I floatI am lifted Like thistledown on nothing.

Then, as in sheer youth, as one who during a night of refreshing sleep has been steeped body and soul in the elixir that is youth's own, she yielded her young body up to an extravagant dance, whirling away as light as thistledown across the meadow.

In her pink dress, like a thistledown, floating down to him.

If only Peter" "Peter is a boy," said John, "dreaming as a boy dreams, resolving as a boy resolves; and his dreams and his resolutions are as light as thistledown: the first breath of a new fancy, or a fresh interest, will blow them away.

The hatred that had been flaring in his head suddenly faded, and the heavy thing that had been his heart for as long as he could remember, became light as thistledown.

" She uttered a delighted little laugh, and went upwards into his hold like a scrap of floating thistledown.

She was weak, but she was not altogether foolish; and she had no idea of succumbing to this new influenceof yielding herself up to this conqueror, who seemed to take her life into his hand as if it were a bit of thistledown.

This slip of a thing that's come between you and 'im, my lady, will fly away out of his mind like a bit of thistledown.

So it is pleasant to-day to wander over the fields; across the crisp stubbles, where the thistledown is crowding in the "stooks" of black oats; past stretches of uncut corn looking red and ripe under a burning sun.

He had country clothes on, and some thistledown and a sprig or two of clover were sticking to them.

They were so old that they had blown like thistledown about the four quarters of the world.

That is how I felt about it in 1914 and in many preceding years, during which, under the magic spell of Alphonse, the razor fell upon my cheek like thistledown.

He became aware of a vast number of ball-shaped objects drifting as thistledown drifts over the high ground.

And then he saw first one and then a second great white ball, a great shining white ball like a gigantic head of thistledown, that drove before the wind athwart the path.

How do you do, Miss THISTLEDOWN?

Can you give me a dance? Miss Thistledown (who has danced with him beforeonce).

A soft thistledown against the blue it seems at that altitude; but it would not if it were about your ears.

" Still he clung to the little thistledown of hope that he should have plenty of time to cram it before the form were called up.

Celeste was the life of the place: she sang like a lark, she was like thistledown in the dance, she talked well, and was so handsome that a stranger from New Orleans stopped in the street to gaze after her.

But the towering and tropical vision of things as they really arethe gigantic daisies, the heaven-consuming dandelions, the great Odyssey of strange-coloured oceans and strange-shaped trees, of dust like the wreck of temples, and thistledown like the ruin of starsall this colossal vision shall perish with the last of the humble.

Hie, Thistledown! Make haste; the milking-time is come!

"So! stand still, my thistledown! Tom is coming thro' the gate, But his forehead wears a frown, And he never was so late!

The night hawk wheels in his tireless flight, graceful as a thistledown, soaring through space without a seeming motion of the wings, emitting a whirring sound from wings and tail feathers, and darting, now and again, with the swiftness of light after some insect that comes under his keen vision.

This is a likely place for fish, and I put my rod together and cast my flies, dropping them as lightly as a thistledown, and using all my skill, but no trout rise to my lure; this is evidently their day off, or my flies are too palpable a subterfuge to tempt a self-respecting trout.

Noll said it was always the way, he was no more to be caught than a bit of thistledown, but Sedley meant to call out all the college boys and hunt and bait him down like a badger on 'Hills.' CHAPTER II: