Throughout the upper meadow region, wherever water is sufficiently abundant and low in temperature, in basins secure from flood-washing, handsome bogs are formed with a deep growth of brown and yellow sphagnum picturesquely ruined with patches of kalmia and ledum which ripen masses of beautiful color in the autumn.

If, on the other hand, we ally ourselves to that which is lower than ourselves, by the very act we are dragged down.

Small dim patches may be found as low as 3000 feet on the driest and most enduring portions of sheer walls with a southern exposure, and on compact swelling bosses partially protected from rain by a covering of large boulders.

It is the call of the raccoon, as he clambers up some old forest tree, and seats himself among the lowest of its great limbs.

The pines were evidently accepting the benefactions of the storm in the same whole-souled manner; and when I looked down among the budding hazels, and still lower to the young violets and fern-tufts on the rocks, I noticed the same divine methods of giving and taking, and the same exquisite adaptations of what seems an outbreak of violent and uncontrollable force to the purposes of beautiful and delicate life.

The surgeon went to the captain, and the others could hear his deep, abrupt utterance in reply to some question too low for their ears.

" I was at the water-side next day at cock-crow, while the mist was still low on the river.

He crossed to the little desk and bent low over her chair, his hand not on her shoulder, but at the knob of her chair.

When one stands on a slab of stone, No higher than the ground, Nothing is added to his height; Low with the stone he's found.

I can allow no time for business now, My Injuries are in haste, and so am I. Bel. Shou'dst thou stab here a thousand gaping Wounds, Upon this false, this perjur'd Heart of mine, It wou'd not part with Life, unless 'twere laid Near to the Sacred Altar of my Vows, Low at the Feet of my fair injur'd Wife.

The mist had now come low down the hill, and lay before us, a line, of grey

We do not now interpret the higher by the lower, but the lower by the higher; the beginning by the end.

Govind stirs the incense-heap; the dense smoke rolls forth again and shrouds all; there is a feeling of witchery in the air and in the midst of the smoke-pall one can just descry Rama bending low before the Mother.

'And so care I for all,' cried the watcher; and she drew her companion with her to the edge of the abyss, and they sat down upon it low among the rocks to escape the rushing of the wind.

Descending lower into the ship, the chief engineer led the young middies over a grating, and paused at the head of an iron ladder.

Every bit of territory possible must be taken, German unity must be broken, and not only military but industrial Germany must be laid low under a series of controls and an impossible number of obligations.

Suddenly Chantel, dropping low like a deflected arrow, swooped in with fingers touching the ground.

But if I prove the victor, then Shall Saul and all his armed men Bend low beneath Philistian yoke.

"A game I rather fancy myself at." "For your information, please," continued James in his kindliest military manner, "I may remark that a mashie is the club mostly usedexcept when it is necessary to keep low between, say, two clumps of potatoes.

a chorus came Of laughter soft and low From the millions of flowers under the ground Yesmillionsbeginning to grow.

The humid air and light winds permitted great waves of the deadly gases to creep low toward the Italian lines, the rear guards protecting themselves with gas masks and by hiding in caverns.

"Now see here, you gen'l'men jest lay low about this strike."

Chemical analysis of it has shown that the iodine content decreases with the age of the individual, and becomes specially low after forty.

Although it was in the warmest season of the year, and the nights could scarcely be called nights at all, yet the sun never got very low without leaving a chilliness in the air that would have rendered sleeping without a cover and a protection from the winds, not only excessively uncomfortable, but somewhat dangerous.

When this began to sprout with every promise of a full harvest, their joy was boundless; for their stock of breadstuffs and provisions had fallen low during the winter, and could not last later than harvest-time, even with rigid economy.