Gradually hair and skin return to the previous cold-blooded animal state, and the whole picture of the cretin is in full bloom.

Presently, however, the persistent whistle conjured from round a corner a rakish hansom thatlike the creature between its shafts and the driver on its lofty box, with his face in full bloom and his bleary eyes, his double-breasted box-coat and high hat of oilclothhad doubtless been brisk with young ambition in the golden time of the Nineteen-Naughties.

They are just now in full bloom,row upon row of gay-striped purple and white bells.

We followed the sea-shore, which is composed of silicious sand, and covered with a carpet of creeping shore plants in full bloom.

The tank was covered with crimson water-lilies in full bloom, their broad brown and green leaves showing off the crimson beauty of the open flower.

The parass tree in full bloom is gorgeous.

When in full bloom this is a remarkable and highly ornamental tree, the curiously-marked flowers and unusually large, bronzy-tinted foliage being distinct from those of almost any other in cultivation.

We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom.

The Chinese lily is in full bloom at this season, and it occupies a conspicuous place in the joss-houses.

Suppose the grain field just then running along under himwhich must have been newly sown for he had seen a green blade on itwere to travel all the way down to Skåne where the rye was in full bloom at this season!

What a glorious carpet of gold is spread over these meadows when the buttercups are in full bloom!

(4) Roses, in full bloom, half bloom, fading, falling.

We came to a stop at the gate, beneath an apple-tree, then in full bloom.

Behind the cliff to the south the land gradually declines and runs off to a low point; the whole surface of the island is covered with trees, among which a beautiful hatchet-shape-leafed acacia in full bloom was very conspicuous.

White curtains were fluttering, and birds in cages were singing at the windows; plants were arranged on either side of the path, and clustered about the door; and the garden was bright with flowers in full bloom, which shed a sweet odour all around.

If we remember right, a beautiful specimen in full bloom, was exhibited three or four years since at the Argyll Rooms, in Regent Street.

Mingled with these bushes were the Cascara Segrada, bright-leafed maples, and the brilliantly colored stems and vividly green leaves of the Manzanitas, some in full bloom, some in berries set.

I saw one of these curious trees in full bloom a few days since between Edmonton and Enfield.

I bought a Persian cat, and a python that made a monthly meal off guinea pigs; Marshall, who did not care for pets, filled his rooms with flowershe used to sleep beneath a tree of gardenias in full bloom.

Herbs should be harvested on a fine day, just before they are in full bloom.

Sir W. Jones observes that 'the vegetable world scarce exhibits a richer sight than an A[s']oka-tree in full bloom'.

Even actual misfortune comes in a questionable shape, when our physical constitution is in perfect health, and the flowers are in full bloom, and the skies are blue, and the streams are glittering in the sun.

If a fine quality of Hemp is desired, mow the crop when it is in full bloom; but should a greater produce of inferior quality be more desirable, it should stand until the seeds are nearly ripe.

A pun on the word Bahar, which means spring, when flowers are in full bloom; but the French word printemps conveys more exactly the compound signification; for Bahar not only means spring, but an agreeable spring.

Truly he is the Napoleon of the small citizen, of those brave folks who always pay their billsthose uncle tailors and cousin glove-makers who are indeed too busy by day to think of Lafayette, but who praise him afterward in the evening with double enthusiasm, so that one may say that it is about eleven o'clock at night, when the shops are shut, that his fame is in full bloom.