The horses, faring better than their masters, for they found abundance to allay hunger in the lush, dank grass of the morass, were corralled in a clump of white ash, and the jaded men, groping about, clambered upon the gnarled roots of the trees to catch breath.

Edgar and the dank morass.

Often it ran level with the roofs of vague, far-stretching acres of houses houses vile and frowsy, and smoking like pyres in the dank air.

On a grey and wintry day one is chiefly impressed by the dank chilliness of the palaces on the Grand Canal, whose feet lie lapped in slimy water; the lovely tracery of whose windows shows ragged and broken, whose stately guest-chambers are in the sordid occupation of the dealer in false antiques, and whose motto might be "Ichabod," for their glory has departed.

Or will its speckless copper lie rusting in the grey chill of the sea's dank depths? Revs.

The Legionaries doubled their efforts, with panting breath, feet that slipped on the dank floor, grunts of labor.

Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for ship-wreck.

When they rose from their knees, it was therefore with astonishment they saw a woman standing motionless in the doorway, without cloak or bonnet, her dank garments clinging to her form and dripping with rain.

She ran up the little flight of steps with a rush, unlocked the door with trembling fingers, and let herself into the cool, dank gloom of the storehouse hall.

Many a stout-hearted one has been known to postpone the inauguration of a long-planned coup merely because the air filled his blood with the dank chill of superstition.

It licked the trembling lips and distorted mouth, the drawn nostrils and dank hair, almost alive with that nameless fear.

We can examine them as we go back, but now let us cross the "Creek." It is a creek only by courtesy or an Americanism, at the present day; but when those miles of fertile fields upon the north were unreclaimed, the dank herbage hindered evaporation, and Easton's Pond was fed by unfailing streams.

And think of the young wife meanwhile, alone with her maids and her tapestry in the dank isolation of her lonely, listening castle.

Antony!" moaned Beatrice, as she wandered alone in those dank autumn lanes, "if you would only come back to me for one short day, come back with the old look on your face, be to me for a little while as you once were, I think I could gladly die" Die!

And this Nemophila, 'blue as my brother's eyes,'the brave young brother whose heroism and manhood have outstripped his years, and who looks forth from the dank leafiness of far Australia lovingly and longingly over the blue waters, as if, floating above them, he might catch the flutter of white garments and the smile on a sister's lip" "What are you going to do with 'em?" put in Halicarnassus again.

" =332.= As, when from some proud capital that crowns Imperial Ganges, the reviving breeze Sweeps the dank mist, or hoary river fog Impervious mantled o'er her highest towers, Bright on the eye rush Bramah's temples, capp'd With spiry tops, gay-trellised minarets, Pagods of gold, and mosques with burnish'd domes, Gilded, and glistening in the morning sun, So from the hill the cloudy curtains roll'd,

In other dank cellars soldiers who were off guard were lying or sitting.

The mute bird sitting on the stone, The dank moss dripping from the wall, The thorn-trees gaunt, the walks o'ergrown, I love themhow

Its favorite abode is along the dank mossy stones of some black and winding brook, shaded with overarching bushes, and running one long stream of scarlet with these superb occupants.

He gasped, struggled, and in a fervent outburst of thanksgiving regained the dank mound.

The afternoon waned as we rode on and on, up and down, in and out, around, and at times the horses stood almost on their heads, sliding down steep places where the earth was soft and black, and gave forth a dank odor.

On the wharves the daylight confusion was dispelled; there was no clatter of teaming, no sound but the water fingering dank piles, and the little noises aboard sleeping vessels.

And fell LOBELIA'S suffocating breath Loads the dank pinion of the gale with death.

It was pitch-dark in the cellara deep, dank place with a rank odor of rotting potatoes.

Some tranced summer's day might have drowsed down into such a human form by a dank pool, or on the thick grass-crusted meadows.