The winds, which in settled weather come from the northwest, veer round into the opposite direction, the sky fills gradually and evenly with one general cloud, from which, the rain falls steadily, often for days in succession, at a temperature of about 45° or 50°.

Under the call of the president for 600,000 men Minnesota was called upon to furnish five regimentsthe Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenthand the requisition had been partially filled and the men mustered in when the news reached St. Paul that open hostilities had commenced at the upper agency, and an indiscriminate massacre of the whites was taking place.

Beginning in Piraeus, it quickly passed into the city, and both the one and the other was speedily filled with sickness and suffering, the like of which had never before been known.

Later, his church being continually filled with an attentive crowd following his least movements, he took pains to avoid everything that might excite their admiration.

Whether Lamb had ideas of remaining, or whether he merely filled a temporary gap in the Examiners' Office, we cannot tell.

Going to the tent, he bent over the basket of biscuits and hastily filled his pockets.

At the time of which I have just spoken I was one of Nebuchadnezzar's gardeners, but not in the humble position which I afterward filled in Ireland.

Subsequently, heralds, employed in civil and military affairs, filled the office of cooks, and managed marriage feasts; but this, no doubt, was after mankind had advanced in the art of living, a step further than roasting, which, in all places, was the ancient manner of dressing meat.

Then the next higher, and the next would be successively filled, and the lowest would be the last to vanish.

But their forces were like the sands of the sea and every gap in the ranks of the onrushing host was promptly filled by more Germans.

CHAPTER V THE WATERCRESS-BED Barnard's practice, like most others, was subject to those fluctuations that fill the struggling practitioner alternately with hope and despair.

Ralph saw and felt it all, his spirit rose into accord with nature, and hope filled his heart more abundantly than it ever had before.

Whedbee had had the happy idea of bringing along a thousand packets of cigarettesthe tonneau of the car was literally filled with themand we tossed a packet to every German soldier that we saw.

The chapel is not often crowded; it is moderately filled as a rule; and there is no particular numeric difference in the attendance at either morning or evening service on a Sunday.

I agreed that the post seemed difficult to fill adequately.

" When the evening's entertainment came to an end Arthur Weldon took Louise home in his new brown limousine, leaving Patsy and her father, Uncle John and Beth to comfortably fill the Doyle motor car.

Other trees readily fill up a vacancy occasioned by the loss of a branch, and may suffer considerable mutilation without losing their beauty, because an invariable proportion is not necessary to render them pleasing objects of sight.

I had also ascertained that the jug, duly filled, would be standing on a shelf in the butler's pantry round about the hour of one.

Mr. Barnes' duties were filled temporarily until November 1, when John R. Brown was appointed to the place.

She took the wine at a gulp, muttered a word of thanks, and offered the glass to be filled anew; but when this had been done sat unconscious of it, staring witlessly at nothing, so lost to her surroundings that all the muscles of her face relaxed and her years peered out through that mask of artifice which alone preserved for her the illusion and repute of beauty.

His speech is oft broken off with a succession of long parentheses, which he ever vows to fill up ere the conclusion, and perhaps would effect it if the other's ear were as umveariable as his tongue.

Will he not perpetually fill you with anxieties for him and for yourself?The divine and civil powers defied, and their sanctions broken through by him, on every not merely accidental but meditated occasion.

Stepping back into the tent she stopped beside Bedlam's water pail, newly filled for tent inspection.

There, where no wind or gale however strong could penetrate, and with the snow filling the low branches overhead and piled over them in a soft, warm blanket three feet thick, they would push their sensitive noses into their own thick fur to keep them warm, and sleep comfortably till the early twilight came and called them out again to the hunting.

It is impossible to give a consecutive account of his life during the next ten months, a period consequently filled up with the contradictory and absurd mass of legends before referred to.