Snow had fallen heavily above the timberline a few days before, and now the keen whistling of the wind and the swift curtaining of clouds, which was drawing across the sky, threatened a new storm that might even reach down to the shack.

Brass rings clashed softly on a pole, a gap opened in heavy draperies curtaining a window, a shaft of street light threw the girl's profile into soft relief.

and, even out of sight of land, what had he but a flat watery horizon about him, nothing comparable to the vast o'er-curtaining sky, his familiar object, seen daily without dread or amazement?Who, in similar circumstances, has not been tempted to exclaim with Charoba, in the poem of Gebir, Is this the mighty ocean?is this all? I love town, or country; but this detestable Cinque Port is neither.

In this respect, a large debt is due to the biographer for setting before the reader, not only the high ethical purpose which Tennyson had in view in selecting the themes of his poems and in the mode of handling them, but, as we have said, in showing us what beyond peradventure were his religious opinions, and, despite a certain curtaining of gloom, how profoundly he was influenced by faith in the Divine life.

" She was close beside him, her hand on the heavy tapestry curtaining the door; and her glance shot past him to her husband's portrait.

Dark of the Pit descended, shrouding the lake with a sable curtain, close-folded, impenetrable.

The stars have us to bed; Night draws the curtain, which the sun withdraws; Music and light attend our head; All things unto our flesh are kind In their descent and being; to our mind In their ascent and cause.

The windows were broken and but illy repaired by the curtaining cobwebs.

The map lay spread in the door of the tent, but the high wind made it hard to study, and presently we lowered the curtain and extinguished the lantern.

I saw it through a veil that hung before my eyes like the gauze drop-curtain used at the back of a theaterhazily a little.

It was a sombre, solemn sort of a day, and the dense clouds hung curtaining down the mountain sides, like our living pall as it wereI scarcely know howbut

As the music plays a soft air, the curtain rises slowly and discovers an Indian boy and girl sleeping under two plantain-trees; and, when th

" He turned and walked quickly over to the carved, box-like confessional, and drew aside the green-embroidered curtain.

He walked over to the window nearest to the fire-place, and drew back the heavy, silk-brocaded curtain.

He let fall the curtain, and, blowing out the candles, got slowly, luxuriously, into the vast, comfortable four-post bed.

A piece of muslin suspended on a gilt rod, is really of no other use but to let a spectator see that he is behind the curtain.

My Uncle Toby, who had rose up an hour before his wonted time, entered the lieutenant's room, and sat himself down upon the chair by the bedside, and opened the curtain in the manner an old friend and brother officer would have done it.

The back of his mind was a black curtain, and on that curtain there came and went a worda word written in letters of fire.

The back of his mind was a black curtain, and on that curtain there came and went a worda word written in letters of fire.

The curtain rods were grass stems.

Each a curtaining cloud Drew back, and each exclaimed aloud: "Behold, we three have drawn the same, From the same model!"

Well, at the house there was some yellow curtaining packed in one of the boxes, Isaac could tell which "I think I know right where it is!" said Anna, and hurried away to find and send it.

Colt curtain call.

The sharp bark of rifles, the rat-a-tat of machine guns, the boom of bursting grenades, and the yells, groans, screams and shouts of the hand-to-hand conflict came through the curtaining smoke in a mad jumble of savage sound.

She was standing and reading, her rich black lashes curtaining their downcast eyes, her infant waist and round, close-fitted, childish arms harmonizing prettily with her mock frown of infantile perplexity, and her long, limp robe heightening the grace of her posture, when the younger started from her seat with the air of determining not to be left at a disadvantage.