L. E. D.The expressed juice, or a decoction of these roots, has been recommended in calculous complaints, and as a gargle for infants in aphtous affections or excoriations of the mouth; and a poultice of scraped carrots has been found an useful application to phagedenic ulcers, and to cancerous and putrid sores.

L. D. Stavesacre was employed by the ancients as a cathartic, but it operates with so much violence both upwards and downwards, that its internal use has been, among the generality of practitioners, for some time laid aside.

They are accounted aperient and diuretic, and have also been celebrated as aphrodisiac: their virtues, however, are too weak to admit them under the head of medicines.

In this way, we may put it down as a general rule (to be tested hereafter) that the least developed flowers are usually yellow or white; those which have undergone a little more modification are usually pink or red; and those which have been most highly specialized of any are usually purple, lilac, or blue.

"I have been waiting to see you, Daphne," he said, with a smile, but general air of seriousness.

Under the circumstances, feeling certain that the secret of her love had not been discovered, she grew emboldened to risk a little more.

"Here at leastI remember that oncebut that was long ago, and it stands like a shadow before my memoryI saw many people kneel here: it must have been of some use to them?

His literary power seems to have been early manifest; for in 1867 he became manager of a newspaper, L'Italia Militare, at Florence; and in 1871, yielding to his friends' persuasions, he settled down to authorship at Turin.

Holland, animated by a new life, felt the need of manifesting and expanding it in a new way; the small country, become all at once glorious and formidable, felt the desire for illustration; the faculties which had been excited and strengthened in the grand undertaking of creating a nation, now that the work was completed, overflowed and ran into new channels.

Since that time it has been called Shajahan-abad, (although the city of Dilli is distinct from it, the latter being called the old city, and the former the new,) and to the bazar of it was given the title of Urdu-e Mu'alla.

[with awe] the power of God, saying, "Anterior to me, what mighty possessors of kingdoms and wealth have been born on earth!

[140] been present at that hour, he would have forgot his strains; and Baiju-Ba,ora would have gone mad.

keep me at your feet and elevate me," On hearing this ejaculation, she became thoughtful for a moment; then regarding me askance, she said, "Sit down; your services and fidelity have been such that whatever you say becomes you; they are also engraven on my heart.

Thou hast been ready to promote my wishes with thy life and property, and whatever were thy means, thou hast offered [them cheerfully].

I have lent him thousands, and been well paid.

You have the Marriage Settlement, and all the information, and you decline to allow a pension, or afford any information; the man is to starve, or go to the work-house?" "Why, Mr. D., you are so quick and violent, it really is not professional; but you see, (here a subdued smile of triumph,) it has been decided that a solicitor is not bound to afford such information as you ask, to the injury of his client.

Among the men, (beardless folly and mustachioed craft are most prominent,) there is a handsome young fellow, with an elaborate cane and wonderfully vacant countenance, who is anticipating in feeble follies, an estate that has been in the possession of his ancestors since the reign of Henry the Eighththere is a hairy, high-nosed, broken-down nondescript, in appearance something between a horse-dealer and a pugilist.

These were the last words he uttered; the priest, who had been summoned in haste, held up the cross before his failing sight; a few strong convulsions shook the poor bruised and mangled frame; and then all was still.

If this sight would sadden a stranger soul, what must have been the deep grief of the lady as she contemplated the cold memorial of Sir Ralph, and felt that the consummation of her whole earthly comfort was there entombed!

He had since returned to Phoenicia, and had once more come to England, bringing with him a comrade to remove a doubt expressed by his master, and to testify to the monarch of the Mountain how effectively his object had been accomplished.

" It is as interesting as it was eventful, and has been duly chronicled wherever facts have been gathered to gratify a curiosity that is not yet weary of dwelling on the point of time which saw the Star of Destiny once more in the ascendant before it sank forever.

This predilection for military life received no small encouragement from the occasional visit of some young Caesar, whose uniform had been tarnished in the experiences of one campaign, and who returned to his former associates to indulge in an hour of unalloyed glorification.

Some of the older ones had been educated as priests, and were officiating in their calling, when the Revolution broke in upon them, trampling alike on sacred shrine and holy vestment.

But then where would have been her merit?

"Yes, it has been a striking one.

"You trot up to the slaughter-shop, Grim, and interview that ArabSidi bin Something-or-Otherforget his namehe lies in number nineteen cot on the left-hand side of the long ward, next to a Pathan who's shy both legs.

"Jimgrim!" "Sidi bin Tagim, isn't it?

Sidi bin Tagim nodded.

"Sidi bin Tagim, you're one of those fanatics who think the world is all leagued against you.

"You and I are old acquaintances, Sidi bin Tagim.

Now that fellow Sidi bin Tagim in the hospital is an honest old kite in his way.

You fill up a man like Sidi bin Tagim with tales about Jewsconvince him that Jews stand between Feisul and a kingdomand he'll lend a hand in any scheme ostensibly directed against Jews.

" "He's bin' in bed this half hour back, Mr. Jackson.

"Nothing that happens in this loony bin," said Psmith, "has power to surprise me now.

Why heere in Denmarke: I haue bin sixeteene [Sidenote: Sexten]

Her Obsequies haue bin as farre inlarg'd, [Sidenote: Doct.]

[Sidenote: 118] I hop'd thou should'st haue bin my Hamlets wife: I thought thy Bride-bed to haue deckt (sweet Maid)

Usefulness has some connection with price, so much is certain; for an entirely useless thing, fit only for the dust-bin (and known to be such, it may be well to add) will fetch no price at all, however costly it may be to produce.

Yet I have heard the way to cure the scare Has bin the deed; at truth the scruples vanish.

You may demand the Nag, if you ask for Humfrey the Ostler, by the same token he has bin there this foure dayes and had but one peck of provender.

She had their little coal-bin filled, and a nice pile of wood and kindlings put behind the stove.

I detest, Sir Cutt, I did not thinke he had bin halfe the quintessence of a scholler he is. Foul.

He would have bin poxt first.

Far, far from bold, for thou hast known me long Almost these twenty yeeres, and halfe those yeeres Hast bin my bed-fellow; long time before This unseene thing, this thing of naught indeed, Or Atome cald my Lordshippe shind in me,

And Kimber, 'e says 'e'd have minded what parson said if it had a bin a church matter or such like, but parson or no parson, 'e says 'e's his own master an' 'e won't have no interferin' with him and his missus.

but what those lousy fellers believe when they've bin hittin' the bottle too longa sort of great animal that lives up yonder," he jerked his head northwards, "quick as lightning in its tracks, an' bigger'n anything else in the Bush, an' ain't supposed to be very good to look atthat's all!"

In front of it, upon the beach, are half-a-dozen great green and grey heaps of Welsh limestone; behind it, at the cliff foot, is the lime-kiln, with its white dusty heaps, and brown dusty men, its quivering mirage of hot air, its strings of patient hay-nibbling donkeys, which look as if they had just awakened out of a flour bin.

"Oh, in the dust-bin," I said.

Better miss a meal, if need be, than make a refuse bin of our bodies.

"It's odd," he remarked; "they seems to ha' bin here for some time, and yit they've niver looked near the ship but once.