The L. spica, which is the only species besides L. vera hardy in this country, was formerly considered only a variety of L. vera; it is distinguished by its lower habit, much whiter color, the leaves more congested at the base of the branches, the spikes denser and shorter, the floral leaves lanceolate or linear, and the presence of linear and subulate bractes.

"There are too many low whites comin' here.

The whites ones, hardly knowing their mothers from their mammies or their uncles by blood from their "uncles" by courtesy, had the freedom of the kitchen and the cabins, and the black ones were their playmates in the shaded sandy yard the livelong day.

Were all the Southern whites slave owners?

Indeed, all Tahiti was of the sea, and all but the mass of natives who stayed in their little homes were at times sailors, and all whites passengers on long voyages.

To make a Devonshire White-pot.

Beside him walked the Master; and, well grouped and flanked and followed by the Arabs in their white robesall silent, grave, watchfulthe Legion also entered.

Cook till it thickens; remove from fire and stir in the cheese, pinch cayenne, and yolks of eggs beaten up, beat up whites stiffly, and mix in lightly.

The check that had been given the Indians allowed the whites time to recover heart and breath.

Herr Köhrer finds it almost beneath his dignity to reply to charges of barbarism and Hunnism; yet he devotes several pages to the art of white-washing.

Every white-birch clump around us is bent divergingly to the ground, each white form prostrated in mute despair upon the whiter bank.

Here the red wheat tinges the view, there the whiter barley; but the prevailing hue is a light gold.

Squabs which are reared in this way become fat more quickly than others and have whiter flesh.

Never fell light in brighter spangles, never fell water in whiter foam.

Far safer, of a midnight meeting External ghost, Than an interior confronting That whiter host.

It filled a wide hollow or basin among the white hills, against which its whiter houses and domes glimmered for miles, in the dead, dreary heat of the afternoon, scarcely relieved by the narrow belt of gardens on the nearer side, or the orchards of pistachio trees beyond.

"He has a white face and a whiter liver.

She also wore pearls in her hair, on her white arms, and on her whiter neck.

Unhappy Dryden!In all Charles's days, Roscommon only boasts unspotted bays; And in our own (excuse some courtly stains) No whiter page than Addison remains.

Fremantle, of which it was wittily said by the quartermaster of one of His Majesty's ships who visited the place, "You might run it through an hourglass in a day," is but a collection of low white houses scattered over the scarce whiter sand.

From a Tartar's scull they had stripp'd the flesh, As ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh, And their white tusks crunched on the whiter scull, As it slipp'd through their jaws when their edge grew dull.

And now Time's whiter series is begun, Which in soft centuries shall smoothly run: Those clouds, that overcast your morn, shall fly, Dispell'd to farthest corners of the sky.

But were intrinsic merit seen, We turkeys have the whiter skin.' From tongue to tongue they caught abuse; And next was heard the hissing goose: 'What hideous legs!

From a Tartar's skull they had stripp'd the flesh, As ye peel the fig when its fruit is fresh; And their white tusks crunch'd on the whiter skull, As it slipp'd through their jaws when their edge grow dull.

In 1818 Lamb had dedicated the prose volume of his Works to Burney, in a sonnet ending with the lines: Free from self-seeking, envy, low design, I have not found a whiter soul than thine.