"Husband," replied the dame, "there is no dearer joy in this world, than to hear the nightingale sing.

"Jane, do you hear the nightingale singing in the wood?

A recipe for the production of millenniums which has this one advantage, that it is small enough to be comprehended by the very smallest minds, and reproduced thereby, with a difference, in such spasmodic melodies as seem to those small minds to be imitations of Shelley's nightingale notes.

The monosyllable which epitomises the ennui and the prose of our lives is heard not, thought not thereonly the nightingale-harmony of an eternal yes.

DICKERSON, WILLIARD P. The nightingale house.

Philomela, at the first sound of her nightingale self, must have stood thus, trembling with melody.

Then Juno replied, with a shade of sternness in her tones, "Fate has allotted to all their destined gifts: to yourself beauty, to the eagle strength, to the nightingale song, and so on to all the rest in their degree; but you alone are dissatisfied with your portion.

She heard the voice of the nightingale thrilling through the silence.

"It should have occurred to some of them, as they sat on the edge of the stronghold of an evening, and heard the nightingales trill in the groves below them, and looked over Kalmar Sound, that this island could not have come into existence in the same way as the others.