It marks a world-balm, a world-change.

Ivory, gold, gems, precious stuffs, teak and cedar wood, Lebanon pine, apes, peacocks, sandal-wood, camel's hair, goat's hair, frankincense, pearl, dyes, myrrh, cassia, cinnamon, Balm of Gilead, calamus, spikenard, corn, ebony, figs, fir, olives, olive-wood, wheat, amber, copper, lead, tin, and precious stones were the chief articles of exchange.

" THE CLAW The balm and stillness of a summer's night enveloped a spacious piazza in the city of Shylock and Desdemona.

Thy soothing breast Did balm to every woe afford; And now no more by thee caress'd, The widow'd world bewails her Lord.

I know that there are many poor people yet in Lancashire who use decoctions of herbs instead of teamint and balm are the favourite herbs for this purpose; but I could not imagine what this herb beer could be, at a halfpenny a bottle, unless it was made of nettles.

her grotto, against which the luxuriant vine laid forth his purple grapes? her ever new delights, crystal fountains, running brooks, meadows flowering with sweet balm-gentle and with violet: blue violets which like veins enameled the smooth breasts of each fragrant mead!

I have often poured the balm of consolation into the bleeding heart of the unhappy.

Therefore all garden growths in vain Their glowing ranks swept through her brain, The plant was knit by subtile chain To all the balm of Southern zones, The incenses of Eastern thrones, The tinkling hem of Aaron's train.

The fact, which would have been balm to Sylvia's vanity, had she ever had the least knowledge of it, was that upon her appearance in the Freshman class she had been the occasion of violent discussion and almost of dissension in the councils of the two "best" fraternities.

Thy grace still dwells upon my heart, And sheds its fragrance there; The noblest balm of all its wounds, The cordial of its care.

20 Thus taste the feast by Nature spread, Ere youth and all its joys are fled; Come, taste with me the balm of life, Secure from pomp, and wealth, and strife!

His mother's words dropped like balm upon Horace's wounded spirit.

"The air around was breathing balm, The aspen scarcely seem'd to sway; And, as a sleeping infant calm, The river stream'd away Devious as errordeep as love, And blue and bright as heaven above.

She hath a balm diffusing tear, She hath a softer, holier strain A cheering smile of hope to give, A voice to bid the mourner live.

This conjecture was by no means calculated to serve as balm to my mind.

And thou, mild delegate of God, Whose words of balm, and guiding light.

They were balm to his sore heart.

And when my point shall have reached your heart, 'T will be as a balm to the wounded part, To think how you're to be copied by art, And your beauty will all be known!"

Then off we hie to the hill and the dell To the field, the meadow, and bower: In the columbine's horn we love to dwell, To dip in the lily with snow-white bell, To search the balm in its odorous cell, The mint, and rosemary flower.

Their mingled tears wash the lamented dead: On every wound they pour soft Pity's balm: Ere Sorrow's tears are dried, they feel the spring Of new-born joys, and each expanding heart Contemplates future scenes of Peace and Love.

4 So well approv'd it's sure effect, To turn aside the' impending harm; And shall parental Love neglect To minister the precious balm? 5 Oh!

But the last test of all, and, to my mind, the greatest, is in the use of words as a balm.

And should you not accept this scourge that has fallen upon you as a healing balm from the hands of the Lord?

Her bruised young spirit was weary of contact with people, and found balm in this icy desert where there was so sound of a human voice.

It is very, very hard to endure the slings and arrows of the jealous and envious for whose good you are toiling; to be slandered and reviled by your neighbors whose feeble intellects fail to appreciate your strenuous efforts to push forward the car of progress in their midst; but the consolations expressed in this poem bring balm to every wounded spirit.

He had the advantage of cover and was supported by artillery and a hurricane of machine-gun fire, but although he climbed the hill and got into the small gardens outside the very houses, he was repulsed with bomb and bayonet.

Over the greater portion of the front the advance was stopped dead, but in some places the enemy tried a whirlwind rush and used bomb against bomb.

Over the greater portion of the front the advance was stopped dead, but in some places the enemy tried a whirlwind rush and used bomb against bomb.

I had been in these bombing raids and knew how accurately the German airmen dropped their eggs, and had this Intelligence officer taken the trouble to inquire he would have found that between thirty and forty casualties were inflicted by one bomb at El Arish itself when railhead was being constructed.

The wind was strong, but defying treacherous eddies, the pilots came through the valleys between steep-sloped hills and caught the Turks on the Nablus road, emptying their bomb racks at a height of a few hundred feet, and giving the scattered troops machine-gun fire on the return journey.

"During nearly two years' preparations the enemy had spared no pains to render these defences impregnable," says the Commander-in-Chief; and he goes on to describe the successive lines of deep trenches, the bomb-proof shelters, and the wire entanglements with which the war correspondence of the winter has made us at homeon paperso familiar.

Or maybe a small bomb!"

But the occasional dropping of a big bomb or so in London is not to be taken as anything but a minimum display of what air war can do.

Another struck a bottle-end, and burst into milk-white fragments, like a bomb.

Instead of flooding her they prepared an explosive bomb and timed it to go off at the fall of the tide.

But the bomb failed to explode, and an ebb tide setting in, broke the stern moorings and drove her sideways on the shore.

One had made an unsuccessful attempt to bomb the Uganda Railway on two occasions; but neither time did he do any damage, though, on each occasion, he claimed to have cut the line.

This the father could have no objection to, and the culprit told him that he had undertaken to throw the bomb at the front door of Number 5, but that through having in the gas-light misread the figure, he had placed it against that of Number 2.

He begged the priest as a great favour to assure me on his word that the bomb was certainly intended for me, and not for Brett.

If notthe Entente Cordiale may burst like a bomb.

Your responsibility will be such that it will be almost as if you carried the destructive bomb itself, until you get the packet into the hands of Maxine de Renzie."

We had to greet each other, after having been parted for many months; and still, in the three minutes, you believe that we had time to concoct a plot of some sort, and to find some safe cornerall the while in semi-darknessfor the hiding of a thing important to the policea bomb, perhaps?

It was from the Embassy in London, and it informed her in the briefest terms that Count Leven had been killed in St. Petersburg on the previous day, in the street, by a bomb intended for a high official.

He was killed yesterday by a bomb meant for somebody else.

One man, who from a window in the eighth story of a hotel watched the air-ship pass, stated that before each bomb fell he saw electric torches signal from the roofs, as though giving directions as to where the bombs should strike.

When about five o'clock one sailed over the city, no one knew whether it was German or French, but every one followed it, apparently intending if it launched a bomb to be in at the death.

But even with such generous odds in their favor, during the days the bomb-dropping lasted many thousands fled.

He was told he was inviting a worse death than from a bomb.

Finally, he exclaimed impatiently: "Oh, throw your bomb!

Echo of a bomb, by Van Siller, pseud.