Munching cloves, the aroma of which ladens the air all around him, Mr. BUMSTEAD contemplates her with a calmness which would be enthralling, but for the nervous twisting of his features under the torments of a singularly adhesive fly.

That the good old munching system may last thy time and mine, good un-incendiary George, is the devout prayer of thine, to the last crust, CH.

In warm climates it is found to be less acrid and much sweeter than in colder latitudes; and in Spain it is not at all unusual to see a peasant munching an onion, as an Englishman would an apple.

Amy was at breakfast in her room, sobbing and sipping, moaning and munching, for, though her grief was great, her appetite was good, and she was in no mood to see anything comical in cracking eggshells while she bewailed her broken heart, or in eating honey in the act of lamenting the bitterness of her fate.

In the quiet that followed their departure she sat munching her small piece of bread, which, by a lucky chance, she had taken on her plate before the hungry wolves had come.

A centurion, munching oily seed and wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, came out of an inner office.

We had a political tea that afternoon: all the leaders of the Levies, old Raja Akbar Khan, Humayun, Taifu, the Nagar Wazir, Shah Mirza, and one or two princelings who had come up to see some fighting, all squatted round our little room on the straw, swigging sweet tea and munching biscuits, quite a friendly gathering; in fact, so much tea was consumed that the mess president swore he would send in a bill.

I fired three different shots where I thought I saw him, but without any effect; he would not so much as for a moment cease munching my buffalo.

Soon after this "Tao," was once more heard to be munching the buffalo.

Miss Müller was still munching at the well-spread table in the dining-room.

Gravely munching it, Jimsy proceeded to interrogation.

He talked on, therefore, at great length, while I merely leaned back in my chair with my eyes shut, and amused myself with munching raisins and filiping the stems about the room.

While she was skinning the potatoes, and munching them, a noise behind her made her stop.

There he sits munching and gnawingthe sun going down, the river running fast, the crowd flowing by him in two streamseverything passing on to some purpose, and to one end, until he is stirred up, and told to move on again.

For your sake I have left it untouched, and I shall greatly enjoy the sound of your teeth munching the ripe grain."

Without a word he sat on the step of the porch and followed her example, munching his toast and sipping his coffee with grave deliberateness, his eyes following hers to the distant shore.

After munching a mouthful of supper he crept into bed.

The boys at school were apt to neglect their lessons while they were munching apples.

The cry was instantly echoedthough in a rather thicker wayfrom inside the house, and in a minute Tubby, who knew that some one of the patrol must have uttered the call, appeared at his door, munching a large slice of bread and jam, although it was not more than an hour since breakfast.

And opening a second door alongside the other, we found Cesar and Sausage munching their oats.

The sound of horses munching their oats, and an occasional clink, rattle, and growl from the lions did not drown the faint but unmistakable yelps of a pup.

Never before were such potatoes grown on this planet; for the mind of the man seemed to enter into what we ate sociably together, and I devoured his intellect while munching his potatoes.

As long as they were busy, their munching and grinding soothed himheld him at least in quiescent mood; the moment it ceased, he seemed to himself to wake up out of a dream.

The colonel of a volunteer regiment camping in Virginia came across a private on the outskirts of the camp, painfully munching on something.

I turned my back on him and walked out of my own private room, leaving him there still munching my sausage and drinking my Bordeaux.