Each bush and tree was coated with rime, and edged with a tracery of delicate lacework.
The girls were very excited, and watched anxiously, hoping that the snow would continue; and they rejoiced as each bush and shrub in the garden became more and more smothered.
A wild hawk would have no chance with a magpie, unless he caught him unawares, crossing from one bush or plantation to another.
So constant is this choice by a lark of the very nearest bush in any thicket, that, after searching it thoroughly without success, I should be inclined to leave that plantation altogether and try some other place of shelter.
I shall see the wildebeeste grazing on the horizon once more--and hear the guinea-fowl in the bush crying 'come back!
Every bush was hung with diamonds, the young grass rippled like a child's hair, and birds were everywhere, voicing the glory of the morning.
Now that I see you clearly, let me add that if I met your skin on a bush in the middle of the Sahara desert, I'd know it for a Champneys hide.
You can hide in somebush near-by, where we can't look at you.
Quite often he went skipping about from tree to tree or from bush to bush, sometimes flying and sometimes leaping.
They had nothing more to do that day, and they turned into the dark little wine shop, where the withered bush stuck out of the blackened grating.
A strap E passes round the bush and on to the end of the rod as shown.
The bush is in two parts, which are pressed tightly together by means of a cotter.
We may just add that in this particular example the brass bush is lined with white metal as shown, and that the construction of the oil-box is the same as that on the coupling rod end shown in fig.
When the brass bush becomes worn it is replaced by a new one.
If a wedge or cotter F be driven into these three holes they will tend to come into line, and the parts of the bush will be pressed together.
In this form the brass bush is provided with a flange all round on one side, but on the opposite side the flange is omitted except at one end; this is to allow of the bush being placed within the end of the rod.
The cross-head pin need not be drawn separately, and the isometric projection of the bush at (b) may be omitted, but all the other views shown are to be drawn to a scale of 6 inches to a foot.
A short brass tube leads oil from the upper slide block into a hole in the cross-head as shown, which carries it to a slot in the bush which distributes it over the cross-head pin.
A B is the end of the rod which butts against the brass bush C D, which is in two pieces.
The construction of the bush will be understood by reference to the sketch shown at (b).
The brass bush is shown at (d) by half elevation, half vertical section, half plan, and half horizontal section.
The packing is compressed by screwing down the cast-iron gland L M, which is lined with a brassbush N.
The bush in the cross-head which forms the bearing for the cross-head pin is of wrought iron, case-hardened, and is prevented from rotating by the key shown.
Fitting into the bottom of the stuffing-box is a brass bush H.
So conscious do they seem that their great security lies in concealment, that they will remain motionless until a dog is almost on them or until the beater reaches the very bush under which they are crouching.
They here retain their shy habits of flying off at the approach of a human being, and are often seen to drop suddenly, where they may remain concealed from sight behind a stone, furze-bush or bank.
In summer, especially during the hot afternoons of July, when most other birds have closed their concert for the season, it loves to perch on the top of a furze bush or other shrub, and repeat its simple song.
It builds its nest on the stump of a tree, or in a bush among wet places, or in the roots of alders, but often it is placed on the low-lying branch of a tree overhanging the water.
The nest of goose grass and soft bits of furze, wool and moss is placed in the fork of a furze-bush selected for its thickness and difficulty of access.
It is usually first detected by its rapidly repeated note, which it utters while performing its short flights from bush to bush, and while creeping in and out among reeds and rushes.
Here they build their nests at a moderate distance from the ground, more frequently in a furze-bush than anywhere else, but occasionally in other shrubs or an adjoining hedge.
I-200] The painting of Boturini seems actually to represent Huitzilopochtli appearing in a burning bush in the mountain of Teoculhuacan to the Aztecs.
And aye she wrought her mammie's wark, And aye she sang sae merrilie; The blythest bird upon the bush Had ne'er a lighter heart than she.
Within the bush her covert nest A little linnet fondly prest; The dew sat chilly on her breast, Sae early in the morning.
They plucked the two roses, and the bushsank again into the earth.
She shook two grains upon the earth, and there arose a greenish bush with two red roses, which bent towards each other, and seemed to kiss.
They had formed a house out of a thick bush of wild palms over the well.
It did not lead to Walhalla, but from a spiraea bush to a hemp bush, and beneath it slept a pair of swans, who awoke at the stroke of the oars and with outspread wings swam behind the boat begging for bread.
When he turned his profile toward her, she saw a lean, bony face with a prominent nose and a bushof reddish-brown hair on either side of his chin.
After that, for the bush was slightly more open, Carroll believed he ran, and presently came crashing and stumbling into the light of the fire.
When one goes up into thebush it's not to lounge and dream there, but to make war upon it with the axe and drill.
In front of them a deep trough opened up in the hills, but it was filled with giant forest, through which no track led, and only those who have traversed the dim recesses of the primeval bush can fully understand what this implies.
I left him in the bush with no more than a few days' provisions and a broken leg," he said.
Does anything in connection with this bush strike you?
She had heard of thebush choppers' free hospitality, and she thought it was a graceful thing that he should acknowledge his debt to them.
The bush must be even quieter than the English dales.
I've been up in the bush and I'm interested in the Clermont mine.
The first of it reminded me of a coyote howling, but the rest's more like the noise the timber wolves make in the bush at night.
Where the trees were thinner, the ground was frozen hard, and even in the densest bush the undergrowth was white and stiff with frost, while, when they could see aloft through some chance opening, a forbidding grey sky hung over them.
Nor breathed he free till far behind The pass was left; for then they wind Along a wide and level green, Where neither tree nor tuft was seen, Nor rush nor bush of broom was near, To hide a bonnet or a spear.
The whipsnake, of a beautiful changing green, and the coral with alternate broad transverse bars of black and red, glide from bush to bush, and may be handled with safety; they are harmless little creatures.
He held up his paddle in a position, as much as to say, that he would keep exactly amid channel; and then made a sign to cut the bush rope that held the canoe to the fallen tree.
Namu had been in the bush with him once, and returned glorifying God for these wonders.
I made, as near as I could, for the place where I had seen Case come out; for if it was true he had some kind of establishment in the bush I reckoned I should find a path.
There was a tree growing in the bush there,” says he, “and it seems these devils came to get the leaves of it.
But the queerness of the place it’s more difficult to tell of, unless to one who has been alone in the high bush himself.
It was little enough Keola cared for their fine ways; all he saw was the white teeth shining in their mouths, and his gorge rose at the sight; and when they were done eating, he went and lay in the bush like a dead man.
At this Uma fell in a terrible taking; if I went in the high bush I should never return; none could go there but by the protection of Tiapolo.
The first landfall I made was when I got through the bush of wild cocoanuts, and came in view of the bogies on the wall.
The floor of the bush glimmered with dead wood, the way the match-box used to shine after you had struck a lucifer.
What scares him in the dark or the high bush is that he can’t make sure, and there might be an army at his elbow.
All this time the hurry I was in, and the free air and smell of the sea, kept my spirits lively; but when I was once in the bush and began to climb the path I took it easier.
Island Nights’ Entertainments Contents: The Beach of Falesá A south sea bridal The Ban The Missionary Devil-work Night in the bush The Bottle Imp The Isle of voices THE BEACH OF FALESÁ.
Well, as I stood there thinking, it seemed the bush woke and became full of little noises.
Challis, sensitively aware of her own want of courage to explore and grow familiar with these bush things, got into the habit of shrinking away when Floss came on the scene.
I'll be down in the bush at the back, if you want to come and have a try to play.
Through the pleasant winter sunshine they rode, up hill, down dale, across bush stretches where Mortimer's horse had worn a path for them.
But Floss struggled to the ground, dived under the bunk, dragged at one of the tent-pegs, and was out and flying off to the bush like a wild rabbit before any one could stop her.
The air was fragrant with the bush scents that rise after rain.
Even the newest clearings flaunted rich carpets of grass, green as grass only springs where a bush fire has purged the ground for it.
There were footsteps in the bush just near, a panting of breath, a curious dragging sound.
They drove up the road that wound out of civilised Wilgandra away to parts where the bush took on its wild character again, and rolled either side of them in unbroken severity and loneliness for miles.
The transports sent from the Cape for the Bush Contingent--The Atlantian and the Maplemore--were already anchored out in the stream, the great numbers painted on their sides adding an unusual note to the shipping on the smiling harbour.
That is removed, since it never existed; so it only remains to find out the date of the sailing of the Bush contingent.
Used to the pleasant uproar and friendliness and excitement of cities, this little clearing in the great silent bush oppressed her intolerably after a week or two.
A Final Reckoning:= A Tale ofBush Life in Australia.
However, I never meant to go down, though I used to stand on the edge and look longingly down into the bush and fancy I saw bears moving about in scores.
As soon as the shore was reached all sprang out of the boat, which was tied to a bush growing nearby.
He talked around the bush a good deal at first, and I led him on, wanting to know what he had up his sleeve.
Ahmed could just see the fugitive ahead, bending low on the saddle, skirting obstacles in bush and tree.
They trotted past us, and then stopped behind a little patch of bush about a hundred yards away, wheeling round to look at us.
It was easy work to follow the elephants, for they had left a trail like a carriage road behind them, crushing down the thick bush in their furious flight as though it were tambouki grass.
Presently, from the depths of the bush behind us, came a loud "woof, woof!
It was a rise, a little rand, flowing out from a tall kopje, grass and bushto its crown, and at its skirts ran a wide spruit of clear water.
Over the low bush about him he could see his hills yet a couple of hours off, and he sighed for thirst and extreme discomfort.
With the darkness came a breeze, cool and refreshing; the sky filled with sharp points of light, and the bush woke with a new life.
At the foot of the hills north of Macequece every yard of earth is vocal with life, and the bush is brave with color.
And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses.
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush, and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Sometimes a large bush is suspended from the ceiling, around the stem of which tow is wound wet with oil of turpentine.
This is frequently represented in this manner: When the person reading comes to that part where it says, "God called to him out of the midst of the bush and said," etc.
And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.
We were again caused to travel three times around the room, during which the following passage of Scripture was read, and we were shown a representation of the bush that burned and was not consumed: Exodus iii.
