As a boy he had loved to watch the soaring of the golden eagles, and once he had seen a great wide-winged condor, swooping along a mountain-crest.

No bright-winged bird, fair flower, or gorgeous sunset or sea-wave, was more distinct to the child's eyes than the hues of the same notes, stately as palm or pine,red as crimson, white as wool, rich and full as violet, softly compelling as amethyst.

In other words, we are to select the nobler species, the long-winged peregrine falcon, the male of which was called a tiercel-gentle, for flying at the heron or the mallard; and a short-winged hawk, such as the goshawk or sparrow-hawk, for blackbirds and other hedgerow birds.

But, surely, this clear-seeing, to be but for an odd time; and afterward we each again to earnestness in our way with the other; but alway, even when we did make to show indifference, we to be something troubled inwardly with sweet flashings of our bewildered natures.

I placed the weaker and smaller of my birds in portable cages, and then commenced my experiment by taking out a strong-winged cuckoo and throwing him downwards over the precipice.

Arithmetic to the ordinary person is a thing of real life; we count chiefly in connection with money, with making things, with distributing things, or with arranging things, and we count carefully when we keep scores in games; in adult life we seldom or never count or perform arithmetical operations for sheer pleasure in the activity, but there are many children who do so in the same spirit as we play patience or chess.

"Look!" said the Angel; and the Prince Bishop saw a little blue-winged bird which perched on the stout yoke beam fastened to the horns of the oxen, and sang such a heavenly song of rest and contentment that the big shaggy creatures ceased to blow stormily through their nostrils, and drew long tranquil breaths instead.

In almost complete silence they winged upward.

This is remarkable for the curiously-winged branches, which give to the shrub a rather peculiar and distinct appearance.

Before the report of the pistol had died out, the yellow-winged Dragonfly soared upward from Paul's hand and darted like a streak across the red tape, clearing it at the highest altitude yet achieved by any of the models.

Cure then, thou mighty winged God, This raging Fever in my Blood.

In this, we merely[*] upheld what was due to us by constitution, by treaties, by the coronation-oath of every king,the right to be "governed as a self-consistent, independent country, by our native institutions, according to our own laws."

A white-winged yacht lay offshore, her sails in slack folds.

Do they learn as readily us the white children?

Your lorea hideous mask wherein Self-worship hides its monstrous sin: Music and verse, divinely wed How can these live where love is dead?

Crickets sounded their note, a few silent birds winged furtively overhead.

In her was developed to its finest point that sixth sense of the animal kingdom, the sense of orientation, and as straight as a pigeon might have winged its flight she cut through the bush to the spot where they had cached the rabbit.

At last we beheld, with wonder and delight, the pride of the West Indies, the Cabbage PalmsPalmistes of the French settlerswhich botanists have well named Oreodoxa, the 'glory of the mountains.'

But you make up whatever we lack, When we, too rarely, come together, More potent than the almanac, You bring the ideal April weather; When you are with us we defy The blustering air, the lowering sky; In spite of Winter's icy darts, We've spring and sunshine in our hearts.

"Life hath its | pleasures, but | fading are | they as the | flowers; Sin hath its | sorrows, and | sadly we | turn'd from those | bowers; Bright were the | angels be | -hind with their | falchions of |

The midnight calls, up rise the dead, And dance in airy swarms there; We twain quit not our earthly bed, I lie wrapt in your arms there.

One fine bird was accidentally winged, and half a dozen men broke from the line to run it down, one of whom was Reese himself.

As there was nothing to be gained by lingering about the scene of their strange encounter and stranger adventure, the party of youthful aviators clambered back into the Golden Butterfly and once more winged aloft.

That flags a while her fluttering wings beneath, Till she her selfe for stronger flight can breath.

I saw them strike and fall; they do hit hard, those big-winged Vespae.