Bushes and woods covered the hills and valleys, and the tall-stemmed, rich, green Turkish corn waved in the fields.

O Thou, Who poured the patriotic tide That streamed thro' Wallace's undaunted heart, Who dared to nobly stem tyrannic pride, Or nobly die, the second glorious part!

The enthusiastic love which still warmed the faithful husband's breast, and a third signal of distress from the struggling vessel, mastered his better judgment, and, seizing his canoe, he dashed into the foaming waves and boldly stemmed their fury to the object of his mission.

With many a tack she turned her bending side To the rude blast, and bravely stemmed the tide.

Secure their stems firmly to sticks.

In such a place, we were stout-hearted mariners and the good houseboat stemmed the waters gallantly.

A clump of stubby, heavy-stemmed spruce trees offered them shelter from the chill night wind, and there, rolled in blankets, they prepared to sleep.

she said, giving her lily stem the sauciest little swing, which set all the bells ringing.

The barge of blessing, freighted for us by unspeakable hands, comes floating down from the head-waters of that stream whereon we also are afloat; and to meet it we have only to wait for it, not ourselves ebbing away, but loyally stemming the tide.

Meantime, she could and did stem the flood of character portrayal by a suggestion of tennis.

Stake neatly the flower stems.

Once, in fact, the blurry figure of what might have been a woman leaned out as she passed to toss into one Abrahm Kantor's apartment a short-stemmed pink carnation.

" Sure enough, there were, smaller and darker in color than the flowers down by the brook and hiding more shyly under their shorter-stemmed leaves.

Stoutly he stems the breakers, noble fellow! SEPPI.

In a few minutes the high waves completely overwhelmed him, and forced him considerably below the horses, who stemmed the current much more successfully than he.

If you'd not disobeyed my order, look, Hennings had carried out the stroke as planned In two hours' time had set afire the bridges, Planted his forces firmly on the Rhyn, And Wrangel had been crushed with stump and stem In ditches and morasses, utterly.

They feel very heavy, and our stems ache with holding them up; do you think it just possible there may be something inside?' "'Inside!' laughed the sparrows; 'who ever heard of the inside being better than the outside?

On the trunks of various trees along the path, especially a thorny-stemmed Bombax, the pretty Bulimus papyraceus is common, with an occasional B. auris-leporis, but I never during my walks was so fortunate as to find any of the more magnificent of the Brazilian landshellsfor example, B. ovalis, a noble species, four or five inches in length, of which I have bought live specimens in the market.

One hand on the table, the other reaching her slender stemmed glass aloft, she leaned toward me with a look of singular vehemence.