full well ye have stood, While the gripe of gaunt Famine has curdled your blood!

" Few things are better calculated to curdle the milk of human kindness than to find that one's fellow-man has meanly contrived to keep his reputation fair when one is satisfied it should be otherwise.

See how your ill- treatment hath curdled the wits of this poor lad and turned them all sour!

In the meantime, however, two things had happened to curdle Froelich's enthusiasm.

Werther muttered to Drew: "Here's where I hand him the lemon that'll curdle his cream," and ran out of the box and straight around the edge of the arena.

The light of heaven, The common air, was narrow, gross, and dun; The tiles did drop from the eaves; the unhinged doors Tottered o'er inky pools, where reeked and curdled The offal of a life; the gaunt-haunched swine Growled at their christened playmates o'er the scraps.

Before the day went, Miss Eunice awoke to the disagreeable fact that her plans had become shrunken and contracted, that a certain something had curdled her spontaneity, and that her ardor had flown out at some crevice and had left her with the dry husk of an intent.

He curdles the bleak air with ire, Ruffling his hoary raiment through, And lo!