A confused roar of harsh voices and forth of the green four terrible figures sprang, two that smote with long-shafted axes and two that plied ponderous broadswords; and behind these men were others, lean and brown-faced the very woods seemed alive with them.

The front of the house is completely in the old style; with stone shafted casements, a great bow-window of heavy stone work, and a portal with armorial bearings over it, carved in stone.

The shaft, however bravely and cunningly sped, had missed its mark.

Perhaps it was the brassie that was to blamefor a full-length, supple-shafted, wooden driver would have been what you or I would have chosen for that strokeor perhaps West himself was to blame.

"Keep close to me, Frances," I said huskily, as the door swung wide and a shaft of light fell upon a figure moving rapidly.

For a short time they paced to and fro between its shafted pillars gazing at the spectators grouped around, and evidently, from their jests and laughter, not a little entertained by the scene.

Not without companions we; Here and there gleam other fires, Burning ships on a shoreless sea; Now and again a flame expires, One last, quivering shaft of light, Shot through a billion leagues of night.

The descent through the steep tunnelled streets gave one the sense of being lowered into the shaft of a mine.

In Court Street he got on board a Charlestown car, and in half an hour found himself in the city everywhere known by the granite shaft that commemorates the battle of Bunker Hill.

The pedestal is hewn from a single block of stone, and beautifully wrought with Gothic arcades and panelled quatrefoils; this and the shaft are the sole relics of the old cross.

The difficulty was soon discovered, for it was an old trick of Shelty to lift one leg outside the shaft, and strike for wages, if he wasn't pleased.

Chaucer describes his archer as carrying "a mighty bowe;" and the "cloth-yard shaft," which was discharged from this engine, is often mentioned by our old poets and chroniclers.

"Of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

From the door you look its full length to the wide stone-shafted Tudor window at the other end.

" At Mardykes Hall a pale and pretty lady was looking out, alone, from the stone-shafted drawing-room window across the courtyard and the balustrade, on which stood many a great stone cup with flowers, whose leaves were half shed and gone with the windsemblem of her hopes.

Shafted sunlight.

Shafted sunlight.

And the illustrious Vishnu then shot that shaft.

And shot by the hand of Rama, that shaft, confounding by its energy the other Rama, came back blazing into Rama's hands.

AFTER THE WINTER Some day, when trees have shed their leaves, And against the morning's white The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night, We'll turn our faces southward, love, Toward the summer isle Where bamboos spire the shafted grove And wide-mouthed orchids smile.

A long shaft of sunlight spread across the sand, and in the glow High Chin saw that the horse was moving toward him.

Vicious things they were, too, steel-pointed and shafted with iron for half their length.

The spears of the second class are shafted with reed.

These large reed-shafted spears are thrown with a stiff flat throwing-stick a yard long, and with pretty certain effect within sixty paces.

He should hae a lang-shafted spune that sups kail wi' the deil.