An Indian princess too, dressed entirely in whitea soft clinging material, with a white veil, not over her face, and held in place by a gold band going around the headwas always much admired.

All this occupied much time, for the hands of the sailors were numb with cold, the ropes stiff with ice, while the wild and angry wind snatched at the tackle and tore at the clinging figures.

And for the first time I had round my neck the arm of a man who finds each footstep a torturing effort, and who after a pace or two halts and groans, and loses the strength of his legs, so that all his weight hangs upon that clinging arm.

And, besides this reasoning, we had that clinging belief of the unfortunate that some unforeseen accident might turn to our advantage and overthrow our fears.

He must shake himself free of the last clinging bit of chrysalis of the old life.

He realized suddenly that it was folly to attempt to throw off this clinging burden.

Till the steel is as waxbut I'm longing to press That exquisite mouth with a clinging caress.

It is indeed difficult to account for the clinging curse of ugliness which blights everything brought forth by the most prosperous of centuries.

Sadly did poor Emmeline feel there was but little romance in her feelings; cold clinging despair had overcome her.

The bees, of both extremes alike afraid, Their wax around the whistling crannies spread, And suck out clammy dews from herbs and flowers, To smear the chinks, and plaster up the pores; For this they hoard up glue, whose clinging drops, Like pitch or bird-lime, hang in stringy ropes.

It doubled her sense of woe and brought home the clinging fear.

On that memorable day, Flitting like a restless ghost Somewhere off the Danish coast, His destroyer, all agog, Butted through the clinging fog, When for just a space the gray Mists of morning rolled away.

Luminous violet dwelt upon the peak, while below the clinging forests were purple in sheltered gorges, where they could climb nearer the summit, loved of light, and lower down gloomed green

On, deeper and deeper into the wood,now dodging under the green and snaky cat-briers, with their retractile thorns and vicious clinging grasp,now dashing along the woodman's paths,now struggling among the opposing underwood.

The heavens were dark, but unclouded; and, as the lips of the lovers met in one clinging kiss, the host of stars beamed down upon them, and proclaimed an ETERNITY OF LOVE.

The gilded ornaments, the tapers winking in the morning light, the statues, the paintings, the faint clinging odors of incense, the hushed atmosphere, the devotional silence, the marble angels kneeling round the altar, all united to increase my dream of delight.

His clinging pose, his smile of disgust, his whole air, as he stood crouching and lurching there, I can shut my eyes, and see now.

Spite this clinging reproach, however, signal military virtues and achievements have conferred upon the Confederate arms historic fame, and upon certain of the commanders a renown extending beyond the seaa renown which we of the North could not suppress even if we would.

Lady, will you say yes?" He had swept her off her feet and with a mind full of a riot of imaginingsthe frantic stallion, the clinging rider, the struggle for superiorityshe breathed: "Yes, yes!

The intense and blatant blue of her long clinging robe, which would have killed the charms of nine women out of ten, seemed to enhance the beauty of her pure white skin and marvelous hair.

I lingered awhile in the meadow by the stream, looking at the rock-clinging sanctuary before wandering in search of the unknown up the narrow gorge.

"See how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling waves, As, crashing o'er their crested heads, She bows her surly slaves; With foam before and fire behind, She rends the clinging sea, That flies before the roaring wind, Beneath her hissing lea.

The coal-black driftwood, gleaming wet, Relic of by-gone vessel stout, With its clinging shells, seems a bar of jet, Studded with pearls, when the tide goes out.

Its light clinging stems and foliage hid the astyra's arched branches overhead, and formed a screen on either side.

And perhaps he loved the marble so well that he did not like to quit the good white stone without sparing a portion of its clinging strength and stubbornness, as symbol of the effort of his brain and hand to educe live thought from inert matter.