I opened the parcel, and from the enveloping paper emerged a steel helmetbut not an ordinary helmet, oh, no!a superb, a monumental morion, with gorget and pointed visor of strange form.

And shall not We, when Life's short span, Enveloping the Yet-To-Be Smiling candescent?Nay?Ah!

When the Metaurus witnessed the defeat and death of Hasdrubal, it witnessed the ruin of the scheme by which alone Carthage could hope to organize decisive successthe scheme of enveloping Rome at once from the north and the south of Italy by two chosen armies, led by two sons of Hamilcar.

That army since the battle near Mons on the 23d of August had been playing its part in a colossal strategic endeavor to create a Sedan for the Allies by out-flanking and enveloping the left of their whole line so as to encircle and drive both the British and French to the south.

The Russian artillery on the right wing appears to have made a good retreat owing to a timely start, while the left wing was hard pressed by the enveloping German infantry.

Four men, crude shapes of nightmare in enveloping dust-coats and disfiguring goggles, were swarming round the wreck.

As Andy looked, it spread out into a fan-like blaze, enveloping one whole side of the stack.

He killed the dragon, but received mortal hurt from the enveloping flames.

Enveloping radiance gilded the sharp lines of skyscrapers and swept away the shadows in the chasms between them.

Miss Thorne saw it all, and suddenly stretched out her arms with an all-enveloping gesture.

It was only by a masterful effort that Mr. Grimm held himself limp and inert, for a strange fragrance was enveloping hima fragrance he well knew.

The extreme of cultivation in this particular quality was reached some years ago by Mrs. Troughear, whose little dog Conqueror, weighing 5-1/2 lb., had a beautiful enveloping mantle of the uniform length of four-and-twenty inches.

"I think I must make sure you understand that it isn't the sort of story that you usually find enveloping that particular brute fact.

[Illustration: O] One evening I was sitting, coiled up in the slime at the bottom of my dug-out, toying with the mud enveloping my boots, when a head appeared at a gap in my mackintosh doorway and said, "The Colonel wants to see you, sir."

It should be noticed that they did not distribute their very effective 12-centimetre field howitzers along the whole front, but, so far as I can gather, assigned them all to the army of General Nogi, whose duty was to carry out the decisive enveloping movement at Mukden.

" One of those bright, enveloping smiles swept over his facethe smile that always carried the little stenographer away with it.

An enveloping leaf (bract), called the spathe, which is often brilliantly colored, surrounds the florets, or fruits, that are disposed upon a spadix.

Dorothy in an enveloping white coat, her hat replaced by a particularly effective little rose-coloured bonnet of her own clever manufacture, found herself confronted upon the lantern-lighted porch, as she was about to step into the car, by her brother with a strange man at his elbow.

When, then, according to the order of God, the heaven appeared, enveloping all that its circumference included, a vast and unbroken body separating outer things from those which it enclosed, it necessarily kept the space inside in darkness for want of communication with the outer light.

" He did not try to sleep again, he preferred the present reality, the silence of the Cathedral which was to him as a gentle caress, the noble calm of the temple, that immense pile of worked stone, which seemed to press on him, enveloping him, hiding for ever his weakness and his persecutions.

As Christopher grew through boyhood, she watched him; in her enveloping eagerness she forestalled the hour when he would have asked, and told him about his father, Daniel Kain.

The outer covering, a tough fleshy skin which being opened divides in two halves, is then pulled off, and the mace, which is found partly enveloping the nut, is carefully separated and dried for two or three days in the sun.

And with swift gestures he flung back the enveloping folds of the blanket, as if only he, the Master, could do this thing.

It was like being cut off from the world, with nothing in sight but this clinging curtain enveloping one like a damp cloud, settling like frost on everything it touches, and glittering like diamond dust.

On her brow was a diadem of opals and diamonds arranged in a crescent form, from beneath which, her fleecy white veil flowed backward to the hem of her garments like a mist of the early day-spring; a rosy exhalation of the dawn enveloping but not obscuring the radiance of her raiment, over which dew-drops seemed to have been shed by the lavish hand of wakening Nature.