In the anonymous, The Artes of Logike and Rhetorike (1584), rhetoric is denned as "an arte of speaking finelie.

Treason is happily denned by our laws, and, therefore, every man may know when he is about to commit it, and avoid the danger of punishment, by avoiding the act which will expose him to it; but with regard to the borders of treason, I believe no man will yet pretend to say how far they extend, or how soon, or with how little intention he may tread upon them.

On coming on deck in the morning, Tangier, "the city protected of the Lord," appeared in all its North African lineaments, white and bright, shining, square masses of masonry, domes of fair and modest santos, and the heaven-pointing minarets; here and there a graceful palm, a dark olive, or the black bushy kharoub, and all denned sharply and clearly in the goodly prospect.

Indeed the big stag knew well where the old wolf denned.

It was an odd location for such luxury or risk as the one denned; but the thing happened.

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The giant, gorged with flesh, and wine, and blood, Lay stretched at length and snoring in his den, Belching raw gobbets from his maw, o'ercharged With purple wine and cruddled gore confused.

O'er the wide plain there rose a shady wood 40 Of aged trees; in its dark bosom stood A bushy thicket, pathless and unworn, O'errun with brambles, and perplexed with thorn: Amidst the brake a hollow den was found, With rocks and shelving arches vaulted round.

Deep in the dreary den, concealed from day, Sacred to Mars, a mighty dragon lay, Bloated with poison to a monstrous size; Fire broke in flashes when he glanced his eyes; His towering crest was glorious to behold, 50 His shoulders and his sides were scaled with gold; Three tongues he brandished when he charged his foes; His teeth stood jagy in three dreadful rows.

The Tyrians in the den for water sought, And with their urns explored the hollow vault: From side to side their empty urns rebound, And rouse the sleepy serpent with the sound.

Bears, wolves, and all the savage brood, Have dyed the regal den with blood.

" "You are rightyes, lad, you have indeed raked into the old Mexican's treasure den; I can recall now some words he once spoke.

The great sight of his place, however, was the hero's private den at the bottom of the garden.

My word, it required some pluck to move about in the den of the great Tartarin.

It was a terrible moment for Tartarin, but he realised the solemnity of the words, and, looking around his cosy little den with a moist eye, he replied at length in a choking voice, "Bravida, I shall go!"

" "Den you can turn de eyes to your head von oder way," retorted his father.

" "He meant to do it, den," said the old man.

Since then Thor had denned eight times in that cavern home.

"An' why does he grow so fast during the four or five months he's denned up an' dead to the world without a mouthful to eat or drink?

Bonamy had been called away; but all that summer, and winter, too,for the Grizzly no longer "denned up,"Kellyan rode and rode, each time too late or too soon to meet the Monarch.

Genius has been denned as an infinite capacity for taking pains; and if the definition is sound, genius cannot be denied to the painstaking officials who test the physical fitness of recruits"as in the picture.

"I'se gwine to git you a little something warm to drink and something to eat right soon, and den I'se gwine put you-all to bed nice and clean, and in de mawnin' you'll feel like you was anotheh lady, you suttinly will, Ma'am.