He alone can command the clouds to drop fatness; and when He sees that His punishment has done its appointed work, He surely will take it away.

But the olive-tree said unto them, 'Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?'"

Birds deprived of exercise, shut up in close cages, and regularly stuffed with as much corn or soft food as they can swallow, may possess the requisite fatness, but it is of a most unwholesome character.

Miss Mattie put two and two together, and found they meant a larger sum of eatables than she had hitherto felt sufficient, and with a little pang at the thought of the inadequacy of her first offering to her cousin, provided such fatness as the land of Fairfield boasted.

Year after year a dream-fed band That scorn the vales below, And scorn the fatness of the land To win those heights of snow, Leave barns and kine and flocks behind, And count their fortune fair, If they a dozen leaves may bind Of laurel in their hair.

Choose those that feel hard at the vent, as that shows their fatness.

I could not view his fatness for his soul, Which peeped like harmless lightnings and was gone; As haps to voyagers of the summer air.