The feeling was very bitter between the two branches of the Royalist party, Legitimists and Orleanists.

But each small department of human learningeach minute branch in that departmentneeds a lifetime for the mastery of that one theme.

We started down stream in the morning, towards the forks, intending to ascend the left branch to Little Tupper's Lake.

In such a matter as breaking off a branch from a tree at the order of a superior, if you say to people, 'I am not able to do it,' it is not a case of not being able to do it.

It is the solemn call of the owl, as he sits among the limbs, looking out from between the branches with his great round grey eyes.

Yet amid this alpine suppression the Mountain Pine bravely tossed his storm-beaten branches on the ledges and buttresses of Red Mountain, some specimens being over 100 feet high, and 24 feet in circumference, seemingly as fresh and vigorous as the giants of the lower zones.

Much has already been written on the folk-lore of plants, a fact which has induced me to give, in the present volume, a brief systematic summarywith a few illustrations in each caseof the many branches into which the subject naturally subdivides itself.

Then, after a long fireside rest and a glance at my note-book, I cut a few leafy branches for a bed, and fell into the clear, death-like sleep of the tired mountaineer.

There is laughter yonder in the fields, and the scent of wild flowers floats in to us at times when we are weary, and the whispering trees sway their branches over the prison-wall, and their fruit is good to look on, and they hang within reachah, we might reach them very easily!

"'My dear,' said I, blandly, as we rode along, the birds singing merrily among the branches above us, 'do you know that you are NOBODY?' "'Nobody, Mr. W,' (I was simply Mr. Wthen; I had not become, nor even dreamed that I should become a Doctor), 'Nobody, Mr. W?

She had turned her row and started back, when there came before her, so plain that she almost thought she might wet her feet in the clear water, a vision of the spring-branch at home up on Unaka, where she and Lissy used to play.

Without any apparent exigency of climate or soil, it remains near the ground, throwing out crooked, divergent branches like an orchard apple-tree, and seldom pushes a single shoot higher than fifteen or twenty feet above the ground.

At Pria dell' Acqua, a most misleading name, where there was no water, but only a collection of wooden huts, another road branched off westwards, running parallel to the front line, behind the southern ridge of the Plateau.

It also led to the employment of thousands of operators to transmit the telegraphic messages, and to a great increase of our commerce in nearly all its branches by the more rapid means of communication.

And it made them bow without more ado, Or it cracked their great branches through and through.

As soon as he was disturbed he would leave his bed under some thick fir or spruce branches near the ground.

In this school of rigid Puritanism lived the northern family of Stevens, of the same Spanish branch as the Virginia family.

When the first soft snow begins to fall, the flakes lodge in the leaves, weighing down the branches against the trunk.

He was also, as the reader may see by looking back, a member of the second class of coadjutors, or of the little committee which had branched out of the Quakers in England as before described.

This number being taxed at the rate of one-fourth real, would leave the sum of $171,093.75 and deducting therefrom the $25,000 yielded by this branch under its present establishment, together with $5,132 equal to three per cent paid to the district magistrates for the charges of collection, we should still have an annual increase in favor of the, treasury equal to $140,961.75.

To meet this burden and equalize the exchange operations of the bank, the amount of specie drawn from those States through its branches within the last two years, as shown by its official reports, was about $6,000,000.

He turned and looked hard at the hut; but the larch branch across the window effectually prevented him from discovering whether any one was behind it or not.

The distribution is often brought about by differences in the lengths of the petioles, as in a Horsechestnut branch (Fig. 22) where the lower, larger leaves stand out further from the branch than the upper ones; or by a twist in the petioles, so that the upper faces of the leaves are turned up to the light, as in Beech (Fig. 23).

"But I wonder how the train could have got on the Nanking branch without being noticed?"

First the elastic tops of the arches begin to appear, then one branch after another, each springing loose with a gentle rustling sound, and at length the whole tree, with the assistance of the winds, gradually unbends and rises and settles back into its place in the warm air, as dry and feathery and fresh as young ferns just out of the coil.