The circus area proper had been all marked out, the ring graded, sawdust-strewn, and straw scattered to absorb dampness.

"I never saw a realer scene, not even down at Sandy Hook; why, you can fairly feel the dampness from it.

Again, the garden was out of order; the trees before the old gentleman's window must be cut down, because their shade would doubtless cause a dampness in the house prejudicial to Nathalie's health; or the surrey was to be changed for a landau.

As we Americans were sorely tried, under such circumstances, it was decided, in the home of my son-in-law, Mr. Blatch, to have a hall-stove, which, after a prolonged search, was found in London and duly installed as a presiding deity to defy the dampness that pervades all those ivy-covered habitations, as well as the neuralgia that wrings their possessors.

It was during one of the finest efforts towards depressing dampness that even this Summer has put up, and the driver dripped.

Mozart senior describes the organ as a magnificent one, of sixty-eight stops, and built wholly of metal, "as wood would not endure the dampness of the Dutch atmosphere."

Some years ago there was much ivy about the general building; but the "rare old plant" engendered dampness and had to be pulled down.

And when I heard the convent door Behind me close, to ope no more, I felt it smite me like a blow, Through all my limbs a shudder ran, And on my bruised spirit fell The dampness of my narrow cell As night-air on a wounded man, Giving intolerable pain.

But the woman who sat shook about her great masses of dark, wet hair which yielded up its dampness to the warm caresses of the sun.

" In a few minutes the three children were seated on the wide settle, with a cheery log fire, to make them forget the outside dampness.

This keeps the dampness from coming up from the ground and chilling the body.

It was good to leave their muffled dampness for the pure sunshine of the crest.

Much is said by a few writers, especially Macnish, of the danger of rising before the sun has attained a sufficient height above the horizon to chase away the vapors, and remove the dampness.

But the walls retained their dampness and suddenly the dancers noticed that the old wall paper which covered the partition wall between the hall and the sealed chamber had been loosened through the jarring of the building, and had fallen away from the sealed door with its mysterious inscription.

She wiped the dampness from his brow, mingling her tears with the cold dews of death.

He could feel a soft hand brushing the dampness from his brow, and fingers, whose light touch soothed him, parting his clotted hair.