Night came again, and the fire-flies flew; But the
bud let them pass, and drank of the dew; While the soft stars shone, from the still summer heaven, On the happy little flower that had learned the lesson given.
It's all right, Saxon," Billy began, but was interrupted by Bud.
Billy sat down on the bed, and while Saxon held the lamp, Bud and the strangers proceeded to cut coat, shirt, and undershirt from him.
Well, I got my boots on, and we went down and slipped in and laid the paper of sugar on the berth, and sat down soft and sheepish and went to listening to
Bud Dixon snore.
His Serene and Tremendous Majesty, King Bud of Noland.
King Bud of Noland and his dainty fair-haired sister, the Princess Fluff, were friends of Zixi, as their kingdoms were adjoining, so they had traveled together from their far-off domains to do honor to Ozma of Oz on the occasion of her birthday.
She was gathering the
buds called "lords and ladies" from the bank while he spoke.
He had faith enough to believe, and wisdom enough to know, that the bloom of the flower would be even holier and happier than its
bud.
The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connexion of the former and present
buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups.
Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams meant everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.
To them the coming examinations were constantly very important indeed--far more important than chestnut buds or Maytime hazes.
There were flowering cherry-trees near and apple-trees whose
buds were pink and white, and here and there one had burst open wide.
