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.

" "The thing as I want to do most is to wring that Sergeant's neck!

The pleading hands fell, to clasp and wring each other; her proud head sank, and a great sob brake from her, what time Beltane watched her with eyes bright with fever and swayed upon his feet.

It ill 'ud tell O' thoose wur laft beheend, aw fear; It's wring, at fust, to kill mysel', It's wring to lyev mi childer here.

No trace of this savage impulse appeared in her behavior, however; she rinsed the dishpan, turned it upside down in the sink, and gave the wiping towels to Julia, asking her to wring them out in hot water and hang them on the barberry bushes, according to Mrs. Carey's instructions.

What curl'd pate youth is he that sitteth there, So near thy wife, and whispers in her eare, And takes her hand in his, and soft doth wring her.

The following utterance of Caponsacchi, as he stands before his judges, will show the intensity and ruggedness of Browning's blank verse: "Sirs, how should I lie quiet in my grave Unless you suffer me wring, drop by drop, My brain dry, make a riddance of the drench Of minutes with a memory in each?" His lines are often harsh and dissonant.

"I'd like to wring his neck.

But your perverse attempts to wring blushes from little baggages in convenient corners outrage my love of Love!

Thou lovest Tabulu, the shepherd king, And from his love continuous didst wring Sem-uk-ki, till he to appease thy love, The mighty gods of heaven then sought to move To pity with his daily offerings.

If I meet one of them, I'll wring his neck, and be hanged for it!

These glimpses into the occult are really too much for my system; they wring my nerves.

Being that same officer and gentleman, you never were muggedtreated as a prospective criminal; no four thousand posters bearing your picture will now be sent broadcast over the country; no fifty dollars is offered lean detectives for your capture; you're in no chance of being thrown into prison and have your government do all in its power to wring the manhood out of you!

I would like to wring his neck.

The scenes of misery and distress constantly witnessed along the coast of the Delta, [of the Mississippi,] the wounds and lacerations occasioned by demoralized masters and overseers, torture the feelings of the passing stranger, and wring blood from the heart.

Cheese Wring.

[Illustration] In presenting your readers with a representation of the Wring Cheese, I offer a few prefatory remarks connected with the early importance of the county in which it stands, venerable in its age, amid the storms of elements, and the changes of religions.

Where nature presented a bizarre mass of rocks, the Druid worked, and peopled it with his gods, the most remarkable of which is the subject of our engraving, called the Wring Cheese, or Cheese Wring, in the parish of St. Clare, near Liskeard, in Cornwall.

Where nature presented a bizarre mass of rocks, the Druid worked, and peopled it with his gods, the most remarkable of which is the subject of our engraving, called the Wring Cheese, or Cheese Wring, in the parish of St. Clare, near Liskeard, in Cornwall.

" THE PARTRIDGE AND THE FOWLER A Fowler caught a Partridge in his nets, and was just about to wring its neck when it made a piteous appeal to him to spare its life and said, "Do not kill me, but let me live and I will repay you for your kindness by decoying other partridges into your nets."

If the Oracle said "dead," he meant to produce the bird alive: if the reply was "alive," he intended to wring its neck and show it to be dead.

In order, therefore, at once to indulge his vengeance, and to render his services more than ever essential to the favourite, and thus wring from his fears what he could not anticipate from his good faith, he resolved to exasperate the Queen-mother, and to incite her to open rebellion against her son and his Government.

In this attempt she was zealously seconded by Anne of Austria; and the combined tears and entreaties of the two Queens at length so far prevailed over the inclinations of Louis as to wring from him a promise that, should he survive, he would dismiss his minister so soon as he should have once more reached the capital.

Wad they but put half the cleverness into honest toil that they do into writin' me a letter or speerin' a tale o' was to wring my heart, they could earn a' the siller they micht need for themselves.

To that she could only wring her hands and say nothing; but it had never struck her that the truth could be so bitter.

Again she fell to weeping, finding she could wring no sympathy from Janet, who sat coldly listening to her nursling's plaints.