"'I've a little business down in the lower lake,' says he, 'and must be movin',' and away he bolted like a steam engine, down the lake.

Not waiting to see if he recovered, I turned Brigham, and in a moment we were again fairly flying towards our destination; we had urgent business about that time, and were in a hurry to get there.

"Miserly, indeed!" said he; "not that: he married three rimes, and he was not a man who restricted his official business to too few handshow could he be miserly?"

Do we not know that those people are the very ones who do little work, and often less than none, by thus distracting their attention and their strength from their daily duty, daily business?

More lately the King of Portugal has received from sea twelve ships very richly laden, and he has sent them again to those parts, where they will certainly do a profitable business if they arrive safely.

Come on, boys, we're going to the church tonight and no funny business.

if, after so many lessons from proficients in the art, who drive the business by wholesale, they should not occasionally copy their betters, fall into the fashion, and try their hand in a small way, at a practice which is the only permanent and universal business carried on around them!

But even so, there was no time to train them in the practical business of warand such a war!

"Gentlemen," announced the president, "there is some unfinished business before the meeting.

If they would only stick to their legitimate business of clam-digging, or something of that sort, we should appreciate them, and their obituary notice would be a thing to love, because 'twould be short.

He afterward became a partner in a Manchester cotton-factory, and sometimes travelled on the commercial business of the establishment.

Blackwood was a native of Edinburgh; having served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Bell & Bradfute, booksellers, he was selected by Mundell & Company to take charge of a branch of their extensive publishing business in Glasgow.

In my earlier visits to her Majesty's Courts of Justice my principal business was to study the Queen's Counsel and Serjeants, and they were worthy the attention I bestowed on them.

He wiped the blood from the floor, put the surgery in order, and went on with his interrupted task, hoping that he had come scathless out of a very dangerous business.

Any idea of the cause of the sad business?" "None, as yet.

"Why, 'twas a bloody business!"

But I won't have you drawing some unpleasant business with the Lepailleurs on us all.

My parents spared no cost for masters to instruct me; I had a French governess, and also a woman servant whose sole business it was to attend on me.

" "Shan't Mug or I go this time?" asked Jack Vance; "it's rather a risky business.

He was a noble animal, and ought to have been engaged in better business.

Surely they can not hasten the slow business of negotiation?"

Because he threatened to bring her into that miserable business, you never raised a hand.

This fascinating oil business.

Our food in the saddle-bags would not last long, and I foresaw a ticklish business when it came to hunting for the pot.

"Will you stay here or" Kelson made an irresolute movement as though wavering between the implied invitation to quit the room and an inclination not to run away from the grim business.