I have pawed about for hours in the chill sward of meadows where one might properly expect to get one's death, and got no harm from it, except it might be Oliver Twist's complaint.

20 Dear is the forest frowning o'er his head, And dear the velvet green-sward to his tread: Moves there a cloud o'er mid-day's flaming eye?

And before Elzevir could get at him, Maskew had fallen over on the sward with a groan, and with a little red hole in the middle of his forehead.

It is built of light, grey stone, with steep gables and slender chimneys rising with airy lightness from the level sward by the margin of the beautiful lake, and backed by the grand amphitheatre of the fells at the other side, whose snowy peaks show faintly against the sky, tinged with the vaporous red of the western light.

" "Well, well, be it so," said Marston, with suppressed impatience, and without more ceremony, he rode slowly along the avenue, and turned off upon the soft sward in the direction of the wildest portion of his wooded demesne, the clergyman keeping close beside him.

Each man was clad in Lincoln green, and a fine show they made, seated upon the sward beneath that fair, spreading tree.

I saw that the stretch of green sward between the rocks had been a lake.

Sometimes, at noon or afternoon, I may look abroad from the roof or galleries, and see a remote figure sitting on the sward under the shade of plane or black cypress: and I always know that the book she cons there is the Biblelike an old Rabbi.

and Choti, the student and the painter, were foremost in the preparations of the amuraa ma, and many houses supplied the extensive, soft mats which were put on the sward for the table, while the ladies laid the cloth of banana leaves down their center, and adorned it with flowers.

Through the doorway, which was but two steps higher than the grass sward before it, his eyes fell upon a very pleasing scene.

The hills are in some places steep, but everywhere covered with a green sward from the bottom to the top.

My legs gave under me, for they were still very feeble, and I sat hunkered up on the sward like the others.

In five minutes the Golden Butterfly was on the sward beside the crippled Cobweb.

Yet the sward about was kept as if a gardener had it in charge.

When the babies were asleep the pixies or fairies left them, and gamboled on the neighbouring sward on which the old lady discovered the day after, several new green rings,a certain evidence that her fancy had not deceived her!

In the quiet woodland lane a covey of partridges are running to and fro on the short sward at the side, and near them two or three pheasants are searching for food.

I have not yet decided what he shall be shouting, when the current of my thoughts is turned by seeing some onethank Heaven, not a footman, this time!advancing across the sward toward me.

Suddenly, across the sward towards the palace there came the slight, impish, almost one-sided figure, with the peculiar walk, swift though suggestive of a limp, the elfish set of the plume, the foreign adjustment of short cloak.

De Catinat cast a glance round him at the grand tree trunks, the fading foliage, the smooth sward underneath with the long evening shadows barred across it.

It is open, but one hesitates to pass through, despite the pleasant vista of trees and green sward beyond.

They walked out on the green sward, under the evergreen oaks where the young rooks are swinging; out on the mundane swards into the pleasure ground; a rosery and a rockery; the pleasure ground divided from the park by iron railings, the park encircled by the rich elms, the elms shutting out the view of the lofty downs.