The variety of the banana thus used is, however, a much larger kind than any of those ordinarily found in our Northern markets, and is known as the plantain.

From "grave to gay, and lively to severe," is nothing to it; but variety is the public dictum; and with more sincerity than the courtier in Tom Thumb, we say to the public, "Whate'er your majesty shall please to name, Long cut or short cut, to us' tis all the same.

The varieties in cultivation are, The Early Scarlet.

The varieties are, The Early.

Such variety of expression in ugliness was a triumph of art in the far-off age, when the chisel of an unremembered man with a teeming imagination made these heads take life from the inanimate stone.

The drop-eared variety is usually the heavier and larger dog of the two; and for some reason does not show the quality and breeding of its neighbour.

The domestic varieties, which one sees in the huts of the Indians, are piebald, black, white, and tawny, varying from one another in color as much as do the llamas, which were also domesticated by the same race of people thousands of years ago.

Wool is produced from the surface of the earth, and iron is by dint of labour collected from its bowels; consider the numerous hands employed in the mines and the furnaces to bring it into a rough state, either for casting or the forge, and when it is in a proper state for either, the endless variety of articles it is manufactured into; the whole export of which, being all produced by labour, is every shilling of it profit to the nation.

The white varieties grown in fields are the pearl, early Charlton, golden hotspur, the common white, or Suffolk, and other Suffolk varieties.

Every variety of shore, from shingly beaches to craggy headlands, was theirs.

Variety was the charm of life, and of books.

The varieties are legion.

The principal varieties of cheese used in England are the following:Cheshire cheese, famed all over Europe for its rich quality and fine piquant flavour.

A great variety of foods at one meal exerts a potent influence in creating a love of eating, and is likewise a constant temptation to overeat.

Except in Tzakoniathe iron-bound coast between Cape Malea and Nauplia Bayall other dialects of Ancient Greek became extinct, and the varieties of the modern language are all differentiations of the 'koinè', along geographical lines which in no way correspond with those which divided Doric from Ionian.

Besides this, comfort-loving animals would be less suited to fight the battle of life with the rest of the brute creation; and it is therefore to be expected that those varieties which are best fitted for domestication, would be the soonest extinguished in a wild state.

I have a notion that the Bonnie Lassie, to whom any variety of want or helplessness is its own sufficient recommendation, drummed up trade for him among her uptown friends.

Other varieties of this figure, not uncommon in English, are the putting of adjectives for adverbs, of adverbs for nouns, of the present tense for the preterit, and of the preterit for the perfect participle.

The variety of costume is another very agreeable spectacle at Venice.

VARIETY OF CADENCES is the best Rule; the greatest help to the Actors, and refreshment to the Audience.

Its chief varieties are the epic, the metrical romance or lesser epic, the tale, and the ballad.

Sometimes also, the variety itself is excuse enough.

However, I think this great variety is rather a beauty than a blemish in the army.

The varieties in cultivation are, Turner's Early Frame.

[Illustration: ORANGE.] ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium).The principal varieties are the sweet, or China orange, and the bitter, or Seville orange; the Maltese is also worthy of notice, from its red blood-like pulp.