But who can meditate upon the memorable stanzas, and not see, in fancy, the enthusiastic youththe lover of melody and of natureas he enters his dingy room, the ordinary abiding place of poetical geniuses.

After her beautiful tropical life, it seemed to her as if she should choke, shut away from the wide expanse of sky which she loved, among monotonous rows of houses and dingy streets.

" A "scooter," it may be explained, is an ice-boat peculiar to the Great South Baya sort of modified dingy on runners.

The coaling Negroes and Negresses, dressed or undressed, in their dingiest rags, contrast with the country Negresses, in gaudy prints and gaudier turbans, who carry on their heads baskets of fruit even more gaudy than their dresses.

But not to me belongeth such a grace, And, were it mine, 'tis not in amorous shade To river music that such song is made: The song that moves the battle on awoke To the stern rhythm of the swordsman's stroke, The song that fans the city's weary face Sprang not afar from out some leafy place, But bubbled spring-like in its dingiest lane From out a heart that shared the city's pain;

But in all that dingy place, and thick gloom, were you never at all afraid?' 'Aflaid!

The house was small and dingy, and two grimy babies were playing on the doorstep.

" "PRINTED AND SOLD BY B. FRANKLIN" looks odd enough on the dingy title-page of this old volume, and the contents are full of interest.

Not very clean was its appearance, and not over correct or well-spelt was its address; and, above all, a yellow, dingy wafer filled up the place of the green wax we had expected, and the true lover's motto, "Though lost to sight, to memory dear," was supplied by the impression of a thimble.

When walking out one morning, I accidentally met a young scion of our black tribes, on turning the corner of the house, who saluted me with "Good morning, sir, good morning;" to which I in like manner responded, and was proceeding onwards, when my dingy acquaintance arrested my attention by his loud vociferation of "Top, sir, I want to peak to you."

" I said over for him what Rui had written: I love the Polynesian; this civilization of ours is a dingy, ungentlemanly business; it drops out too much of man, and too much of that the very beauty of the poor beast ...

This was a dingy lumber-room full of idols: the near end was dingy and dark but at the far end was a blue cærulean glow in which stars seemed to be shining and the heads of the idols glowed.

This was a dingy lumber-room full of idols: the near end was dingy and dark but at the far end was a blue cærulean glow in which stars seemed to be shining and the heads of the idols glowed.

And I can take thee back to it, out of this dim and dingy wood.

She went away out of the room, too utterly stunned with fatigue to look at the letter in her dingy hand.

Freddy felt himself once more a real and important human being with a place in the sun, not just a child to be shushed by a dingy landlady while his mother was out looking for a job.

It was small, and Freddy was in the way, although he tried to squeeze himself into the corner by the dingy stationary washstand.

He would generally lunch at the bank, in his own little dingy room; but if things went badly with him, so as to disturb his mind, he would go back early in the day, and generally pass the afternoon asleep.

"I'll appear to regard it as a perfectly lady-like party, which it was," she mused, in the dingy interminable stairways,the elevator being an uncertain quantity"and run no risk of being thrown three nights.

The walls were covered with great mirrors that opened up fantastic perspectives in the dingy room where the gilded ornaments were blackened by the smoke and a crepuscular light filtered in through the lofty skylight as into a sombre crypt.

As these very books seem all the better in their dingy bindings, so do the old ideas, the odd conceits, the stories that charmed dead generations, take on a keener zest when clothed in the formal language of other days.

Urged by this gentle reminder, Mrs. Tadman immediately produced a somewhat dingy-looking pack of cards and a queer little old-fashioned cribbage-board.

The law held him liable for the whole of the moneys thus paid over in fraud or error; but the law could do very little against a man whose sole earthly possessions appeared to be comprised by the worm-eaten desks and shabby chairs and tables in his dingy offices.

Now, I suppose that if I chose to walk arm in arm with the dingiest mulatto through the streets of Philadelphia, nobody could possibly tell by my complexion that I was not his sister, so that the mere quality of mistress must have had a most miraculous effect upon my skin in the eyes of poor Rose.

Half an hour away from the town are situated two large dingy buildings.