"...on each hand the flames, Driven backward, slope their pointing spires, and, rolled In billows, leave i' th' midst a horrid vale.

The former is accounted for, by the fact, that they grow uphave their educationtheir moral and intellectual trainingin the midst of a public opinion, and even of laws also, which favor and sanction the employment.

There, while the Muses wanton unconfined, And wreaths resplendent round their temples bind, 'Tis yours to strew their steps with votive flowers; To watch them slumbering 'midst the blissful bowers; To guard the shades that hide their sacred charms; And shield their beauties from unhallow'd arms!

That glorious form, that light insufferable, And that far-beaming blaze of majesty, Wherewith he wont[109] at heaven's high council-table To sit the midst of trinal unity, He laid aside, and here with us to be, Forsook the courts of everlasting day, And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay.

Yes, I've trod thy halls, Scorned and derided midst their ribald crew, A licensed jester, save the cap and bells, I have borne thisand I have borne the death, The unavenged death, of a dear brother.

Jackson elected President, 1828.In the midst of all this discouragement as to foreign affairs and this contest over the tariff, the presidential campaign of 1828 was held.

" Again did he enter their midst, and with convincing words and ardent eloquence portray the danger which would ensue from the non-payment of the bonds.

But there came a voice from a distant shore; He was call'd—he his found 'midst his tribe no more!

The materials for the following pages were gathered during a residence of seven years in the immediate neighborhoodnayin the very midst of the once powerful but now nearly extinct tribe of Sioux or Dahcotah Indians.

Her litter is adorned with odd designs, Shining as brilliant as the morning-star, And like the rainbow glowing 'midst the clouds, All hung with silk and figured damask-cloth.

But it was quite easy, seeing all the other fishes had made off and left me a clear field, to hide midst a bed of tall sea-bushes.

(sotto voce again to the man holding the umbrella.)"'In the midst of life we are in death.

I long to shew you what a nice snug place I have got intoin the midst of a pleasant little garden.

We had long been aware that our stock of provisions was insufficient for another day, and here we werenobody knew wherein the midst of woods and prairiescertainly far from any human habitation, with barely enough food for a slender evening's meal.

Some time laterin the midst of a long story from Lawrence, Mrs. Marshall herself brought up the subject again.

When it became known that the strange woman had died, there was a great deal of talk, especially among the Middle Lotters, in whose midst the woman had lived, but had never been seena fact which had always caused suspicion.

The postman has passed midst the beating rain, And my heart is bowed with its weight of pain; This dark, dark day, I am tortured with dread That Sandy, my boy, may be ill or dead.

Each little tender coffee slip He waters daily in the ship, And as he tends his embryo trees, Feels he is raising midst the seas Coffee groves, whose ample shade Shall screen the dark Creolian maid.

When want assails his solitary shed, When dire distraction's horrent eye-ball glares, Seen 'midst the myriad of tumultuous cares, That shower their shafts on his devoted head.

The oldest children were laughing, and the boy Paul, he began to smile in the midst of a great sob that shook him to the toes.

Then, sith that factious Marius is suppress'd, Go spread thy colours 'midst the Asian fields; Meanwhile myself will watch this city's weal.

no * nothing more *masa* f. mass *matar* kill *matemático* m. mathematician *materia* f. matter; *entrar en * come to the point *Matilde* girl's name *matutino* early (in the morning) *mayor* (comp. of *grande*) greater; greatest; chief, main *mayorazgo* m. entail; inheritance of oldest son *me* me *media* f. stocking *medida* f. measure *medio* m. midst; means; middle; adj.

A riuer passeth thorow the midst of the city, wherewith they water their gardens and mulbery trees, on which there grow abundance of silke wormes, wherewith they make great quantity of very white silke, which is the chiefest naturall commodity to be found in and about this place.

Upward the glittering spray was sent, Backward the growling surges whirled, And splintered rocks by lightnings rent, Down thundering midst the waves were hurled.

When a peasant strays into an enchanted hovel, and is made to turn a corpse all night on a spit before the fire, we do not feel anxious; we know he will wake in the midst of a green field, the dew on his old coat.