"Believe thou, O my soul, Life is a vision shadowy of Truth; And vice, and anguish, and the wormy grave, Shapes of a dream!" I thank you for these lines in the name of a necessarian, and for what follows in next paragraph, in the name of a child of fancy.

"Wormy old fox," he cried.

I ought to say, however, very distinctly, that of the fruits of any particular tree, those which first ripen are always the worst; for they are usually wormy, or otherwise defective.

while the poison at each pore is entering deep, And the sap is slowly withered, and the wormy fruit is gathered, And a vampire sucks the life out while the soul is fanned asleep!

She started to make some bread; but the flour was sour and wormy, and she wouldn't use it.

He was so antique and book-wormy that none of the usual objections urged against the male sex seemed to hold good in his case, and he had the free run of the palace.

They'll make you wormy.'

A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed, And her together.

The Saga, it will be remembered, leaves this Bjarna to a fate something like that of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, on board a sinking ship in the "wormy sea," having generously given up his place in the boat to a certain Icelander.

Examine carefully, as for canning, rejecting all wormy, knotty, unripe, or partially decayed fruit.

nice tart apples in quarters, but unless wormy, do not peel or core.

As the drying proceeds, the fruit should be turned occasionally, and when dry enough, it should be thoroughly heated before it is packed away, to prevent it from getting wormy.

The chestnut had leaved seventy times and more; and the crippled plum, whose fruit was so wormy to eat, was dying with age.

The quince that comes first into the market is likely to be wormy and corky, and harder to cook than the better ones.

What we do not love is the devilishno more the human than the morrow's wormy mass was the manna of God.

And every one will say, As you squirm your wormy way, "If this young man expresses himself in terms that stagger me, What a very singularly smart young man this smart young man must be!" You may be a flabby fellow, and lymphatically yellow, that will matter not a mite.

No one, surely, whose lips had not tasted of the waters of Helicon, could have uttered such words as these: Here's the blue violet, like Pandora's eye, When first it darkened with immortal life or a line of such intense imaginative force as this: I've huddled her into the wormy earth; or this splendid description of a stormy sunrise: