Bloated. Bloated like a squeezed cat. ANON. Bloodless, Lips as bloodless as lips of the slain. - WHITTIER. Bloody. Bloody as the hunter. SHAKE SPEARE. Bloom. Blooming as health. ANACREON. Bloomed like a bridal-chamber. ANON. Blooming as a peach. — IBID. Blooming with promise like an apple in the month of May. - IBID. Her bloom was like the silver flower, That sips the silver dew. - VINCENT BOURNE. Bloomed like smouldering lilies unconsumed. JOHN DAVIDSON. Blooming as a bridal maid. WALTER HARTE. Blooms like a bower in the garden of Bliss.-O. W. HOLMES. Blooming as roses in the vale. — MRS. J. HUNTER. Her bloom was like the springing flower, That sips the silver dew; The rose was budded in her cheeks, - DAVID MALLET. Verses bloom like a flower. Bloom'd in the winter of his days, - SIR CHARLES SEDLEY. Bloomed, as new life might in a bloodless face. -SWINBURNE. -- Bloomed like a rose in a garden WORDSWORTH. green. - DAVID VEDDER. BLUSH. Blush-continued. Blushing like the dogwood crimson in October. - GEORGE MEREDITH. Blushed like timid daybreak when the dawn Looms crimson on the night, and then again is withdrawn. - THOMAS MILLER. Blushing like a summer morning. - BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Blushed like a girl fresh from school. - SIR GILBERT PARKER. Blushing as in vintage-hours.— THOMAS L. PEACOCK. Blush'd like a carnation. - IBID. Blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. - JAMES G. PERCIVAL. Blush like lads of seventeen. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. Blushes bright pass o'er her cheek, But pure and pale as is the glow of sunset on a mountain peak, Robed in eternal snow. RUSKIN. Blushing, like some shy maiden in convent bred.-SIR WALTER SCOTT. Blush... like a black dog, as the saying is. SHAKESPEARE. Blushing like the perfumed morn. - R. B. SHERIDAN. Blush like my waistcoat. IBID. SMOLLETT. Blushing like Aurora. Blushed as with bloodless passion, and its hue Was as the life and love of hearts on flame. - SWINBURNE. a young virgin her wedding night.-BAYARD Meate Is often but half sod, for want of Heate: His Spleen's a Vessell, Nature does allott To take the skimme, that rises from the Pott: His Lungs are like the Bellowes that respire In ev'ry office, quickning ev'ry Fire: His Nose, the Chimney is, whereby are vented Such Fumes, as with the Bellowes are augmented: His Bowels are the Sinke, whose part's to dreine All noysome filth, and keep the His Eyes like Christian Windowes Lets in the Object and lets out the And as the Timber is, or great or small, FRANCIS QUARLES. Boldly, like eagles on the wing. HUGO. Bones. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. OLD TESTAMENT. Bony. Bony as an ossified shad. — ANON. Books. A house without books is like a room without windows. HENRY WARD BEECHER. Books, like invisible scouts, permeate the whole habitable globe, and Timbuctu itself is not safe from British Literature. CARLYLE. A book, like a grape-vine, should have good fruit among its leaves. — E. P. DAY. As a thing on the eastern mountains shineth by the presence of the sun; so one of humble birth, even, may be enlightened by the allurements of good books. HITOPADESA. Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. - PAXTON HOOD. It is with books as with women, - where a certain plainness of manner |