This is how Coleridge tells us that the descent of a tropical night is sudden: "The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out; At one stride comes the dark.

How can business be "as usual" when in Paris there are about 1800 of these small workshops where a woman dips Bengal Fire and grenades into a bath of paraffin!

That arms, with awe more awful, thy commands; And foul transgression dips in sevenfold guilt!

Out of some invisible wardrobe he dips for faces, as his friend Suett used for wigs, and fetches them out as easily.

Out of some invisible wardrobe he dips for faces, as his friend Suett used for wigs, and fetches them out as easily.

The limestone rocks seen on this day's journey appear to rise from beneath the sandstones, some of which are very hard and close-grained; it dips about 10 degrees to the west and some of the adjacent sandstones 20 degrees west, in well-defined strata.

As in the grocer's shop pictured by one of our best wits, so is it herethe tenpenny nail looks upon the tin tack and calmly snubs it; the long sixes eye the farthing dips and say they are poor lights; the bigger articles seem cross and potent in the face of the smaller; the little look big in the face of the less; and the infinitessimal clap their wings when they make a comparison with nothing.

On the right, a bluff rock of black lava dips sheer into water several fathoms deep; and you anchor at once inside an irregular group of craters, having passed through a gap in one of their sides, which has probably been torn out by a lava flow.

Sometimes the rope dips on the water, and the huge snout and staring eyes immediately disappear.

Beyond were the pines, and a rugged road, flint-edged, full of dips and rises, turns and twists, hovering on edges, or bosoming itself in deep rock-strewn cuts.

It was a dark and unfriendly looking lake to Muskwa, who had never seen anything but sunlit pools in the dips.

The creeping pendulum of fate, pausing for an instant at its highest point, dips down again to gather impetus for a higher swing.

I had some matches in my pocket and at once kindled the end of his tail, which makes a very good candle, quite as good as average dips, tales, quales.

There is a very human expression about it, as it stands in the midst of those glimmering lands, with its haughty summit commanding far-distant plains, "Far as the wild swan wings, to where the sky Dips down to sea and sands," a very human expression of scornful pride and imperious dominion.

The number of localities from which I have collected specimens I have estimated at nearly eight thousand; the records of dips and bearings are still more numerous.

Dips in the rolling land, mere dry runs save at this season, became creeks; flushed to their capacity and beyond, sang softly all the day long.

He is provided with a number of moulds of different shapes and sizes, and he dips them into the juice and puts them aside to dry.

Bartley Fallon: I am feeling as if the five fingers of my hand to be lessening from me, the same as five farthing dips the heat of the sun would be sweating the tallow from.

The Tatu and Pomo tribes intimidate them in this way: "A man is stripped naked, painted with red and black stripes, and then at night takes a sprig of poison oak, dips it in water, and sprinkles it on the squaws, who, from its effects on their skins, are convinced of the man's satanic power, so that his object is attained.

He seizes Arthur, seizes Ned, Takes William by his little head; And they may scream and kick and call, Into the ink he dips them all; Into the inkstand, one, two, three, Till they are black as black can be; Turn over now, and you shall see.

Certainly Ferry was an accomplished tobogganist, for he steered with great skill over a somewhat complicated course, including excursions between trees set rather closely together, over hummocks and through erratic dips, at a pace which quite took his passengers' breath away.

"Do 'ee see 'en there?that tall young man by the hedgethere where the slope dips?

all unheard Mutters a solemn mystic word With reverence the Sudra dips, And fervently the current sips, That to his humbler hope conveys A future life of happier days.

It is to make one's life a poem, as Milton dreamed of the true poet; for as art works through matter and takes on concrete and sensible shape with its mortal conditions, so the soul dips in life, is in material action, and, suffering a similar fate, sinks into limitations and externals of this world and this flesh, through which it must live.

We mounted reeling knolls, and coasted over whirling dips, and rushed to boiling levels, and jumped foamy ridges, and went galloping in the rush and tumble of long slopes.