He who would secure any worldly advantage must be willing to work vigorously for it, and he would be foolish indeed who, waiting with folded hands, expected it to come to him for the mere asking.

" "Well, then," he consented ungraciously, "what is it thou wouldst ask?" She laughed at his reluctance, pressing her hand with a firmer and yet more loving touch on his shoulder.

[Sidenote: Sir Percydes declares himself to Sir Percival] Then Sir Percydes said: "Friend, I will declare to thee that which thou dost ask of me.

And so contrasting, fair and bright, It made me of my fancy ask If half earth's wrinkled grimness might Be but the baby in the mask.

Perhaps he had borne himself proudly when he was at war there; and now to go back and ask favorsto ask for himself what he could not get at homewas humiliating indeed.

They heard a low voice from the inside ask: "Who's there?"

June 28th he declined to sign a memorial asking for the interment of Mr Spottiswoode in Westminster Abbey, stating as his reason, "I take it, that interment possessing such a public character is a public recognition of benefits, political, literary, or philosophical, whose effects will be great and durable.

Could any mortal ask for more?

Why for the elephant-bodied hero ask? Thee, he will findno uncongenial task.

All like ole time Bury hatchettired of war-pathwhy cap'in ask?" "I see all you tell me.

Why thou shouldst ask, I cannot see.

His apprehensions about the fate of a bigger of his acquaintance if its owner ever fell into the hands of this altogether too well-informed young person rose to a degree which almost induced him to cry out, "Really, you rapacious young creature, Arnold's is all any girl need ask, ample, well-invested, solid...."

How often and how warmly did'st thou ask, With epithets of fondness, how I dar'd Imagine such a horror, and to one Present, who would have died, or borne extremes Of any hard endurance, not to give The slightest anguish to a parent's breast!

Let lovers of the unfathomable ask at the same time: Why is man, man?

"I suppose it is quite useless asking to see him?" "Quite.

And agin I wep', and sez to 'em: "How can it be stopped?" Tirzah Ann looked completely squelched and could do nothin' only weakly ask: "If I spozed I could git him to play on a accordeon, she kinder thought that some time she'd hearn of some man, somewhere havin' his mind soothed by one.

Well, but after al this exultation, thou wilt ask, If I have already got back my charmer?I have not;But knowing where she is, is almost the same thing as having her in my power.

And it was then that she began to learn that prayer is not only a passive asking, but the eager straining of every nerve towards fulfilment.

As keepers of the door of his estate the deceased asks for the "forms (or persons) of his father and his mother," and thus we see a desire on the part of the Egyptian to continue the family life which he began upon earth; it goes almost without saying that he would not ask this thing if he thought there would be no prospect of knowing his parents in the next world.