Cry, if it makes you feel any better," hushed the voice that had rocked babies to sleep.

Composed originally as a song of seed-time, it has now lost its primary significance and is sung by men at their work or by mothers hushing their children in the dark alleys of the city.

* Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top, When the wind blows, the cradle will rock, When the bough bends, the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, bough, cradle, and all.

With an irresistible impulse he sprang forward, and caught the little girl in his arms, and sought, by caresses, to soothe her fears, and hush her cries of terror.

They say the big chaps want to hush the matter up as far as they can, and not report it to old Denson, for fear he'd make it an excuse to put a stop to paper-chasing.

The thunder rolls: be hushed the prostrate world, While cloud to cloud returns the solemn hymn.

"Oh!" said she, "I do not address any reproach to you; I am convinced that your motives were quite friendly, even affectionate, and that you wished to hush up a scandal which might have been very unpleasant for me.

Well, as I say, I hadn't been expecting that bell to hush things up to any great extent.

Next morning, ere the sun was up, came Beltane into the minster and hiding within the deeper gloom of the choir, sat there hushing his breath to listen, trembling in eager anticipation.

As I did not hush my crying, one of the older ones whispered to me, "Wait until you are alone in the night.

But hush my griefsand hush my song, I've mourned in vainI've mourned too long; When none have come to sootheAnd dark's the path, that lies before, And dark have been the days of yore, And all was dark in youth.

Can death, that hushes all music to a close, Pluck one sweet wire scarce-audible that trembles, As if a little child, called Purity, Sang heedlessly on of his dear Imogen?

I had a lamp on my table, and the noise of my type-writer hushed the sounds of any one entering the apartment.

Young men anxious for places in the gift of the government found that winking at Frank Miller's vices and conforming to the demoralizing customs of his place were passports to political favors, and lacking moral stamina, hushed their consciences and became partakers of his sins.

So all of New York that sat in the long galleries of the Garden hushed its laughter and looked askance at one another and waited.

With some sacrifices on your part, we can hush up this sad affair; only you must confess all with sincerityyour life is the price of it.

Silken curtains fell around him, Velvet carpets hushed the tread, Many costly toys were lying All unheeded by his bed; And his tangled golden ringlets Were on downy pillows spread.

" The boy had hushed his wailing at once, and turned his face upward to the stranger.

"My valiant boy," said Lady Agathar; And hushed her heart, to minister to him.

She had just attained this forced but respectable tranquillity, as the bailiff, signing to the crowd to hush its murmurs and to remain motionless, arose, with a manner that he intended to be dignified, and which passed with the multitude for a very successful experiment in its way, to open the business in hand by a short address.

In vain we told them that we would engage no donkeys at all, and no horses till we reached our destination; in vain we bade them allow us to "pursue the even tenor of our way" in peace, and hush their high soprano tones.

We will not attempt to describe the mother's anguish when she was made acquainted with the dreaded fate of her son; but Helen was a Christian, and while her heart was bowed down with crushing grief, her spirit strove to hush its rebellious questionings, and to submit itself to the will of God.

He wanted to show off; so he told her what he would do to her if she didn't hush her mouth.

Where thou didst in better days; Strive each drooping heart to cheer, Strive to dry the falling tear, Strive to soothe each throbbing breast, Hushing troubled minds to rest.

"That morning, thou, that slumbered not before, Nor slept, great Ocean I laid thy waves to rest, And hushed thy mighty minstrelsy.