Then the noble trees are hushed in the hazy light, and drip with balsam; the cones are ripe, and the seeds, with their ample purple wings, mottle the air like flocks of butterflies; while deer feeding in the flowery openings between the groves, and birds and squirrels in the branches, make a pleasant stir which enriches the deep, brooding calm of the wilderness, and gives a peculiar impressiveness to every tree.

" "Done with you," says Butts, as calm as a summer's day.

But he was calmer in a moment.

That would be accepting international calm at the expense of domestic differences.

[Sub-Footnote viii: "Charming the night-calm with her powerful song.

As it swung back, he saw, first, a burst of rosy color as a room panelled in exquisite pink burst upon his sight; then the great picture of his lifethe bloodless features of Carmel, calmed for the moment into sleep.

There are added the following lines of her own: "Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now; E'en while with us thy footsteps trode, His seal was on thy brow.

There were Kroo boys who found the Mediterranean waters a comparative calm after the turbulent surf on their own West African shore.

There is a calmer than all calms, A quiet more deep than death: A folding in the Father's palms, A breathing in his breath; A rest made deeper by alarms And stormy sounds combined: The child within its mother's arms Sleeps sounder for the wind.

"Aside from the study of astronomy, there is the same enjoyment in a night upon the housetop, with the stars, as in the midst of other grand scenery; there is the same subdued quiet and grateful seriousness; a calm to the troubled spirit, and a hope to the desponding.

turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum; calm before a storm.

" This eventful year of 1848 closed with the great telegraph suits in full swing, but with the inventor calm under all his trials.

Calms like sleep come upon landscapes, just as they do on people and trees, and storms awaken them in the same way.

Unfortunately this occurred at the top of the spring tide, and the result was that, though every exertion was made to warp the vessel off, the tide did not rise sufficiently to float her until the 10th September, when, by cutting off the false keel and levelling the surface of the rock, we succeeded in hauling her off, with comparatively little damage, as the weather continued calm during the whole of this anxious period.

She was quite calm about it; the situation was too awful, the future too hopeless for mere tears.

But wear and tear and the anxieties of business life had made old Mr. Smith often quick-tempered, and difficult to please; and the coming of Mr. "W.H." into the business was hailed with pleasure by the workmen: he was so full of tact and sympathy; and sometimes, when his father had raised a storm of ill-feeling by some hasty expressions, he was able to bring peace and calm by his pleasant and genial manner.

Who will give us the temperate will, to keep sober and calm amid the shocks and changes of mortal life?

"'With an idea to securing adequately the safety of the troops and to instill calm into the population of Rheims, the persons named below have been seized as hostages by the commander-in-chief of the German army.

It may be taken as the best possible description of his lady herself: Hers is a spirit deep, and crystal-clear; Calm beneath her earnest face it lies, Free without boldness, meek without a fear, Quicker to look than speak its sympathies; Far down into her large and patient eyes I gaze, deep-drinking of the infinite, As, in the mid-watch of a clear, still night, I look into the fathomless blue skies.

But the little dove sits on, Calm between the arches there, In the holy morning air, When the owls with night are gone.

A well-dressed mob have thronged the sight to greet, And motley figures throng the spacious street; Majestical and calm through all they stride, Wearing the blanket with a monarch's pride; The gazers stare and shrug, but can't deny Their noble forms and blameless symmetry.

Madame Victor Hugo, who had been calm until then, could not help interrupting him with some abruptness.

DOVER CLIFFS On these white cliffs, that calm above the flood Uprear their shadowing heads, and at their feet Hear not the surge that has for ages beat, How many a lonely wanderer has stood!

The new learning, by leading these keen Tuscan intellects, so eager for reasonableness, to the Greek philosophers who were so wise and so calm without any of the consolations of Christianity, naturally set them wondering if there were not a religion of Humanity that was perhaps a finer thing than the religion that required all the machinery and intrigue of Rome.

It took a deal of time, for I wrote in the smallest possible characters, and was careful to make them legibleno small task, considering that the vessel was still rolling and pitching, although it grew calmer toward morning.