I was turning this over in my head and wondering what their boorish conduct could mean, when I saw, as I rode from the village, a great T new carved upon a tree.

At this point, by the bridge, the face of the rock had been carved smooth, and a great black triangle painted on it.

Underneath this inscription is carved in sunk work an Egyptian lotus flower in an upright position; on the back of the mausoleum is the date of the year in which Gaspard Monge died.

Among the ladies who please themselves with splendid furniture, or elegant entertainment, it is a practice very common, to ask every guest how he likes the carved work of the cornice, or the figures of the tapestry; the china at the table, or the plate on the side-board: and on all occasions to inquire his opinion of their judgment and their choice.

There he cut a wand from out a certain hazel-tree, and having trimmed and peeled it of its bark, with his dagger he carved his name upon the wood.

He said that Wendell Phillips could not see to read the clearest signs of revolution, and he was reminded by the husband who bought a grave-stone that had been carved for another woman, but the stone-cutter said "That has the name of another person."

" Purer than those was its luster and carved as they carve not in Europe, and the men thereby are poor and held to be fearlessyet they do not sell that idol.

" AN ARCHIVE OF THE OLDER MYSTERIES It is told in the Archive of the Older Mysteries of China that one of the house of Tlang was cunning with sharpened iron and went to the green jade mountains and carved a green jade god.

The gate was carved out of one solid piece!

And she looked like the daughter of Janaka, when forsaken by the lord of the race of Raghu, and like the heavenly Urwashi, when abandoned by Pururawas, a very spirit of despair carved by the Creator into a stony female form, to break the heart of the three worlds.

Mrs. Egg felt that he must be horrible, naked, like a doll carved of coconut bark Adam had sent home from Havana.

Then it was that I gave that great cry which brought all crowding to the windows, to the gardens, to every spot from whence that blessed sight was visible; for there before us, piercing through the clouds, were the beautiful towers of Semur, the Cathedral with all its pinnacles, that are as if they were carved out of foam, and the solid tower of St. Lambert, and the others, every one.

That of Little's was not carved, nor silver-mounted even, and yet connoisseurs pronounced it worth a hundred and fifty dollars.

Only yesterday he had rescued her from some dried bulbs in the greenhouse, and didn't Mother think it time she saw a good oculist and had proper spectacles, instead of using the old lens in that carved gold bauble belonging once to his grandmother's aunt.

Niafer employed three articles in the transaction: two of these things are not to be talked about, but the third was a little figure carved in hazel-wood.

"Still, your employment of those first two articles was unprecedented, and your disposal of the carved figure absolutely embarrassed me.

Raymond sat on a fine throne of carved white ivory and gold, beneath a purple canopy.

Then, when the charm of the silence had gotten in its good work, and the little green quatrefoil had been fastened into the outstretched right hand of Many Eyes, Hinpoha selected several soft, flat stones from the stream and carved them with further good luck omensthe swastika, the horseshoe, and all the other signs she could think of that were supposed to bring good luck.

Half the time he was not listening to what he, Adrian, was saying; instead, his eyes sought constantly the shadows over the carved sideboard across the table from him.

The carved sea chest, a tale of lost ships, of buccaneers and of the Nipissing Indians, the sorcerers.

The carved sea chest, a tale of lost ships, of buccaneers and of the Nipissing Indians, the sorcerers.

The carved sea chest.

The carved chimney-pieces were adorned with the choicest bronzes and models in wax and terra-cotta.

The Baron was more than ever the evocation of the genius of elegance and order; he seemed carved out of some coloured ivory, behind whose white perfection burnt a shining resolute flame.

In the but there stands an arm-chair, Richly carved and cleverly; He who sits therein is happy, And that happy man am I. On the footstool sits a maiden, On my lap her arms repose, With her eyes like blue stars beaming, And her mouth a new-born rose.