It was alight with excitement; yet between the eyes two deep wrinkles of puzzlement quivered.

Out of such a 'flint' we strike sparks, and many a generous fire is set alight.

Besides that, the Boy was holding a resinous stick alight over the table, and they all bent down as before.

Unresting the Filial doves speed in their flight, Now fanning the air and anon they alight On the medlars thick grouped.

" In silence he led the way past the great mill buildings of red brick, square and unlovely but many-windowed and glowing, alight, throbbing with the hum of pent industry.

There was a boyish eagerness in his manner; his changeful gray-brown eyes were alight; he came close and laid a hand on her armquite an unusual demonstration with Gray Stoddard.

Who she is I cannot find, else on her it were, not on him, that my vengeance should alight.

By-and-by I noticed one bird coming down lower and lower as if he wanted to alight, and I watched it, and it came down straight to me, and at last flew right into my bosom.

The intermediate meal had been disposed of, but the samovar had been left alight, as is the habit at Russian afternoon teas.

My cigara particularly good oneis alight, and I am smoking it with the blessed satisfaction of one who enjoys it, and regretting that there is not a man in all China who has its equal.

Thus ever alight it burned like a sacred flame on the altar of home.

Wagner was so fond of his mother that through his life he never could see a Christmas tree alight without tears.

Little we dreamed, though that high air Quickens imagination's flight, What monstrous bird and very rare Would in these parts some day alight; How, like a roc of Arab fable, A Zepp en route from London town,

Take any instance on which the eye happens to alight.

Just as he passed a sergeant followed by three or four Parliament soldiers came out from an inn, and seeing Harry riding past, addressed him: "Sir, will it please you to alight, and to offer up a few words of exhortation and prayer?" Harry muttered something about pressing business.

He may not have felt as he looked, but something in his manner, assumed or real, kept the fires of hope alight in the breasts of all the others.

The whole Place was in shadow now, as the sun had just gone down, but the sky was still alight overhead, a vast tender-coloured vault, as sweet as a benediction.

And so, in endless lines, they lay; from every nation under heaven: Chinese were there, he saw, and negroes; and the very air in which he walked seemed alight with pain and longing.

He learned at the porter's lodge the number of the court, and then passed in, following his directions, through a quadrangle that was all alight with scarlet creepers, where three or four ecclesiastics saluted him, up a staircase or two, and found himself at last at a tall door bearing the number he wanted.

It was nearly three o'clock, and in the Biological Laboratory the lamps were all alight.

She was to alight either at Farnham or Woking, as opportunity arose, and to return to Vauxhall to meet him.

But it was when the burning sun had hidden himself, when the short twilight had disappeared, and the heavens were alive and alight with stars, that all the world of the ship would be crowded on the upper deck.

He assisted her to alight at the datcha, shook hands with her in the presence of the servants, and returned to St. Petersburg.

But in truth the sentiment that came welling up to those men at the front was of infinite comfort and kept alight a flame in them which no winter wind could douse.

So he went on, with his eyes alight and the blood of him jumping queerly.