Bells were hung on ropes from pole to pole, and at the signal of the sages their ringing was to announce the precise moment when the laborers were to turn the first sod.

The fables of the world have filched away The time I had for thinking upon God; His grace lies buried 'neath oblivion's sod, Whence springs an evil crop of sins alway.

The single horse Rowland owned, useless now while his crop matured, was breaking sod far to the west on the bank of the Jim River.

Often we see the tacit recognition of its uselessness in an old gate shoved back to its farthest, and left standing so till the very grass roots have embanked themselves on each side of it, and it can never again be closed without digging away the sods in which it is wedged.

On removing the sods, and pushing the timber aside, the captain ascertained that a man might easily pass without the stockade.

When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.

This field whose green sod we were treading connected with another field, that with another, and that again with anotherall the way to New Yorkall the way to Cape Horn!

"There!" breathed Jot in relief, as his toes touched sod again, "I feel as if I'd been in prison and just got out.

With sure eye, He saw the horses keep the arrow-track; He saw the swift share cut the measured sod; He saw the furrow folding to the right, Ready with nimble foot to aid at need.

3. rusticorum, etc.: The farmer-soldier's manly brood Was trained to delve the Sabine sod, And at an austere mother's nod To hew and fetch the fagot wood.

No accent wounds the reverent air, No footprint dints the sod, Lone in the light the prairie lies, Rapt in a dream of God ILLINOIS, 1858.

Is thy native land forgotten? Or dost thou revere the sod Where thy heart for sin was broken, Where thy soul found peace with God? Is that sacred stream forgotten, Where, immersed beneath the flood, Saying, "I with Christ am buried, And henceforth will live to God?" Is that hallowed spot forgotten?

She enjoyed the crisp green sod, the great trees standing around, park-like, with the sunlight falling between their shade like brilliant tatters of cloth-of-gold; while from the near distance came the tiny shouting of cool waters.

He wouldn't have flung that sod at you if you had been within arm's length of him; well, I do dislike that White.

The year before A Turkish army had march'd o'er; And where the Spahi's hoof hath trod, The verdure flies the bloody sod: The sky was dull, and dim, and gray, And a low breeze crept moaning by I could have answered with a sigh

Hurrah!hurrah!pile up the mould: The Sun will gild its sod: The Sun,for threescore years and ten The Gipsy's idol God!

Then he and Carnehan takes the big boss of each village by the arm and walks them down into the valley, and shows them how to scratch a line with a spear right down the valley, and gives each a sod of turf from both sides of the line.

" "He shall not be hanged tomorrow day," cried Robin; "or, if he be, full many a one shall gnaw the sod, and many shall have cause to cry Alack-a- day!"

But come hither, Charlescome, kneel upon your mother's gravekiss the sod where she lies, and angels will write it in their books, and show it to your mother, where she is happy.

When ever blue the sky shall gleam, And ever green the sod; And man's rude work deface no more The Paradise of God.

To and fro the wrestlers swayed, locked in vicious grapple, grimly silent save for the dull trampling of their feet upon the moss and the gasp and hiss of panting breaths; writhing and twisting, stumbling and slipping, or suddenly still with feet that gripped the sod, with bulging muscles, swelled and rigid, that cracked beneath the strain, while eye glared death to eye.

The private soldiers fight and die to advance the wealth and luxury of the great, and they are called masters of the world without having a sod to call their own.'

The charm of an English scene consists in the rich verdure of the fields, in the stately wayside trees, and in the old and high cultivation that has humanised the very sods.

The charm of the latter consists in the rich verdure of the fields, in the stately way-side trees and carefully kept plantations of wood, and in the old and high cultivation that has humanized the very sods by mingling so much of man's toil and care among them.

Many a better man than the Sheriff kissed the sod that day, but at last, Sir William Dale being wounded and most of his men slain, he withdrew, beaten, and left the forest.