In March, the vegetation was more than doubled in depth and color; claytonia, calandrinia, a large white gilia, and two nemophilas were in bloom, together with a host of yellow composite, tall enough now to bend in the wind and show wavering ripples of shade.

I found no great difficulty, however, in making my way to a certain ripple on the river where one of my ouzels lived.

Her loose hair rippled in billows of gold about her shoulders and she sat down on the sledge, close to Kazan, and began brushing it.

The sunshine rippled over her face again and she counted the words on her slate for the second time to assure herself that there could be no possible mistake.

Many of them either ripple with the laughter of his characters or are lighted with their smiles.

Once more the laugh rippled from the full pulsing throat.

Then a man dipped the paddle, and the ripple at the bow got longer and broke the reflections of the pines.

The deer love to lie down beneath its spreading branches; bright streams from the snow that is always near ripple through its groves, and bryanthus spreads precious carpets in its shade.

"There's a lot of things I wish around here," she said, without a ripple to her lips.

His voice had coarsened and taken on a raw edge, but every gesture was flung from the socket, and from where they had forced themselves into the tight circle Gertie Slayback, her mouth fallen open and her head still back, could see the sinews of him ripple under khaki and the diaphragm lift for voice.

It falls into a smooth, glassy sleep, stirred only by the night-wind, which, coming down the cañon, makes it croon and mutter in ripples along its broidered shores.

" They kept step across the corral, gay, light-hearted sons of the frontier, both hard as nails, packed muscles rippling like those of forest panthers.

Cissie rippled into a boarding-school laugh.

Her dark eyes fairly danced, and the profuse black curls which rippled around her face, were never still for a moment.

She floated with me close alongside, guided me to a restful grove midst shimmering weeds that made a soft and silken couch, where in the sweet stillness, lulled by the lap of gentle ripples against weed, or shell, or bending sea-flowers, I glided off to dreamless slumber.

" Watching the barge pass out of sight beneath the overhanging trees, David turned to see a small dark object, leading two long verging lines of silvery ripples across the glittering current.

Ripples of mirth waved along his chest and convulsed his face, but still he did not laugh.

The path wound round a densely wooded and sombre hollow, the depths of which the eye could not penetrate, but from out of which came the song of a stream that went cascading down the rocks, and rippling among the loose boulders that lay in its course.

The mere tug of the tiller beneath my hand filled me with a kind of fierce delight, while the splash of the water as it rippled past the sides of the boat seemed to me the bravest and sweetest music I had ever heard.

When the flood tide rippled about the wreck it was obvious the pump was getting the water down.

The tall oats rippled before the wind and soft shadows trailed across the hillside.

" Since it was too late to refuse, Grace took his hand and he waded across, steadying her, while the current rippled round his legs.

Here Wisdom drowned her dangerous thought, The early gods their secrets brought; Beauty, in quivering lines of light, Ripples before the ravished sight; And the unseen mystic spheres combine To charm the cup and drug the wine.

As they approached the river they found the tide was running very violently, so that it gurgled and rippled alongside the boat as the crew of black men pulled strongly against it.

And fiercer forward seemed to bound, With the swift ripples toward the main; And all the lesser bubbles round, Each sought to gather in its train.