I admit a bookish quirk maybe, a love of the shelf, a weakness for morocco, especially if it is stained with age.

" On the table lay a narrow-bladed chisel, the lower portion of the bright steel discoloured with the dark stain of blood.

When fresh, it is perfectly white and delicious, but, because most of the wounds on which it is found have been made by fire, the exuding sap is stained on the charred surface, and the hardened sugar becomes brown.

In earth's broad temple where we stand, Fanned by the eastern gales that brought us, We hold the missal in our hand, Bright with the lines our Mother taught us; Where'er its blazoned page betrays The glistening links of gilded fetters, Behold, the half-turned leaf displays Her rubric stained in crimson letters!

"This is no ordinary Indian attack," said Brightson, who was wiping the sweat and powder stains from his face.

I believe that you may most righteously do a poor wronged lady a merited benefit, redeem your brother from the angry law, do no stain to your own most gracious person, and much please the absent duke, if peradventure he shall ever return to have notice of this business.

The story of her life, though stained like others, by partialities, and prejudices, which were not justly distinguished from what was altogether true and fair, is a poem of so pure a music; presents such gentle and holy images, that we sympathize fully in the love and gratitude Kerner and his friends felt towards her, as the friend of their best life.

They carried away a cloud of purple, but left the purple head stained as before.

Mollie's boat was easily recovered, and the handkerchiefs that had been stuffed in the hole were of some service afterward, though rather stained by river water.

In her hand she carried various vines and lichens that had maintained their orange-tawny stains under the winter's snow, and the black hair that was folded closely over forehead and temple was crowned with bent sprays of the scarlet maple-blossom.

There were the bookshelves, for instance, home-made and stained at the cost of a few pence, but filled with recent and costly works on archaeology and ancient art.

Should he pass away to an eternal life of holiness and joy,while I, stained through him and for his sake with sins innumerable, sank ever lower and lower in unending misery and despair?

I should feel it a stain for ever.

Paul went to a cupboard and took from it an old fur coat, dragged at the seams, stained about the cuffs a dull browndoctors know the color.

The bed was course and dirty; and on turning down the ragged covers, I saw with horror, a dark brown stain near the pillow, like that of blood!

If he were deadif, after all this, Mark King were deadHis eyes were closed; his face was deathly white, looking the more ghastly from the dark stain across it.

That sly rogue Pepys, of course, is theremore thumb-stained than any of them except Bozzy.

It is strange, hain't it, to think eighteen centuries of Christian teaching hain't wiped the blood stains off the face of the earth, as it would like to?

I told myself that I must do my best to wash away these tell-tale stains before leaving the room; but first I would look for the treaty.

A thing of shreds he was, elaborately ragged, a face overrun with a scrub of beard, and preternaturally drawn, surmounted by a stiff-dried, dirty, cloth semi-turban, with a wide, forbidding stain along the side, worked out the likeness to a make-up.

" Flack noted that the body was fully dressed, and he saw a dark stain above the breast where the blood had welled forth and soaked the dead man's clothes and formed a pool on the carpet beside him.

This fresh and lovely thing appears to concentrate all its stains within its ensanguined root, that it may condense all purity in the peculiar whiteness of its petals.

"Yes," said the Master, "those are indeed my words; but is it not said, 'What is hard may be rubbed without being made thin,' and 'White may be stained without being made black'?I am surely not a gourd!

" From the same authority we gather this circumstantial account of the Bridges erected at Staines from the year 1262:

Beside it is a staine unto thy Deitie To yeeld thine owne desires the soveraigntie: Then shew some grace vnto a wofull Dame, And in these groves our tongues shall sound thy fame.