The sharp private griefs that sting the heart so deeply, and leave a little poison behind, did not spare him.

I sting cheerily In my bright days, But now

The wasps, driven off for a moment, became only the more irritated, and returned with vigor and wonderful pertinacity to the attack,beginning to sting the poor animal furiously in all the tender parts.

I know life is passing away, and I am doing nothing, earning nothinga very bitter knowledge it is at momentsbut I see no way out of the mist"; and so on for another line or two, and then: "These ideas sting me keenly sometimes; but whenever I consult my conscience it affirms that I am doing right in staying at home, and bitter are its upbraidings when I yield to an eager desire for release.

Augustus as a grandson-in-law would sting her fine senses unbearably.

' 'They will sting worse if you do not mend your manners,' retorted the German brutally.