Arthur and his baronage being of one mind together, the king wrote certain letters to Rome, and sealed them with his ring.

It smashes through the ring bones; the merewif falls, and the fight is won.

Soon after his wife's death, he began his long poem of over twenty thousand lines, The Ring and the Book.

When Browning was asked what he would advise a student of his poetry to read first, he replied: "The Ring and the Book, of course."

A leaf of betel pepper (Chavica betel), of the form and size of a bean-leaf, is smeared over with a small piece of burnt lime of the size of a pea, and rolled together from both ends to the middle; when, one end of the roll being inserted into the other, a ring is formed, into which a smooth piece of areca nut of corresponding size is introduced.

I The King of the Air was in terrible rage, For some one had stolen his ring;

"Be off!" said the King, "go and join in the search; Would you slight such a ruler as I?" Then up spoke the fly with his little wee voice: "The ring is not stolen," he said.

" III The King in surprise took the crown from his head, And there, sure enough, was the ring.

he seizes one bright, charming girl, As the enchanting ring doth nearer whirl; He grasps her in his arms, and she doth yield The treasure of her lips, where sweets distilled Give him a joy without a taint of guilt.

the curtains flung aside, now comes The joyous Sabitu from yonder rooms, And gathering round, a song they gayly sing, Oh, how with music the bright walls now ring!

your memory then Will keep me hopeful through yon darkened way; How bright this land doth look beside the sea!" He looks across the fields; the river glows And winds beside taprani-trees, and flows By teberinth and groves of tarpikhi And ku-trees; curving round green mez-kha-i, Through beds of flowers, that kiss its waves and spring Luxuriant,with songs the groves far ring.

But when sober, there is a sadness about the Scottish muse nowadays as perhaps there ought to beand the utterances of hers which ring the truest are laments.

When we reached the bank of the river, the dog asked me to give him the ring.

The river was very hard to cross, and on the way the dog dropped the ring into the water and we could not find it.

He ordered that the dogs all around the world should take part in the search, and so ever since that time, when one dog meets another he always asks: "Are you the old dog who lost the magic ring?

When he saw the ring around her neck he was very much surprised and said: "Where did you get that ring?

The lake is so closely hemmed in by a ring of lofty and precipitous green mountains, that there is no room even for a footing between the water and the rocks, and its bed might be taken for an extinguished volcano filled with watera supposition which gains additional force from the masses of basalt which occupy the foreground.

The Lord Mayor has announced that he will not ring the great bell of St. Paul's; but the Home Secretary states that the public will be warned in future when an air raid is actually imminent.

Or will he be ordered to ring a joy-bell on the anniversary of the inauguration of the German Republic?

No, I think I would just put him out of the way of doing further harm, in some distant penitentiary like the Devil's Island, and leave him to himself to think it all over; as Caponsacchi said of Guido in 'The Ring and the Book': Not to die so much as slide out of life, Pushed by the general horror and common hate Low, lowerleft o' the very edge of things.

And now, then, let a ring be formed, And plant the swords of power within the ground.

Only those "in the ring" can tell where the "boom" will go next.

smile *soñar* dream *soplar* blow; blow out *sórdido* sordid *sorprender* surprise; *se* be surprised *sorpresa* f. surprise *sortija* f. ring *sospechar* suspect *sostener* sustain, support *Sr.*

Some savage hears the ring of the axe, the crash of falling timber, or the rifle's crack and the drop of wolf or bear, and cries out, "A destructive and dangerous man; he has no reverence for the ancient wilderness, but would abolish it and its inhabitants; away with him!"

As for the muscular powers, they pass their maximum long before the time when the true decline of life begins, if we may judge by the experience of the ring.