The landscape was broken here and there by woods; in the west rose the blue range of the South Mountain; the sun was shining through showery clouds, and in the east the sky was spanned by a rainbow.

The six weeks' drought had just given place to cool, showery weather.

In showery days the flower appears half concealed, and this state may be regarded as indicative of showery weather; when it is entirely shut, we may expect a rainy day.

It is not often on one's way, even in England of my heart, that one can come upon a place, a lonely hill-side or a city, and say: this is a spot upon which the history of the world was decided; yet I was able on that showery morning, as I went up out of Hastings towards Battle and saw all the level of Pevensey full of rain, to recall two such places in which I had stood already upon my pilgrimage.

THE DANDELIONS Upon a showery night and still, Without a sound of warning, A trooper band surprised the hill, And held it in the morning.

In bright-ringed solitude The showery foliage shone One lovely moment, And the Bow was gone.

The wind began to blow fresh and cool, and when we had reached a height overlooking the deep valley, in the bottom of which lies the picturesque village of Ak-su, there were long showery lines coming up from the sea, and a filmy sheet of gray rain descended between us and Olympus, throwing his vast bulk far into the background.

And I was not alone in thinking that the country would soon be deserted, for accustomed as we all had been to a showery summer, these dry seasons would seem entirely to prevent extensive farming.

Only the other evening we heard two sons of the whip on a hackney-coach stand thus invoke the showery deity: "God send us a good heavy shower;" then the fellows looked upwards, chuckled, and rubbed their hands.

At evening we arrived at Ceneda, where our Italian poet Da Ponte was born, situated just at the base of the Alps, the rocky peaks and irregular spires of which, beautifully green with the showery season, rose in the background.

He heard the soft impact, like a kiss, brushing the reedy cheeks of the marsh, the showery shouldering of branches, the aspiration of myriad drinking grasses, the far whisper of waters coming home to the waters of the seathe long, low melody of the rain.

tears"but the fact is, that I have one little oneandandshe no longer lives with me; my husband's people have taken her; I am sure that they meant it for the best; onlyonlyI am afraid I cannot quite manage to talk of her yet" (turning away from me, and looking up into Algy's face with a showery smile).

It was late on a bitterly cold showery evening of Autumn.

He heeded not the sweep Of the swift gale that lashed the troubled main, And spread with showery foam the watery plain.