After two hours' handshaking in a swallow-tail, a man knows what real trouble is!" She stirred around and around the cup, supping up spoonfuls gratefully.

No age has surpassed the Elizabethan in lyrical poems, those "short swallow flights of song," as Tennyson defines them.

Look through the bars; letters from prison, poems and a new version of The swallow book.

It is 81, and the 8 is the same size as our S. His ear-mark is a crop, which obliterates our swallow-fork.

I was frightened and self-conscious, but I did it, and nobody seemed to notice me; then I was a flower opening its petals in the sunshine, and presently, a swallow gathering straws for nest-building; then, carried away by the spirit of the kindergartner and her children, I fluttered my clumsy apologies for wings, and forgetting self, flew about with all the others, as happy as a bird.

And heard the browsing wether's bell, Blythe echoes rousing from their cell To swell the tinkling quire: Or heard from branch of flow'ring thorn The song of friendly cuckoo warn The tardy-moving swain; Hast bid the purple swallow hail; And seen him now through ether sail, Now sweeping downward o'er the vale.

As you cannot acquire health by watching a gymnast take exercise or a doctor swallow medicine or a dietician select food, so you cannot become an overlord of words without first fighting battles to subjugate them.

The swallow preys upon it, but it generally eludes the Bat.

It seemed to Dan's dim consciousness that some of the spring was gone from that glorious stride which swept on and on with the slightest undulation, like a swallow skimming before the wind; but so long as strength remained he knew that Satan would never falter in his pace.

There rose the sea-blue swallow-wort, and there The pale-hued maidenhair, with parsley green And vagrant marsh-flowers; and a revel rare

It is perennially young, and I may stand and see a swallow dip apparently to pick an insect from its surface as of yore.

He first that useful secret did explain, That pricking corns foretell the gathering rain; When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear.