The freshness of youth had gone for ever; but her loveliness had depended less upon that radiant colouring which had once been hers than upon her clear-cut features, and exquisitely shaped head and throat.

And so throughout have I been irritated by the small annoyances of the world, her radiant countenanceas it looked sweetly even upon deathhas risen to shame and silence my complaint.

And he would buy more morphine with that money, that was the reason he had not been able to let it lie ... the man who had been to her little girlhood the radiant embodiment of strength and fineness!

It was very hard for him to meet those three radiant faces, and to hear them talk about the water that had been discovered.

[Footnote 2: There is a fine inscription not yet fully translated, describing the soul in heaven, clothed in a white radiant garment, seated in the company of the blessed, and fed by the gods themselves with celestial food.

To Mr. Sommerville he added, laughing, "Isn't it the quaintest combinationsuch radiant girlhood and her absurd book-learning!" Mr. Sommerville gave his assent to the quaintness by silence, as he rose and prepared to retreat.

There is about a successful actress a certain radiant somethinga glamour, a luxuriousness, an atmosphere that suggest a mysterious mixture of silken things, of perfume, of adulation, of all that is rare and costly and perishable and desirable.

" I had hardly answered this pleasing information by a grateful obeisance to my radiant informer, when I perceived, in a gorgeous prospect that now opened before us, three structures of stupendous size and superior magnificence.

Queen Victoria Street, E.C. "This is to let your ever-radiant ladyship know that I am fresh from an encounter with your father, who has retired in great wrath, defeated, but of opinion that he deserved no better for arguing with a Radical.

Now, as the earth under Springtime's caresses: With her verdant tissue is covered once more, All my madly passionate soul overflows With dreams of the stars and their radiant lore!

There was a time when she must, beyond question, be one whose radiant mirror had never reflected form of man but his: now he would be content if for him she would abjure and obliterate her past.

Columbia Spectator. ~Lines on a Ring.~ Oh, precious drop of crystal dew, Set in a tiny band of gold, Which doth within its little grasp A blue-veined finger softly hold Thou failest if thy radiant rays Are seekingbold attempt 'twould be!

And there were garments spread, With the fine gold decked and broidered, And tinged with radiant red, With the radiant red of furnace flames That through the shadows shone

Mock moons with prismatic patches of colour appeared in the radiant ring, echoes of the main source of light.

Thus brightly may your life decline, Though youth may fade upon your brow, May Truth and Virtue radiant shine, E'en like yon sinking sun beam now.

"Bright orbs, that light yon high etherial plain, 400 Or bathe your radiant tresses in the main; Pale moon, that silver'st o'er night's sable brow; For ye were witness to his parting vow!

The mid-day toil is ended, And shadows lengthen from the radiant west; The glowing sun, with sumptuous clouds attended, Sinks to its rest.