Peter Sitz an' I are not tryin' to make mountains out of mole-hills.

AND she hung up all sorts and sizes of clothes small brown coats of mice; and one velvety black mole-skin waist coat; and a red tail-coat with no tail belonging to Squirrel Nutkin; and a very much shrunk jacket belonging to Peter Rabbit; and a petticoat, not marked, that had gone lost in the washing and at last the basket was empty!

Already the turf of the Savannah or public park, close by, is being destroyed by hordes of mole-crickets, strange to say, almost exactly like those of our old English meadows; and unless something is done to save the birds, the cane and other crops will surely suffer in their turn.

"I came pretty near mistaking another man for you, but his mole patch saved me.

"A narrow pass the horned mole divides, Narrow as that where Euripus' strong tides Beat on Euboean Chalcis' rocky sides.

[Footnote 8: A mole on the body, according to the place where it appeared, was regarded as significant of character: in that relation, a vicious mole would be one that indicated some special vice; but here the allusion is to a live mole of constitutional fault, burrowing within, whose presence the mole-heap on the skin indicates.]

"They made nice mole holes, so I crawled right in, and for a little it was bully fun.

Chorus: And the stockmen, &c. Just mark him as he jogs along, his stockwhip on his knee, His white mole pants and polished boots and jaunty cabbage- tree.

AN EXCELENTE BALADE OF CHARITIE AS WROTEN BIE THE GODE PRIESTE THOMAS ROWLEY, 1464 In Virgynè the sweltrie sun gan sheene, And hotte upon the mees did caste his raie; The apple rodded from its palie greene, And the mole peare did bende the leafy spraie; The peede chelandri sunge the livelong daie; 'Twas nowe the pride, the manhode, of the yeare, And eke the grounde was dighte in its most defte aumere.

I pounded along my way, and for the first ten miles did well, but there my horse stumbled and broke a leg in a wretched mole-run widened by the winter rains.

But Sonny has seen the day thet seem like he couldn't talk about another thing but her an' her dimpled knucklesthem an' that little brown mole thet sets out on the aidge of her eyebrow.

but for the time being "like a blinded mole toils in a furrow and lives in a hole.

The ground was pitted with shell holes of all calibressome of them as fresh as mole-casts in the misty damp morning; others where the poppies had grown from seed to flower all through the summer.

He paused, gazed wildly round, flung his hand to his brow, and, while his eyes rolled till nothing but their whites were seen, while the purple veins swelled like mole-tracks in his forehead, and a bubbling froth began to gather about his lips, he tossed his arms in the air, gave shrieking utterance to the cry,"O Christ!

Sort of mole-colour.

There was no moat, nor had there been for a hundred years; but round the old pilehoary, and shrivelled, and palsied enough, in all conscience, for delighting the mole-eye of any antiquarian hunks- there was a visible trace of the old ditch in a hollow covered with green sward going all round the house, which hollow was the only place clear of trees.

Children wore moles feet and pearl buttons around their necks to insure easy teething and had their legs bathed in a concoction of wasp nest and vinegar if they were slow about learning to walk.

Through the intervals of smoke, the sad devastation in the enemy's works was made visible; the whole of the mole head, near the Queen Charlotte, was a ruin, and the guns were consequently silenced; but we were not so fortunate with the Fish-market; the guns there still annoyed us, and ours seemed to make no impression.