"Come hither, Puck," said Oberon to this little merry wanderer of the night; "fetch me the flower which maids call Love in Idleness; the juice of that little purple flower laid on the eyelids of those who sleep, will make them, when they awake, doat on the first thing they see.

Ain't they, Vetsy?" "Yes, you little Ruby, you," he said, regarding her with warm, insinuating eyes, even crinkling an eyelid in a wink.

Dana records that he once saw a man so that he had to raise his eyelids with his fingers.

[THE SENSITIVE PLANT] Weak with nice sense, the chaste Mimosa stands, From each rude touch withdraws her timid hands; Oft as light clouds o'erpass the summer-glade, Alarmed she trembles at the moving shade; And feels, alive through all her tender form, The whispered murmurs of the gathering storm; Shuts her sweet eyelids to approaching night, And hails with freshened charms the rising light.

Still the prince teased him, feinting here or there A thrust; and when he saw him helpless all, Let drive beneath his eyelids at his nose, And laid it bare to the bone.

Then tears came, cutting through his eyelids like blood from a dry wound.

* With thunder and fire, leading his starry hosts through the waste wilderness, he promulgates his ten commands, glancing his beamy eyelids over the deep in dark dismay.

They help to shade the eyes from excessive light, and to protect the eyelids from perspiration, which would otherwise cause serious discomfort. 335.

And a tired man May drop his eyelids on the visible world, To whom no dreams, when fancy flieth free, Will bring the sunny excellence of day; Nor will his utmost force increase his sight.

The lining membrane of the eyelids through these canals is continuous with that of the nostrils.

" The girl lifted heavy eyelids above blue semicircles of fatigue and the compelling terror back of her eyes forced a question through dry lips.

The curtains were liftedstill I lay rigidly and with closed eyelids before themnot from any notion of my own, but from the helplessness of my agony and the condition into which I was fast drifting.

Still heavy with sleep and also somewhat light-headedfor he had been traveling for two days and the strain was beginning to tell on him, although the doctors had at last pronounced him able to make the journey home for a month's furloughhe leaned his head against the cool green plush back-rest and stared idly through half-closed eyelids down the long vista of the Pullman aisle.

COMPARED WITH SCARLET FEVER AND SMALL-POX.Under the description given of Scarlet Fever, are noticed several signs by which that disease may be distinguished from measles: to these may be added the absence of cough, of water flowing from the eyes, and of redness and swelling of the eyelids as in measles.

He wrinkled his eyelids around central points of fire.