How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget, his youthful spring? O! father and mother, if buds are nipped And blossoms blown away, And if the tender plants are stripped Of their joy in the springing day, By sorrowand care's dismay, How shall the summer arise in joy, Or the summer fruits appear?

Her features were regular, her expression lovely, her complexion, before trouble nipped the roses of her cheeks, full of the country's freshness.

The main gun-cable was nipped, but not cut through.

The hissing missiles cut through the canvas of their wings, beat upon the side of the fuselage, and even nipped the Air Service Boys more than once as they stormed past.

UNDER TROUBLED SKIES X. NIPPED IN THE BUD XI.

"We are well out of that," and he glanced back toward the closed and water-tight lock gates which had so nearly nipped the tug.

The voice of the negress was music itself; almost as sweet as Lucy's; and I was struck with a slight tremor that pervaded it, as she so suddenly put an end to all her own affectation of sentiment, and nipped her airs and graces, as it might be, in the bud.

Thus were Parr's hopes again nipped in the bud, and those years, (the most valuable of all, perhaps, for the formation of character,) the latter years of school and college life, were to him a blank.

Death nipped at him every time the engine gave or took up the slack of the loose coupling, but he dodged and hung on until he had satisfied himself.

Evidently the Free Trader had nipped it from his pocket with his handkerchief, The Factor was about to thrust it into his own pocket, when his eye caught lettering roughly carved across one side.

"When the cold frost all the herbage has nipped, When the bare branches with ice-drops are tipped, Where will the grasshopper then be, that skipped So careless and lightly to-day?

The brothers went out with the father to ride, Where they looked for the flowers, that, along the way-side, So lately were blooming and fair; But their delicate heads by the frost had been nipped; Their stalks by the blast were all twisted and stripped; And nothing but ruin was there.

How many a controversy would be nipped in the bud, if each was anxious to let the other have the last word!

Such was the case with Mark Woolston, who would have taken his degree as a Bachelor of Arts, at Nassau Hall, Princeton, had not an event occurred, in his sixteenth year, which produced an entire change in his plan of life, and nipped his academical honours in the bud.

"I'd know your father's brig among a thousand" As he spoke, the two masses of ice closed, and the brig was nipped between them.

Then our good brig was nipped and went to the bottom, and all the crew were lost except myself and one man.

As yet they did not know about the attempt to steal the statue, which Sahwah had accidentally nipped in the bud.

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The flame vanished, as if the wicks had been suddenly nipped between a finger and a thumb, leaving the wick neither glowing nor smoking, but black.

Nor I; 'twould save the process of a tedious passion, A long law-suit of love, which quite consumes An honest lover, ere he gets possession: I would come plump, and fresh, and all my self, Served up to my bride's bed like a fat fowl, Before the frost of love had nipped me through.

The Creole sauntered across to the counter and nipped the herb which still lay there.

And thus Gregory's greatest ambition was happily nipped in the bud.

It was the passion of a lifetime, the passion of a strong man in his prime, that fate had thus nipped in the fullness of its bloom; and its loss plunged him into an abyss of sorrow and despair such as few men have known.

By great good fortune she nipped over the stile before it could reach her.