The stars showed now, merely as fine hairs of fire against the dark.

That such is the origin of the horse-runner the reader can verify for himself, by putting a few horse hairs in a basin of water and watching them till they begin to squirm.

I was compelled to creep for miles on all fours, and in following the bear-trails often found tufts of hair on the bushes where they had forced themselves through.

His jet-black horns are only about five or six inches in length, and the long, white hair with which he is covered obscures the expression of his limbs.

"And now, landlord," said the stranger, at last, pulling a couple of long, unidentified hairs from his mouth as he hurriedly retired from the meal, "I suppose you are wondering who I am?" "Well, sir," was the frank answer, "I can't deny that there are points about you to make a plain man like myself thoughtful.

Compared with the best-known domestic breeds, we find that our wild species is much larger, and, instead of an all-wool garment, wears a thick over-coat of hair like that of the deer, and an under-covering of fine wool.

In the memorable canvass of 1848, Miss DICKINSON stumped the mining districts of Pennsylvania for FRED DOUGLASS, and was shot at by the infuriated miners forty-two times, the bullets whistling through her back hair to that extent that her chignon looked like a section of suction-hose when the campaign was over.

Thus had Patricia spoken in the privacy of her chamber, at that hour when ladies do up their hair for the night, and discourse of mysteries.

No wonder she sang as she gave a last fond pat to the pretty dress and tucked a wandering little strand of hair into place.

" A crowd of idlers, attracted by the angry tones of the master's voice, had begun to collect in the passage, and the captain flushed to the roots of his hair at being thus taken to task in public.

But certain facts had to be brought out, among them the blowing off of her hat on that hurried drive home through the ever thickening snow-storma fact easily accounted for, when one considered the thick coils of hair over which it had been drawn.

" "I want to be a missionary; too," cried Mary, tossing her red hair about.

The different ages too, are distinguished as much by their hair as their complexion, their facial angle, or in any other way.

Only one adventure was by mutual consent not alluded to: their clandestine visit to The Hermitage, coupled with Noaks's threat, hung like the sword suspended by a single hair above the head of Damocles at the feast.

In the moonlight the hair under her throat and along her back shone sleek and soft.

She pushed her tousled hair out of her eyes.

"I'm glad I came," said Johnnie, pushing the hair off her hot forehead.

"O my dear love," said Portia, "dispatch all business and be gone; you shall have gold to pay the money twenty times over, before this kind friend shall lose a hair by my Bassanio's fault; and as you are so dearly bought, I will dearly love you."

"You know the room doesn't look half bad by daylight," remarked Violet, as she was arranging her hair before an elaborately framed old mirror.

At a distance, but distinctly to be seen, high up in the golden light of the setting sun, appeared the Great Stone Face, with hoary mists around it, like the white hairs around the brow of Ernest.

And with berets* on their heads, and their hair down their backs, waving in the breeze, they looked adorable, suggesting a flight of messenger swallows skimming over the ground and bearing good tidings onward.

The wind flattened a loose curl of hair against her cheek, and overhead the wild geese were flying and crying, small and far away.

Her own gray spine stiffened when she saw the tawny hair along Kazan's back bristle at some dream vision.

She took off her hat and smoothed her hair without answering.

With her warm tongue she would lick away the ice that froze to the long hair between Kazan's toes.