A battalion of infantry from the Ninety-First American Division and a battery from the Fifty-Third Brigade, fresh from the beating they had given the Huns at Oudenark a few days before, were prominent in the lines, and shared in the plaudits a liberated people showered upon their own heroic troops.

The balconies all along the route were draped with flags and colored banners, and filled with people who, when the King and his family rode by, showered them with flowers and little flags.

"And when he heard my voice, and saw what deeds I had performed, approaching me, he threw His noose; but downward bending I escaped, And with my bow I showered upon his head Steel-pointed arrows, piercing through the brain; Then did I grasp his loins, and from his horse Cast him upon the ground, deprived of life.

Sám was indeed amazed when he did see the boy, and showered blessings on his head.

The fond mother Kissed and embraced her darling son, and all Uniting, showered their blessings on his head.

The Prince de Joinville was once going to open Morocco, as we opened China; but bullets and shot which his Royal Highness showered upon Tangier and Mogador, only closed faster the approaches and routes of this well-guarded empireonly more hermetically sealed the capitals of Fez and Morocco against the prying or morbid curiosity of the tourist, or the mappings and measurings of the political spy.

It is true, as the "Pioneer" points out, that on the Russian side such a man would have had honours and distinctions showered upon him.

Did you have to play in a tent, and were you literally showered with gold?"

Her voice took instinctively a softer and more musical tone; she showered her glances upon him, dazzling and prismatic as the rays from her diamonds; she seemed determined to captivate him without the tedious process of a siege.

Tiny gold bangles and chains had been showered upon him at his birth, and this was his first public appearance.

We children sat telling stories, And boasting what we should be, When we were men like our fathers, And watched the blazing tree, That showered its fiery blossoms, Like a rain of stars, we said, Of crimson and azure and purple.

In a letter which he wrote to a friend at the time when these honors were beginning to be showered upon him, he said: "The pride of man is very differently gratified; and had his Majesty sent me a marshal's staff I think I should scarce have been so proud of it as I am of your esteem.

Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.

They invoked the gods, showered kisses on the floors, enumerated how many times and from what perils they had survived, and lamented that they were leaving their country,a venture they had never made before.

The usual committee of one member from each State was appointed, and to it was referred the deluge of resolutions which had been showered upon the convention.

By that time Europe was in a ferment, and both Russia and Austria, amazed at having the initiative in the regulation of Balkan affairs wrested from them, showered on the Balkan capitals threats and protests, which for once in a way were neglected.

" "And what did you do when the hurricane came, tearing up the bushes, cutting down the trees, and making the forest as dangerous as if it were being showered by cannon balls?" "I crept under a wide ledge of stone in the side of a hill, where I lay snug, dry and safe.

Tododaho on his great shining star had watched over him and showered him with favors, and he had no doubt that he would remain under the protection of the mighty chief who had gone away so long ago.

As sand grains on earth, as stars in the firmament, as drops showered by rain-charged clouds, cannot ever be counted by anybody, so can none count the gifts in Gaya's sacrifice!

And the magnanimous one, glorified by the godswhile the musical instruments of celestial choristers were playing all round, and while celestial blossoms were showered upon himrendered waterless the wide ocean.

While the poor widows who had been respectably married are deprived of all ornaments and joys of life, these wantons are decked with fine clothes, flowers, and jewelry; and gold is showered upon them.

I used to be so sorry for him in the old days, when it seemed as if Fate showered disasters on the heads of the Hapsburgs.

It was, therefore, with a feeling of deep anxiety that she took possession of the new titles and honors that Fate had showered upon her, as from an inexhaustible horn of plenty.

Bacchus supplied streams of nectar to its root, and Vertumnus showered his choicest perfumes on its head.

If they are in the learned professions, they will become tricksters in law, quacks in medicine, formalists in divinity, though regular practitioners in all; and clients will be cheated, and patients will be poisoned, and parishioners will bewe dare not say what!though all the colleges in the universe had showered on them their diplomas.