[Byron]; while mocking winds are piping loud

" And the delightful little fellow merrily piped the whole of that "song of pleasant glee," one of the most melodious and sauciest bits of lyric coquetry to be found in Spanish.

Occasionally the trumpet-toned pipe of the enginefit music for the woodsbursts forth; but there are no mountains or valleys to echo its strains far and wide.

Insects now enrich the air, frogs pipe cheerily in the shallows, soon followed by the ouzel, which is the first bird to visit a glacier lake, as the sedge is the first of plants.

There could be no mistaking the figure seated at the wheezy little organthe Rev. Luther Meeker, with his battered helmet on the back of his head and his goggles turned skyward as he wailed in a high-piped tenor the words of the old hymn.

The old owl hoots mournfully, the frogs bellow hoarsely along the reedy shore, while the tree toads are quavering from among the branches of the scrubby trees that grow along the rocky banks; the whippoorwill pipes shrilly in the forest depths; the breeze murmurs among the foliage of the tall old pines, while the everlasting roar of the waters, as they go tumbling down the rocks, is always heard.

Suddenly the nightingale again piped gloomily in the willow wood, as if in farewell to a departing dream.

" "It ain't that," piped back this one helplessly as the rest of the congregation gazed suspiciously at him: "I can't get upI'm paralyzed!"

The men were hurriedly piped to this duty while their young commander took his station on the poop, now anxiously examining the courses of the tides and the positions of the eddies, and now turning his eyes towards the brigantine, whose upper spars and white sails were to be seen, at the distance of two hundred fathoms, glancing past the trees of the island.

Where one innocently piped to his lambs, the other innocently swore at them; and their divergence in intellect and personal cleanliness was immense.

Birds piped joyously near and far; hid among the leaves near by, the war-horse Mars stamped eager hoof and snuffed the fragrant air of morning; but Sir Fidelis was nowhere to be seen.

He pipes louder, moving backwards, slowly, with magical gestures, towards the little by-streets and the closed doors.

[Fingers Us pipe, noiselessly.]

"Kleam, kleam, kleam, kleam," it would pipe pleasantly.

If he had not piped so stridently, we should not have had half so much sport; yet small largess does the miserable minstrel get for tooting tunelessly.

To Pan doth white-limbed Daphnis offer here (He once piped sweetly on his herdsman's flute)

On the barrows where the vikings sleep their long sleep, the plover pipes its melancholy lay; between steep banks a furtive brook steals swiftly by as if anxious to escape from the universal blight.

"Ah!" thinly piped she of the mosquito voice, "what a fine day tha's been, to-day!"

Of wine of various vintages there were upwards of 12 pipes, and of ale and beer, thirty tuns, including four of London and six of Kentish ale.

Women mis-doubt a sailor's word, We don't deserve the wipe; For when they pipe us all aboard, Aboard we all do pipe.

The shadow lifted a degree, the eye penetrated to farther regions; a bird piped warily, then freely, a second and a third answered, a fourth took up the tale, blue-jay and thrush, catbird and bobolink; wings began to dart about them, the world to rustle overhead, near and far the dark prime grew instinct with sound, the shores and heavens blew out gales of melody, the air broke up in music.

It stands for evening that brings all home, the evening meal, the dipping of friendly hands in the dish, the one face, the dropped veil, and the big, guttering pipe afterward.

At the very moment when Sinclair had straightened to attempt the climb up the side of the house, the cook came out and crouched on the upper step, humming a jangling tune and sucking audibly a long-stemmed pipe.

[JAN pipes a measure of the Kinder-spell, brokenly.

There once more he saw the shepherds tend their flocks, singing or wrangling with one another, dreamily piping on their wax-stopped reeds or plotting to annex their neighbours' gear; or else there sounded in his ears the love-song or the dirge, or the incantation of the forsaken girl rose amid the silence to the silver moon.