The skies were highand a clear blue.

Never had he seen the skies as blue as they were to-day.

("Yes.") I cannot undertake to measure that; but what is clear is that decidedly heavy clouds have suddenly risen in our horizon, and are darkly sailing over our Indian skies.

I spoke of delay in these observations, and unfortunately delay has not made the skies any brighter.

But when I try from my conning-tower in this office, to read the signs in the political skies, I am full of confidence.

and blacken all the skies with smoke of Tophet, pouring its streams of boiling mud once more to dam the Rhine, whelming the works of men in flood, and ash, and fire.

And with it persisted that almost equally unshakable sense of class, that touching confidence in one's superiors the young clerk's or mechanic's inborn conviction that whatever that smart, clean-cut, imperturbable young officer does and says must inevitably be rightat least, that if he is cool and serene you must, if the skies fall, be cool and serene too.

He had frightened her into heaven; and his heaven, a definite locality in the skies, had its foretaste here on earth in miniatureThe Towers, house, and garden.

Thus as the heaven's many-coloured flames At sunset are but dust in rich disguise, The ascending earthquake-dust of battle frames God's picture in the skies.

He continued to go up until he reached the skies.

i.] "... besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder."

Yonder on the turret of that grey Gothic castle, whose pinnacles point ever upwards to the skies, they stand and wait, a glorious throng; and as they stand they wave him onwards.

At the honest squire's word of command, a male peregrine is forthwith despatched, and, soaring upwards into the air, he is almost lost to sight in the clouds, though the faint tinkling of the bells attached to his feet may yet be heard; then, stooping from the skies, the tiercel-gentle descends from the heavens and strikes his long-beaked adversary.

Saving the lark, "that scorner of the ground," which rises and sings in the skies an hour before sunrise, the rooks are the first birds to strike up at early dawn.

One day two of us were looking at a wood-pigeon flying over, when we observed something drop from the skies and fall into the stream.

" But eastwards, above the old legendary White Horse, the "Empress of the Night," serene and proudly pale, is driving her car across the darkening skies.

A teal came during the autumn of 1897 to the sanctuary in front of the house, attracted by the decoys; she stayed six weeks with us, taking daily exercise in the skies at an immense height, and circling round and round.

When he was flushed by the beaten there was no need to call "Spare him," for with all the cunning of a veteran he towered straight into the skies and passed over the guns out of shot.

Everywhere they sought the skies with emulous heights, and ere long they arose in such number as to give a distinctive aspect to the Christian city, and to warn the traveller from afar that he approached walls within which religion was a pride and a power.

We cannot even climb it, as we could a tower; for it is nearly as unapproachable as the Oracle of God, save to the innocent birds, who love to flock and wheel about it in the sunshine, and build their nests in its "coignes of vantage," or, in the night-time, to the troops of stars which touch it in their journey through the skies.

My brain reminds me at times of the skies that followed Father Moran's visitskies restlessly flowing, always different and always the same.

The sweetest sight below the skies, And sweetest in holy angels' eyes, Is the young heart, when given, With all its hopes and fears, Its sunny smiles and gushing tears, An offering unto Heaven.

Then upward look, with firm resolve, Thy spirit's precious plume to rise; What though thine earthly house dissolve; Thou hast a mansion in the skies.

Sister, I come, thy cheering voice Bids my whole heart and soul rejoice; Fain would my ling'ring spirit rise On wings of Faith beyond the skies.

But no, it may notcannot be, The world before thee lies; And fairer lands are spread for thee, Beneath more genial skies.