Other companies are made up of trees near the prime of life, exquisitely harmonized to one another in form and gesture, as if Nature had culled them one by one with nice discrimination from all the rest of the woods.

He is the "Dastan-Shah," own brother (professionally) of the "Sammar" or story-teller of Arabia and the "Shayir" of Persia and Cairo: and his stories, which he delivers in a quaint sing-song fashion, richly interspersed with quotations from the poets of Persia, are usually culled from the immortal "Thousand and one Nights" or are concerned with the exploits and adventures of one of the great heroes of Islam.

I culled them like unto A nosegay in the garden of allusions.

And straight she held before the monarch's view, In either hand, a radiant wreath of flowers; The one, bedecked with every charming hue, Was newly culled from Nature's choicest bowers; The other, no less fair in every part, Was the rare product of divinest Art.

Débutantes bloomed and were duly culled by aged connoisseurs of such wares, or by youthful aspirants with the means to pay the piper in the form of a handsome settlement.

Having culled the crew of the Dover to his heart's content, the haughty Briton went aboard his own ship and continued his cruise, leaving Captain Parson expressing his ideas in such language as no parson should use.

"Yet this one hath a fragrance like none other that hath ever blossomed on the festa of San Marcomy blessed patron!for I culled it from the garland which my mother bade her maidens for a token make about the table where thy portrait is displayed.

It is a singular mixture of real or fictitious travels, and compilation from the works of others without acknowledgement, containing many things copied from the travels of Oderic, and much of it is culled, in a similar manner, from the writings of the ancients.

For we not only gave our lawyer new information culled from philological sources; we also introduced our fact in terms of an old fact which was already "interesting" to the lawyer.

I warrant you that every flower about her was culled from their own garden!"

The great diversity of practice in the planters in regard to wages, as well as the reasonable disposition of the laborers, is shown by the following paragraphs culled from the Morning Journal of August 10: "ST. DAVIDS.A gentleman in the management of a property in this parish, writes in the following strain to his employer"I have an accession of strength this morning.

I have, within the last two hours, amid the new mass of papers laid before your lordships within the last forty-eight hours, culled a sample which, I believe, represents the whole odious mass.

These particulars, culled from Dr. Redwood's remarks, may suffice to show its source and the methods for obtaining it.

All that remained, a worda tonea look, Impressed, by chance, in those bright joyous hours; Blossoms which, culled from youth's light fairy bowers, Still float with lingering scent, as loath to fade, In spite of sin's remorseless, 'whelming powers, Above the wreck which time and grief have made.

The loss was perhaps less than usual where such large batches were bought; but it demonstrates the strength of the shock involved in the transplantation from Africa, even after the severities of the middle passage had been survived and after the weaklings among the survivors had been culled out at the ports.

It is observable that these sleep-wakers, in their prescriptions, resemble the ancient sages, who culled only simples for the sick.

The Alps upon that field look down, Which won his bright and brief renown, Beside the lake's green shore; Still wears the land a tyrant's chain Still bondmen tread the battle-plain, Culled by his glorious soul in vain To win their rights of yore.

Leaves from The golden bough, culled by Lady Frazer; with drawings by H. M. Brock.

The first group of quotations is culled from certain of the Sacred Books of Hermes Trismegistus.

In Ploss-Bartels may be found an abundance of facts culled from various sources in all parts of the world, showing that the bestiality of many savages is not even restrained by the presence of spectators.

Under the tactful guidance of Edward Tredgold the conversation was led to shipwrecks, fires at sea, and other subjects of the kind comforting to the landsman, Mr. Chalk favouring them with a tale of a giant octopus, culled from Captain Bowers's collection, which made Mrs. Stobell's eyes dilate with horror.

For want of this, I have found by Experience a great deal of Mischief: For when the Preacher has often, with great Piety and Art enough, handled his Subject, and the judicious Clark has with utmost Diligence culled out two Staves proper to the Discourse, and I have found in my self and in the rest of the Pew good Thoughts and Dispositions, they have been all in a moment dissipated by a merry Jigg from the Organ-Loft.

By this means the richest People had the Choice of the Market, and culled out all the most extraordinary Beauties.

and here are the answers which I culled from many thoughtful poets, whose names are appended to their several replies.

These are a few flowers culled from a rich garden.