" The leafing of the elm has from time immemorial been made to regulate agricultural operations, and hence the old rule: "When the elmen leaf is as big as a mouse's ear, Then to sow barley never fear.

The rejuvenation of nature was to be seen everywhere, in springing grass and leafing tree.

" 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.

What a joy for a man to stand at his door and simply look at them growing, leafing, blossoming, fruiting, without pause, through the perpetual summer, in his little garden of the Hesperides, where, as in those of the Phoenicians of old, 'pear grows ripe on pear, and fig on fig,' for ever and for ever!

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.

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.

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.

There was shrubbery in flower inside the iron fence and some of the trees had been leafing out that day and the air was very still and sweet.

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.

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.

This is the locust tree, and May is its time for leafing out in the tenderest of greens.

there's a road that rambles Through a leafing maple-wood and up a windy hill, Velvet pussy-willows press soft hands amid the brambles Fringing round a sky-filled pool where cattle drink their fill.

So, when there were no tales, Only blank silences When he lay for hours Staring through leafing branches And forgot them Utterly They tried to arouse him, saying: "The war is over.