Stand aside, and let the procession pass, that we may go to the banquet, which waits.

A. He waits until the serpent raises its head, and then strikes him with his wing, and repeats the blow until the serpent is killed.

So the said town waits all the day on tiptoe, ready to worship, till out of the soft brown haze the stately Waterwitch comes sliding in, like a white ghost, to fold her wings in Aberalva bay.

" "He waits to be invited, I suppose," said Scoutbush.

Then from the gate approached a trusty page, And said with folded hands and trembling lips "O royal master, at the gate there waits A man of noble mien from the far north

And days and months rolled on until one day To Désing came his loyal spy and said "My noble ruler, on the other side Of the fair stream that runs through yonder plain, There waits our foe of Arcot with his men: Prepare to go and meet him on the field.

Weakened with fear, lone, haunted by remorse, Poor, shattered wretch, there waits he that pale horse.

As when the mother, from her breast, Lays the hushed babe apart to rest, And shades its eyes, and waits to see How sweet its waking smile will be.

CHORUS OF DISCIPLES He whom we mourned as dead, Living and glorious, From the dark grave hath fled, O'er death victorious; Almost creative bliss Waits on His growing powers; Ah!

LABORATORY (After the fashion of the middle ages; cumbrous, useless apparatus, for fantastic purposes) WAGNER (at the furnace) Soundeth the bell, the fearful clang Thrills through these sooty walls; no more Upon fulfilment waits the pang Of hope or fear;suspense is o'er;

In the distance sails are gliding, Nightly they to port repair; Bird-like, in their nests confiding, For a haven waits them there.

On Christmas morning we would walk to church, after luncheon we would shoot, after dinner we would eat plum pudding floating in blazing brandy, dance with the servants, and listen to the waits singing "God rest you, merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay.

LINCOLN rings the bell, and waits until a third CLERK comes in.

But antique Art, waiting so patiently twenty centuries to afford aid to the artist, waits also to sit in judgment upon his worth and acts.

He waits upon him like a servant, but it is all love service.

azure walls Unearthly beauties beckonGod's own mother Waits longing for thy choice Lewis.

See how that boiling sea of human heads Waits open-mouthed to bless thee: speak the word, And their triumphant quire of jubilation Shall pierce God's cloudy floor with praise and prayers, And drown the accuser's count in angels' ears.

Yet well he knowswhere'er it be, On low Cape Cod or bluff Cape Ann With straining eyes that search the sea A watching woman waits her man: He knows it, and his love is deep, But work is work, and bread is bread, And though men drown and women weep The hungry thousands must be fed.

And he knows who waits by the pastur' gates That old gray nag of mine.

The devout man attunes his mind to holy ideas, he excludes alien thoughts, and he waits and watches in stillness.

King Albert "the unconquerable," in the narrow strip of his country that still belongs to him, waits in unshaken faith for the coming of the dawn.

He waited as in a trance,waited as one that longs to have the blow fall, and all over, as the man who shall be in two pieces in a second waits for the axe to drop.

Nature wastes no trivialities on such grief; the mother, whose child comes in to her broken-limbed and wounded, does not give it sugar-plums and kisses, but waits in silence till the surgeon has done his kindly and appalling office,then, it may be, she sings her boy to sleep!

Our poets use the possessive case much more frequently than prose writers, and occasionally inflect words that are altogether invariable in prose; as, "Eager that last great chance of war he waits, Where either's fall determines both their fates.

Death waits west of Dodge.

The chains that held the brass clock-weights, had rusted through long ago, and now the weights lay on the floor beneath; themselves two cones of verdigris.

The chains that held the brass clock-weights, had rusted through long ago, and now the weights lay on the floor beneath; themselves two cones of verdigris.

'If limitation is power that shall be, if calamities, opposition and weights are wings and meanswe are reconciled.

If there are such things as feather weights, why on earth don't the managers of Jerome Park races stuff the steeple-chase jockeys with them, to prevent them from being injured by such accidents as happened there on the opening day of the Autumn meeting?

I should want weights to sink me, and I mightn't get them off in time.

And the smug-faced man into whom Satan had entered came forth from among them, and said unto him, "O Daniel, inasmuch as I am a Dissenter I am greatly beholden to thee; but inasmuch as I am an honest tradesman I have somewhat against thee, for thou hast written concerning short weights and measures.

They were falsifying weights and measures, and selling the refuse of the wheat.

The modern English weights were adjusted by the 27th chapter of Magna Charta, or the great charter forced, by the barons, from King John at Runnymede, in Surrey.

Therein it is declared that the weights, all over England, shall be the same, although for different commodities there were two different kinds, Troy and Avoirdupois.

19 is an ancient pair of common scales, with two basins and a movable weight, which is made in the form of a head, covered with the pileus, because Mercury had the weights and measures under his superintendence.

With a desire, also, that all ignorance on this most essential part of the culinary art should disappear, and that a uniform system of weights and measures should be adopted, we give an account of the weights which answer to certain measures.

With a desire, also, that all ignorance on this most essential part of the culinary art should disappear, and that a uniform system of weights and measures should be adopted, we give an account of the weights which answer to certain measures.

It will be interesting to many readers to know the basis on which the French found their system of weights and measures, for it certainly possesses the grandeur of simplicity.

The metre, which is the basis of the whole system of French weights and measures, is the exact measurement of one forty-millionth part of a meridian of the earth.

For he there sagely observes that wings are not to be added to the human intellect, but rather lead and weights; that all its leaps and flights may be restrained.

All government supposes subjects; all authority implies obedience: to suppose in one the right to command what another has the right to refuse, is absurd and contradictory; a state, so constituted, must rest for ever in motionless equipoise, with equal attractions of contrary tendency, with equal weights of power balancing each other.

I have been laden with such weights of wrong That heavier cannot presse me: hence, Cornego.

Pythagoras was the first person who introduced measures and weights among the Greeks.

Clocks, with wheels and weights, were not invented till the twelfth century.

Some progress has been made in getting a uniform standard of weights and measures, and there is an increasing tendency to prescribe specific weights and markings for packagespossibly unconstitutional legislation.

Some progress has been made in getting a uniform standard of weights and measures, and there is an increasing tendency to prescribe specific weights and markings for packagespossibly unconstitutional legislation.

" Weights and measures are standardized by the Federal government, and to these standards the States in practice all conform, but the legal weight of a bushel or other measure of articles varies widely in the different States, and the State Commissioners on Uniformity of Law have tried in vain to get the matter generally regulated.

Most miners found it necessary to have a small pair of scales in the breast pocket to weigh the dust so as not to have to trust some one who carried lead weights and often got more than his just dues.

We thought their scale weights were rather heavy and their ferrymen well paid.

It was operated, somehow, by weights!