There are two little couples going the rounds just now.

At the spot where stood the old palace of king Suddhodana there have been made images of his eldest son and his mother; and at the places where that son appeared mounted on a white elephant when he entered his mother's womb, and where he turned his carriage round on seeing the sick man after he had gone out of the city by the eastern gate, topes have been erected.

It consists of a chain with handles at each end; the chain is put round the wrists, the handles brought together and twisted round until the chain grips firmly.

He glanced 'round, with a start, and I pointed toward the thing.

Then about 8 p.m., as the hour of the special Ramazan or "Tarawih" prayer draws nigh, the mosque beadle, followed by a body of shrill-voiced boys, makes his round of the streets, crying "Namaz tayar hai, cha-lo-o," and all the dwellers in the Musalman quarter hie them to the house of prayer.

Kelson, who had taken up his hat and crop and was turning to the door, wheeled round quickly.

Every now and then I took a walk round the Battery to see that all was working correctly, and every hour the N.C.O.'s in charge of each gun brought in their fired tubes to the Command Post and reported how many rounds had been fired in the preceding hour and how many tubes misfired.

A month after the annual season of rest, the families which are looking out for blessing stimulate one another to make offerings to the monks, and send round to them the liquid food which may be taken out of the ordinary hours.

And now in his ears were cries and groans and other hateful sounds, and to his nostrils came a reek of sweating flesh and the scent of trampled grass; while the moon's tender light showed faces wild and fierce, that came and went, now herenow there; it glinted on head-piece and ringed mail, and flashed back from whirling steela round, placid moon that seemed, all at once, to burst asunder and vanish, smitten into nothingness.

And she shall bend her ear In many a secret place, Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty, born of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her face.

Finally, they encircled the post several times, fired some farewell rounds, and then galloped away over the prairie to overtake their fast departing village.

From SUMMER (LIFE'S MEANING TO THE GENEROUS MIND) Forever running an enchanted round, Passes the day, deceitful vain and void, As fleets the vision o'er the formful brain, This moment hurrying wild th' impassioned soul, The nest in nothing lost.

The Sun from his burning chariot saw how Ulysses's men had slain his oxen, and he cried to his father Jove, "Revenge me upon these impious men who have slain my oxen, which it did me good to look upon when I walked my heavenly round.

We spent a pleasant week at Cape Vincent, and then turned our faces homeward, invigorated in strength and buoyant in spirits, to begin again a round of toil, from which we, at least, could claim no further exemption.

With clean white hair-cloth, almost like silk, they wrapped the body round and round.

I suppose you'll put the azalea into the large pewter vase?' 'Yes, and I'll tie this round its neck.'

It was so dreadful that she could only scream, and spin round and round like a top.

Surveying the animal carefully, he untied the lariat and slipped a running noose over his nose; then giving a light bound, he was on his back in a second, and away went the horse and his rider, circling round and round on the prairie.

God grant that you may do more marvellous works than ever you have wrought, and that your orb has not yet reached its round.

The mym and dal complete the round and make It comprehensible to him who reads Mahomet.

For a minute, perhaps, they spoke among themselves thus; then the man I had addressed faced 'round at me and said something.

Louis caught it in his and drew her round in front of his chair.

The Pantheon is an exception, since the dome has an open eye; and one great ornament of this beautiful structure is in the arrangement of internal columns placed in the front of niches, composed of antae, or pier-formed ends of walls, to carry an entablature round under an attic on which the cupola rests.

Long did I watch, and saw her pacing round Upon the self-same spot, still round and round, Her lips for ever moving.

Almost at the same moment, Johnston, of the voltigeurs, who had led a small party round to the gate of the castle, broke it open and effected an entrance in spite of a fierce fire from the southern walls.