But as we go homewards, we involuntarily look down to see whether we are really treading upon the earth, wondering, perhaps, that we should be content to do so, when it would be so easy to soar above the house-tops.

Well, the iron bars have gone, but the stone walls remain, and make, if not a prison, something very like a purdah; and the "angels alone that soar above" are almost as much cut off from the inferior beings below them as they were before Sir ALFRED MOND came to the rescue of Beauty in thrall.

The delegates hoped to establish a Manual Labor College at New Haven that Negroes might there acquire that "classical knowledge which promotes genius and causes man to soar up to those high intellectual enjoyments and acquirements which place him in a situation to shed upon a country and people that scientific grandeur which is imperishable by time, and drowns in oblivion's cup their moral degradation.

Should in the ether soar, As if no care would ever find, No sorrow reach them more; When soon an arrow from below Should wound them in their flight, And many a crimson drop should flow Before they fell in sight.

While in this half-despairing breast, Love builds a little, quiet nest, To hover o'er with joyous wing, Nay, sometimes soar aloft and sing!

The finest birds are always shy, The rarest at a distance fly, And Reason cannot soar so high.

Culture furnishes an excellent pair of wings wherewith to soar in skies of abstraction, but is a poor vehicle to carry one over rough roads.

On all hands I began to see blazing structures soar, with grand hurrahs, on high.

But now I know my unassisted wit Is all too weak to make me soar so high, For pardon, lady, for this fault I cry, And wiser still I grow, remembering it.

Who dies, Hath but Love's plumes whereby to soar above!

For this reason, he employed in the construction of S. Peter's those stupendous orders which out-soar the columns of Baalbec, and those grandiose curves which make the cupola majestic.

It is situated in a pleasant meadow, to the north of the town, watered by the river Soar, whence it acquired the name of St. Mary de Pratis, or de la Pré.

He possessed not the refinements of education; he had not learned to soar into the regions of fancy, his destiny was upon the earth; and he knew no flight but that which bears the soul to heaven.

Compounds of this kind, in most instances, follow verbs, and are consequently reckoned adverbs; as, To go astray,To turn aside,To soar aloft,To fall asleep.

Now upward will he soar, And, little less than angel, would be more.

Just as perhaps he mused, "My plans That soar, to earth may fall, Let once

They soar to rule the hearts of their worshippers, and secure obedience by the sceptre of affection....

Though laden with delight, how lightly The wanderer heavenward still could soar, And aye the ways of life how brightly The airy Pageant danced before!

Would'st thou soar heavenward on its joyous wing?

Amid the light And harmony of this enchanting scene, 'Tis sweet to have a temple that recalls The heart from earth's turmoil, and hallows it With hopes that soar beyond the flight of time.

that points us to the sky, Loosens from earth, that we may soar on high.

Sir Smees," so the Italians called Raoul, out of courtesy still, it being awkward for them, after all that had passed, to address him by his real name"Sir Smees will excuse us for a few minutes; perhaps it may serve to amuse him to hear to what a flight the imagination of a subtle-minded man can soar.

But if Bob should play him to a standstill by exhausting his selling power, Sugar would quickly soar to even higher figures than before.

Is it a wrong to compel His creature to soar aloft into the ether of its origin, and find its deepest, its only true self?

The figure of the Virgin seemed to soar in the air, and it was difficult to think the clouds were not in motion.

The door stands wide, the church is bare, Oh, horror, ghastly, sore!

The monk was praying in his cell, And he did pray full sore; He had been praying on his knees For two long hours and more.

First I would see, oh, sore bereft!

For, if a woman bore a son That was of angel brood, Who lifted wings ere day was done, And soared from where he stood; Strange grief would fill each mother-moan, Wild longing, dim, and sore: "My child!

And yet the tone of words so sore

When, looking on the neighbouring woods, we saw The ghastly visage of a man unknown, 30 An uncouth feature, meagre, pale, and wild; Affliction's foul and terrible dismay Sat in his looks, his face, impaired and worn With marks of famine, speaking sore distress; His locks were tangled, and his shaggy beard Matted with filth; in all things else a Greek.

Sore wept the centaur, and to Phoebus prayed; But how could Phoebus give the centaur aid? Degraded of his power by angry Jove, In Elis then a herd of beeves he drove; And wielded in his hand a staff of oak, And o'er his shoulders threw the shepherd's cloak; On seven compacted reeds he used to play, And on his rural pipe to waste the day.

Your mother had a pride in it once, I know; and there was a time when it would have grieved her sore to think how her children should leave it.

And, we shaped to this plan that Naani made; but at that time, as you do mind, it was somewhat of seventeen hours since last we had slumber; and the Maid was sore wearied, as I did see.

Yet afterward I did know how sore and bruised I did be, in all my body and being.

And in the end, she askt me how I was, and I said that I did be different; and she hurried me that I be clothed very quick; for she did be sore afraid that I should come to a chill.

And I set forward then at so good a pace as I might; and I was come into the mouth-part of the Upward Gorge in about an hour; and surely I did be very weary, for it was beyond six and thirty hours that we had gone since last we did sleep; and there had been sore labour and terror to our share in that time, as I have told.

I near cried out with the pains of my bruisings; for I was all gone stiff in my sleep, and as that I did be more sore than ever; and this to be because I had fought again, as you do know, and surely had been hurt more by the Four-Armed Man than I had known.

And alway the fumings of sulphur, that did seem, in verity, to beat down upon us, utter heavy and sore upon our lungs.

And alway, I did be fretted in the heart, that we could make no greater speed; but, indeed, as you shall perceive, our going did be but a slow thing in the dark places, and even thus we had many a sore tumbling and bruising.

And the Maid lent her strength unto mine, and we heaved together, with sore pantings, and little cries to guide our endeavours and because we could not be contained in that moment.

And immediately we did begin to run downward, and with sore stumblings in this place and that; but not to halt us; for we did be so mad as two children for the gladsome light.

May theire sore wast theire lynnen into lynte For medlinge with other stones then flynte.

sore I grieve Thee and thy dainty friends to leave.

He limped along in his high dragoon boots, walking with the wide-legged gait of one who had bestraddled leather for many hours and was sore from it.

Much better to know nothing at all, as those barbarous Indians are wholly ignorant, than as some of us, to be so sore vexed about unprofitable toys: stultus labor est ineptiarum, to build a house without pins, make a rope of sand, to what end?

Unkind, unnatural friends, evil neighbours, bad servants, debts and debates, &c., 'twas Chilon's sentence, comes aeris alieni et litis est miseria, misery and usury do commonly together; suretyship is the bane of many families, Sponde, praesto noxa est: "he shall be sore vexed that is surety for a stranger," Prov.

"Hannah wept sore, did not eat, and was troubled in spirit, and all for her barrenness," 1 Sam.

taxeth all melancholy persons of this fault: "'Tis proper to them, if things fall not out to their mind, and that they have not present ease, to seek another and another;" (as they do commonly that have sore eyes)

But she got sore at me when I asked her" "Who?" "Sis."