A breeze came wandering from the sky, Light as the whispers of a dream; He put the o'erhanging grasses by, And gayly stooped to kiss the stream, The pretty stream, the flattered stream, The shy, yet unreluctant stream.

I was not far from the Button-Rose, and I had nearly filled my basket, when my aunt came to the spot and stooped over the little plant.

Even my eyes, accustomed to the darkness, and strained to the utmost, could detect scarcely more than the faintest shadow gliding silently by, yet sufficient to recognize the outlines of a small keel boat, propelled by a single lug sail, and even imagined I could discern the stooped figure of a man at the helm.

It was not until after I had advanced cautiously into the water, and then stooped low to thus gain clearer vision along the surface, that I succeeded in locating the vessel sought.

But a close observer would have noticed that he worked a little faster, and perhaps held his shoulders a little straighterthey had grown stooped in the long days when he worked on the section.

The hard hands, the sunburnt face, the thin hair that she had not taken time to care for; the hard-working shoulders, slightly stooped; the scrawny neck, with its tell-tale lines of age; were eloquent in their appeal.

He now stooped and picked it up again.

Distracted by sad forebodings, poor Mr. Robertson forced his way to the water-port, but not before a savage mountainerriding furiously by himaimed a sabre-blow at him to cut him down; but, as the murderous arm was poised above, Mr. Robertson stooped, and, raising his arm at the time, warded it off; the miscreant then rode off, being satisfied at this cut at the detested Nazarene.

I stooped and picked it up.

Setting the pail of water on the ground, my mother stooped, and stretching her left hand out on the level with my eyes, she placed her other arm about me; she pointed to the hill where my uncle and my only sister lay buried.

Just as the devil stooped over me with outstretched claws my mother awoke from her quiet indifference, and lifted me on her lap.

He was stooped, and his protruding chin, with its tuft of dry flax, nodded as monotonously as did the head of his faithful beast.

Waiting for my answer, she stooped forward and through the long stem drew a flame into the red stone pipe.

Swaying her stooped shoulders to and fro as she sat upon her feet, she muttered vain exclamations beneath her breath.

" He stooped for a moment over the bed, and then cowered down toward the floor to search for what he had dropped.

He stooped down and picked it up again.

She stooped and picked it up; it was a small morocco pocket-book lined with pink silk.

When he reached the middle of the high railroad bridge, or trestle over the stream, he paused, stooped down and seemed to be tying his shoelace.

He stooped to put wood on the fire, and there fell a silence.

" I stooped down, and, taking him round the waist, lifted him right up over the gunwale of the Betty, where Tommy received him rather like a man accepting a sack of coals.

Moreover, the Prelate had gained the moral victory, even as Hildebrand did when the Emperor of Germany stooped as a suppliant in the fortress of Canossa.

At that, he stooped forward and peered very intently, and I with him; yet neither one of us could discover the meaning of so curious an exhibition, and so for a while we watched, the bo'sun being quite so much interested as I. Presently, however, he turned away, saying that we did foolishly to stand here peering at every curious sight, when we should be looking to the welfare of the camp, and so we began to go the round of the hill-top.

Now, when he looked over, he also was astounded, and drew back instantly; then, using great caution, he bent forward once more, and stared down, and, at that, the big seaman came up behind, walking upon his toes, and stooped to see what manner of thing we had discovered.

The Empress had stooped again to the basket of aloes wood which stood beside the fireplace.

Suddenly I saw her stare hard at something, and then, with a little cry of surprise, she stooped and lifted an object from the carpet.