Sternly setting his thoughts on the errand that was taking him to the salt-works, he began to think of the place in which they were situated, and to wonder why so bare, so brown, and so desolate a spot should have been called Green Lick.

There was no floor other than the bare earth, and there were no seats other than unhewn logs.

But he went on with a smiling shake of his head, after a glance at the dark clouds which were gathering blackly on the other side of the river behind the spectral cottonwoods, now bare of leaves and ghostly white.

Her tears were falling faster than the heavy, isolated drops that fell on her bare head.

It is a chilling thing to feel one's budding confidence in a new acquaintance nipped by such frosty suspicions; yetHeaven forgive me!the bare idea has, before now, caused me to drop, unscented, the pinch of carote which has been courteously tendered by some coffee-house companion.

It wasn't much of a window that the boy looked out of, just an irregular hole in a bare wall, innocent alike of sash and glass.

It was no sooner built than it was given by the foundress to the reformed and bare-footed Fathers of St. Augustine; but after having solicited in their favour various privileges which were accorded by the Sovereign-Pontiff, she dispossessed them in the year 1613, and established in their place the Augustine Fathers of the Congregation of Bourges.

Three or four ranges of seats alone, are laid bare, and these have only been discovered within a few years.

Gnarled, gray olive trees, centuries old, grew upon the bare soil, and a little rill fell in many a tiny cataract down the glen.

Winter wakeneth all my care Now these leavës waxeth bare, Oft I sigh and mournë sare When it cometh in my thought Of this worldes joy, how it goeth all to nought.

We shore ourselves of all but the bare necessaries of life, but even they for a family of ten are considerable, and it was a mighty tussle to get both ends within cover of meeting.

" So lightly did Bedient sleep, however,for the music haunted his brain,that he was aroused by the bare feet of a servant in the hall-way, before the latter touched his door to call him.

The inmost secrets of George Eliot's heart are laid bare in these letters to the famous Methodist preacher, who was at that time her dearest friend.

The apartment was pitifully bare and empty.

Why is my mother here likelike this?"his eyes swept the bare room again.

Through the open door, he saw, not the bare and empty room he supposed was there, but a bedroomcharmingly furnished, complete in every detail.

If your design should once get wind in the town, the ill-will of your enemies or the sincerity of the Lady's friends may soon blow up your hopes, which in your circumstances of life cannot be long supported by the bare appearance of a gentleman.

She made no effort to hide her bare feet, but now and then put back her untidy but beautiful black hair from her forehead and eyes; for it was so thick that if she did not do so she could not see.

100 "Or we'll into the realm of Faery, Among the lovely shades of things; The shadowy forms of mountains bare, And streams, and bowers, and ladies fair, The shades of palaces and kings!

305 "He had a dark and sidelong walk, And long and slouching was his gait; Beneath his looks so bare and bold, You might perceive, his spirit cold Was playing with some inward bait.

He did not dare to raise his eyes, but his ears were strained to catch the swift patter of the approaching bare feet.

He was now, in fact, only waiting to say good-bye to the matron before turning his back for ever on the bare room where he had spent so many monotonous hours.

Then came the captives, some riding horses bare-backed, or held in place before black-bearded riderswomen mostly these last, with faces white-set and strange of eye, or all beblubbered with weeping.

Altogether, it was a strange enough apartment for the daughter of a lawyer in the city of Thorn, within a mile of the bare feudal strengths of the Red Tower and the Wolfsberg.

she said, apostrophizing the bare stalk, "a flower cannot lie.

In this connection I will relate one of my bear-hunting adventures.

One day, when I had nothing else to do, I saddled up an extra pony express horse, and arming myself with a good rifle and pair of revolvers, struck out for the foot hills of Laramie Peak for a bear-hunt.

The further I rode the rougher and wilder became the country, and I knew that I was approaching the haunts of the bear.

After resting for a couple of hours, I remounted and resumed my upward trip to the mountains, having made up my mind to camp out that night rather than go back without a bear, which my friends knew I had gone out for.

I left Horseshoe station this morning for a bear hunt, and not finding any bears, I had determined to camp out for the night and wait till morning," said I; "and just as I was going into camp, a few hundred yards down the creek, I heard one of your horses whinnying, and then I came up to your camp.

As it would have been useless to follow them, we rode back to the station; and thus ended my eventful bear-hunt.

It stands to reason the Company can't let you bear the brunt of this most deplorable occurrence, though I don't believe we could have found a better guardian for the poor little lad.

"True," said Louis gravely, "but that is an argument which will bear future consideration.

"Pompey," she said wistfully, "dear Pompey, is the pain terrible to bear?

The Boy stood thinking "How will they bear it when they know?" The Oklahoma was late, but she was not only the first boatshe might conceivably be the last.

After I've told you, if you can bear to see me round" He hesitated and suddenly stood up, his eyes still wet, but his head so high an onlooker who did not understand English would have called the governing impulse pride, defiance even.

She was happy always, in the peace of a heart that was humble and faithful and pure, but yet had been used to wake to a consciousness of little pains and troubles, such as even to her meekness were sometimes hard to bear.

'I could not bear it, the sight of that Face.

" "Twenty-one shillings gold, bear in mind.

Evidently, for the command is still "Forward, bear center, bear right."

Evidently, for the command is still "Forward, bear center, bear right."

Napoleon would, on the contrary, mass all his best troops at the stone bridge, open the fight with every piece of artillery he could bring to bear, and in the panic send divisions ten deep across the bridge.

" Stripping off his accoutrements, he clasped a tall sycamore growing at the crest of the ravine, and when far up brought his glass to bear.

"If I may speak now it will be to bear testimony that I have been made a mummy since noon.

" "I will strive to bear my honors with humility," Jack said.

How would you bear up in Libby Prison?

" "Heigho!" sighed Sir Benedict, "thou'rt a fair sized babe to bear within a cloak, and thou hast been baptized in blood ere

Some day, when I grow too old to bear arms, I will to pen and ink-horn and will make of him a ballade that shall, mayhap, outlive our time.

Simply because Nature made me cowardly, and meant me, therefore, to bear cowardice bravely.

" "Notwithstanding I lie under the imputation of folly, I will beg that you predict unto me the fate of the child which I shall bear.