"Take a swallow of this," he said, and Rogers obeyed mechanically, still staring at him over the rim of the glass, "How do you feel?" "Pretty weak," Rogers answered, almost in a whisper.

It was swallowed in an instant, and then, as Wesley entered, the door was closed.

" She clasped her hands to her bare throat, swallowing with effort.

" More is said after this; but the speakers have strolled to the other side of the Gospeler's house, and their words cannot be distinguished Mr. BUMSTEAD closes his umbrella with such suddenness and violence as to nearly pull off the head of MCLAUGHLIN; drives his own hat further upon his nose with a sounding blow; takes several wild swallows from his antique flask; eats two cloves, and chuckles hoarsely to himself for some minutes.

Dan swallowed at something hard in his throat, then opened his lips to speak.

In such cases, I have known it to do mischief; perhaps because it was swallowed without much chewing.

Yon doleful cry is not the note of the swallow on the carved rafters, nor the song of the variegated bird upon the blossoming tree.

Satan rose like a swallow to the leap.

I would exchange these sea-gulls for swans, and scud a swallow for ever about the banks of Thamesis.

If these fail, a dervish is called in, and writes out charms, or forms of prayer, on bits of paper, which are rolled up and swallowed like pills.

"That is the last we shall see of him," The grizzled captain grinned, As the little man skimmed down the hill, Like a swallow down the wind.

Many have admired the felicity of the description and the romance of the sentiment in this stanza from Love in the Valley: "Shy as the squirrel and wayward as the swallow, Swift as the swallow along the river's light Circleting the surface to meet his mirrored winglets, Fleeter she seems in her stay than in her flight.

The food, having been well chewed and mixed with saliva, is now ready to be swallowed as a soft, pasty mass.

"On the border of Montfaucon I saw one of these groups disappear at one blow, as if they had been swallowed into a marsh.

Each one would dig into the kettle with his fork, and bringing out a big chunk would crowd as much as possible into his mouth, and holding it there with his teeth would cut off with his hunting knife a liberal portion, which he would swallow after a munch or two.

As she had not swallowed during the day, he was surprised upon applying a sponge wet in water to her lips to find that she swallowed rather eagerly and without any difficulty until she had taken several drops.

He did not seek to guide Queenie, but sat, or rather lay, in the saddle and on her neck, as she skimmed like a swallow over the undulating prairie.

On this thought which flew into her mind like a swift swallow through an open window, her lethargy fled and in its place came nervous haste; a feverish impatience which brought her with a bound out of bed, flushed and eager.

" These are a few of the open-air spirits; the more domestic of their tribe gather within-doors, plentiful as swallows under southern eaves.

The Wingfolds were like swallows about her, never folding their wings of ministry, but not haunting her with bodily visitation.

That was her voice, and it was her slight, girlish figure skimming like a swallow toward them.

Before he left England he wrote poems, entitled, Steps to the Temple; and Wood says, "That he led his life in St. Mary's church near to Peterhouse, where he lodged under Tertullian's roof of angels; there he made his nest more glad than David's swallow near the house of God, where like a primitive saint he offered more prayers in the night than others usually offer in the day.

He realized that something which was rising in his throat must be crushed back and swallowed before speech would be possible.

PROGNE, the sister of Philomela and wife of Tereus, changed into a swallow by the gods.