Our route lay partly along the line of the Mohawk, on the banks of which is situated the lovely village of Rockton, or Little Falls, where the gushing stream is compressed between two beautifully wooded cliffs, affording a water-power which has been turned to good account by the establishment of mills.

Or it may be described in the graphic words of Thomson: With woods o'erhung, and shagg'd with mossy rocks, Whence on each side the gushing waters play, And down the rough cascade white dashing fall, Or gleam in lengthened vista through the trees.

What was my surprise to receive a gushing letter of thanks by return of post!

" She did look up, and the quick gushing flow of blood dyed her pallid cheek with crimson, and lit up her soft eyes with their wonted lustre.

Again it call'd; and then a ray, That seem'd a gushing fount of day, Across the cavern stream'd.

"I could not grow misanthropical when I saw in the eyes of so many who were called old, the gushing fountains of eternal youth, and the light of an immortal dawn, or when I saw those who were esteemed unsuccessful and aimless, ruling a fair realm of peace and plenty, either in themselves, or more perfectly in anothera realm and princely possession for which they had well renounced a hopeless search and a belated triumph.

It was Isabel's turn, and she now came forward with a smile that extended her mouth from ear to ear, and in a gushing manner said, in staccato sentences: "Yes, we are so glad to see you!

Its base is watered by a small gushing rill, and the vegetation now is very luxuriant from the continual supply of moisture.

It is true, the sweet, cool, grateful draught, that was to be got from the gushing spring, must be forgotten; but rain-water collected in clean rock, and preserved in well-sweetened casks, was very tolerable drinking for seamen.

But soon the image of thy wrongs in clouds The fair and transient ray of pleasure shrouds; 310 Far other visions melt thy mournful eye, And wake the gushing tear, th' indignant sigh; There Ataliba's sacred, murder'd form, Sinks in the billow of oppression's storm; Wild

Winter usually terminates with a gushing thaw, and summer then begins with a blaze of fervent heat.

The following verses were among his contributions to the same magazine: I painted her a gushing thing, With years perhaps a score I little thought to find they were At least a dozen more; My fancy gave her eyes of blue, A curly auburn head: I came to find the blue a green, The auburn turned to red.

To a gushing admirer who said that a popular preacher had so much taste"Oh yes; so very much, and all so very bad.

Instantly Kühleborn was transformed into a gushing waterfall, foaming over them from a rock near by and drenching all three.

A bend of the broad, swift-flowing Rye forms one boundary of the place, and is fed by a gushing brook that finds its way from Rievaulx Moor, and forms a pretty feature of the main street.

Three times in closing strife they stood, And thrice the Saxon blade drank blood: No stinted draught, no scanty tide, The gushing flood the tartans dyed.