The world's beat book of games and parties.

SUNSHINE CAKE Beat yolks of five eggs lightly, add one teaspoon of vanilla, or grated rind of one lemon.

Oh, swift and full of mettle was the steed which that day bore Mustapha, the High Admiral, down to the wave-beat shore!

In the first four the characteristic five-beat measure, by which the deep emotions, especially that of sorrow, were expressed, is consistently employed.

"Well, you two, taken together, beat cockfighting," he said enthusiastically.

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dear mo-ther, I must be start-ing;" but he did do it at last, al-though it was af-ter ma-ny strug-gles to keep down the beat-ings of his heart.

God bless the sea-beat island!

But as to the actual origin of Spenser's four-beat line there can surely be no doubt.

Night's heavy hand is lifted up at last, And my freed heart beats evenly again, Unpress'd by that dull heavy weight of pain Cast backward from the unforgotten Past; Darkness no longer muffles Time's slow tread, Till my own pulse-beat mark the moment fled.

And asleep is yet the gale On sea-beat mount, and rivered vale.

Hard by that wave-beat sire a vineyard bends Beneath its graceful load of burnished grapes; A boy sits on the rude fence watching them.

His own heart-beats sound in his ears like the thumping of a paddle.

Arthur, after gazing at her for a moment with a beating-heart, for the mysterious actions of the old farmer had made him fear the worst, softly approached the couch and knelt beside the girl he loved, thanking; God in his inmost heart for her escape.

And now, as she listened with him, her breath began to come in sobbing excitement between her lipsfor there was no mistaking that sound, that steady beat-beat-beat that came from beyond the cavern wall and seemed to set strange tremors stirring in the air about their ears.

In her eyes and gestures and laconic sentences lay the conviction of great beating issues and of menacing drama my own description fails to recapture.

She took a few swift steps, but paused and leaned against the wall of the gable for support, and, placing her hand upon the sun-beat bricks, she felt a warmth in them which there seemed to be neither in herself nor in the wide summer-air.

A goddess was the deviser thereof, but having created it for a possession of mortal men, she named that air she played the many-headed air, that speaketh gloriously of folk-stirring games, as it issueth through the thin-beat bronze and the reeds which grow by the Graces' city of goodly dancing-ground in the precinct of Kephisos' nymph, the dancers' faithful witnesses.

When perched on a tree it stood like an ibis; and instead of the measured wing-beats characteristic of a heron's flight, it flew with a quick, vigorous flapping of the wings.