The children of its schools, drilled to run down to the cellars at the first alarm as our children are drilled to empty a school on a warning of a Zeppelin raid, are the gayest and most spirited creatures, as I saw them at their games and action songs; unless indeed it be the children of the réfugiés, in whose faces sometimes one seems to see the reflection of scenes that no child ought to have witnessed and not even a child can forget.

Secret raids, ravished brides, valiant rescues, the gayest intriguesthese are the diverse matters of this many-colored book.

A silken jacket, in whose tissue flowers of the gayest colors were interwoven, the falling collar of scarlet, the bright velvet cap with armorial bearings embroidered on its front, proclaimed him to be a gondolier in private service.

" The widow left off her weeds and, in silk and lace, with ruffles and frills, became the gayest of the gay.

She was wealthy, again the cavaliers were in power, and she was the gayest of the gay.

Before midnight on the 13th of July, the whole of the vast amphitheatre was filled with a dense crowd, in its gayest holiday attirea marvelous and magnificent sight from its mere numbers; and early the next morning the heads of the procession began to defile under the arch at the entrance of the plainLa Fayette, at the head of the National Guard, leading the way.

He practised the virtue he admired, and he never, in his gayest moments, suffered himself to talk loosely or lightly upon religious or moral subjects; or to turn any thing sacred, or which good men reverenced as such, into ridicule.

But the gayest and most agreeable street is one running from the north-east corner of the "Place" (Rue Royale.)

We had the gayest supper, all at little tables; and it was arranged that we should go with the de Tournelles, and the Baronne, to a Ralli de Papier to-day, given by the 75th Cuirassiers at the Forêt de Marly.

" Its perusal produced the impression that the season must be the gayest New York had ever known.

Poor Will was once the gayest swain At village dance was seen; No freer heart of wicked stain E'er tripp'd the moonlight green.

WILL-O'-THE-WISPS From marshy bogs we sprang to light, Yet here behold us dancing; The gayest gallants of the night, In glitt'ring rows advancing.

There is not a page in these volumes which does not sparkle with evidences of an enjoyment far beyond any that the rich and pleasure-seeking idler can ever know; and while the materials are those of the barest and bleakest fact, the style of the narrative is that of the gayest, most genial, and most elastic spirit of romance.

The females were seen flocking to the place of resort, with heads adorned with gaudy bandanna turbans and new calico dresses, of the gayest colors, their whole attire decked over with bits of gauze ribbon and other fantastic finery.

Their garments are of the gayest tints; both the outer and inner walls of their houses are covered with rude drawings in colors; their carts are painted in fantastic designs; and their trunks are ornamented in a similar way.

He testified calmly and boldly the habitual serenity and peace which he now felt in his own breast, (for the most elevated delights he did not think fit to plead, lest they should be esteemed enthusiasm,) and the composure and pleasure with which he looked forward to objects which the gayest sinner must acknowledge to be equally unavoidable and dreadful.

Of lowly fields you think no scorn; Yet gayest gardens would adorn, And grace, wherever set. Home-seated in your lonely bower, Or weddeda transplanted flower I bless you, Margaret! EDMONTON, 8th October, 1834.

"The one that comes out in the spring is the gayest, so that his mate shall admire him and when this coat comes he sings his very best and" "Stop and take breath, my boy," laughed the Doctor; "there is plenty of time.

Why do we think that the male has the gayest feathersdo you remember that also?" "No, I've forgotten," said Nat.

With these and a little help from Olive, Rap, and your old uncle, you can learn to know a hundred kinds of every-day birdsthose that can be found easily, and have either the sweetest songs, the gayest plumage, or the most interesting habits.

how loud the woods Invite you forth in all your gayest trim.

If I entertained the idea for a day, it was dissipated on the next; for the doctor, a week having elapsed since his last visit, rode over to the parsonage as usual, remained there some hours, and returned in his best and gayest spirits.

Yet in her domestic circle she was ever the gayest, and the first to contribute to general amusement.

There had been a shade of unusual gloom shrouding the open countenance and usually frank demeanour of Percy since his return from Oxford, for which his parents and sisters could not account, but as he seemed to shrink from all observation on the subject, they did not ask the cause; but this unexpected happiness seemed to make him for a few following days as usual the gayest, merriest member of his amiable family.

ain to the noble shoulders and bust of my lay figure), pinned and measured, and cut and shaped, under the superintendence of M, and had the satisfaction of seeing the fine proportions of my black goddess quite becomingly clothed in a high tight fitting body of the gayest chintz, which she really contrived to put together quite creditably.