The young seem to sprout from knot-holes, perfect from the first, and as enduring as their own trees.

The knot-grass (Polygonum aviculare), with its reddish-white flowers and trailing pointed stems, was probably so called "from some unrecorded character by the doctrine of signatures," Suggests Mr. Ellacombe, that it would stop the growth of children.

The summons was answered by a bond-servant, a coarse-clad and dull-featured piece of humanity, who, after ascertaining that his master was the applicant, undid the door, and held a flaring pine-knot torch to light him in.

The snow flew past their faces like the foam over the gunwale of a boat that is thrashing into a ten-knot breeze.

Our course, during the afternoon was South by East along a low rocky coast, but as we had to contend with a three-knot tide, we did not get farther than a small sandy cove, bearing South by East 9 miles from Point Hall, by the close of the day, which was the only spot we had seen the whole of the afternoon capable of affording shelter for the boats.

It became obvious, however, that with the approach of winter the old destroyers of the 30-knot class would have the greatest difficulty in facing the heavy weather, and very urgent representations were made by Sir Frederick Brock for their replacement by more modern vessels before the winter set in.

Our thrushes now are silent, Our swallows flown away, But Robin's here in coat of brown, And scarlet breast-knot gay.

But nearing the international boundary, the Charlotte drove her twenty-knot way into a thickening atmosphere.

" "Hang him up," roared the King in a gale, In a ten-knot gale of royal rage; The other leech grew a shade pale; But he pensively rubbed his sagacious nose, And thus his prescription ran, King will be well, if he sleeps one night In the Shirt of a Happy Man.

Her bow was creaming up the ocean into foam, as she rushed onward at a twenty-four knot gait.

Tubac became a kind of Gretna Green for runaway couples from Sonora; as the priest there charged them twenty-five dollars, and the Alcalde of Tubac tied the knot gratis, and gave them a treat besides.

I feel as if I'd been drawn through a knot-holeoror dropped into a stone-crusher that's it, a stone-crushera ten million horse power stone-crusher.

"Wait a minute," he interrupted, while knot number two appeared upon the scene, "it was proved that six days after the murder, William Kershaw was alive, and visited the Torriani Hotel, where already he was known, and where he conveniently left a pocket-book behind, so that there should be no mistake as to his identity; but it was never questioned where Mr. Francis Smethurst, the millionaire, happened to spend that very same afternoon.

The vessel had gained the open sea by nightfall and was bowling along at a three-knot rate under full spread of canvas and fair wind.

(For the Mirror.) Go, trace the forest maze, Or Cretan lab'rinth solve, On Nature's myst'ries gaze, Or Gordian knot resolve. Tell whence the magnet's force, The central motive scan, Lay bare Nile's hidden source, Earth's vast circumference span. Results from such detail Skill superhuman prove: Yet powers like these would fail To tell the course of love.

A tide of from half to one knot sets through between, and the flood-stream comes from the northward.

Simultaneously a careful investigation showed that for the institution of a system of convoy and escort for homeward-bound Atlantic trade alone to the United Kingdom, our requirements would be eighty-one destroyers or sloops and forty-eight trawlers (the latter vessels being only suitable for escorting the slow 6-7-knot ships of the trade from Gibraltar to the United Kingdom).

The Gibraltar convoy (an exception to the general rule) contained ships of only 7 knots speed.

He look des lack he 'd los' sump'n fer a day er so atter de ham wuz tuk off, en didn' 'pear ter know w'at ter do wid hisse'f; en fine'ly he up'n tuk'n tied a lighterd-knot ter a string, en hid it under de flo' er his cabin, en w'en nobody

Accordingly a 13-knot trawler was designed, and a large number ordered.

Now love has you together tied, May none this triple knot undo!

" "With an eight-knot wind.

The arms and back of the chair are ornamented with a twisted knot-work pattern.

" Saying this, the excellent Principal departed, with his rusty narrow-brimmed hat leaning over, as if it had a six-knot breeze abeam, and its gunwale (so to speak) was dipping into his coat-collar.

"Wen he got dere, de do' wuz stan'in' open; a lighterd-knot wuz flick'rin' on de h'a'th, en de ole cunjuh man wuz settin' dere noddin' in de corner.