Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies.

(Rathe survives only in the comparative form rather.

His love was as rathe as his music.

And again, "Thy converse drew us with delight, The men of rathe and riper years: The feeble soul, a haunt of fears, Forgot his weakness in thy sight.

The innocence of childhood, the melody of a lute or song-bird as distinguished from the music of an orchestra, the rathe tints of early dawn, cheerful light on shallow streams, the serenity of a simple and untainted nature that has never known the worldmany such images occur to the mind while thinking of the sculpture of these men.

"O dere cosyn, Dan Johan, she sayde, What eyleth you so rathe to aryse?"Chaucer.

e ancient rath, soon, quickly, willingly; which comes from the Anglo-Saxon "Rathe, or Hrathe, of one's own accord.

himselfe beget? or else, gazing over the Kentish downs, he announces that Here han the holy Faunes recourse, And Sylvanes haunten rathe; Here has the salt Medway his source, Wherein the Nymphes doe bathe.

both rathe and late; Was never lover's sheep that well did speed.

Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies.

But what made it hardest of all was a word of Margray's one day as I sat over at her house hushing the little Graeme, who was sore vexed with the rash, and his mother was busy plaiting ribbons and muslins for Effie,Effie, who seemed all at once to be blossoming out of her slight girlhood into the perfect rose of the woman that Mary Strathsay was already, and about her nothing lingering rathe or raw, but everywhere a sweet and ripe maturity.

A wraith ship, peopled with skeletons, would have been less dreadful to their sight than the brisk and active desolation of the heeling schooner.

Then Rudolph Musgrave turned to his companion and said softly: "My dear, you are like a wraith.

Faces surrounded me, dim wraith-like figures still entangled in the meshes of my dreams.

Wraith, spectre.

He preferred to revive, as best he might, the days of his own simple faith in the town's sufficiency; days when the world beyond the Little Country was but a place from which to order merchandise, or into which, at the most, adventurous Arcadians dared brief journeys for profit or a doubtful pleasure; the days of a boy's Little Arcady, that existed no more save as a wraith in remembering

am I so frightful then? I live; though they call it death; I am only coldsay dear again" But scarce could he heave a breath; The air felt dank, like a frozen fen, And he a half-conscious wraith.

[Supernatural appearance] ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision; hobglobin, goblin, orc; wraith, spook, boggart^, banshee, loup-garou

There stirred in his pulses the thrill Kathleen Eppes had always wakeneda thrill of memory now, a mere wraith of emotion.

The dancing flames made of her a flickering little yellow wraith.

When, sitting sae mournfully at the door, I saw my Jamie's wraith, for I couldna think it he, Till he said, "I'm come back for to marry thee.

"May good betide us," said the South-lander"Is this you, Robin M'Combich, or your wraith?"

Forgotten was the wraith of Leung Kai Chu, the jungle trail of Hallman, and even the trepidation with which we had awaited the sailing ship's boat.

For a moment the castaways could almost have believed that it was his wraith, were wraiths ever seen in so homely an attitude, but the tones of his voice very soon showed that it was indeed he, and in no very Christian temper either.

Banquo's wraith, which is invisible to all but Macbeth, is the haunting of an evil conscience.

These eyes were too big for her little face: they made of her a tiny and desirous wraith which nervously endured each incident of life, like a foreigner uneasily acquiescent to the custom of the country.

They started forth adown the stairs; and following silent, noiseless like a wraith was Janet, expectant, eager; for she felt she was to see the opening of a great battle.

After a certain time, Rrisa came silently back, sliding into the soft dusk of that room almost like a wraith.

Rrisa salaamed again, and, noiseless as a wraith, departed. CHAPTER II "TO PARADISEOR HELL" For a time the Master sat in the thickening gloom, eating the dates and temmin wafers, drinking the coffee, pondering in deep silence.

Rrisa breathed something in which the words: "La Illaha ilia Allah" transpired in a wraith of sound.

"I must compliment you on one thing, madam," said he, with just the wraith of a smile.

The Woi Worung, an Australian tribe, hold that 'the Murup [wraith] of an individual could be sent from him by magic, as, for instance, when a hunter incautiously went to sleep when out hunting.'

Why, then, when the wraith is seen, is the owner believed to be dying?

We find ourselves able to understand the Master of Ravenswood's cogitations after he saw the best wraith in fiction: 'She died expressing her eager desire to see me.

We none of us speak of Effie, lest it involve the mention of Helmar; we none of us speak of Helmar, lest, with the word, a shining, desolate, woful phantom flit like the wraith of Effie before us.

The wraith of winter, grown so pale That smiling spring peeps through her!