But, upon my soul, as I said to Blindway just now, I don't know whether that bill's a mere advertisement or adeath warrant!" "Death warrant!" exclaimed Allerdyke.

After this little episode, I continued, to some few that remained balancing teaspoons on the edges of cups, twirling knives, or tilting upon the hind legs of their chairs until their heads reached the wall, where they left gratuitous advertisements of various popular cosmetics.]

And in the Gazetteer of 18th April, 1769, appeared a very extraordinary advertisement with the following title; "Horses, Tim Wisky, and black Boy, To be sold at the Bull and Gate Inn. Holborn, A very good Tim Wisky, little the worse for wear, &c." Afterwards, "A Chesnut Gelding;" then, "A very good grey Mare;" and last of all, (as if of the least consequence)

Then she had read a singular advertisement for a lost ring, a seal ring, with some Arabic letters engraved upon it.

To him we owe it, that we no longer see our public papers polluted by hateful advertisements of the sale of the human species, or that we are no longer distressed by the perusal of impious rewards for bringing back the poor and the helpless into slavery, or that we are prohibited the disgusting spectacle of seeing man bought by his fellow-man.

The speech was, indeed, a splendid advertisement, but the greater and brighter merits of the poem soon proved that it was not requisite, for the speech made no impression, but the poem was at once hailed with delight and admiration.

] There is yet another class of testimony quite as pertinent as the foregoing, which may at any time be gleaned from the newspapers of the slave statesthe advertisements of masters for their runaway slaves, and casual paragraphs coldly relating cruelties, which would disgrace a land of Heathenism.

I have been saved from many bad novels by the helpful pictorial advertisements of modern publishers.

The consequence was that his newspaper obtained a great reputation for high moral tone, and lost all its theatrical advertisements.

" The foregoing advertisements are sufficient for our purpose, scores of similar ones may be gathered from the newspapers of the slave states every month.

are only to be found in the hundredth edition of a work known by its mysterious advertisement in the columns of a London newspaper.

In an old paper, dated Friday, 13th Aug. 1695, is the following curious advertisement: "At the marine coffee-house, in Birchin-lane, is water-gruel to be sold every morning from six till eleven of the clock.

Truth, like many another excellent commodity, needs a vulgar advertisement, if it is to become operative in the masses.

He was accordingly obliged to resort to every method of bringing himself and his Almanac into prominence, which he did by extensive and impudent advertisements in the newspapers and elsewhere.

There was also a remarkable advertisement which appeared in the "Times" for a considerable period, and was never seen by Charles.

Glaring advertisements covered the walls of the houses, mysterious and funereal, to excite the curiosity of the public.

Official county advertisements appear in it.

He looked exceedingly disturbed and annoyed, and the man now sitting by his side suddenly regretted that he had said anything about that absurd advertisement.

The effigies of the Saxon bishops in the choir aisles were probably an after-thought of Bishop Joceline, who perhaps thought that this tardy testimonial to the labours of his predecessors would be an effective advertisement of the priority of his see.

The master mathematician's grim warnings were treated by many as so much mere elaborate self-advertisement.

It was one of those electrical spelling-advertisements, worked by a small motor commutator driven by a works-motor, and I had now set it going: for on some night before that Sabbath of doom the chemist must have set it to work, but finding the works abandoned, had not troubled to shut it down again.

My reason is that the endless advertisements must be extremely confusing to the novice, who does not know what to believe, and who may sometimes be let down by a glowing description of some place or gear, which proves to be quite unsuitable.

and he unfolds it with the respect which we owe to holy things, and he reads it all religiously from the first article to the everlasting advertisement of Rob Boyreau Laffecteur.

If only he could do such things at odd moments as a gentleman should, and not continuously for money, in clothes unlike those of the expensive advertisements!

The apartment was carpetless, and the dust of a decade lay deep on the old books, shelves, and the familiar advertisements of guano and fertilizers which decorated the room.