Therespect for the dead among the early Greeks was very great, and Miss Lambert quotes the complaint of Petala to Simmalion, in the Epistles of Alciphron, to show how special was the dedication of flowers to the dead:"I have a lover who is a mourner, not a lover; he sends me garlands and roses as if to deck a premature grave, and he says he weeps through the live-long night.

THE DAISIES Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our hearts free.

At the end of the day here, when the sun has set and darkness, swiftly falling, sends us to our tents and bivouacs, there comes a feeling of intense exhaustion, especially if any exercise has been taken.

"A young lady who sends this note, begging that Mademoiselle will read it at once, and consent to see her.

I wonder Marian sends him not abroad.

As God sends rain and sunshine on the trees, so does he send down grace on men to make them grow in virtue, if they will but do their part.

They spread out horizontally, and each branch sends out a number of rootlets that at first hang from it like slender cords and wave about in the wind.

It sends out numberless rootlets, each of which, as soon as it reaches the ground, takes root; and between them the palm is stifled and perishes, leaving the fig in undisturbed possession.

It grows abundantly in the Chinese island of Formosa, and 'camphor mandarin' is the title of a rich Chinaman who pays the government for the privilege of extracting all the camphor, which he sends to other countries at a large profit.

To find the range the artillery sends what in the American army are called brace shotsone aimed at a point beyond the mark and one short of it.

The same tradesman who to-day begspositively begsthe farmer to take his goods on any terms, in six months' time sends his bill, and, if it be not paid immediately, puts the County Court machinery in motion.

So successful are his cures that Radha also is tempted to consult the new doctor and sends a maid to call him, Krishna comes but before entering adopts a wild disguiseputting his clothes on inside out, matting his hair with mud, and slinging a bag of roots and plants over his shoulder.

As part of his war on Krishna and young boys, the tyrant Kansa sends various demons to harry and kill them, the present picture showing four stages in one such attack.

A man sends his wife away, or sells her, at his will.

He sends out to match-makers and spares no pains to discover a bridegroom in some family of rank equal or superior to his own.

On the contrary, she takes a string of pearls that remains from her dowry, and sends it to her husband to be given to Vasantasena as an equivalent for her lost jewels.

Without knowing whence they came, she afterward sends the pearls to her lover's wife with these words addressed to her servants: "Take these pearls and give them to my sister, Tscharudatta's wife, the honorable woman, and say to her: 'Conquered by Tscharudatta's excellence, I have become also your slave.

"Urvasi bows before you," the apsara answers, "and sends this message: 'You were my protector, O master, when a demon offered me violence.

A son is afterward born to her, but she sends him away before the king knows about it, and has him brought up secretly lest she be compelled to return at once to heaven.

But Indra sends a messenger to bring her permission to remain with the king as long as he lives.

She makes her maids array Malavika in marriage dress, and then sends a message to the king saying that she awaits him with Malavika and her attendants.

A princess she proves to be, on inquiry, and the queen now carries out the plan she had had in her mind, with the consent also of the second queen, who sends her apologies at the same time.

During the marriage festivities the king sends for Argalus to act as champion against a knight who has carried off his daughter, and Argalus, obeying the summons, finds himself opposed to his friend Amphialus.

Oberon, having heard that Hypsiphyle, the princess of Elvida or the Forest of Elves, neglects her charge and suffers the woods and quarry to decay, sends Orion to take over the government and reform the abuses.

" "And where does the wood come from?" "The bank sends it as part of papa's pay.