From Worcestershire I have seen no records except that probably exhaustive one by Mr. Edwin Lees in his “Botany and Geology of Malvern,” where we find about 240 species recorded for the Malvern district, but outside the area under notice here.
But that did not prevent Mr. LEES SMITH from making a long speech, on the assumption that by promising to help France to recover her ravished provinces we had improperly extended the objects of the war.
She asked me the last time I saw her, "Wanneer gaat, minheer, dan mij stukkie lees uit die Bijbel?
Lees leaped forward just in time to hear an iron bar clang into place.
Lees descried him as he paused before a dimly lighted door.
Lees was making a record for himself among the nation's crime-detectors.
Lees sprang forward, pressed his weight against the partly-open portal; flashed his dark lantern on two figures struggling violently.
Chief Lees took every credit for the thwarting of a "Plot of Southern Pirates" who "Conspired to Prey Upon the Golden Galleons From California.
Through it allLees could be heard profanely giving orders.
It seemed to typify her, as somehow she seemed to typify a purity and a courage that was soul deep--for that contempt and abhorrence was for the man whom she believed to be the Rat, who in turn typified the dregs and lees of all that was vile.
To leave no lees within the cup, To see and take and rend; To lap a girl's limbs up like wine, And laugh, knowing the end!
No, the last lees must be drained up, Base wine from an ignoble cup; (Yet not so base as sleek content When I had shrunk from punishment) The wretched body strain anew!
The descendants of the ancient chivalry of France looked with scorn upon the new men, who, rising perhaps from the very lees of the people, claimed from superior wealth a share in the privileges of the aristocracy.
These clubs were composed of members drawn from the lees of the people, that they might not, in their own persons, give an example contradicting the equality which it was their business to enforce.
In the intestines, but especially in the duodenum and rectum, it was of a livid colour, presenting many black spots, and covered by a gelatinous and bloody secretion, resembling lees of wine.
The deep muscles existed as such no longer, but were entirely disorganized, and converted into a putrid pulp, resembling masses of the red lees of wine, extremely fetid, and disengaging a quantity of gas.
In the former situation, the rugae were prominent, and of a violet colour; in the latter, the membrane was of the colour of pale lees of wine.
The mucous membrane of these organs, as well as of the jejunum and rectum, were gorged with blood, of the colour of the lees of red wine, but without any inflammatory thickening of their coats.
I did not go up to the Lees that night, but the next evening upon walking up after work-hours, I found John Ross there; and that on all sides I was received with a studied coldness.
The Lees were familiar with Arlington as well, for Robert was a favorite with the Custises from boyhood.
The Leesand Custises would sit and converse here on warm summer evenings, or perhaps read the latest English novel aloud to each other.
Hoping to divert Mr. Custis, the Lees took him back with them to West Point.
The war ended early in 1848, and seeing many of the returning volunteers enjoy Mr. Custis' hospitality at Arlington Spring must have made the Lees more impatient for the return of their own hero.
His last wish had been to be buried by the side of his wife, and to that spot his coffin had been borne by the family servants, followed by the Lees and a host of relatives and friends.
The family parlor was the favorite gathering place of the Lees and Custises, who entertained most of their guests in it even after the drawing room was completed.
To ease his loneliness, the Lees came home on brief visits in the spring and summer of 1854.
Small and informal, the family dining room was used as such from the time the center section of the house was built until the Lees departed in 1861.
Mrs. Randolph was related to both the Custises and the Lees and was well known in the early part of the nineteenth century as the author of an extremely popular cookbook, The Virginia Housewife.
A man and ready he drained his glass to the lees and walked, to men too they gave themselves, manly conscious, lay with men lovers, a youth enjoyed her, to the yard.
The house at Norton Lees has been supposed by some persons to be as old as the reign of Richard II.
And then keep a watchful eye on your Holcomb Lees and your Paul Woods!
With difficulty he persuaded Lees to get into a cab with him and drive to Manchester to the public-house.
He assembled the Friends at Gravesend and Chatham, and prophesied before them, and William Lees at the former place saw the enchanting Cordelia Chenne, whom he afterwards married, thus fulfilling the prediction of Wroe in the billy-boat.
The confidence of his faithful disciple Lees was somewhat dashed shortly before this by an exposure of the Prophet at Manchester.
Lees called a covenant meeting, and the sum of eighty pounds was raised, and placed at the disposal of the Prophet, who departed with it.
Mr. Lees appeared on the scene with a white surplice on and an ink-bottle at his left side it was a distinct throwing down of the gauntlet, and was likely to lead to unpleasant results.
Now it happened that Lees' friend did business at a certain public-house in Manchester, and having noticed Wroe there, and being shortly after at Ashton, he asked Leeswhere the Prophet was.
The Prophet announced to Lees that he was called by the Spirit on a mission, but that he had no money.
He was, in fact, to Lindsay what William Leeswas to John Wroe.
A Yeoman told me lately, "It was simply splendid the cool way in which Colonel Browne and Sir Elliot Lees superintended the waggons being moved from camp.
Of this wine, the first bottle being a little thick at the bottom, Brisemont poured the leesinto a glass, and d'Artagnan desired him to drink it, for the poor devil had not yet recovered his strength.
To avoid being infested with smoke, they burned dry wood soaked in the lees of oil.
To give them the requisite whiteness, they are thrown into a copper vessel, containing a solution of tin and the lees of wine.
The oil referred to in the last formula is obtained by distillation from the leesof wine, either dried and made up into cakes, or in their wet state, mixed with about 7 or 8 times their weight of water.
Brandy from any part of the world may be very closely imitated by distilling the oil from the lees of the wines produced in that particular district.
From the lees of sour, damaged, and inferior red wines, the marc or cake of grapes, &c.
Pieces of linen dipped into the juice of mulberries, blood-red grapes, lees of red wine, &c.
When the isinglass is put into the cask, stir it round with a stick, taking great care not to touch the lees at the bottom.
This operation is performed at long intervals, of a month or more, till the end of December, when on a fine frosty day it should be drawn off from the lees as fine as possible; and the turbid part passed through flannel.
A busy street, thus pictured, in that time, shows many Trol-lees rushing by, filled with merry people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
