The plants will ear; within their sheath confined, The grains will harden, and be good in kind.

It was a sheath knife which he wore from a noose of silk around his throat, and it always lay closest to his heart.

He also found quantities of cam-berries, a round fruit a little less than a cherry in size, bright yellow in colour, and each berry inside a green case or sheath shaped like a heart.

Thus it came about that, by the time he had reached the other bank with his load, the Friar's sword belt was loose albeit he knew it not; so when Robin stood on dry land and the Friar leaped from his back, the yeoman gripped hold of the sword so that blade, sheath, and strap came away from the holy man, leaving him without a weapon.

As the plant has no corol or blossom, it is probable the coloured juices in these parts of the sheath or leaves may serve the same purpose as the coloured juices in the petals of other flowers; from which I suppose the honey to be prepared.

They consisted of a sabre, with a handle of gold; a dagger in a sheath, with a hilt of the same metal, and a rich quiver filled with arrows, of which king Sambo, the son of Jelazi, had made him a present.

The latter is the first leaf and remains undeveloped as a scaly sheath (Fig. 10, 2, c).

Thou must bring me, not scalps, but heads, two heads, and then will I give thee, not bark, but a brave-beaded belt, and sheath, and long Russian knife.

" Palitlum fumbled under his shirt and drew forth a beaded sheath, and from the sheath, a knife.

" Palitlum fumbled under his shirt and drew forth a beaded sheath, and from the sheath, a knife.

Charles tried to draw his hunting-knife but the sheath was so tight it was impossible.

The Indian, having the firmest hold, began to draw the knife further out of its sheath, when Morgan, suddenly giving his finger a furious bite, twitched the knife dexterously through his hand, cutting it severely.

Soon, another party of villagers appeared, headed by another young man, who was quite the counterpart of the first, even to the scar in his lip; but his dagger-hilt and sheath were of solid silver, set with precious stones, and the long ringlets which hung upon his shoulders, were still more daintily curled.

Sheath-knives, belts, tobacco-boxes, and watches were displayed alluringly behind the glass, sheltered from the sun by a row of cheap clothing dangling from short poles over the shop front.

She wore a white satin gown, short in the skirt, for the luxury of freedom in waltzing, and made with Quaker-like simplicity, the bodice high to the throat, fitting her like a sheath.

The boy sat down at the side of the path, with the big red apple in front of him, and began cutting little pieces from it with his sheath knife.

His dress consisted of a blouse of cloth or skin fastened by a leather belt round the waist, an overcoat or mantle of thick woollen stuff, which fell from his shoulders to half-way down his legs; shoes or large boots, short woollen trousers, and from his belt there hung his wallet and a sheath for his knife (Figs. 66 and 71).

They arrest him on his journey, draw his sword out of its sheath, and find it bloody, the man is brought back to the city by them, and put on his trial.

Entering then, Right o'er a mount of newly-fallen stones, The dusky-rafter'd many-cobweb'd hall, He found an ancient dame in dim brocade; And near her, like a blossom vermeil-white, That lightly breaks a faded flower-sheath, Moved the fair Enid, all in faded silk, Her daughter.

And anon he laid his hand on the sword, and lightly drew it out of the stone, and put it in the sheath, and said unto the King, "Now it goeth better than it did aforehand.

If the tongue had a sheath, as swords have scabbards, we should have some name for it: but our dictionaries give us none.

Excalibur's Sheath.

But they did not find the body of worshippers unarmed, as they doubtless expected; for, in those days of peril and savage warfare, men worshipped God armed with musket and bayonet, and the hand that was lifted in prayer to heaven would often, at the next moment, draw the gleaming sword from its sheath.

The cannon is mute and the sword in its sheath Uncrimsoned the banner floats joyous and fair: Yet beauty is twining an evergreen wreath, And the voice of the minstrel is heard on the air.

"We already concluded that the ability to sheath spacecraft and even asteroids comes from an alien intelligence more advanced than our own race.

And, after great persuasions to his friends And worthy resolution of them all, He first did sheathe his poniard in his breast, And so in order died all the rest.

[Meaning a tavern of that name.] Sheathe your sword.

He arrives in the early morning with a sheathe knife at his waist, a packet of cigarettes in his jacket pocket and two light sticks under his arm.

I'll kill governor, council, assembly and all, and then I'll sheathe my sword in my own heart's blood!"

To kill a woman, a harmless lady? Villain, prepare thyself; Draw, or I'll sheathe my falchion in thy sides.

Nor on this occasion shall we sheathe our swords until from end to end our land is free and united under one government of our own choosing.

When we Woosters put our hands to the plough, we do not readily sheathe the sword.

The first word I spoke was to desire Signer Carlo to sheathe his poniard, not being pleased with its glittering!

But I do say, having drawn the sword, don't sheathe it until the purpose for which it was drawn is accomplished.

[U.S.]. raise a siege, lift a siege; put up the sword, sheathe the sword; bury the hatchet, lay down one's arms, turn swords into plowshares; smoke the calumet of peace, close the temple of Janus; keep the peace &c (concord) 714; be pacified &c; come round.

The most powerful firms consent to sheathe this weapon, i.e. agree not to undersell one another, but to adopt a common scale of prices.

Philip thy sonne humbly desires a peace: Let not my father sheathe his warlike sword Within the bowels of his Countrymen. Kath.

Both sheathe your weapons: by our martiall law This act is death.

"Sheathe swords, gentlemen!

Sheathe swords!"

Sheathe your swords, please, and follow us.

Not Death can sheathe me in a shroud; A joy-sword whetted keen with pain, I join the armies of the Cloud The Lightning and the Rain.

In 1853, Mr. Pierce, finding himself elected President for no other reason apparently than that he had failed to distinguish himself in the Mexican War, appointed Mr. Cushing his Attorney General on the same benevolent principle,consoling him for having to sheathe a bloodless sword by giving him a chance to draw the more dangerous Opinion.

Till every warble-fly be floored Whitehall will never sheathe the sword.

"He is a Man!" Elzemah strove to sheathe his poinard in the monk's bare breast, but the brazier crushed him down.

A few of his followers endeavoured to interpose; but in a second or two all was over, and they were warned by the bystanders instantly to sheathe their swords, and to beware of opposing the orders of the King.

2. Some few verbs are derived from nouns by the changing of a sharp or hard consonant to a flat or soft one, or by the adding of a mute e, to soften a hard sound: as, advice, advise; price, prize; bath, bathe; cloth, clothe; breath, breathe; wreath, wreathe; sheath, sheathe; grass, graze.

what wouldst thou do? Sheathe, I command thee, sheathe that fatal sword.

what wouldst thou do? Sheathe, I command thee, sheathe that fatal sword.

And then I would remember me and needs must wear the ice again, as some dancing, glancing, limpid brook should sheathe itself in impenetrable crystals.