That broke the ice and she asked me the classic royal question, "Avez-vous des enfants, madame?"

In the morning we shall drive in a tikka-gharry to the Stores to buy some final necessaries (such as soap and tooth-powder), then to Peliti's to eat ices, then to the shop in Park Street so that Boggley may get me a delayed birthday present, then round and round the Maidan.

While on the Dnieper, we travelled many days upon the ice; and on the shore of the sea we found the ice three leagues broad.

"Well, that cuts no ice; it's open and shut you'd gone back to Gratton.

But at last, when the warmth of her appointed home had melted the ice about her heart, she smiled once more and spoke.

Any negligence in stirring the contents of the freezing-pot before congelation takes place, will destroy the whole: either the sugar sinks to the bottom and leaves the ice insufficiently sweetened, or lumps are formed, which disfigure and discolour it.

Those two hours must be passed in darkness; and Daggett shortened sail in order not to reach the ice before the moon rose.

It was the first season he had ever spent south of New York, and, like most Americans, he realized, with wonder, that the wind which brought ice and snow to New York, visited lower Virginia with only a sharp evening and morning reminder that summer was gone.

Hazard saw the ice with regret; for he had hoped to work the schooner fairly out to sea in his watch; but the field was getting down through the passage in a way that threatened to cut off the exit of the two schooners from the bay.

All about them they heard the sharp reports of cracking ice.

Morse, on his snowshoes, crossed the thinly frozen ice safely.

The gale would drive the drift ice up the Gulf and pack the floes.

" Being hungry, cold and tired, the guests were rather silent during the short drive, but Aunt Plumy's hospitable welcome, and the savory fumes of the dinner awaiting them, thawed the ice and won their hearts at once.

There is a laborious lunatic who makes ice at the fair of the American Institute, with the thermometer at 80° or so in the shade.

I'm going to hold my breath when we strike the ice, and only hope we don't keep gliding along until we shoot off the edge into the sea!" "Leave that to me, Jack," came the assurance of the pilot.

Where the Saracens got their ice at that time we can only surmise.

He caught him in his arms; but Captain Rose was dead before he touched the ice.

MIXED LEMONADE.A very pleasant, cooling summer drink is made from the juice of six oranges and six lemons, with sugar to taste; add to this some pounded ice and the juice of a small can of pineapple, and lastly pour over the whole two quarts of water.

"Since you make me confess my very prosaic desires, I'll own up that I'd like a strawberry ice.

It was soon ascertained that the recent deluge had swept all the ice and every trace of the dead into the sea.

After dinner, the dessert-glasses and wines are placed on the table by the footman, who places himself behind his master's chair, to supply wine and hand round the ices and other refreshments, all other servants leaving the room.

Now the plane was clearing the ice.

White fish appeared in the rapids, which it is said they never do while there is running ice.

No agent known on earth can have stuck them in the clay, save ice, which is known to do so still elsewhere.

They chopped away the fresh-formed ice.