His big gray cousin is a looser animal, seemingly light enough to float on the wind; yet when leaping from limb to limb, or out of one tree-top to another, he sometimes halts to gather strength, as if making efforts concerning the upshot of which he does not always feel exactly confident.

But first, gathering divers flowers, wherewith the whole sward was bejeweled, I placed them, with my white hands, in a corner of my robe, and then, sitting down and choosing flower after flower, I wove therefrom a fair garland, and adorned my head with it.

The victories of Easter week on and beyond the Vimy Ridge, and the renewed British attack of the last few daysI am writing on May 1sttogether with the magnificent French advance towards Laon and to the east of Reims, have been so many fresh and crushing testimonies to the vitality and gathering force of the Allied armies.

And in midsummer, when the "blackberries" were ripe, the Indians came from the mountains to feastmen, women, and babies in long, noisy trains, often joined by the farmers of the neighborhood, who gathered this wild fruit with commendable appreciation of its superior flavor, while their home orchards were full of ripe peaches, apricots, nectarines, and figs, and their vineyards were laden with grapes.

" Now this is precisely what the New York hackman invariably does before he gathers up the reins and urges on his "galled jades."

It was Carleton whom he sent to seize the west end of the island of Orleans, so as to command the basin of Quebec, and Carleton whom he sent to take prisoners and gather information at Pointe-aux-Trembles, twenty miles above the city.

At the outset of our study together we warned you that, though we should gather the material and point the way, you yourself must do the work.

He made alliance with a Median king who betrothed his daughter to Cleopatra's infant son Alexander; but he made the fatal mistake of allowing Cleopatra to accompany him to Samos, where he gathered his army, and even to Actium, where she led the way in flying from the fight, and so persuading the infatuated Antony to leave his army and join in her disgraceful escape.

Thrackles and Perdosa hung back murmuring, but at a sharp word from me gathered their courage in their two hands and proceeded.

Thus saying, he turned and, gathering his men about him, walked proudly down the aisle.

He gathered the people of Shokhupura, humiliated them in a variety of ways, called them 'suvarlog,' 'gandi mukkhi.'

Patsy made a rush for it, but before she could reach the table half a dozen more papers had been piled above it, and gathering speed the great press hummed busily and the pile of Tribunes grew as if by magic.

The university research-men gather facts, and scientific men everywhere collect, analyze, and classify them.

"Go, gather wood, kindle a fire, old woman!" Off flew the crowliar, cheat and deceiver.

After some time, gathering together a number of rich gifts, he started, in company with his mother, to visit his uncle.

Here are materials in abundance for our garland; advance forward, and fear not the issue;"and, gathering leaves from the boughs of trees of a species unknown to his new acquaintance, he twined them into a wreath, and placed the sylvan diadem on Carl's head.

One after another they slowly gathered up their things and stepped out on to the platform.

But there was one man among them who could not believe God would leave them to perish, and spurred on by this thought he gathered rock moss in sufficient quantities to preserve their lives; and, hope springing up again, they made a light raft on which they passed over to the other side.

To dream of being pricked with briars, says the "Royal Dream Book," "shows that the person dreaming has an ardent desire to something, and that young folks dreaming thus are in love, who prick themselves in striving to gather their rose.

We had separated a short distance from each other, he to gather berries, and I, with a small fowling-piece, in pursuit of game.

She turned at once, gathered the skirt of her pink calico uniform, and, watching her steps through her tears, descended the steep winding-stair to her frequent kneeling-place under the fragrant candles of the chapel-altar in Mother Nativity's asylum.

Mac, with a cry that brought a lump to the Colonel's throat, gathered the child up in his arms and ran with him up the hill to the cabin.

He enlisted not only the free but the slave fighting population, gathered money, and accumulated arms.

Let me now gather some gold dust,some more fragments of Dr. Johnson's conversation, without regard to order of time.

In Egypt they are taken far up the Nile, and floated slowly home again, gathering the honey-harvest of the various fields on the way, timing their movements in accord with the seasons.