The twa appeared like sisters twin, In feature, form, an' claes; Their visage withered, lang an'thin, An' sour as onie slaes: The third cam up, hap-step-an'-lowp, As light as onie lambie, An' wi' a curchie low did stoop, As soon as e'er she saw me, Fu' kind that day.

"Sadie may sour on me now," said the father heavily.

You must take the sour with the sweet.

The rule is to bring the little ones up with the bottle, you know; and you'd be horrified if you saw what bottles they arenever cleaned, always filthy, with the milk inside them icy cold in the winter and sour in the summer.

She has made a pack mule out of herself for the carrying of utterly useless burdens that nobody wants carried and the carrying of which benefits nobody; and now that she has grown ugly and sour at the business she need not feel surprised at being slighted.

She was one whom single blessedness had soured to the world.

Thin, high-stooped houses with drawn shades recede into the mouse-colored mist of morning, and, as through quagmire, this mist hovering close to ground, figures skulkthat nameless, shapeless race of many bloods and one complexion, the underground complexion of paste long sour from standing.

"They are so sweet that the cherries seem sour by contrast.

"No amylaceous substance," says Dr. Christison, "is so much relished by infants about the time of weaning; and in them it is less apt to become sour during digestion than any other farinaceous food, even arrowroot not excepted.

They are both very requisite in a virtuous Mind, to keep out Melancholy from the many serious Thoughts it is engaged in, and to hinder its natural Hatred of Vice from souring into Severity and Censoriousness.

The sours of Life less offend my Taste than its sweets delight it.

Then it came over me what a cheery, comfortable home this was, and how Stephen would always be my kind, warm-hearted friend, and how thankful I ought to be that my life had been spared, and that I was useful, that I'd made such good friends as I had down to Salem, and that I wasn't soured against all mankind on account of my misfortune.

Lesbia had been the peach on the sunny southern wall, ripening and reddening in a flood of sunshine; Mary had been the stunted fruit growing in a north-east corner, hidden among leaves, blown upon by cold winds green and hard and sour for lack of the warm bright light.

"Last night's affair will make Flockley and Koswell more sour than ever, and Larkspur is evidently their tool, and willing to do anything they wish done.

The paragon explained: "Too sour after strawb'ry, Mamma.

" She looked into the living-room, where Pearl and the doctor sat without speaking, and just as her mother was about to go to join them, she said: "I believe there's cream for a churnin', ma, it will be too sour before Monday.