Her cruse, it is broken; But he mends it with thread, And draws water with her: He cried to Ayesha: 'Give me my sabre, That I kill the merle Perched on the dunghill Where she dreams; She has eaten all my olives.'

In France a great benefit is raised by salt, &c., whether these things might not be as happily attempted with us, and with like success, it may be controverted, silkworms (I mean) vines, fir trees, &c. Cardan exhorts Edward the Sixth to plant olives, and is fully persuaded they would prosper in this island.

For Beppo was one of the men whose task it was to climb the olive-trees and shake down the olives for the women gathering below.

STUFFED CELERY SANDWICH Mix 1 cream cheese with 2 tablespoons celery chopped fine 1 tablespoon chopped, stuffed olives 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon paprika and Enough milk to make it the right consistency to spread.

You thought the jar contained olives all this time? MERCHANT.

Near this, at the very foot of the Mount of Olives, the latter sect have lately built a high stone wall around the Garden of Gethsemane, for the purpose, apparently, of protecting the five aged olives.

And on her brow and breast and hand The olive of her native land.

I love queen olives, don't you.

At four we march to the wars; but as I go to bear the olive, it is not so bad a Sunday's work.

she dropped the olive poised between her fingers, and as she did so, he looked across and saw her and exclaimed: "Well, I'll be" He came over, almost upsetting two tables in his impetuous course.

It happened to be his dinner-time, and he was seated cross-legged on a stone, with a footstool before him, enjoying a few olives and a morsel of bread.

Save the wind fall olives as much as possible as relishes for the hands.

Ararat, a muddy pyramid dotted here and there with olive treescurious, by the way, to find olives so high!in the receding waters the vagrant raven cheerfully picking out the eye of a defunct pterodactyl.

And now, Amanda, if you have finished the olives I'll get you to make a fine powder of those things which I have put into the mortar.

He would not tell how that same delicate and brilliant atmosphere freshened up the pale olive till the olive forgot its monotony, and its cheek glowed like the arbutus or the beech of the Umbrian hills.

An old servant, in a tattered garb, received them with a blunt and rude air, and led them into the stable, where he gave them some rotten olives, moldy bread, and sour beer.

Ferns gave place to glowing olives, and clusters dropping wine, Mosses changed to oaken tissues, and cleft to fragrant pine.

By the flowing river, for all eyes to see: Here, where the platans blossom all the year, And glimmers green the olive that enshrines Rural Apollo, most august of gods.

They showed us also a great stone mill for grinding olives; this estate of the Grand Duke produces five hundred barrels of wine and a hundred and fifty of oil, every year.

They are "volcanoes burnt out, and on the lava and ashes and squalid scoria of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine, and the sustaining corn."

" "If you had always been accustomed to having olives, as the Italians are," replied Miss Harson, "you would think them very nice.

Shakespeare, in "Twelfth Night" (Act i. sc. 5), makes Viola say:"I bring no overture of war, no taxation of homage; I hold the olive in my hand; my words are as full of peace as of matter."

In a dear spot I lay, 'mid olives, spices, where was wrought A beauteous grotto; and beside me near, Were friends I loved; and one both near and dear With me reclined, in blissful converse, sweet With tender thoughts.

People had 'em one at a time to lend flavour to a dinnerlike an olive; we didn't dine on olives, though.

The attempt to classify one's acquaintance is the common sport of the thinker, from the fastidious who says: "There are two kinds of personsthose who like olives and those who don't," to the fatuous, immemorial lover who says: "There are two kinds of womenDaisy, and the Other Kind!"