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.

The gangway began its slow swing round preparatory to lowering into place.

Then we discovered that they had collected and lowered to the beach a quantity of stateroom doors from the wreck, and had trundled the galley stove to the edge where it awaited our assistance.

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.

So saying, Beda rose, and taking the lanthorn, began to descend through the floor, having first shown how the flagstone must be lowered in place.

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

" "Don't talk," she said, a frown lowering over her closed eyes and pressing two fingers against each temple.

" Mary was lowered from the great ship into a large canoe.

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.

"A power that if but named In casual converse, be it where it might, The speaker lowered at once his voice, his eyes, And pointed upward as at God in heaven.

'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.

Officers and men were lowered with the launches.

I went the old way; and the old longing recurring at the one charmed spot on the road, I cast a quick look at the towering sycamore and the desolated house beneath, which, short as it was, roused feelings which kept my head lowered for the remainder of my walk north and to the very moment, when, on my return, the same chimneys and overhanging roofs came again into view through the wintry branches.

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.

Another house, lower down the hill, was also on fire.