a prejudice, by whose influence, to use the words of our great Poet, "The native hue of Resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of Fear, And enterprizes of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.

He sprang up, pulling the white table-cloth awry and folding her into his embrace.

And he pointed where, on spent and weary charger, one rode, a drooping, languid figure, his bright armour bespattered and dim, his dinted casque smitten awry; slowly he rode before his weary company until of a sudden espying Beltane, he uttered a great and glad cry, his drooping shoulders straightened, and he rode forward with mailed arms outstretched.

" He had touched his stock as he bowed, and now he turned to the mirror and carefully adjusted it, for it was a little awry from the ride; but in reality he used that moment to examine his own face, and the set of his jaw and the clearness of his eye reassured him.

Crooked, awry, askew.

But if, for any reason, that plan goes awry, we can fall back upon this prettily conceived scheme which we have undertaken.

And he is lean and he is sick; His body, dwindled and awry, Rests upon ankles swoln and thick; 35 His legs are thin and dry.

His little body's half awry, His ancles they are swoln and thick; His legs are thin and dry.

His dwindled body's half awry, 1800.

His dwindled body half awry, Rests upon ancles swoln and thick; His legs are thin and dry.

And he is lean and he is sick, His little body's half awry

" After a momentary silence spake Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make; "They sneer at me for leaning all awry: What!

The paven terrace of Versailles With tub and orange-tree, And Dian's fountain tossed awry, Were planned and made for me; Since no one half so well as I Could grace their symmetry, Nor teach admiring man The genuine pavane.

" She could have wept with vexation over the way her scheme had gone awry but there was clearly nothing else to do.

how I detest them, and flee them, those hotels where the painter, or the tourist who arrives on foot, knapsack on his back and staff in hand, his trousers tucked into his leggings, his flask slung over his shoulder, and his hat awry, is received with less courtesy than a lackey.

Some of the workmen set up their establishments in barns; in all directions movable canteens sprung up, built all awry and hardly holding together, and in mean sheds, doubtful, bad-looking places, the dishonest merchant hastened to sell his adulterated brandy....

Over an area of many acres the ground was a litter of broken limbs, ragged tops, crushed and bent and broken younger growth, twisted awry by the big trees in their fall.

Unless my judgment greatly goes awry, Which God in mercy grant, I can but see Eternal penalty Waiting my wasted will, my misused mind, And know not, Lord, where health and hope to find.

A print of Westminster Hall, by Mosely, from a drawing made by Gravelot, who died in 1773, bears the following versified inscription: "When fools fall out, for ev'ry flaw, They run horn mad to go to law, A hedge awry, a wrong plac'd gate, Will serve to spend a whole estate.

The majority of our animals seem pretty quiet now, but any one of them may break out in this way if things go awry.

The flawless lustre of his shoes would be dulled, even though he walked sedately the safe sidewalk; his broad collar and blue polka-dotted cravat would be awry, one stocking would be down, his jacket yawning, all his magnificence seeming unconquerably alien.

"Good-bye," she said, looking him suddenly in the eyes and smiling awry.

Her blond hair had fallen awry and was flecked with leaves and grass and bark.

While her own horses are running, she stands on the back seat of her carriage, leaning on a stick, her bonnet usually awry, and watches for the result,then gets very angry, and for at least a month makes Chwastowski's life a burden to him.

The great lid of the mound had been moved and was now awry, leaving about one half of the opening exposed.

"Youyou see for yourself, Millie, what's dead can't be made alivenow, can it?" She nodded, acquiescing, her lips bitterly wry.

By-and-by it became too serious, the jest was wry-faced and rang false.

A very tall man he was, long and lean and grim of aspect, with a mouth wry-twisted by reason of an ancient sword-cut, and yet, withal, he had a jovial eye.

Whereat this strange man, sitting cross-legged upon the sward, smiled his wry and twisted smile and looked upon Beltane with bright, approving eye.

The long blades whirled and flashed and rang upon the stillness; and ever, as they fought, the stranger smiled his wry smile, mocking and gibing at him, whereat Beltane's mouth grew the grimmer and his blows the heavier, yet wherever he struck, there already was the stranger's blade to meet him, whereat the stranger laughed fierce

And so the tall, grim stranger turned him about, smiling his wry smile, and strode away through the green.

But now he thought no more of women and the ways of women, but rather of this stranger man, of his wry smile and of his wondrous sword-play; and bethinking him of the great sword, he yearned after it, as only youth may yearn, and so, sighing, fell asleep.

Thereafter Beltane turned him and, galloping back, drew rein where the stranger sat, cross-legged, watching him with his wry smile.

At length Beltane raised his head and beholding the sun well-risen, halted his company beside a stream that flowed athwart their way, and sitting thereby, summoned to him the fournamely, Walkyn and Roger, Giles and Eric of the wry neck; and while they ate together, they held counsel on this wise: BELTANE.

A wry look might at any time call down upon a luckless child a hundred lashes.

" Abe made a wry face, took up the tiny bottle of "Jockey Club," and rubbed a few drops on his hands.

" Duchemin knelt beside the man, who welcomed him with open eyes and a wry smile that was almost as faint as his voice.

" "And how amusing if he were arrested en route," Duchemin supplemented with a wry smile.

"Then 'A' doesn't stand for anything at all?" "Oh, yes; it stands for a Jones," said the boy, making a wry face.

She sometimes wondered with wry humour if Miss Whalley could have enlightened her as to her husband's whereabouts; but that lady's attitude towards her was invariably expressive of such icy disapproval that she never ventured to put the wonder into words.

I had once a wry aunt, which may make me dislike the phrase.

" "Where?" She made a wry face: "Hazel Gresham's.

" Burns made a wry face.

Don't you think that's the best way?" He made a wry face.

" "Confound it, you forget the time" "Mon Dieu, are we to compare ze Hindoo harem wiz ze American feest slugger?" cried the count, with a wry face.

"I say, that hits me hard," said the duke, with a wry face.

As soon as I had got it down, I found it very unpalatable; upon which the Knight observing that I [had] made several wry Faces, told me that he knew I should not like it at first, but that it was the best thing in the World against the Stone or Gravel.

He advertised in the Tatler that he had been 35 years in the practice of 'couching cataracts, taking off all sorts of wens, curing wry necks and hair lips without blemish, though never so deformed.'

" The newspaper men pulled wry faces.

7 He being proudly mounted, Clad in cloak of Plymouth, Defied cart so base, For thief without grace, That goes to make a wry mouth. 8 Nor did he like the omen, For fear it might be his doom One day for to sing, With gullet in string, A hymn of Robert Wisdom.