28 examples of aira in sentences

A cheer rose on the aira loud British cheer.

The mouse has given us numerous names, such as mouse-ear (Hieracium pilosella), mouse-grass (Aira caryophyllea), mouse-ear scorpion-grass (Myosotis palustris), mouse-tail (Myosurus minimus), and mouse-pea.

" She did not answer, but she wandered off into another aira slumber song.

Every one knows Kirkstone Pass, Aira Force, Dungeon Ghyll, the Wishing Gate, and Helm Crag: many persons know the Glowworm Rock, and used to know the Rock of Names; but where is "Emma's Dell"?

I am ordered change, rest, interest, good aira year at least must elapse before I take up my life again.

The seeds of the smaller kinds of grasses, as of aira, poa, briza, stipa, &c. are the sustenance of many sorts of birds.

When the della Robbias worked for the open airas in the façade of the Children's Hospital, or at the Certosa, or in the Loggia di San Paolo, opposite S. Maria Novella, where one may see the beautiful meeting of S. Francis and S. Dominic, by Andreathey seem, in Italy, to have fitness enough; but it would not do to transplant any of these reliefs to an English façade.

Joseph has buried a bottle of white wine in the snow, and now pours some into a horn tumbler, which he hands to Mademoiselle with an aira draught of nectar.

It was a picture of aira phantasmagoric spectacle, built of luminous vapor and meteoric fires, and hanging in the dark round of space.

Whereunto, as a very necessary introduction, it behoves us to set forth that there was, some sixty years ago, more or less, a certain Mr. William Maconie, who was a merchant on the South Bridge of Edinburgh, but who, for the sake of exercise and fresh aira commodity this last he need not have gone so far from the Calton Hill to seekresided at Juniper Green, a little village three or four miles from St. Giles's.

In the corner of the room with Mr. Squeers was a very small deal trunk, tied round with a scanty piece of cord, and on the trunk was perchedhis lace-up half-boots and corduroy trousers dangling in the aira diminutive boy, with his shoulders drawn up to his ears, and his hands planted on his knees, who glanced timidly at the schoolmaster from time to time, with evident dread and apprehension, and at last gave a violent sneeze.

A white streak shot into the aira star shell.

I felt certain that he detected something in the aira sudden cessation of talk or a strained attitude on our part.

His straining ear caught the faintest, almost imperceptible vibration in the aira soundwave so dim and obscure that it seemed impossible that the human mind could interpret itbut Ben recognized it in a flash.

There lurks instead a poisonous anodyne in the heavy, scented aira drug that lulls the spirit to an evil repose counterfeiting the peacefulness whence alone high thoughts can spring.

340 CHAPTER XVIII THE SUMMIT JOURNEY TO THE POLE Pressures Under Mount DarwinA Change for the BetterRunning of a SledgeLost Time Made UpComfort of Double TentLast Supporting Party ReturnsHard Work on the SummitAccident to EvansThe Members of the PartyMishap to a WatchA Chill in the AirA Critical TimeForestalledAt the Pole. ...

An unmistakable taint of the hospital hung in the fresh morning aira vague hint of anaesthetics, of cookingthe flat odour of sickness and open wounds.

Here is a little conversational closet, with a window in it to let in the leaf-sifted light and aira small recess large enough for a couple of chairs or so, which he called a "Speak-a-bit."

At that moment another sound than laughter cut the aira terrible soundthe shriek of a tortured child.

And a cry of mortal agony rose for a moment on the heat-shimmering aira cry echoed with derision by fifteen score barbarians behind their natural rampart.

In this manner, trotting and pausing, they had covered a bare three-quarters of a mile when there smote on their ears a throbbing of the aira thud-thud which Arthur Miles took for the beat of a factory engine, so like it was to the echoes that had floated daily, and all day long, across the Orphanage wall; but Tilda, after hearkening a moment, announced it to be the bass of Gavel's steam organ.

6. AIRA aquatica.

Grass, turfy hair - - Aira caespitosa. 742. -, meadow soft - - Holcus lanatus.

How often in still summer dusks He paused to note that transient phantom spark Flash on the aira light that outlasts him!

And the cold splendour of the weather heightened the spell of the great, dead, regal place; so that the figures and pageants of a vanished world seemed to be still latent in the sharp bright aira filmy multitude.

28 examples of  aira  in sentences