A wild figure this, great and hairy of head and with the arms and shoulders of a very giant; bedight was he in good link-mail, yet foul with dirt and mire and spattered with blood from heel to head, and in one great hand he griped still the fragment of a reddened sword.

" "It is a bit open jest in front of here; but I took note that further to the westward was a little more of green," Sergeant Corney said, half to himself, and I knew he was picturing in his mind the two of us making the attempt where was not a blade of grass to give shelter, for the "green" of which he spoke was nothing more than the fragment of a bush near the stockade.

As I figger it, we had best bear off to the westward, strikin' the fort on that side nearabout where the fragment of a bush stands, than to push on for the main gate.

Such is the camp of the woundedsuch a fragment, a reflection afar off of the bloody scenewhile all over the clear, large moon comes out at times softly, quietly shining.

" Some old earthen camp or barrow, some clump of trees, at least some starved fragment of ancient hedge is usually taken advantage of in the erection of these forlorn dwellings.

Stooping down to examine this curious object, and touching its body, a fragment of the burnt skin was detached, which, with a sort of superstitious dread, he at length, and in a spirit of philosophical inquiry, put into his mouth.

None of our respectable neighbours, in the first place, have shared in this transaction, and that is something; though I confess I feel some surprise that any considerable portion of a community, that respects itself, should quietly allow an ignorant fragment of its own numbers, to misrepresent it so grossly, in an affair that so nearly touches its own character for common sense and justice.

Only Alfred, by heroic exertions, saved a fragment of his kingdom from them.

Germany knew full well that European peace would be shattered on that rock, yet there is no fragment of evidence to show that she tried to remove it; but there is overwhelming proof that she encouraged Austria to stand by it, thus causing a European conflagration.

" "But you do love me, don't you, ARCHIBALD?just a very small fragment, you know.

Staggering, and stunned by his superior force, She almost tumbled from her foaming horse, Yet unsubdued, she cut the spear in two, And from her side the quivering fragment drew, Then gain'd her seat, and onward urged her steed, But strong and fleet Sohráb arrests her speed: Strikes off her helm, and seesa woman's face, Radiant with blushes and commanding grace!

FRAGMENT BY HÁFIZ In Praise of His Verses.

He was a grand fragment; as good as an Elgin marble.

I have no note of this evening's conversation, except a single fragment.

She sat in the window, and listlessly read over to herself a fragment of her own poetry: SAPPHO She lay among the myrtles on the cliff; Above her glared the moon; beneath, the sea.

A fragment of limb lay at Jack's feet.

A sharp fragment of slate, several pounds in weight, lay at her feet.

He woke from his reveries to discover that she was giving him Tennyson, that fragment from "Guinevere" when Arthur tells her of the dream her guilt has tarnished.

As is usual, the summit of this fragment of rock was covered with bushes; others shooting out, also, from the rich, warm earth at its base, or, to speak more properly, at its junction with the earth.

A FRAGMENT.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.

The Essay on the Fates of Clergymen is another study from the Contempt, while the fragment of the tract which he had begun, Concerning that Universal Hatred which prevails against the Clergy, brings us still more closely to Eachard.

Cartwright had moved and put his foot on a fragment of the shattered chimney.

"And to think," he said, finally, "that little messenger you saw going up just now was constructed of the very last fragment of the old balloon silk.

But however it may be, the journals of the Commune record this fragment with ill-disguised admiration.