Myself will search our planted grounds at home, For downypeaches and the glossy plum; And thrash the chesnuts in the neighbouring grove, Such as my Amaryllis used to love.
The lady was leaning wearily against the door-post, but now she came forward, and dropped exhausted into the downy pillows of a lounge.
They say the ball will be very good," replied the princess, drawing up her downy little lip.
The princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered.
The conversation was general and animated, thanks to Princess Lise's voice and little downy lip that lifted over her white teeth.
Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained lifted in childlike happiness.
Strands of her black hair lay round her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully.
That downy bloom of happiness, which unfaithful and ignoble poets have persisted in declaring always vanished at the touch and wear of life, is delicate and fresh as ever, and must remain so if we remain unprofane.
Here in all directions spread out actual velvet lawns, upon which when I trod I seemed to sink into a downy enchantment; and these lawns were of such a tint, of the most delicate pea-green, with a lustre upon it!
It's me for the downy couch now and the early bird stunt in the morning.
The "downy couch" resolved itself into beds hollowed out in the sand with the boys' coats rolled up for pillows.
But, for all that, he is a downy bird--a verydowny bird.
But despite her shrill remonstrances, he would still visit the window box, perching on Downy Woodpecker's marrow-bone for an opera stage and trilling his matins and vespers to our delighted ears.
An indescribable ray of joy illumined that wretched countenance like the last ray of the sun before it disappears behind the clouds which bear the aspect, not of a downy couch, but of a tomb.
The head is of a grey colour, with a very long pendulous blackish crest composed of a few lightdowny feathers.
I gathered a shrubby Willow, with lanceolate downy leaves like those of Elaeagnus.
The leaves are furrowed along the course of the veins, and convex between them, slightly downy and of a greyish green on the upper side; clothed with snowy woolliness beneath.
These downy seedballs, which children blow off to find out the hour of day, serve for other oracular purposes.
A nice, comfortable, feathery neck it felt--so soft that she could not help laying her head down upon it, and nestling in the downy cushion.
A carpeting of the small downy saxifrage [FN: Saxifraga nivalis.
The leaves are broad, stalked, obcordate, with toothed angles, and of a fine green colour, with violet downy veins.
A vigorous perennial grass, forming ample tufts of reed-like downy stems 6½ ft.
A species distinguished by its very downy and fringed fruit, with robust stems, 6½ ft.
Stems reddish below, green and downy above, more than 8 ft.
If some very dwarf plants are used as a groundwork, so much the better; but the downy and silvery leaves of this plant are sure to please without this aid.
Its long, deeply-divided leaves, white and downy beneath, its height (4 ft.
Downy and Hairy the Woodpeckers were getting their breakfast from a piece of suet Farmer Brown's boy had thoughtfully fastened in one of the apple-trees for them.
By the way, do you know thatDowny is one of the most useful birds in the Old Orchard?
If it were not that Hairy is bigger thanDowny it would be hard work to tell them apart.
Downy and Hairy the Woodpeckers, Seep-Seep the Brown Creeper and Yank-Yank the Nuthatch are others.
Downy has too much sense in that little head of his to do such a silly thing as that.
That hollow limb makes the best kind of a drum and Downy is making the most of it.
He uses them in the same way that Downy the Woodpecker uses his tail feathers when he braces himself with them on the trunk of a tree.
On the trunk of an apple-tree he caught sight of a gray and black and white bird about the size of Downy the Woodpecker.
Just then Downy flew away, but hardly had he disappeared when another drummer took his place.
There is Downy the Woodpecker hard at work on a new house this very minute.
Downy is drumming for precisely the same reason--happiness.
There he clings to the side just as Downy the Woodpecker clings to the trunk of a tree.
At first Peter thought Downy had returned until he noticed that the newcomer was just a bit bigger than Downy.
In fact, those holes in the bank were no bigger than the holes Downy the Woodpecker makes in trees.
Some of these were of vast dimensions, their downy wings speckled and striped with varied and gorgeous tints.
The downy ruff around the breast and neck is milk-white, and the naked wrinkled skin of the neck and head is of a blackish red or claret colour, while the legs are ashy blue.
The Devil's Tavern was a resort for actors, authors, bohemians, lords and ladies, who did not retire early to theirdowny couches.
The downyseed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.
If merit sues, and greatness is so loth To break its downy trance, I pity both.
And gives our rulers undesign’d applause; Tells how their conduct bids our wealth increase, And lulls us in the downy lap of peace.
Ducks in terror, and for a minute the air was full of soft downyfeathers like flakes of snow.
See, he shakes his downy feather robe, and the little snow-flakes fly fast and faster!
Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breath my life out sweetly there.
On wings of down they lately flew, But then their moments pass'd with you; And still with you could I but be, On downy wings they'd always flee.
What respect I now feel for a sober, steady-going, successful old hen, who raises brood after brood of downy darlings without mishaps!
She would never consent to let one of the downy things out of her sight for a moment, and told them fearful stories of hawks and weasels, to say nothing of bad boys and big dogs.
No: people who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.
Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth.
