Whilst the fruit is still fair to the eye, it is not probable that it has permanently degenerated in fragrance or flavour.

who can listen calmly to the speeches of the players, while the grandest drama of the century is acting across the sea, where a mad populace, freed from the firm grasp of its master, breaks windows and howls itself hoarse as the best preparations for holding the fairest of cities against the resistless veterans of VON MOLTKE.

It is generally believed in the east, that the moon, at particular periods of her revolution round the earth, has a great influence in causing rain; though every one must see, that, notwithstanding such influence must be the same in every part of the earth, it is invariably fair in one place, at the very time that it is rainy in another.

I had seen her in silk and lace, a queen among the gallants, but she never looked so fair as on that misty morning, her hair straying over her brow, her plain kirtle soiled and sodden, but her eyes bright with her young courage.

"Nay," quoth he, "a man's heart may be set on other things, flowers may seem to him fairer than the fairest women, and the wind in trees sweeter to him than their voices.

And here he beheld many women, young and fair for the most part, huddled about the high altar or struggling in the ragged arms that grasped them.

I must be equally fair with old people now.

Why, I have seen a fellow at a fair at Henricus selling common Virginian mocking-birds as the "best English mocking-birds".

Thou wert fair on the hill among thousands!

The forehead and temples beneath her loosely bound hair were fair without paleness, and meek without languor.

They are gone, but others we have since acquired, though less fair by far, remain.

Leave that fictitious good your fancy feigns, For scenes where real bliss eternal reigns: Look to that region of immortal joys, Where fear disturbs not, nor possession cloys; Beyond what Fancy forms of rosy bowers, Or blooming chaplets of unfading flowers; Fairer than o'er imagination drew, Or poet's warmest visions ever knew.

If you give it any further publicity, you will, I think, cast a shade over a name that at present stands quite fair before the public eye.

But he meant to be fair about it.

When she came toward me I thought of the years I had wasted down in that lonely quarter where ambition is strangled by lassitude bred in tropical sunshine, and the ghost of the man I might have been banged me fair between the two eyes.

Such a state of your law is not neutrality, and is not righteous towards us nor is it fair towards your own people.

Shelley describes it as one of the flowers growing with the sensitive plant in that garden where: "The pied wind flowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die at their own dear loveliness.

yea and dark was Uther too, Wellnigh to blackness; but this king is fair Beyond the race of Britons and of men. '

Near to the lowly base of Cephalon, My house is plac'd not much unlike a cave: Yet arch'd above by wondrous workmanship, With hewen stones wrought smoother and more fine Than jet or marble fair from Iceland brought.

By a most singular chance I again came across my friend Petulengro in a fair into which I happened to wander when walking by the side of the river beyond London.

He was so gracious that all Christian men and Paynims loved him, for he was fair like an angel to look on, a fair speaker, whole of body, holy in work, good in counsel, patient and charitable, and firmly established in the faith.

Seville sparkled white and fair under my feet, her painted towers and tiled domes rising thickly out of the mass of buildings.

At the New York state fairs during the early '50s the tournaments of the volunteer fire department of the various cities throughout the state formed one of the principal attractions.

In the ornaments of the ceiling the banner of the Templars is frequently repeatedblack and white, "because," says Fawyne, "the Templars showed themselves wholly white and fair toward the Christians, but black and terrible to them that were miscreants."

thrice fairer in thy death!