" "What the Administration lacks," chimed in BLAIR, "is backbone.

As the steamer neared the Hotel, on our return, the departing sun was flinging back his last good-night smile on the lovely scene below, and the musical chime of the little church at Caldwell came stealing sweetly over the bosom of the placid Lake.

The chiming of church bells came gaily towards them through the frosty air, and Babette knew that her terrible journey was well-nigh ended.

In writing Don Juan, Byron attempted something that had never been done before, and his genius so chimed with his enterprise that it need never be done again.

Poets, we know, often "heard the chimes at midnight" in Elia's day, and the plea has certainly a most Lamb-like ring.

Come not from the unseen Past, Flying up the silent gale, With that deep and muffled wail, Slaying me with lying tale, Base chime, false chime from the Past! Not in sighs of mortal pain, Pain and anguish rise again, Voices from the far Death-plain Not thus speaks she from the Past.

I caught no sound of chimes on the present occasion, yet I am sensible that my hearing is not what it was.

Dennis, the fiercest oppugner of puns in ancient or modern times, professes himself highly tickled with the "a stick" chiming to "ecclesiastic."

My scattered and once-loved schoolmates, their characters and their various fortunes, passed in rapid review before me; my schoolmaster, his wife, and all the gentry, and heads of families, whose orderly attendance at divine service on Sundays, while those well-remembered bells were "chiming for church," (but now gone and mouldering in the adjoining graves,) were again presented to my perceptions!

The low wind shook the darkened pane, The far clock chimed along the hall, There came a moment's gust of rain, The swallow chirped a single call From his eaves'-nest, the elm-bough swayed Moaning;they slumbered unafraid.

But, Landis, if one of us should inadvertentlyor through nervousnessbeat the clock's chime by the split part of a second, the good people of The Corner will fill that one of us promptly full of lead.

It chimed into the lurid sky without a tremor.

and the rapture of the scene was sounding in every syllable like chimes out of the distance.

Who was Capua, anyhow?" Sylvia broke into a peal of laughter which rang like a silver chime through the vine-shaded, airy spaces of the pergola.

" Old familiar hymns"All Hail the Power of Jesus's Name," and others suchwere chimed until the hour for the dedication service had come.