" Then a little old woman, her face wrinkled like a vine leaf, but still fresh and laughing, her head crowned by a cap with wide black ribbons, appeared on the threshold and disappeared again, murmuring: "What?

He therefore tore in two the leaf on which he had wrote them, and threw both the pieces into a thicket of rose-bushes, where the rest of the company sought for them in vain.

The envious man, who stayed in the garden, continued the search till at last he found a piece of the leaf.

A peach had been driven thither by the wind from a neighboring tree, and had fallen on a piece of the written leaf of the pocketbook to which it stuck.

As we passed through a densely-wooded district between Bolivar and Chillicothe, I observed that for many miles the trees were denuded of every green leaf, from the devastating effects of millions of locusts, which periodically visit the western states of the Union, to the dismay of the settlers.

Skrymir simply awoke, and inquired whether a leaf had not fallen upon his head from the oak-tree under which he was lying.

Son of Philanor, verily even the glory of thy fleet feet would have fallen into the sere leaf unrenowned, abiding by the hearth of thy kin, as a cock that fighteth but at home, had not the strife of citizen against citizen driven thee from Knosos thy native land.

Besides him I recall one hermit thrush, a few cedar-birds, a house wren, chattering at a great rate among the "bootjacks" (leaf-stalks) of an overturned palmetto-tree, with an occasional mocking-bird, cardinal grosbeak, prairie warbler, yellow redpoll, myrtle bird, ruby-crowned kinglet, phoebe, and flicker.

Withered palmetto leaves and leaf-stalks litter the ground, and of course, being in Florida, there is no lack of orange-peel lying about.

They are not made of straw, but of fine strips of Spanish cane, and particularly from the lower ends of the leaf-stalks of the calamusart, which is said to grow only in the province of Nueva Ecija.

CHAPTER I. Wabashaw, (or The Leaf,) is the name of one of the Dahcotah Chiefs.

forever whispered every forest leaf, or every flowing wave.

Suddenly Pat heard a faint crackle on a dried leaf.

It grows on a small stunted-looking bush, with few branches, and a pointed leaf, in form resembling the acacia leaf, but not so large.

It grows on a small stunted-looking bush, with few branches, and a pointed leaf, in form resembling the acacia leaf, but not so large.

A ladle-full is handed out to each man, who receives it on his leaf.

Mary roamed about with a swifter footstep, looking at the roses, plucking off a dead leaf, or a cankered bud here and there.

The leaf is long and slightly serrated, the blossom white, while the fruit hangs down in the same manner as a bunch of grapes, and resembles a longish cherry, which is first green, then red, brown, and nearly black.

As soon as they begin to curl a little, they are thrown upon large planks, and each single leaf is rolled together.

The drops that on the blossom's light leaf hung, He bears exulting to his tender young; The grateful joy his happy accents prove, Is nature, smiling on her works of love.

Most assuredly they are; in proof of which I would observe that since our establishment in Bath, the people not only attend the schools regularly, but if they obtain a leaf of a book with letters upon it, that is their constant companion.

Our present subject is the principal apartment in the Swiss Cottage, to which the reader or visiter is conducted through a range of conservatories, containing choice exotics, with some of the most majestic proportions of leaf and flower that can be enjoyed in any clime.

Love's not a flower that grows on the dull earth; Springs by the calendar; must wait for sun For rain;matures by parts,must take its time To stem, to leaf, to bud, to blow.

A root develops which pushes its way down into the soil, while the leaf-bud of the plant, which springs from the other end of the seed, works its way upward toward the light and air.

The autumn foliage was beginning to fall, and so wonderfully quiet was the scene that almost one might have heard a leaf rustle to the ground.

I'd as lief let yew go thar 'stid o' me; fer I know very well that's what yew're a-layin' out fer ter do.

"I would as lief go there as anywhere," Harry Esmond said, simply, "for there is nobody to care for me.

seven years afterand I had as lief be hanged.

In very truth, sir, I'd as lief be hanged, sir, as to go; and yet for mine own part, sir, I do not care; but rather because I am unwilling, and, for mine own part, have a desire to stay with my friends; else, sir, I did not care, for my own part, so much.

"Ef I was goin' to scrap wid anybody," he said to Mr. Carstairs, "I'd as lief tie meself up wid dumb-bells as take to carry all this stuff on me.

Why I'd just as lief command your army as not, and" "Thank you very much," said the Corn-cob Queen, "but what would Captain Jinks say to that?

Well, when I asked him if he'd cut off my head, he said he'd just as lief as not!" All three children burst out laughing.

Yet now, I charge thee, quickly go again, As thou art lief and dear, and do the thing I bade thee, watch, and lightly bring me word.

" [Footnote 5: Lief is an old word meaning beloved.

17.With an adverb of comparison or preference, as better, rather, best, as lief, or as lieve, the auxiliary had seems sometimes to be used before the infinitive to form the potential imperfect or pluperfect: as, "He that loses by getting, had better lose than get.

"I had as lief say.

"I had as lief go as not.

" Webster's Dict., w. Lief.

These are equivalent to the phrases, might better losemight better have been substitutedwould as lief saywould rather forgetmight much better saywould much rather showwould rather speakhow much rather he would bewould as lief goshould best leavemight he best take; and, for the sake of regularity, these latter forms ought to be preferred, as they sometimes are: thus, "For my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy.

These are equivalent to the phrases, might better losemight better have been substitutedwould as lief saywould rather forgetmight much better saywould much rather showwould rather speakhow much rather he would bewould as lief goshould best leavemight he best take; and, for the sake of regularity, these latter forms ought to be preferred, as they sometimes are: thus, "For my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy.

The dissenting opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes; arranged, with introductory notes, by Alfred Lief, with a foreword by George W. Kirchwey.

Alfred Lief (A); 9Jan57; R184280. HOLT, BARBARA R. Cavender's house.

LIEF, ALFRED.

Representative opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes, arranged with introductory notes, by Alfred Lief, with a foreword by Harold J. Laski.

© 29Oct31; A43764. Alfred Lief (A); 6May59; R236206.

James Waterman Wise (A); 31Mar59; R234109. LIEF, ALFRED, ed.

Alfred Lief (A); 6May69; R461047.

Alfred Lief (A); 3Oct66; R394821. LIMBOUR, GEORGES.

They've murdered men afore to-night, and they would just as lief slip up here and cut your wizen as they would ate a piece of macaroni.

" I had quite as lief, in my present state of mind, touch a yard-long wriggling ground-worm, or a fat wood-louse, as paper that his fingers have pressed; but I overcome my repulsion, and unfold the note.