The birds begin to stir, seeking sunny branches on the edge of the meadow for sun-baths after the cold night, and looking for their breakfasts, every one of them as fresh as a lily and as charmingly arrayed.

Then again there was the cold night of black frost, when there was cloud enough to hide the stars and the moon, and yet a little light came soaking through, enough to reveal how hopeless and dreary the earth was.

The long cold night passed wearily, and the howling of the wolves caused me to grip my revolver, yet at daybreak we arose refreshed, and notwithstanding the terrible pangs of hunger now gnawing at our vitals, we were prepared to renew our desperate dash for liberty.

It was an unusually cold night and the colored people were dumped into the middle of the street and there allowed to remain.

The night closed in, dark and cheerless, closed in early, under the dull gray, unrelenting skies, and although lights blinked out cheerfully from uncurtained windows, and willow plumes of smoke spread themselves on the cold night air above all the farm-houses, the hearts of the people were apprehensive.

"If you'd ever gone through what I did once, when lost in the Maine woods one bitter cold night, you'd never think you could have too big a pile of the stuff.

One bitter cold night I was going my rounds for the last time, when, as I turned a corner, I saw there was a trifle of work to be done.

The police had questioned at least a dozen porters at the railway, as well as ticket collectors; but no one had any special recollection of a gentleman in an Inverness cape and Glengarry cap, a costume worn by more than one first-class passenger on a cold night in September.

It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers in the last war, when he told them:"Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggling, and deaththe chill of the cold night, the open air, and the burning sunno lodgings, no munitions, no provisionsbut forced marches, dangerous watchposts, and continual struggling with bayonets against batteries.

Tug was a brave boy, and he had a high sense of responsibility; but he had also a high sense of the comfort of a good warm bed on a bitter cold night, and he lay there, his heart torn up like a battle-field, where the two angels of duty and evil fought bitterly.

It's a cold, cold night, and the fog clings so."

I recollect one bitter cold night, about eleven o'clock, I happened to awake, and looking out toward the fire, I was surprised to see standing there, erect and quiet, a tall, brawny Indian, wrapped in his blanket; his long hunting knife and tomahawk dangling from his belt; and his rifle in his hand.

"Lambkin is too young to come out such a cold night, so Eagle stayed to take care of her; and at the very last minute Monkey broke his arm, and of course Brother couldn't come without his twin.

'Yes; but you will not refuse a little refreshment to poor fellows like us, this cold night; that would be as much against the principles of your society as war.' 'Thee's from Trenton?' 'No, I thank you; Nathaniel Collins is too well known as a friend to the country, and an honest man, to aid a refugeewe know that.' 'Soap the old fox well,' whispered one of the band.

The happy don't-care feeling produced by broiled oysters and bass on a cold night is a perfect revelation to people used to after-theatre suppers composed of complications, sticky sweets, and champagne.

Tuesday, May 23.We spent the morning mustering the stores within and without the hut, after a cold night which we passed very comfortably in our bags.

A hard bed and scanty covering in a cold night are keenly felt.

On a bitter cold night, when the north-east winds sang through the shrouds of the vessel, the little boys were crouched on deck behind a bale of goods, to sleep for the night.

So the poor girl had absolutely stolen down-stairs in the middle of the cold night, and had opened the case and re-fastened it, in order that he, when in strange lands, might find himself in possession of something that had been hers!

Now, by Our Lady, 'tis a raw cold night I mind me when on such a night I lay Unsheltered in the trenches facing Mons In Flanders.

A blissed saint in the flesh; my poor ol' bones would 'ave hached many a cold night but for the blankets he brought me.

Frederick Nebel (A); 29May67; R410788. One cold night.

It was a cold night, and a strong easterly wind had driven nearly everybody else indoors.

In this way I came into a little town; it was a cold night and I wanted shelter.

The imprisoned fly buzzed as loudly as a whole swarm of bees; one half of my window had blown open, and the cold night air rushed in gusts into my room.