My helm and shield are rusting in the hall; The martial trumpet's spirit-stirring blast, The herald's call, inviting to the lists, Rouse not the echoes of these vales, where naught Save cowherd's horn and cattle bell is heard, In one unvarying dull monotony.

" "Gold don't rust, Bucky," called Petrak, and he laughed immoderately and slapped his knees with his hands.

Well, if the damps and salt air of the ocean rust the golden chain, it is the fault of cruel nature!Ah!

My soul would surely rust Th' dark days keeps my cheerfulness From draggin'

Something of himself she had shown him in the former time: how he was rusting inactive in the small field when he should be doing a man's work, the work for which his training had fitted him, in the larger.

There he rusted out his life, but when he neared his end was filled with fear, and sent for a clergyman to give him consolation.

The next book opens with Thalaba lying distracted upon her grave, in the neighbourhood of which he had wandered, till "the sun, and the wind, and the rain, had rusted his raven locks"; and there he is found by the father of his bride, and visited by her ghost, and soothed and encouraged to proceed upon his holy enterprise.

3. Action, we are assured, keeps the soul in constant health; but idleness corrupts and rusts the mind; for a man of great abilities may by negligence and idleness become so mean and despicable as to be an incumbrance to society and a burthen to himself.

But hast thou rusted this latter time for want of exercise? MEN.

Something of himself she had shown him in the former time: how he was rusting inactive in the small field when he should be doing a man's work, the work for which his training had fitted him, in the larger.