For boiling, choose rabbits with smooth and sharp claws, as that denotes they are young: should these be blunt and rugged, the ears dry and tough, the animal is old.

What is this wild dry-goods shop on the floor?

As it was a sunshiny morning and the paths were dry, walking was delightful.

" "Nobody is allowed to come," Mr. Trius said again in his unchangeable, dry tone.

There is plenty of clean hay and dry bracken in the sheds up there and you can well make a soft bed for her to get some sleep for a few hours.

His thunders rolled innocuous for us; his storms came near, but never touched us; contrary to Gideon's miracle, while all around were drenched, our fleece was dry.

I have known him double his knotty fist at a poor trembling child (the maternal milk hardly dry upon its lips) with a "Sirrah, do you presume to set your wits at me?"Nothing was more common than to see him make a head-long entry into the school-room, from his inner recess, or library, and, with turbulent eye, singling out a lad, roar out, "Od's my life, Sirrah," (his favourite adjuration)

'Old Lavington will find us dry clothes, a bottle of port, and a brace of charming daughters, at the Priory.

And all the while, in spite of all Manchester schools, and high and dry orthodox schools, here are the strangest phantasms, new and old, sane and insane, starting up suddenly into live practical power, to give their prosaic theories the liePopish conversions, Mormonisms, Mesmerisms, Californias, Continental revolutions, Paris days of June . . .

Long have I wept in secret over the pernicious fulness of your purse!' 'Dry your tears, then, now,' said Lancelot, 'for I neither have ten pounds in the world, nor intend to have till I can earn them.' 'Artist!' ran on Mellot; 'ah!

His heart was between his lips, and yet his whole soul felt as dry and hard as some burnt-out volcano-crater.

How first that those same dry bones shook and clashed together, as if uneasy because they were disorganised; and how they then found flesh and stood upright:

Your very costermonger trolls out his belief that "there's a good time coming," and the hearts of gamins, as well as millenarians, answer, "True!" Is not that a clashing among the dry bones?

But instead of Indianizing the present system, as you could begin to do from the beginning of next year, or instead of creating a hundred institutions such as that at Bolpur and turning into them the stream of India's young intellectual life, you appear to be turning that stream out of its present channel into open sands where it may dry up.

"We waited at that place for the rest of the day and the whole of the night, and the next morning the little basin was empty and entirely dry.

And he has done it by a dry-plate, quick-shutter process in a manner that surely lays him liable for criminal libel in the assize of high society.

We have one before us, purchased from a real live Salt Lake missionary; but it is so dreadfully dry and intricate, and seems to be such a dodged-up paraphrase of our own Scriptures, that we are afraid it will never do us any good.

There may be and probably is, no harm in having a child wet his feet occasionally, provided he is soon supplied with dry stockings again; but it is hazardous for either children or adults to go too long in wet stockings, and especially to sit long in them, after they have been using much active exercise.

Nor is it enough to hang up a diaper by the fire, and, as soon as it is dry, apply it again.

It should be clean, as well as dry.

Of the impropriety and danger of suffering wet clothes to dry upon us, I shall speak elsewhere; as well as of the evil of suffering children to remain dirty,their skins or their clothing.

Most persons have doubtless observed, that in the first stages of a cold, they frequently have a very dry skin.

When finished, the child should be wiped perfectly dry with soft flannel.

Some nurses and mothers think that if the child's skin is wiped dry after bathing, it will impair, if not destroy, the good effects of the operation.

Not unlike this, is the belief, very common among adults, that if we get our clothes weteven our stockingswe must, by all means, suffer them to dry on us; a belief which, in its results, has sent thousands to a premature graveand, what is still worse, made invalids, for life, of a still greater number.