The Germans broke, and as the first rays of dawn streaked the sky only a small section of the wood was still in their hands.

And proved a Saviour's promise true, And when she gently pass'd from earth She left her dying love for you; And bade you seek a Saviour's face, And by His mercy be forgiven, And by that new and living way, Seek an inheritance in Heaven." "Then she is dead," he mournful cried, "'Tis better thus, for see the sun With rosy light now streaks the east: And ere it sets my race is run.

" As he spoke, he endeavoured to take from the hands of one of the party a piece of chip, with which he was industriously engaged in streaking the face of Mr. Stevens with lime, "Let me alone, Mortonlet me alone; I'm making a white man of him, I'm going to make him a glorious fellow-citizen, and have him run for Congress.

How cold and dead a Figure in Comparison of these two great Men, does an Orator often make at the British Bar, holding up his Head with the most insipid Serenity, and streaking the sides of a long Wigg that reaches down to his Middle?

Everything moved with the regularity of the solar system, and, superior to that wild rush of heavy bodies through infinite ether, there was never the slightest fear of comets streaking their unconjectured way across the sky, or meteorites falling on unsuspicious picnicers.

for many and many had been the corpse which I had streaked; so she accepted my offer, and took me up to the chamber of death, and I streaked the body, and a noble corpse it was.

Down the street, a white plume of steam, streaking the dark-colored fog, marked the tunnel station, and Barbara glanced at a neighboring clock.

It was changing the man's facedrawing lines about his lips, streaking his forehead with the marks of care.

The captain did not, as he had promised, come back in the morning, but after a time a smoke-trail streaked the forest and the steamer moved out on the lagoon.

"When twal-months three shall pass away, Your berry-brown hair shall be streaked wi' gray.

Time furrows our brows with wrinkles, and streaks our hair with silver; our hearts grow colder; our minds lose their elasticity and freshness; our friends pass away from our side.

Later they sat together amid the faded splendours of the southern drawing-room, where sunshine regilded cornice and pier glass, turned the lace curtains to nets of gold, and streaked the red damask hangings with slanting bars of fire.

Some see only what Frémont saw, an open door to commerce; to others it is the entrance to hoards of gold, stowed away in hills and streams; to the poet it speaks of the golden poppies that streak the hillsides, but I like to think of it as did the Indians, who called it 'Yulupa,' the Sunset Strait.

The next morning Elsie awoke, as was her custom,when the very faintest hue of dawn streaked the horizon.

The sky was getting dark, and now the lines that streaked the lake were white, but the wind was astern and they were going fast.

For a moment my attention was fixed on the three luminous streaks the light from the windows made upon the polished floor.

He had a brown face with deep lines and sunken cheeks, keen hazel eyes, heavy dark mustache, and hair streaked a little with gray.

Ef it hadn't been fer Sam'l, I might be dead naow, an' never know nothin' erbout this here streak o' luck.

of the guns never ceased, and the shells continued to mount, curve, and fall, streaking the night with golden incandescence.

Pleasure is "scattered in stray-gifts o'er the earth"beauty streaks the "famous poet's page" in occasional lines of inconceivable brightness; and wherever this is the case, no splenetic censures or "jealous leer malign," no idle theories or cold indifference should hinder us from greeting it with rapture.

We modern men have toils and cares To streak our pates with whitened hairs, And have to crowd our love and all Into one short and weekly call.

Lurid lightnings, as they fly, Streak with blood the sable pole.

When the early sun bronzed the bog, and streaked the dark pool below with gold, Paddy and his father began to feed the dried wavy strands of kelp between the hungry brown furrow lips.

But thou seemst Like an ethereal night, where long white clouds Streak the deep purple, and unnumber'd stars Spangle the wonderful mysterious vault With things that look as if they would be suns So beautiful, unnumber'd and endearing; Not dazzling, and yet drawing us to them, They fill my eyes with tears, and so dost thou.

He says there wasn't a rod where a snail couldn't have outrun him, and when the sky streaked red and orange and the sun came up, he stood still and looked for a camp, and when he saw nothing at all but bare rock and bushes of the kind that love barrenness, he crawled under the nearest shade, tied William fast to the bush and slept.