and, on the sun, glowed a vast splash of burning whitethe grave of the earth.

With us were to go two staid and sober stag hounds, grave in aspect and trained and experienced, almost, in woodcraft, as their masters; animals that had been reared together, and who possessed the rare instinct of returning always to the shanty from which they started, however far the chase may have led them.

There was no mark of identification upon him except a cigarette case graven with an undecipherable monogram in Tiffany's most illegible style of arrow-headed inscription.

But we will admit, for the sake of the argument, that you are somebody; Blackstone says' "'Out on Blackstone,' she exclaimed; 'what do I care for Blackstone, whose bones have been mouldering in the grave for more than a hundred years, for what I know.

To Currentius, the servant of God, laid in the grave on the sixteenth of the Kalends of November. MAXIMINVS QVI VIXIT ANNOS XXIII AMICVS OMNIVM Maximin, who lived twenty-three years, the friend of all. SEPTIMVS MARCIANE IN

It is a part of our civilization, an offshoot of the very progress of which you speak, a sort of necessity in practical results, at least, that men shall so live as to wage war against nature, and against themselves; that they shall hurry themselves, or be hurried by inevitable circumstances, into the grave at the earliest possible moment.

Even Kelson, who was otherwise inclined to be jubilant over the freeing of his fiancée from suspicion, seemed to feel it was no time or place just then for gaiety, and his expression grew as grave as that of the rest.

So, as the sun sinks, you pass back from the peace of the Mother Pilgrim's grave to the noise of the holiday-making crowd; and turning homewards you hear above you the message of the green parrakeets skimming towards the tomb "like a flight of emerald arrows stolen from the golden quiver of the Twilight.

Can you say a bit prayer, Andrew?" As well as I could, I repeated that Psalm I had said over the graves by the Rapidan.

But happiness is now debarred from me, and I am only sinking to the grave under this slow torture of body and of soul.

It has been, indeed, sometimes the custom of the Roman Church to enhance the value of a gift of relics by adding to it the gift of the inscription on the grave from which they were taken.

I hate to think of her going to her grave without one token from the man to whom she has been only too good and who, whatever outrage he may have planned to her feelings, is not without reverence for her character and a heartfelt repentance for whatever he may have done to grieve her.

It was here one day that an Irish Major, newly come to Italy, said to me, "I don't want any better grave than that."

[writes a Meaux resident, Madame Koussel-Lepine] battles of Chambry, Barcy, Puisieux, Acy-en-Multien, the 6th, 7th, and 8th of Septemberfierce days to which the graves among the crops bear witness.

" Without daring to show any outward signs of reluctance, but with feelings very much akin to those of men digging their own graves before being shot, the company set about putting this fearful project into execution.

Concerning the occasion of writing this work, it is related, that once, as he was reading an English novel to Mrs. Cooper, who has, within a short time past, been laid in the grave beside her illustrious husband, and of whom we may now say, that her goodness was no less eminent than his genius, he suddenly laid down the book, and said, "I believe I could write a better myself."

The trees were silent as the graves beneath them.

The doctor, determined at the start to make a severe case of the old man's affliction in order that he might have the greater glory in the end, be it good or bad, looked very grave over Abraham's tongue and pulse, prescribed medicine for every half-hour, and laid especial stress upon the necessity of keeping the patient in bed.

Flowers, says a common German saying, must in no case be laid on the mouth of a corpse, since the dead man may chew them, which would make him a 'Nachzehrer,' or one who draws his relatives to the grave after him.

North of the vihâra two or three li there was the Smasânam, which name means in Chinese "the field of graves into which the dead are thrown.

But from the vault of heaven the stars looked down upon that lonely grave like the watching eyes of holy angels.

As Leonardo da Vinci died in the arms of Francis I., so Chaucer rested in his grave near the bodies of those sovereigns and princes with whom he lived in intimacy and friendship.

Undine had been quiet and grave during these proceedings, but a singular change took place in her demeanour as soon as the rite had been performed.

Mr. Langton told me, that one night he did so while the company were all grave about him:only Garrick, in his significant smart manner, darting his eyes around, exclaimed, 'Very jocose, to be sure!'

Until he left the car half an hour later the man in the second seat ahead talked of Templeton's grave and a dozen other graves along the right of way.