" Similarly, we are told how the common break-fern flowers but once a year, at midnight, on Michaelmas Eve, when it displays a small blue flower, which vanishes at the approach of dawn.

He can be hard as nails, on occasion, as we know, and at times he displays a surprising knowledge of the world and its waysfor one who has been brought up on an out-of-the-way island.

His poetry also (4) shows a preference for the subjective world, (5) exerts a remarkable influence over other poets, and (6) displays a peculiar liking for obsolete forms of expression.

Especially enjoyable is the humor of Burns, which usually displays a kindly and intuitive sympathy with human weakness.

] Michael, one of the very greatest of his productions, displays a tender and living sympathy with the humble shepherd.

And with that he tilts his elbow, and with a turn of the wrist displays a long knife that lay concealed under his forearm.

There is a master of ceremonies, who displays a wonderful control over the Indians.

His Ganymede displays a massive trunk and brawny thighs.

Always instructive without being exactly instructed, always argumentative without being very guarded in argument, he yet displays a marvellously contagious enthusiasm for his own creeds, and surrounds his own ideals with an atmosphere of passionate nobility.

On the Dorchester road from Sturminster, is a public-house called the "King's Stag," its sign displays a stag with a gold collar around its neck, and underneath are the following lines: When Julius Caesar landed here, I was then a little deer; When Julius Caesar reigned king, Round my neck he put this ring; Whoever shall me overtake, Spare my life for Caesar's sake.

[He radiantly undoes his basket, and displays a honeycomb.

It displays a remarkable power of assimilating alien elements and inspiring them to an active pursuit of its ideals, and its allegiance supplants all others in the hearts of those exposed to its charm.

Evidently it is of no survival consequence whether the running deer displays a white or a black flag.

Precious name!" Afflictions, from Thy gracious hand, Unmingled blessings prove; The rod, prepared at Thy command, Displays a Father's love.

When our author was but in the nineteenth year of his age, he wrote a Tragedy, entitled, Amalasont Queen of the Goths, which displays a fertile genius, and a masterly invention.

In all his many criticisms of literature there are charm, wit, and elegance, an individuality and freedom in the reviewer, who, if less penetrating than his brother, displays a far more genial breadth and humanity, and more secure composure.

Distances have been shortened by "cut-offs," but the Mississippi displays a decided unwillingness to have its length curtailed.

It thus displays a combination rare in this kind of poetry: the spirit of an untutored will, embodied in a form the romantic expression of which might seem only congenial to choice and delicate fancies. . . .

Rutter's verse also displays a certain nervousness of its own which is wanting in the model, though it preserves the intermixture of blank verse with irregular rimes which Daniel affected.

After the poet's death it was purchased by Sir William Stanhope who enlarged both the house and garden.[012] A bust of Pope, in white marble, has been placed over an arched way with the following inscription from the pen of Lord Nugent: The humble roof, the garden's scanty line, Ill suit the genius of the bard divine; But fancy now displays a fairer scope And Stanhope's plans unfold the soul of Pope.

His fancy now displays a fairer scope.

He displays a native gravity, but devoid of all appearance of ostentation."

She then displays a varying amount of knowledge of dead and living people connected with her clients, who are usually strangers, often introduced under feigned names.

It highly deserves this distinguished fate, as it contains various modes of expression in correct language; and displays a great variety of Eastern manners and modes of thinking.

From Thurmchen to Bayenthurme, the town, which extends upward of a league on the banks of the river, displays a whole host of windows and façades.