Faint, gray-colored squads of soldiers passed in sight with helmets flashing in the sun; guns were being hauled forward; mounted horsemen dashed here and there, vanishing and reappearing; and all through that wide area of color and action shot up live black spouts of earth crowned in white smoke that hung in the air after the earth fell back.

To hear a person spout Shakspeare on the stage is nothingthe charm is nearly worn outbut to hear any one spout Shakspeare (and that not in a sneaking under-tone, but at the top of his voice, and with the full breadth of his chest) from a Calvinistic pulpit, is new and wonderful.

It occasions water-spouts, volcanoes, and earthquakes.

If he had been thinking about it, he could have seen, dark against the pale fire of the desert sky, the source of his fortune; the great gusher throwing up its black spout of oil, like tons upon tons of coal.

He toiled, and he watched the long spout of chaff and straw as it streamed from the thresher to lift, magically, a glistening, ever-growing stack.

Thinking over it, however, he remembered that just on the other side of the wall was the stable where his father's horses lived, close to the parson's garden; and in the corner, at the foot of the wall, was a drain; so that all he had to do was to fit another spout to this, at right angles to it, and carry it over the wall.

It is the exhaling of the old stock of air, when he brings the "blow-holes," as seamen call the outlets of his respiratory organs, to the surface, that forces the water upward, and forms the "spouts," which usually indicate to the whalers the position of their game.

"I tried it, and as far as I can remember I never went up a safer spout.

Purge with your nostrums and drugs infernal The spouts and gargoyles of these towers, Not me!

Now behold water-spouts vomiting as they rush over the pavements, and rubbish marinates in puddles that fill the holes scooped out of the macadam.

The flames soon burst through the roof of the choir, and in less than an hour the whole was in a blaze, and the melted lead poured down the spouting.

"What produces water-spouts?" MR. BARRAUD.

But you cannot go out just now, sirsee how it rainsa perfect water-spout.

He was not a man to take advice from a Swiss boatman, for he had crossed the line, and seen water spouts and whales!

Indian fire glowed red on the white expanse, blood on marble, and scarlet snow-plant sent up lurid spouts like flaming fountains.

But when he was touched upon the national matter, there sprang out of him a spout of oaths, and he could only tell men to "Kill!

I was thinking up the wrong spout.

Money all blown in, overcoat up the spout, nothing ahead, and a whole year ofof damned foolishness behind.

Sound means when a whale blows, spouts, sends up a big fountain of water.

While giving his directions, he unbound the arm, enlarged the wound in the vein longitudinally, and re-bound the arm tight below the elbow, then quickly opened a vein of his own, and held the syringe to catch the spout that followed.

"After a while I got too heavy to climb spouts, and I took to the regular business, and did well at it, too.

His astonishment was great when first he beheld the whales, those huge and fearful-looking monsters of the ocean, lifting their gigantic heads above the waves, and lashing the surface to foam with their powerful tails; or ejecting vast spouts of water like fountains, from their upraised heads.