Some are annual, some biennial, some triennial, and there are perennials that seem to live for everand yet are still periodicalthough our love will not allow us to know when they die, and phoenix-like re-appear from their own ashes.

So much for flowerstypifying or typified;leaves emblematical of pagesbuds of binding dew-veils of coversand the wafting away of bloom and fragrance like the dissemination of fine feelings, bright fancies, and winged thoughts!

Although a man of ripe years, Sarkis was nevertheless like a mere boy, believing all people as honest as himself.

You fell on the fruit like a wolf.

The Lord God gave him a tongue to speak with, but, dear heaven, he sat there like a clod and never uttered a syllable.

I was like to burst with wrath.

His face was like a drum-skin.

I will send them to Moscow and have some like them made for myself.

If you like, I will send you some of these goods.

Like a leech he had fastened himself on his neck and demanded that he should buy the goods.

Her hands were delicate and soft, her fingers were like wax.

Hair and eyebrows were black, and her face like snow.

Were I a lilting bird, I'd fly with my song and my joy and my pain, And beat at your lattice like summer-rain, Till I knew that your inmost heart was stirred.

Were I a winged dream, I'd steal in the night to your slumbering side, And the joys of hope in your bosom I'd hide, And pass on my way like a murmuring stream.

Fly, lays of mine, and like the nightingales, Whose liquid liltings charm away the night, Reveal in song the sweets of summer's gales, Of lover's pleadings and of love's delight.

Literally, a table-like mountain.

I will serve you here at home like a housemaid.

" "But the danger has rippled off our backs like water off the feathers of a duck!

"That sounded to me more like a signal than anything else," Ned observed.

Now he was being marched to a prison like any ordinary criminal.

How do you like this motorcycle-flying-squadron business, boys," he added.

"His constitution has wonderful rallying powers," the old doctor said; "he is like a bit of india rubber!"

In each section the electrodes are in parallel, and any one section is in series with the other, the arrangement being exactly like that of a series of primary battery cells.

I dare say many persons have thought with me, that a poet's promise of a "belt of straw" to his love, was not a very complimentary one; one possible meaning never struck me till this moment: it may be a compliment unconsciously drawn from a heathen source, and perpetuated, like so many of our old-world customs, among a class of people the least likely to understand the meaning.

Felt like ole Dan Tucker when he came to supper and found the hot cakes all gone.