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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze. Young—Night Thoughts. Night 1. L. 178.

BLOOD

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Le sang qui vient de se repandre, est-il done si pur? Was the blood which has been shed then so pure? Antoine Barnave, on hearing a criticism of the murder of Foulon and Bartier. (1790) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft. Blood is a juice of rarest quality. Goethe—Faust. I. 4. 214. | note = | topic = | page = 73 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Blud's thicker than water. Scott|Scott]]—Guy Mannering. Ch. XXXVIII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 73 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Hands across the sea Feet on English ground, The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round. Byron Webber—Hands across the Sea. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 73 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Blood is thicker than water. Attributed to Commodore Tattnall. See Eleventh Ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica in notice of Tattnall. Vincent S. Lean stated in Notes and Queries. Seventh S. XIII. 114, he had found the proverb in the British Museum copy of the 1797 Ed. of Allan Ramsay's. Collection,. (First Ed,. 1737)

BLUEBELL ! s Campanula rotundifolia Hang-head Bluebell, Bending like Moses' sister over Moses, Full of a secret that thou dar'st not tell! George MacDonald—Wild Flowers. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 73 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Oh! roses and lilies are fair to see; But the wild bluebell is the flower for me. Louisa A. Meredith—The Bluebell. L. 178. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 73 }}

BLUEBIRD

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = "So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?" "Hush, dear, hush! Be quiet, dear! quiet as a mouse. These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them." | author = Susan Coolidge | work = Secrets. | place = | note = | topic = | page = 73 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa. On the summit of the lodges Sang the robin, the Opechee. | author = Longfellow | work = Hiawatha. Pt. XXI. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 73 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away? E. C. Stedman—The Flight of the Birds. BLUSHES An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes; A smile within his eyelids plays And into words his longing gushes. Wm. R.Alger—Oriental Poetry. Love Sowing and Reaping Roses. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 73 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up bodily, wings and all. E. B. Browning—Aurora Leigh. | place = Bk. II. L. 732. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 73 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less! Byron—Bride of Abydos. Canto 1. St. 8 Blushed like the waves of hell. | author = Byron | work = Devil's Drive. St. 5. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 73 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past. | author = Byron | work = Stanzas for Music. | topic = | page = 73 }}