There was no special reason beyond the heat and worry to make tension, but, as the clock-hands crept up to three o'clock and the machines spun their fly-wheels two and three times to see that all was in order, before I said the word that would set them off, I could have shrieked aloud.

So he tore out a fly-leaf from the big Bible, and jotted down notes of the meeting,"An outpouring of the loyal heart of West Virginia,"and yawned, ready for bed, contented with the world, himself, and God.

They soon afterward saw two other alcatrases and great numbers of flying-fishes.

Dr. Paley was so much attached to this amusement, that when the Bishop of Durham inquired of him when one of his most important works would be finished, he said, with great simplicity and good-humour, 'My lord, I shall work steadily at it when the fly-fishing season is over.

Down in the still, pure depths of these hidden lakelets you may also find the larvae of innumerable insects and a great variety of beetles, while the air above them is thick with humming wings, through the midst of which fly-catchers are constantly darting.

Morny said, "Let us make use of the flying squadron.

The fly-man raised his whip.

"Fly-boat" comes from Span.

The old India House ledgers of Lamb's day are no longer in existence, but a copy of Booth's Tables of Interest is preserved, with some mock notices from the press on the fly-leaves in Lamb's hand.

In the dark night it was impossible to see the flying-machine.

'Andthe Lord forgive me!I put it in the squire's fly-book.'

SEE Stocking, Jay T. BISHOP, WILLIAM A. The flying squad, by William A. Bishop and Rothesay Stuart-Wortley.

"Our class named it 'sticky fly paper.'" "It was rightly named," grumbled Farley.

The spires and the flying-buttresses of the Northern cathedrals cannot be defended on the ground of thrifty construction.

On each lobe of the bilobed leaf of Venus's fly-trap (Dionoea muscipula) are three delicate filaments which stand out at right angle from the surface of the leaf.

Nelson was a good fly-fisher, and continued the pursuit even with his left hand; and, says the author, "I have known a person who fished with him at Merton, in the Wandle.

At first, I feared my rare bird had flitted; I shook the bit of flying-jib that answered for a door, and called to any one within, more than once, before an inmate stirred.

The shoo-fly pie, by Mildred Jordan.

"I don't give a damn how smart you fly-cops areyou can't prove nothin' on me.

A long silence followed, broken only by the whish of the fly-brush as a white-clad Baluchi whisked it lazily to and fro over the Khan's head.

I caught a momentary glimpse of a square-shouldered man with a close-trimmed auburn beard crouching in the stern, and then the next moment a wave broke right against our bows, drenching all three of us in a cloud of flying spray.

" Well, there was a scene of consternation around there just at that instant, and our hero said: "I've been carrying out your programme, amusing myself with a sneak thief, and now, Mr. Senator's Son, you have evidence that Yorkers do know a thing or two, and you get yourself together and get out of this car and off the train at the next station, or I'll make a horse-fly net of you.

Sometimes, in the middle of a dark winter's night, when a terrible north-easterly storm is howling across the steppe in clouds of flying snow, a band of wolves will make a fierce, sudden attack upon a herd of deer, and scatter it to the four winds.

And here will I set down how that the Home-Call had no use in those ages; but had been a Call in the olden time when yet the great flying-ships went abroad over the world.

Cooper has told us how and by what signs, in years that have forever faded, the Huron tracked his flying foe through the forests of the North; we read of Cuban bloodhounds, and of their frightful baying on the scent of the wretched maroon; we know how the Bedouin follows his tribe over pathless sands;and yet all these are bunglers, in comparison with the Gaucho rastreador!