The atmosphere is wholesome, and children ought to spring up there like couch-grass.

Thou hast but to proceed at the fitting period to the couch whereon he is deposited, and, placing thy hand upon his heart, to command him to rise forthwith.

And Josie Fifer caught up a couch cover for a cloak, with the scarf that was about her neck for a veil, and, using Hahn himself as the ailing chee-ild, gave a biting burlesque of the famous bedside visit that brought the tears of laughter to his eyes, and the nurse flying from down the hall.

Sally drew herself up eagerly upon her couch pillows.

How long shall sloth usurp thy useless hours, Unnerve thy vigour, and enchain thy pow'rs; While artful shades thy downy couch inclose, And soft solicitation courts repose?

Only wide walks are left me in the world, Which these stiff limbs will hardly let me tread; And when I sleep, heaven's glorious canopy Me and my mossy couch doth overspread.

The BARON upon a couch dying.

Both looked startled and shocked at the entrance of the fair- haired damsel, and the Sheik crouched in a corner, with a savage glare in his eye like a freshly caught wild beast, though the Emir sat cross-legged on the couch eating, and talking in the LINGUA FRANCA, which was almost a native tongue, to the son and daughter of the Crusader.

Erthat issuppose you could make six chairs, a table, and an old couch furnish that room in therefor the winter?

"She has moved underneath it, into a couch hammock.

Sweeter couch hath who than I? Quoth the brilliant Butterfly.

Sound, Roger!" Hereupon he of the ruddy cheek clapped horn to lip and blew amain until his cheek grew redder yet, what time the heralds and pursuivants and marshals of the field debated together if it were lawful for a nameless knight to couch lance 'gainst one of noble blood.

No bloodless shape my path pursues; No shiv'ring ghost my couch annoys, Visions more sad my fancy views, Visions of dear departed joys, The shade of youthful hope is there.

Raskolnikoff rose, and sat on the couch listening.

A fair Venetian dame, with golden locks and glowing cheeks, such as Titian loved to paint her sex, reclined on a couch nigh by, following the movements of both, with the joint feelings of mother and wife, and laughing in pure sympathy with the noisy merriment of her young hope.

My gems, the pearl upon the leaf At mystic hour of the morn; My gold, the gold that rims the sea A moment ere the day is born; And on my breezy couch o' nights

He refused physick, neglected exercise, and lay down on his couch peevish and restless, rather afraid to die than desirous to live.

In the autumn comes the ploughing, the couch-picking and burning, often second ploughing, the sowing by drill or hand, the threshing, &c. In the spring will come more ploughing, sowing, harrowing, hoeing.

Are you going to take the couch potatoes of the world by storm and make all of them yearn to be you?

"There's a couch-seat in the music-room," Parks suggested, and the three of us bore the still unconscious man to it.

I fell upon the couch shivering.

Here a man was lying back on his couch singing and drumming; there a group of young men were holding a war dance; everywhere the people were eating, singing, talking, and joking.

At the foot and head of every couch, a mat, made of straight, peeled willow twigs, fastened side by side, was suspended on a tripod at an angle of forty-five degrees, so that between the couches spaces were left like an inverted V, making convenient places to store articles which were not in use.

But while they were at this Mr. Edison, getting on to the joke, for he generally naps with one eye open, got up and put a lot of stuffing under the couch spread, stuck his old hat on it so as to make it look as though his face was covered; then peered through the crack of a door.

As earth, two handfuls yielding, shall thy last couch supply, What need to build thy palace, aspiring to the sky?