The planting has been "make believe,"a different kind of seed in each bed; but the children have named them all, and labeled the various plats with pieces of paper, fastened in cleft sticks.

If any are then seen to be malformed or to have cleft palates, these had better be removed and mercifully destroyed.

He who could write of "...rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course," was a worthy forerunner of Shelley and Keats.

" His voice, without resonance, cleft air, thought, spirit, and even flesh.

His distinctly convex face, its thick, rosy flesh, thick mouth and cleft chin gave Lulu once more that bold sense of lookingnot at him, for then she was shy and averted her eyesbut at his photograph at which she could gaze as much as she would.

I can show you some little field-mice like unfledged birds, and a nest that protrudes now and then glittering eyes and cleft fangs.

I bathe the cleft hoofs of the cattle, As o'er the rude ford-stones I rattle.

(Schizæa, from a Greek root meaning to split, alluding to the cleft leaves of foreign species.)

Yon stream, whose sources run Turned by a pebble's edge, Is Athabasca, rolling toward the sun Through the cleft mountain-ledge.

The deep cleft mouth parted, lifting first at the corners and showing teeth, then widening to the utterance of a low howl.

The fog had risen, and the town and river were steeped in its thick, gray damp; but overhead, the sun-touched smoke-clouds opened like a cleft ocean,shifting, rolling seas of crimson mist, waves of billowy silver reined with blood-scarlet, inner depths unfathomable of glancing light.

" I turned towards the speaker and looked full upon the beak nose, cleft cheek and bristling red moustache of an old friend.

When dumb grow tongues of men that on such love would dwell, Why should a tongue-cleft pen by babbling strive to tell? Thy cheek is in my heart; no more will bliss delay; Glad omens e'er impart news of a gladder day.

The boy found a comfortable seat in a cleft branch from which he could look down over Ångermanland.

Each tree bears on its side the scar of wounds where the woodmen have set flowing the resinous blood which chokes it; the powerful liquor still ascends into its limbs with the sap, exhales by its slimy shoots and by its cleft skin; a sharp aromatic odor fills the air.

Harold lifted the head, but let it fall again with a shudder, for his fingers had slipped into the crevice of the cleft skull and were all smeared with the oozing brain.

The cleft sock and woollen boot worn underneath keep the feet warm, but do not always prevent discomfort and even much pain if the cords are not properly adjusted.

Above me loomed the pine-tipped rim, with its crags, cliffs, pinnacles, and walls, all gray, seamed and stained, and in some clefts blazes of deep red and yellow foliage.

The moon had set behind the cleft summits of La Pagna.

In fiery play The rippling beams that swept between The sea-cleft Sutor crags serene, Broke quivering where the waters bore The soft reflection of the shore.

Agamemnon, wounded, bearing hiss wound, heroically for the sake of the army (look below) to a woman in labor: "He with his lance, sword, mighty stones, poured his heroic wreak On other squadrons of the foe, whiles yet warm blood did break Thro' his cleft veins: but when the wound was quite exhaust and crude, The eager anguish did approve his princely fortitude.

whose all-protecting hand Led us, Thy people, to this chosen land, Through the cleft waters of a distant sea, That we might rear a temple here to Thee; Thou, who on Zion hadst Thy favorite shrine, And in Thy majesty and power divine Wast daily by our suppliant race adored As sovereign Jehovah, peerless Lord; Why hast

The Turbina, speeding like an express train, glided like a ghost over the water; the smoke poured from her stack and the cleft wave foamed at her prow, but there was little else to remind her inventor that 2,300 horse-power was being expended to drive her.