"A woman neither fat nor lean Is like a pleasant forest green, When she unfolds her budding charms, She gleams and glows with springtime sheen."[10] Hanoteau, p. 350-357 Reais [10] Hanoteau, pp.

Quoth Robin at last, "Methinks I would rather roam this forest in the gentle springtime than be King of all merry England.

Thou speakest of the springtime, but methinks even the winter hath its own joys.

In the budding hedges the little birds twittered merrily, and on either hand the green hills swept up to the sky, the great white clouds of springtime sailing slowly over their crowns in lazy flight.

When in the springtime she had ridden with him through the forest-lands, when their hands had touched, when he had held her in his armswhen she had seen him that first time from the stairway and had looked down into his clear eyes and through them into his heartshe had always loved him!

When the blessed springtime came, and all nature began again to smile, she hoped that Ludovico would also be renovated, and bloom again like the flowers he loved so well.

THE SPRINGTIME OF LIFE XXIV AT THE HAUNTED HOUSE XXV IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY XXVI

II.Eugénie's Springtime of Love On Eugénie's twenty-third birthday, November, 1819, the three Cruchotsthe notary, the abbé, and the magistrateand the three Des GrassinsM. des Grassins, Mme. des Grassins, and their son Adolphe hastened to pay their respects to the heiress as soon as dinner was over.

And in those few weeks came the springtime of love for Eugénie.

" He leaped like a lamb in springtime.

For this was springtime, and the air was snapping with it.

THE BUTTERFLY I watched to-day a butterfly, With gorgeous wings of golden sheen, Flit lightly 'neath a sapphire sky Amid the springtime's tender green; A creature so divinely fair, So frail, so wraithlike to the sight, I feared to see it melt in air, As clouds dissolve in morning light.

It seems as though the seeds of the new springtime of art, blown across the sea from reawakening Europe, had at last given the weltering tribes of the desert the force to create their own type of beauty.

Gives himself as many airs as a turkey-cock in springtime, and seems to think all the rest of the world was created on purpose to black his boots.

Curiously enough I missed the corncrake's well-known call in the meadows by the river in the springtime of 1897; and not one was bagged in September by the partridge-shooters.

She told him of adorable springtimes in Florence; how once she had asked a beautiful Italian peasant boy to help her with an easel, and some other matters, up a long flight of marble steps, and he had answered, with drowsy gentleness, "Please ask another boy, Signorina.

And not until pride intervened again, and prevailed upon her to see him no more, after the last ride together, did she find some old friendly tears, almost as remote from the days she now lived, as Florentine springtimes of student memory.

Darby: If it wasn't for the hearthfires to be slackened with the springtime, and my work to be lessened with the strengthening of the sun, I'd sooner not see him till another moon is passed, or two moons.

Springtime in Virginia.

Springtime and cherry blossoms. SEE OURSLER, FULTON.

Springtime and cherry blossoms. SEE Oursler, Fulton.

In the silence on this hilltop, where nothing happens but dishwashing and bedmaking and darning stockings, it is a long way to springtime, even if it comes early.

The springtime.

The warm sun and green blades of grass suggested springtime.

While keeping on with her toilet, she spoke as if to herself in a gay, animated, chatty way, because it was still the springtime of the day.