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.

At the same time came a second hail from the crow's-nest.

If half we hear about the "hail-thrower" be true, 'twere better for all concerned to keep out of hail of it.

If Britain has a lesson for us it is an all-hail to non-official societies, an encouragement to every idea, a blessing on every effort which has behind it honesty of purpose.

Those who were not directly engaged in the hunt now came up and congratulated the men upon their success, and Fitzhugh was at once hailed as the winner of the buffalo cup; while all sympathized with Hecksher, whose chance had been the best at the start, but who lost by reason of his horse falling and rolling over him.

Then for the third time they came together, and at first Eric strove to be wary, as he had been before; but, growing mad at finding himself so foiled, he lost his wits and began to rain blows so fiercely and so fast that they rattled like hail on penthouse roof; but, in spite of all, he did not reach within Little John's guard.

Lauds remains the true morning prayer, which hails in the rising sun, the image of Christ triumphantconsecrates to Him the opening day.

It was the captain hailing for the marooned man.

She was perfectly exposed to the storm; and the wind blowing her dress about her thin figure, and the lightning flashing round her, made her look like Medea alighted from her chariot, or the Sibyl of the tempest that was rolling around her, the only living thing within hail at that moment, except ourselves.

Even then the Spaniards might not immediately have suspected anything was amiss but only that the vice-admiral for some reason best known to himself was shifting his anchorage, had not one of the Spaniards aloftbut who it was Captain Morgan was never able to discoveranswered the hail by crying out that the vice-admiral had been seized by the pirates.

He then hailed through his trumpet, in quick, determined syllables: "Brig ahoy!

The balls were whistling as thick as hail around him, and cutting up the dirt at his feet.

Terrier rolled and quivered when her bows smashed a sea, and showers of spray beat like hail against the screens on the bridge.

Egr. Th'are mere Images, No gentle motion nor behaviour in 'm, They'l prattle ye of primum mobile, And tell a story of the state of Heaven, What Lords and Ladies govern in such houses, And what wonders they do when they meet together, And how they spit snow, fire, and hail like a Jugler, And make a noise when they are drunk, which we call Thunder.

We were frequently hailed during the night by our companions in the small boat, and returned the call, while the brave and generous-hearted seamen occasionally enlivened the solitude of the deep by a simultaneous "Hurra!" to cheer each others' labours, and to animate their spirits.

Captain Raleigh sent a hail across the water in a loud voice.

Over the long team of the German gun a thick cloud of white smoke hung heavily, burst following upon burst and hail after hail of shrapnel sweeping the men and horses below.

More shells crashed sharply; a little along the line a gust of rifle-bullets swept over and into the parapet; a Maxim rap-rap-rapped and its bullets spat hailing along the parapet above their heads.

The words had scarcely been uttered, when a storm of balls fell like hail amongst us.

for the very next day, when I was once more hailed before the juge d'instruction, another confrontation awaited me: this time with that scurvy rogue Theodore.

Despair not, Hope on, though things unseen may baffle thy research; Mysterious sports we hail beyond the veil: Despair not.

But, miraculously, no bullets came near them, no whistling was about their ears, no ping and smack of impacting lead hailed about themexcept, yes, just the fire of one rifle or two that sent aimed bullet after bullet hissing over them.

In the meanwhile, Bill-Man and the three others had made a stand and were driving a leaden hail into the advancing spearmen.

Nearly two centuries have gone since he closed his weary and disillusioned eyes on the world he had so long dominated; but to-day he shines in history in the galaxy of monarchs with a lustre almost as great as when he was hailed throughout the world as the "Sun-King," and in his pride exclaimed, "I am the State.