The Water Horse haunted lonely lochs, and lured human beings to a terrible death.

Eyes blue as Highland lochs fastened to those of the fur-trader.

* Kingsburgh conducted us in his boat across one of the lochs, as they call them, or arms of the sea, which flow in upon all the coasts of Sky,to a mile beyond a place called Grishinish.

There are forty-eight lochs of fresh water; but many of them are very small,meer pools.

This disorder, known better by the name of ague, had been formerly epidemic in Ireland, where the humidity of the atmosphere is continually increased by the exhalation of the lochs and bogs with which the country abounds.

He is a Scot, from one of the lochs of the North.

Such laughter and such hill-shaking merry-heartedness we may never listen to again among the Lochs, but the lesson of the hour (how it rained that black night!) is stamped for life upon our remembrance.

On the wall-panels were painted the heroes of the Scotch Iliad,the bard Ossian with his harp, Malvina with the round arms and waving golden tresses, the undaunted warriors with their winged helmets and protruding biceps, exchanging gashes on their shields while awaking the echoes of the green lochs.

ARGYLL (74), a large county in the W. of Scotland, consisting of deeply indented mainland and islands, and abounding in mountains, moorlands, and lochs, with scenery often picturesque as well as wild and savage.

BROCHS, dry-stone circular towers, called also Picts' towers and Duns, with thick Cyclopean walls, a single doorway, and open to the sky, found on the edge of straths or lochs in the N. and W. of Scotland.

RANNOCH, an elevated, dreary moorland in NW. of Perthshire, crossed by the West Highland Railway; Lochs Rannoch and Tummel lie to the E. and Loch Lydoch in the W. RANTERS, a name given to the Primitive Methodists who seceded from the Wesleyan body on account of a deficiency of zeal.

TROPPAU (21), capital of Austrian Silesia, 184 m. E. of Vienna; contains a castle, gymnasium, and an extensive library; manufactures linen and woollen textiles, beetroot sugar, &c. TROSSACHS, a romantic pass in the Perthshire Highlands, 8 m. W. of Callander, stretching for about a mile between Lochs Katrine and Achray, is charmingly wooded; is celebrated by Sir Walter Scott in his "Lady of the Lake.

Sometimes we could see four or five lochs at once, some of them two or three miles long, and down through the middle of the moor came the maddest and most harum-scarum little river that could be imagined.

When they reached the city, Horace put the soft, flying locks in as good order as he could, and tied them up in his handkerchief.

Locks of his blond hair, unkempt, dropped over his low forehead into his eyes.

Such secret and unsuspected visits to the store-room pantrysuch conspiracies against locks and boltssuch scaling of walls, and climbing in at windows, were never heard of before.

no waving locks rewarded my patient toil; and at length I had the pleasure of hearing that the crust business was a fable, invented by Ellen's nurse to induce that young lady to finish her odds and ends of bread, which she was very much disposed to scatter about the nursery.

Longfellow crowns the death-angel with amaranth, with which Milton says, "the spirits elect bind their resplendent locks;" and his angel of life he crowns with asphodels, the flowers of Pluto or the grave.

But his scattering locks were silver bright, His beard with gathering frost was white; The tears congealed on his furrowed cheek, His garb was thin, and the winds were bleak.

good luck, to your hoary locks!" Said the gay young Spring, advancing; "You may take your rest 'mid the caves and rocks, While I o'er the earth am dancing.

The generous Thistle's life was spared In the home where the Bee first found her, Till she grew so old she was hoary-haired, And her snow-white locks with the silk compared, As they shone where the sun beamed round her.

Few locks of hay Were most thy crib presented, A patient Cow, And kind wast thou, And with thy mite contented.

=David and Goliath=. Young David was a ruddy lad With silken, sunny locks, The youngest son that Jesse had: He kept his father's flocks.

"Dost now ask me, child, since thou hear'st here I've been, Why my brow is so furrowed, my locks white and thin Why this faded eye cannot go by the line, Trace out little beauties, and sparkle like thine; Or why so unstable this tremulous knee, Who bore 'sixty years since,' such perils for thee?

This forward gosling displayed white duck pantaloons, brandished pumps on his feet, which looked flat enough to have been webbed, and was scented as to his marital locks with a far-reaching pestilence of bergamot and cinnamon.

In robe and snood: and suitors at her side With locks fair-flowing, on her right and left, Battle with words, that fail to reach her heart.

Forgat his Ariadne's locks of love.

Me too a darling smooth of face notes as I tend my flocks: How maddeningly o'er that fair neck ripple those shining locks!

They gather gems with sunbeams bright, From floating clouds and falling showers They rob Aurora's locks of light To grace their own fair queen of flowers.

Every one who went about in London in the 'seventies will remember the dyed locks and crimson velvet waistcoat of William, fifth Earl Bathurst, who was born in 1791 and died in 1878.

A Valkyrie was galloping across it, with lance in rest and floating locks, upon a black steed that was expelling fire through its nostrils.

Life locks its doors against me; I am alone.

He also beheld the portrait of her defender,an old lawyer of fastidious aspect with white locks carefully combed, and sharp eyes.

" The coxswains barked their orders; sixteen oars rattled in their locks; the glistening shells moved slowly homeward.

Gritting his teeth, Deacon bent to his work, his eyes fixed upon the swaying body of the coxswain, whose sharp staccato voice snapped out the measure; the beat of the oars in the locks came as one sound.

Every thing belonging to him was suggestive of propriety and decorum, from his well-proportioned face, with locks carefully smoothed down over the temples, to his heelless and never-creaking boots.

After holding the vast congregation spell-bound for more than an hour in the delivery of the sermon, the old man, with locks as white as the driven snow, came down from the stand, and, standing on a seat in the Altar, began to invite mourners.

Humility and modest awe themselves Betray me, serving often for a cloak To a more subtle selfishness; that now 245 Locks every function up in blank reserve, Now dupes me, trusting to an anxious eye That with intrusive restlessness beats off Simplicity and self-presented truth.