Happy he sleeps, fearless with kneeling camels; They pierce him with a lance, Sharp and slender as a thorn, And leave him to groan until His soul leaves his body: The eagle waits to devour his entrails.

Then she frowned, and 'neath her sombre draperies her foot fell a-tapping; a small foot, dainty and slender in its gaily broidered shoe, so much at variance with her dolorous habit.

This gentleman was slender of limb, and tall; his lower extremities were clad in a tight pair of short breeches, beneath which, scarlet stockings plunged themselves into enormous shoes, decorated with huge rosettes; his coat was half-military, half-fop; and a long sword buckled round his waist, knocked against his fantastic grasshopper legs.

The front toes are still three, but the outer ones are more slender than in Anchitherium, and their hoofs smaller in proportion to that of the middle toe; they are, in fact, reduced to mere dew-claws, and do not touch the ground.

"My heart became as slender as the new moon."

These little wrists, now You said, one blessed night, they were too slender, Too soft and slender for a deacon's wife Perhaps a martyr's:You forgot the strength Which God can give.

This letter has three long sounds, heard in move, note, nor; which graduate from slender to broadish, and broad

An irregular cloud, slender at the base, spreading on top, towered to mid zenith above the forest.

They are not slender like the footprints of the Great Bear, but broad as well as long.

" II PHYSIQUE Writing to his London tailor for clothes, in 1763, Washington directed him to "take measure of a gentleman who wares well-made cloaths of the following size: to wit, 6 feet high and proportionably madeif anything rather slender than thick, for a person of that highth, with pretty long arms and thighs.

So in a nursery it is the custom to cut it back at first so that the vine may grow with a stronger stem and may have greater strength to produce fruitful tendrils: for a stem which grows slender like a rush is sterile through weakness and cannot throw out tendrils.

Pulci appears to have been slender in person, with small eyes and a ruddy face.

Out of the masses, clear and slender against the evening sky, rose a multitude of tall chimneys, many of them reeking, a few smokeless during a season of "play."

Pellaèa grácilis Fronds (including stipes) three to six inches long, thin and slender with few pinnæ.

In repose the lines of her mouth turned up, and her throat, where so often the years eat in first, was smooth and even slender above the rather round swell of bosom.

Some came down straight and slender from branches a hundred feet above.