the old manor house the nightjar, or goatsucker, is droning loudly, and a nightingaleactually a nightingale!is singing in the copse.

So clever is he that when he eats bees, as he sometimes does, he seldom takes the honey-makers, but mainly the drones; perhaps he is afraid of being stung.

"Report of the committee on naval affairs." droned the clerk, mechanically.

A flight of aeroplanes, like flies in the amber of sunset, droned overhead en route for Hunland.

The organ droned sadly in its iron cage to a few musical amateurs.

"Grasshoppah sett'n on a swee' p'tater vine," The Boy droned sleepily as he untied the leathern thongs that kept up his muckluck legs "Swee' p'tater vine, swee' p'ta" "All those othahs"the Colonel waved a hand in the direction of Pymeut"I think we dreamed 'em, Boy.

The dark leaden clouds dim the light of the sun, And the dull dreary hours drone slothfully on, Euroclydon forges the cold biting sleet, And the snow-drifts he piles at the traveler's feet.

"Hello!" said "I." "There is no Town Major at Rataplan," the Adjutant, droned somewhat wearily.

At length the pipes droned forth, and the festive drama closed.

All the time, however, I had a sub-consciousness of the gale which was actually blowing from the S.E. over the ice, and, at the moment when I awoke, was half-wittedly droning to myself; 'It is a Garden of Peaches; but I am not really in the garden: I am really on the ice; only, the S.E. storm is wafting to me the aroma of this Garden of Peaches.' I opened my eyesI startedI sprang to my feet!

An airman droning high over the lines, with fleecy white puffs of shrapnel smoke breaking about him, also saw and reported clearly "large force of Germans massing Map Square