The January wind came up with a sharp, dreary sough into the defiles of the hills, crusting over the snow-sweeps with a glaze of ice that glittered in the pearly sunlight, clear up the rugged peaks.

For there is a little useful plant in that place, with small leaves like clover leaves and a pretty yellow flower, which bears a wholesome sweet root, about as big as a pigeon's egg and of a pearly white colour.

But sometimes at this season a wet mist came up from the sea by night and spread over all the country, covering it like a cloud; to a soaring bird looking down from the sky it must have appeared like another sea of a pale or pearly grey colour, with the hills rising like islands from it.

Now, looking abroad over the earth, it appeared to Martin that the thousands and tens and hundreds of thousands of fragments of mist, had the shapes of men, and were like an innumerable multitude of gigantic men with shining white faces and shining golden hair and long cloud-like robes of a pearly grey colour, that trailed on the earth as they moved.

The stalwart with pearly teeth, lilac eyes and curly lashes is C3 at Lloyd's (Sir FRANCIS), and may be heard twice daily at the Frivolity singing, "My Goo-goo Girl from Honolulu" to entranced flappers; while the lad who has Fritzie D. Hun backed on the ropes, clinching for time, is usually gifted with bow legs, freckles, a dented proboscis and a coiffure after the manner of a wire-haired terrier.

But Thel is like a faint cloud kindled at the rising sun: I vanish from my pearly throne, and who shall find my place?' 'Queen of the vales,' the Lily answered, 'ask the tender Cloud,

I naturally thought that a million and a half dollars, and Oriental ideas, combined, would make the observatory a showy place; I expected that the observatory would be surmounted by a gilded dome, and that 'pearly gates' would open as I approached.

Vines of gossamer lightness were waving round her, and her pearly complexion and violet-tinted dress looked lovely among those aerial arabesques of delicate green.

"Of course," replied he; "when I have such a fair Lily Bell for a bride, I wish to have her bower pearly and lily-like.

The sound of her pearly laughter reached as far as me, mingled with the loud voice of the Durance.

" Dunbar takes us with him on a fresh spring morning, where "Enamelled was the field with all coloúrs, The pearly droppés shook in silver showers," where we can hear the matin song of the birds hopping among the buds, while "Up rose the lark, the heaven's minstrel fine.

The light of day Still loves to stay And round that pearly summit play; How fair a sight That realm of light, Contended for by Day and Night!

Nothing can be finer than some of those early works wrought out in quiet pearly grays,the tone of Nature in her soberest and tenderest moods.

Nor have we seen that chaste, pearly lustre of the most beautiful human skin so well rendered as in the bosom of the figure which gleams against the blue.

He lay quite still, his arms outstretched, looking at the pearly stream of moonlight coming into the window.

At first he saw a sea of faces: the mill-men,women he had known, drunken and bloated,Janeys timid and pitiful,poor old Debs: then they floated together like a mist, and faded away, leaving only the clear, pearly moonlight.

His stepmother's fine complexion, on the contrary, had more pink than usual in its pearly tones, and her carriage had less than usual of sinuous grace.

Every clover-top was wet, And the spider's silken net With a thousand dew-drops set, Pure and pearly.

"But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where, when unyoked, His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave.

In April and May it produces pearly-white flowers, somewhat Campanulate in form.

Numerous species resemble pearly or opaline cups or vases, fringed round the margin with delicate fibres, that are in constant oscillation.

Pearly teef, an' shinin' hair, An' silky arm so plump an' bare!

At its base the golds and russets and yellows were strongest, but ascending its slopes were changing colorsa dark beautiful mouse color on one side and a strange pearly cream on the other.

My tears have always been somewhat near my eyes, a fact well known to the boys, whom my pearly drops always leave as stolid and unfeeling as they found them.

She was more lovely now than when the recreant Louis first succumbed to her charmswith a ripened witchery of black eyes, red lips, the flash of pearly teeth revealed by every dazzling smile, with glorious black hair, the grace of a fawn, and a "voluptuous fascination" which no man could resist.