What a fine subject this would make for a ballad in the style of Bürger to suppose that on a particular night in the year, at the midnight hour when mortals in slumbers are bound, the bones all descending from the walls where they are arranged, forming themselves into bodies, clapping on their heads and dancing a skeleton dance round the Ghost of Attila!

Have they forgot the devastation committed in Berlin by the Austrians in the Seven Years' war, when they pillaged, burned or destroyed all the valuable property of the royal Palaces, the most valuable works of art, vases, statues of antiquity, the loss of which could never be replaced; when they lopped off the heads, arms and legs of the statues?

These crowned Heads like mightily playing at soldiers; I should think His Grace must be heartily tired of them.

Our heads nodded involuntarily towards the floor, the dining room being directly underneath.

I would rather it had been anything in the world but thatearthquake, foreign cannon, collapse of the house above our heads!

Down we went past the little shops, dodging the children, and making way for women with huge bundles of sweat-shop clothing accurately balanced on their heads or hugged up under their capacious capes.

Shots were being fired wildly in the darkness, and heads were popping out of tenement windows on all sides.

If we toss a cent and heads appear twelve times, that does not have the slightest effect on the thirteenth tossthere is still an even chance that it, too, will be heads.

If we toss a cent and heads appear twelve times, that does not have the slightest effect on the thirteenth tossthere is still an even chance that it, too, will be heads.

Camp, Baldwin, and the judge had left their horses just outside the saloon, and there they were still patiently standing, with their bridles thrown over their heads, as only Western horses will stand.

An extraordinary volume, suggesting a huge aggregation of sound behind itin the same way that a murmur of wind may suggest the roar of tempestsrose and fell through the room, lifted them up, bore them away, sang majestically over their heads, under their feet, and through their very minds.

"My wonderful redeemed children, notes in my human chord," he whispered over their heads, "it is the Name that shall make us as God, for it is none other than the Name that rusheth through the universe"his breath failed him most curiously for an instant"the NAME OF THE ALMIGHTY!"

On the day of an auction there ceases to be a home, the sacred secrets of family life vanish; home is no longer the abode of peace, and the long-cherished penates hide their heads in grief.

Such were the three words which burned in blood-red letters of fire above the guillotine, and their mocking emblem was the glittering axe, that flashed down, to sever from their bodies the heads of the aristocrats whom, in spite of the new religion represented in those three words, they would not recognize as brethren and equals, or admit to the freedom of life and of opinion.

As Bonaparte stepped into this space, all the dense crowd that occupied the seats of the amphitheatre rose to their feet with uncovered heads, to hail the conqueror of Italy, and the windows of the palace were thronged with handsomely dressed ladies, who waved welcome to the young hero with their handkerchiefs.

Six grand coaches that had belonged to the king opened the procession, and the tails, heads, bodies and legs of the luckless quadrupeds could be seen behind the glittering glass panels heaped together in wild disorder.

"Non, Messieurs!" cried both youth and reckless age; and, sometimes, also, the stronger heads of the family, the men of means, of force and of influence, urged on from behind by their proud and beautiful wives and daughters.

Arms, generally, rather than heads, ruled there in those days.

There is Bras-Coupé, towering above all heads, in ridiculous red and blue regimentals, but with a look of savage dignity upon him that keeps every one from laughing.

There was a moment of handshaking with the good father, then a moment of palpitation and holding of the breath, and thenyou would have known it by the turning away of two or three feminine heads in tearsthe lily hand became the don's, to have and to hold, by authority of the Church and the Spanish king.

You may see their grandchildren, to-day, anywhere within the angle of the old rues Esplanade and Rampart, holding up their heads in unspeakable poverty, their nobility kept green by unflinching self-respect, and their poetic and pathetic pride revelling in ancestral, perennial rebellion against common sense.

There was some very pretty aerial manoeuvring, right over our heads, as the combatants swooped and circled for position.

Days of heavy rain are the most desirable on the whole, for then the gunners are too busy bailing out their gun-pits to worry their heads over adventurous pedestrians.

Deathly stillness reigned, relieved only by an occasional thud, as a shell or trench-mortar bomb exploded upon the ground above their heads.

Then the priests broke cakes and distributed the pieces to the heads of families, who carefully kept them till the next festival as amulets and preservatives against disease.