Blood flecked the snow, arms were wrenched and faces bruised.

The wind it wailed, the wind it moaned, And the white caps flecked the sea; "An' I would to God," the skipper groaned, "I had not my boy with me!" * *

A white froth flecked his lips, and his body was convulsed with shiverings and tremblings.

It was pleasant to see them like walking mites, flecking the dark brows of the mountains.

" He flecked his cigar, hitching his arm up along the chair-back, laughed, reddened slightly.

The man at the wheel flecked his cigarette into the bushes, smiling with as good grace as he could command.

" The distant murmur was fast growing into a roar, and rockets were flecking the clouds with their green, red, and blue lights.

He meditated long before this work which, with its dashes of paint flecking the thick crayon, spread a brilliance of sea-green and of pale gold among the protracted darkness of the charcoal prints.

She stood thus for a moment motionless and silent, with the rising wind whispering without and flecking her white morning dress with gusty shadows from the arbor.

He arose, flecking the wood dust from his hands.

It was only yesterday Dandelions flecked the field, starry bright, and gold and gay; You are but the ghost of onelittle globe of silver-grey!

Dust arose from the long-disused room, flecking the yellow candle flame.

He flashed a look of piteous, surprised reproach at her as she flecked the flies from the neck of her horse.

Here and there, the moonlight flecked the glades and Julian feared to advance, because he mistook the silvery light for water and the tranquil surface of the pools for grass.

Every night it floated up to Cap Rouge, where French camp fires flecked the gorge and the north shore stretching westward.

] "WHILE THE EVIL DAYS COME NOT" THE RHYME OF MIGNONETTE When dandelions fleck the green, And plum-blooms scent the evening breeze, And robin's songs throb through the trees; And when the year is raw thirteen, And Spring's a gawky hoyden yet, The season mirrors in its mien

Prince Christiern of Meissen, very much displeased at this turn in affairs, which threatened to fleck his sovereign's honor in the most painful manner, went immediately to the palace to confer with the Elector.

" "Sorry to hear it," said Mr. Kirby, flecking an inch of cigar-ash to the table-top.

Now let us attempt to conceive of a being that shall represent all the diversities of mind, affections, and dispositions, that fleck this heterogeneous mass of humanity, and then to conceive of a Form that shall be in such perfect affinity with it as to indicate them all.

That flecks the green meadow with sunshine and shadow, Till the little lambs leap with delight? 'Tis a secret untold to hearts cruel and cold,

] "WHILE THE EVIL DAYS COME NOT" THE RHYME OF MIGNONETTE When dandelions fleck the green, And plum-blooms scent the evening breeze, And robin's songs throb through the trees; And when the year is raw thirteen, And Spring's a gawky hoyden yet, The season mirrors in its mien

" It was this pet name of two small letters lovingly combined that dotted Mr. Browning's spoken thoughts, as moonbeams fleck the ocean, and seemed the pearl-bead that linked conversation together in one harmonious whole.

Although there were between one and two thousand deer flecking the park, it was utilised to the pasture of humbler and more useful animals.

Millions of stars flecked the sky overhead.

That door was shut just so for years; the lonely bars of sunlight flecked the solitude of the room, and the lilies faded on the table.