The clock was striking twelve, the midnight patrol was just going out, and the returning "runners" were bidding him partake of the food they had just prepared to cheer them after their cold tramp along the surf.

Write me how many notes there be In the new robin's ecstasy Among astonished boughs; How many trips the tortoise makes, How many cups the bee partakes, The debauchee of dews!

A concert recitation to which special training has been given partakes of the nature of a hymn or a song, and then becomes an element of value.

But a dissenting minority that satisfies itself with a mere expression of its opinion and continues to help the wrong-doer partakes in wrong-doing.

It is pleasant in all these sorrows and trials to see a family so united in affection, and so totally without feelings or objects that partake of selfishness or ill-will.

In this latter sense, all profound observations on the tendency of passing events partake of the nature of prophecy.

Cattle are then slaughtered, and a feast held to the memory of the dead chief and in honor of the living one, and each person present partakes of the meat, which is distributed by the chief himself.

Yet why should not the solemn visaged, double-chinned phoca partake of one of the most universal habits of animal lifethe love of frolic?a desire which is equally as diffused throughout the living creation as the inclination for fighting.