Then, perchance, while we gaze awe-stricken, along comes a merry squirrel, chattering and laughing, to break the spell, running up the trunk with no ceremony, and gnawing off the cones as if they were made only for him; while the carpenter-woodpecker hammers away at the bark, drilling holes in which to store his winter supply of acorns.

I cried on the other men to help me, but none stirred, for Gib seemed to cast an unholy spell on ordinary folk.

'tis by night she may work her spells and blast any that she will, or haunt them with goblins damned that they do run mad, or" "Enough!" cried Beltane frowning, "on me let her bewitchments fall; thus, see you, an I within this next week wither and languish 'neath her spells, then let her burn an ye will: but until this flesh doth shrivel on these my bones, no man shall do her hurt.

You cannot succeed as a writer of "lite comidy" if you continue to weave such tragic spells.

I felt the spell myself, piercing through my awe and hatred of the spell-weaver, and I won't say but that my weary head kept time with the others to that weird singing.

To experience such moments is to live with the high fervour which God gave to mortals before towns and laws laid their dreary spell upon them.

Romance hath lost her minstrel, No more his magic strain Shall throw a sweeter spell around, The legends of Almaine.

Frank, try as he would could not shake off his spell.

"IHarryI" "You've got to stop this kind of thing, Millie, getting nervous spells like all the other women do the minute they get ten cents in their pocket.

"My father had leased an old castle in Carinthia, not far from the mountains, and here he kept his books and charts, and here he came for recreation and study whenever his arduous duties gave him a little breathing-spell.

However, it turned out all right, for Major was 'most as pleased as I was; and she told me, finally, that she'd known a long spell that Russell liked me, and the reason he'd been hangin' round her so long was, he'd been tellin' her his plans, and they'd worked out considerable in their heads before she could feel as though he had a good enough lookout to ask me to marry him.

" The moon, dipped beyond a cloud, dissolved the spell.

Nevertheless, mounting the last slope was such hard labour that Mugford had to turn to and "work his passage," by every now and again taking a spell at the treadles.

Will you remove this spell from me? FAIRY QUEEN.

And as to what hath become of my esquires, I know not; but as for that lady, methinks she can be none other than a certain enchantress, hight Vivien, who hath wrought such powerful spells upon Merlin as to have removed him from the eyes of all mankind.

After a brief visit to her daughter in Paris, she was required to take up her residence at Blois, a hundred miles south-west, and there, in complete retirement, she spent her remaining days, still writing cheery words of counsel to her disciples in France and other lands, and enjoying spells of happy converse with the steadfast friends who sought her out in her exile.

A forest exercises the same spell; among mountains one feels it; but in such a cathedral as the Duomo one feels it perhaps most of all, for it is the work of man, yet touched with mystery and wonder, and the knowledge that man is the author of such a marvel adds to its greatness.

After tea came an interview with the head-master in his study, and then what was perhaps a still more trying ordeala long spell of sitting in the big schoolroom answering an incessant fire of questions such as, "What's your name?""Where d'you come from?" etc., etc.

"Come in, Buck, an' set a spell.

"Come away," quavered the cook; "he's putting a spell on us.

Lastly, to counteract the spell of the evil eye, from which many innocent persons were believed to suffer in the witchcraft period, many flowers have been in requisition among the numerous charms used.

10 With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll: And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul? Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve, And Hope without an object cannot live.

We've been having a spell of turrible hot wether in Beulah.

"If I hold out a spell on namin' her," said Reuben, as in the twilight of the third day he sat by his wife's bedside; "if I hold out a spell on namin' her, I shall get all the folks in the district into the store, and sell out clean," and he laughed quizzically, and stroked the little mottled face which lay on the pillow.

As soon as he had heard her tale, he went behind the back door and began muttering, muttering, muttering-making spells.