hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded2 it, and did bake unleavened bread2 thereof; and she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat*.—B.

Fancy may bolt bran and think it flour.-Proverb.

Flowers of the field, how meet3 ye seem2...man's frailty to portray,... blooming so fair2 in morning's beam,...passing at eve away; teach this, and oh! though brief your2 reign3, sweet flowers ye shall not2 live in vain3.—Blackwood's Maga

zine.

There's not a flower...but2 shows some2 touch, in freckle, streak, or stain,...of God's unrivalled pencil2.-Cowper.

If you would2 enjoy the fruit, pluck not? the flower.

49.-FOUL, FOWL.

Murder most foul, as in the best it is;...but this' most foul, strange, and unnatural.—Sh.

The Alcayde had been2 so3 frightened that he never eat* fowls again; and* he always pulled off* his* hat...when* he saw a cock and hen. Wherever he sat at table...not2 an egg might2 there2 be2 placed; and he never even mustered... courage for a custard,...though garlic tempted him2 to taste... of* an omelet now and then.-Southey.

51.-GALL, GAUL.

12 loathe suspicion; 'tis a fiend that preys...upon the nobler virtues of the heart2,...and by2 its morbid touch converts them all,...to gall and mortal poison.

They gave me also gall for my meat3, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink....B.

Grasping at one2 pleasure,...we let others fall; yet how scant the measure...if we sum2 them all2,...honey-drops scarce tasted in a sea2 of gall.-R. M. Milnes.

The Romans, who conquered France under Julius Cæsar,

about B.C. 50, styled it Gallia, from the Gauls, by whom it was chiefly occupied.

52.-GOURD, GORED.

To raise the prickly and green-coated gourd,...so3 grateful to the palate is an art...that toiling ages have2 but2 just2 matured.

And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made2 it to come up over Jonah, that it might2 be2 a shadow over his head, to deliver him2 from his grief. So3 Jonah was exceedingly glad of his* gourd.-B.

What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade... invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? 'Tis she! but why that bleeding bosom gored? Why dimly gleams the visionary sword2-Pope.

He was gored by2 a mad bull.

50.-FREEZE, FRIEZE.

But2 that I am forbid...to tell the secrets of my prisonhouse,...I could a tale2 unfold, whose lightest word... would? harrow* up thy soul2; freeze thy young blood;...make thy two2 eyes, like stars, start from their2 spheres ;...and each particular hair2 to stand on end,...like quills upon the fretful porcupine:...but2 this eternal blazon must not2 be2...to ears* of flesh and blood.-Hamlet, Sh.

The air is sweet with violets, running wild...'mid broken friezes and fallen capitals;...sweet as when Tully, writing2 down his thoughts,...sailed slowly by2, two thousand years ago,...for Athens.-Rogers.

Water freezes or* hardens into ice at a temperature of 32° Fahrenheit.

Frieze is* a term in architecture for that part of the* entablature of a column between the architrave and cornice, often ornamented with figures.

53. GREAT, GRATE.

The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon,...in corporal sufferance finds a pang as great...as when* a giant dies2.-Sh.

Be2 not afraid of greatness; some2 are born great, some2 achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.-Sh.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.-Sh.

And straight2 the sun2 was flecked with bars,... (Heaven's Mother send us grace !)...as if through a dungeon's grate he peered...with broad and burning face.-Ancient Mariner,! Coleridge.

54. GUEST, GUESSED.

The wedding guest sat on a stone: he cannot choose2 but2 hear; and thus spake on that ancient man, the bright-eyed mariner.-Coleridge.

And soon from guest to guest the panic spread.-Rogers.

Gessner: But first, I'd see2 thee make a trial of thy skill with that same bow. Thy arrows* never miss, 'tis said. Tell: What is the trial? Gessner: Thou looks't upon thy boy* as though thou guessed it. Tell: Look upon my boy! what mean you?... Look upon my boy as though I guessed it !— guessed at the trial thou wouldst have me make! guessed itinstinctively! Thou dost not2 mean-no2, no, thou wouldst not have me make.....a trial of my skill upon my child? Impossible! I do not2 guess thy meaning.-J. S. Knowles.

55.-GILT, GUILT.

As when the golden sun2 salutes the morn,...and having gilt the ocean with his beams...gallops the zodiac in his glittering coach,...aud overlooks the highest peering hills*; so3 Tamora

-Sh.

In sights of God and us your guilt is great2; receive the

sentence of the law, for sins...such as* by2 God's book are adjudged to death.-Sh.

The heaviness and guilt within my bosom...takes off my manhood.--Sh.

56.-GROAN, GROWN.

The blood of English shall manure the ground,...and future ages groan for this foul2 act.-Sh.

My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown...too? headstrong for their2 mother.-Sh.

57.-GAIT, GATE.

Highest queen of state,...great2 Juno comes; 12 know2 her by her gait.-Sh.

For that2 John Mortimer, which* now is dead,...in face, in gait, in speech, he doth resemble.-Sh.

And with that he opened the gate. So3 when* Christian was stepping in, the other gave him a pull. Then said Christian, What means that? The other told2 him2, A little distance from this gate, there2 is erected a strong castle, of which Beelzebub is the captain; from thence both he and they that are with him2, shoot arrows* at those that come up to this gate, if haply they may die2 before they can enter in. Then said Christian, I2 rejoice and tremble. So3 when he was got in, the man at the gate asked him who had directed him2 thither.-Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan.

58.-HAIL, HALE.

All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter.-Sh.

And Moses stretched forth2 his rod towards Heaven; and the Lord sent2 thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained2 hail upon the land of

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Egypt. So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none2 like it in all2 the land of Egypt, since it became a nation.-B.

There2 sat one day in quiet by an ale2-house on the Rhine,...four2 hale and hearty fellows, and drank the precious wine*.-Longfellow.

Go, hither hale that misbelieving Moor2,...to be2 adjudged some2 direful slaughtering death,...as punishment for his most wicked life.-Sh.

59.—HAIR, HARE.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear*,...or* like a fairy trip upon the green; or* like a nymph, with bright and flowing hair,...dance on the sands, and yet no2 footing seen2.

Why thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more* or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no2 other reason but2 because thou hast hazle eyes. Thy head is as full of quarrels, as* an egg is full of meat 3 Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain2 asleep in the sun2. Didst thou not2 fall out with a tailor for wearing his* new2 doublet before Easter? with another, for tying his* new2 shoes with old* ribbon? and yet thou wilt tutor me for quarrelling!—Romeo and Juliet,Sh.

What would you3 have, you3 curs,...that like not2 peace2 nor* war? the one2 affrights you,3...the other makes you3 proud. He that trusts you2,...where he should find you lions, finds you3 hares: where* foxes, geese. You are no2 surer, no2,...than is the coal of fire upon the ice,...or* hailstone in the sun.2-Coriolanus, Sh.

O! the blood more stirs, to rouse a lion than to start a hare. Sh.

60.-HART, HEART.

As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so3 panteth my soul2 after thee, O God.-B.