Most of it had been on the trailin the tracesand the spirit of the mating season had only stirred him from afar.

Again at daylight and at dusk swarms of black dots on whistling wings floated here and there, descended to earth; and, following, indefinite as to location, weird, lonely, boomed forth in their mating songs.

If it is true that, as some authorities believe, there was a time when human beings had, like animals, regular and limited annual mating periods, this rage at rivals must have often assumed the most ferocious aspect, to be followed, as with animals, by long periods of indifference.

" The stout mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek.

Mating time comes early in the mountains.

Mate dear: One of my girls, when attached with the blues, invariably says in her written apology for a poor lesson, "Please excuse my frivolous with your imagination, for my heart is warmly."

They sang what the heart prompted, what the flower expressed, what boded in the mating weather.

She did, however, yield herself luxuriously to the springtime, the romance of the hour, the appeal of her latest cavalier, and preen herself like a mating bird.

Mating woman, by Lois Bull.

Mourir en homme (Kia mate toa) By Paul Mousset.

"What the d-l are you stopping for?" cried the captain as the boatswain's-mate halted.

"One so seldom thinks of a master's-mate marrying, that the idea of your being in that way has never crossed my mind, except in the manner of a joke.

Here and there an adventurous genius coins a phrase for the benefit of posterity,as we once heard a mate order a couple of men to "go forrard and trim the ship's whiskers," to the utter bewilderment of his captain, who, in thirty years' following of the sea, had never heard the martingale chains and stays so designated.

The larger boat pulled six oars, and seven men, besides the mate Rynders, were selected to go in her.

The second-mate scarce knew what he was about, and the captain took charge of the duty himself.

The cook placed his burden upon its feet, and running up the ladder stood by the mate shivering.

"My soul's-mate, war-mate soldier-girl," he murmured on.

It was the mate-song of the beast of prey, sending up its message to the starscrying out to all the wilderness for a response to its loneliness.

" Then for the first time he looked his mate square in the face.

I rushed college-mate Leslie St. Anne thro' a crash course in typing to join me in Margao.

"Tay, they do be tellin' me, at two and thruppence a pound no less, an' mate wanst and twice in the day, an' a sup o' punch at night the way they'd sleep sound!

Why mating bears indulge in this blood-curdling duet is a mystery which only the bears themselves can explain.

With this view, then, he ordered the lugger hove-to, the boat of Clinch hauled to the lee gangway, and the prisoners to be all brought on deck; the common men in the waist, and the master's mate aft.

She was a splendid grizzly who came from the western ranges when the spirit of mating days called; big, and strong, and of a beautiful golden-brown colour, so that the children of Thor and his Iskwao were the finest young grizzlies in all the mountains.

Ah! you much mistake your duty, Mating discord thus with beauty, 'Mid these heavenly sunset gleams, Vexing the smooth air with screams, Burdening the dainty breeze With insane discordancies.