For gifts that die have living memories— Voices of unreturning days, that breathe The spirit of a day that never dies.

Endive, or Chicory—This, for salad, takes the same place in winter that lettuce occupies in summer and when well grown is equally valuable. There are two very distinct varieties; … The other sort is the Escarole of the French, and is sweet in flavor, with a wider and flatter leaf, which comes earlier in the season but does not usually form so close a head, although it is preferable in flavor. … Sow twice, early in July and the first week in August. The broad leaf, (which is the Escarole,) for the first crop, and some White Curled for the second crop. A use of the French word in an English text.]

A member of the Qurayshite Umayyad family wanted to claim the poet al-Farazdaq's bride al-Nawār, though the poet thought he could prove that he had a clear claim because he had paid the bride price.

His brother, about the same time, having been sent to newmodel the Spanish government, and to complete the conquest of the French in that quarter, signalized his arrival by the exhibition of a splendid triumph over that people.