The French girl never wears lace or jewels or feathers or heavy material of any kind, quite unlike her English or American contemporaries, who wear what they like.

Why, sure enough, there she is sittingdon't you see?there, sitting at Dame Damerel's door making lace for the life of her.'

Walking straight toward Bacon, he tore open the lace at his bosom and cried: "Here!

It opens like a fan, and discovers a frame such as they weave lace upon at Lyons and Chambery.

"Never mind about untying 'em, Alf; cut the laces and get 'em off quick.

The Tree Girl sighed as she patted the bobbing curls into some order, tied the laces and straightened a buckle here and there.

Even the most disreputable-looking old beggar at the gate who sold shoe-laces, learned to know us, and would run to open the door of the carriage.

" Here you find yourselves enjoying a bit of fun from which your master is shut out, for three or four girls come up from the ring together, and, not seeing you, hidden behind your screens, two, in whom you and Nell have already recognized saleswomen from whom you have more than once bought laces, begin to talk to overawe the others.

I saw my father half smiling, and fingering the lace at his throat.

DANNUX (as he takes the laces from Patcha's boots lying near the bed, and ties up the parcel)

And so I shook out this crispy lace of emotion that was rather choking in my throat, and went down to where Chloe watched the elements whence all this chemistry had been evolved.

He straightened the lace about his wrists, and his features lost their strained attention.

BAYEUX (7), an ancient Norman city in the dep. of Calvados, France; manufactures lace, hosiery, &c.; is a bishop's seat; has a very old Gothic cathedral.

From twig to twig, before my face, The spiders wove their curious lace, As they a curtain fine would see Between the hindering bars and me.

Mrs. Clarke says the only undressing you did was to loosen your shoe-laces!" "Don't you seeI know you better than you do yourself.

In vain I pour my shower of roses, On which the matchless fair one dozes, And plant around her conch the graces, While jealous Venus breaks her laces, To see a younger face promoted, To see her own old face out-voted; And myrtle branches twisting o'er her, Bow down, each turn'd a true adorer.

Then, as I stared at him, still unready and speechless, the light died out of his eyes, his lips relaxed, and his hand went up to arrange the lace at his throat.

"I'll knit lace for them, and they'll look real dressy; toilet soap, sponge and nailbrushthat's for your bath, George; you haven't been taking them as often as you should, or the hoops wouldn't have come off your tub.

He found her turning over some lace in a cardboard box.

The poor woman had given up a sure means of subsistence in her native land (she supported herself by cleaning lace and ladies' apparel), and had devoted her little savings to pay the expenses of her voyage, and all to find herself deserted and helpless in a strange hemisphere.

The liveries are all plain: gold or silver being forbidden to be worn within the walls, the habits are all obliged to be black, but they wear exceeding fine lace and linen; and in their country-houses, which are generally in the faubuurg, they dress very rich, and have extreme fine jewels.

[Illustration] NOTE.Fig. 1 is photographed from a white iron casting made upon carbonized coarse lace; the lower portion of the plate shows the lace embedded in the iron.

Now, please, understand my positionI say, it is quite possible, quite likely, quite in accordance with what I have seen, that this unfortunate gentleman died of heart failure brought about by even such an ordinary exertion as his stooping forward to untie his shoe-lace, butI also think it likely that his death resulted from poison, subtly and cunningly administered, probably not very long before his death took place.

She looked round, and smoothing the lace of her peignoir with one hand: "You are Edgar's friend?"

Snow-White did not dream of any mischief; so she stood up before the old woman who set to work so nimbly, and pulled the lace so tightly that Snow-White lost her breath, and fell down as if she were dead.