The ground burst into bloom with magical rapidity, and the young forests into bird-song: life in every form warming and sweetening and growing richer as the years passed away over the mighty Sierra so lately suggestive of death and consummate desolation only.

As soon as this startling fact was mentioned, however, both the convives set about repairing the accident, by squeezing lemons, sweetening water, and mixing liquors, secundem artem.

Take a little sugar with your rum-and-waterwe Vineyard folks like sweetening.

We also stewed our tree-cranberries, (Viburnum opulus,) sweetening them with sugar.

Never could he have believed, he who had already thought himself very old when he used to enter this garden to give a smile to the little fairy within, that she would have been dead for years when life, the good mother, should bestow upon him the gift of so fresh a spring, sweetening his declining years.

And by the old, and the sad, and the broken, Often he lingered, a well-beloved guest; Dear was his voice, whatever the word spoken, Sweetening their day with a song or a jest.

I am glad you have met with some sweetening circumstances to your unpalatable draught.

Talk about love sweetening toil, that does.

These contemplations, sweetening the remnant of my days, will animate my prayers for the happiness of my beloved country, and a perpetuity of the institutions under which it is enjoyed.

Strain and stir in the nut cream, also sweetening to taste.

No eggs, other sweetening, or flavouring required.

On the whole, if she consulted her taste, she would have preferred a younger hero; she would rather be the Fornarina for a Raffaello; she had fancied her name sweetening the songs of Giraud Riquier, the last of the Troubadours; and she did not believe Beatrice Portinari to be so excellent among women, so different from other girls, that her name should have soared so far aloft with that escutcheon of the golden wing on a field azure.

Virginiathe hills and the streams of my birth-place; the kind and hospitable home; the gentle-hearted sisters, sweetening with their sympathy the sorrows of the slavemy wifemy childrenall that had thus far made up my happiness, rose in contrast with my present condition.

This was a great temporary inconvenience, though the heavy showers of the past night had done a good deal towards sweetening the face of the rock, and had reduced most of the pools to a liquid that was brackish rather than salt.

Here Hortense had had the pleasure of sweetening for him, by her tender sympathy, the moment when all the world had abandoned himthe moment when he fell from the heights of renown into the abyss of misfortune.

From experiments made, I have found that the temperature of the fruit is ordinarily raised about 5° by the addition of the amount of sugar needed for sweetening sub-acid fruit.

JAM PUDDING.Make a jam by mashing well some fresh raspberries or blueberries and sweetening to taste.

FRUIT BEVERAGE.A great variety of pleasant, healthful drinks may be made by taking equal quantities of water and the juice of currants, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, or a mixture of two kinds, as raspberries and currants, sweetening to taste, and putting into each glass a small lump of ice.

TISANE.This is a favorite French beverage, and is prepared by chopping fine a cupful of dried fruits, such as prunes, figs, or prunelles, and steeping for an hour in a quart of water, afterward straining, sweetening to taste, and cooling on ice before using.

Methods are employed for sweetening fowls which have been kept too long in market, but if they need such attention, bury them decently rather than cook them for the table.

The humour and high spirits of Friendship's Garland were, however, but the gilding of a pill, the artificial sweetening of a nauseous draught.

I just now spoke of the sweetening process that authors undergo.

This mold can be made with any kind of fruit juice preferred APPLE TAPIOCA PUDDING Soak three-quarter cup of tapioca and boil it in one quart of water until clear, sweetening to taste.

well might grace An honest farmer's dwelling These cornflowers mild and poppies wild, With others past my telling; The osier fine, the blossoming vine, The meadow-sweetening clover All vagrant stuff, and like enough To him, thy vagrant lover.

This is carrying a little innocent barter into a most forbidden commerce, and I hope the joke is to end, before the affair gets to be sweetening to the tea of the Province gossips.