And the soft wind crooned and whispered in the leavesleaves that parting, showed other shapes swung high in air, whose pallid faces looked down on them, awful-eyed, from the tender green, faces drawn and haggard, with teeth agleam or open mouths whence screams had come, but very silent now until the Day of Judgment.

"This was, methinks, thy father's tower and demesne of Brand, Walkyn?" "Aye, lord, here was I bornyon ruined walls did hear my father's groansthe screams of my mother and sister amid the flame.

Thus Beltane, marching swift to the south at the head of his three hundred foresters, heard nought of their joyful acclaim, heeded not their triumph, saw nought of watchful Roger's troubled glances, but went with head bowed low, with pallid cheek and eyes wide-staring, for he saw yet again the fierce leap of those merciless flames and in his ears rang the screams and cries of Sir Rollo's proud chivalry.

It was as if every second man of the command fell before that withering fire, and in the midst of the tumult of groans, screams, and savage war-whoops could be heard shouts behind us, telling that the rear-guard, who a few moments previous were prating of their bravery, had turned and fled like cowards that they were.

It was discovered about nightfall, and having tethered a small boy near the entrance, that his screams when being devoured might give notice of the tiger's issue from or return to his habitation, the Bonze and his myrmidons took up a flank position and awaited the dawn.

From Bruno's forest screams the frighted jay, And slow th' insulted eagle wheels away.

Madame Baze and her two little girls giving vent to screams, the servant being thrust back with blows by the sergents de ville.

I" The sentence was completed with one of the most piercing and agonizing screams that ever issued from the throat of a fair young woman.

He can bear the sight of the dead grass on the cliff-edge, weary, feeble, expostulating with its old tormentor the gale; then the fierce screams of the blasts as they rush up across the layers of rock below, like hounds leaping up at their prey; and far beneath, the horrible confused battle-roar of that great leaguer of waves.

They ran and dodged about, making the woods ring with their screams and shouts of "Murder! Murder!

One after another is taken from the block, until all are disposed of, amid the agonized wail of heartbroken wives and mothers, husbands and fathers, and the piercing screams of helpless children, torn from a parent's embrace, to be consigned to the care of strangers.

It was not the broken wail of despair; it was the strong, searching cry of a lost child who thinks trustingly that if he but screams loudly enough his mother must hear him and comeand yet who is horribly frightened because she does not answer.

I have seen him, at such times, follow after them, striking furiously a number of blows, and every one followed by their screams.

We could distinctly, of a still morning, hear this man whipping his blacks, and hear their screams from my father's farm; this could be heard almost any still morning about the dawn of day.

The agonies and screams of the sufferers he can never forget." Dr. DAVID NELSON, late president of Marion College, Missouri, a native of Tennessee, and till forty years old a slaveholder, said in an Anti-Slavery address at Northampton, Mass.

I thought the poor sufferer had a fit of cholera, and I was expecting each instant to hear his screams; but hearing nothing, I examined the person in question more minutely.

Through the rattle and clatter of falling masonry and flying rubbish there came, piercing and shrill, the sound of a woman's screams.

More than once attracted by the old ballad, we have, when undergraduates, walked to the "lonely towers of Cumnor Hall," fancied that we saw her struggle, and heard her screams, when she was thrown over the staircase (the traditional mode of her assassination,) and wondered how any man could have the heart to murder a simple lovesick pretty girl.

Ah! you much mistake your duty, Mating discord thus with beauty, 'Mid these heavenly sunset gleams, Vexing the smooth air with screams, Burdening the dainty breeze With insane discordancies.

Screams and groans were heard in every direction.

"We've got some beauties," said the daughter"real screams, haven't we, Mr. Gates?"

For you,' he continued, turning fiercely on the tutor, whose face the sudden scuffle and the girl's screams had blanched to the hue of paper, 'did you never hear a woman squeak before?

As soon as his breath returned, he strove frantically to throw himself down; but struggle as he might, pour forth screams, prayers, execrations, as he might, all was vain.

The woman's screams were so violent that it was rather from the attitude of the group about the door than from anything they could hear that the two took in the position.

Her screams brought the servants and they rescued her.