dozen years of actual seniority to Mr. Pitman and her exquisite hair, the densest, the finest tangle of arranged silver tendrils that had ever enhanced the effect of a preserved complexion.

It was not long before he found himself in the densest kind of timber.

He has attained the spot where the trees were densest.

"I am the densest blockhead in all Europe!"

He said that at six o'clock in the afternoon of December the 10th, in the midst of one of the densest fogs he ever remembers, the 5.5 from Tilbury steamed into the station, being just about an hour late.

One of the densest fogs I ever knew settled upon the ancient town the morning after my arrival.

Surrounded by his trusty herd, the gwalla traverses the densest jungle and most tiger-infested thickets without fear.

Dachshunds are frequently used for deer driving, in which operation they are especially valuable, as they work slowly, and do not frighten or overrun their quarry, and can penetrate the densest undergrowth.

[A very neat way of arriving at specific gravity in its densest form is to distil the "funny column" of a weekly newspaper.

Beyond these are the humbler crowds about the wild-ringleted snake-charmers with their epileptic gestures and hissing incantations, and farther off, in the densest circle of all, we could just discern the shaved heads and waving surpliced arms of the dancing-boys.

The enemy was before them, because they kept among the bushes, always in the densest part of them.

The hotel stands close by the Jaffa Gate, and there the crowd was densest, for the outgoing swarm was met by another tide, of city- folk returning.

This smiling countryside, teeming with one of the densest populations in the world, had been stripped clean of every inhabitant.

Second, by taking the instrument up to some such elevation as that to which Langley took his bolometer at Mount Whitney, and so to leave the densest part of the atmosphere below us.

She has the densest population in Europe.

It was still steaming hot at Sablán, and the whole countryside was buried in the densest tropical vegetation.

In a rough, hilly, or mountainous country the finest farms and the densest population are found on the "bottom lands" along the streams.

The whole scenery of the wood, in the densest thicket of which Pan is feasting with his mistress, while about their close retreat the satyr keeps watch and ward, mingling now and again in the action of the mortals, is strongly reminiscent of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

The population is one of the densest in the world, the labouring classes being very poor.

Lovers of the horse frequently say that automobiling is to coaching as steam yachting is to sailing,all of which argues the densest ignorance concerning automobiling, since there is no sport which affords anything like the same measure of exhilaration and danger, and requires anything like the same amount of nerve, dash, and daring.

But, as one day will be found, I believe, a strength of physical light before which even solid gold or blackest marble becomes transparent, so is there a spiritual light before which all veils of falsehood shall shrivel up and perish and cease to hide; so that, in individual character, in the facts of being, in the densest of Pharisaical hypocrisy, there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nothing hid that shall not be known.

Pointing into the tangled fen with a confident smile he plunged to his waist in the water and waded slowly through the slough into the gloom of the densest alder.

The wildest defile, the densest thicket, the most virgin solitude, was less dreary and forlorn than this first footprint of man.

To simulate the creeping animals, and fall to the ground on hands and knees, feel his way through the underbrush when the smoke was densest, or take advantage of its momentary lifting, and without uncertainty, mistake, or hesitation glide from tree to tree in one undeviating course, was possible only to an experienced woodsman.

Before taking leave of the natural history of the Barnard Group, I must not omit a pretty butterfly inhabiting the densest parts of the brush; it is the Hamadryas zoilus of the Voyage of the Astrolabe, erroneously supposed in that work to be a native of New Zealand.