All my friends are open-mouthed about having paling before the river; but I cannot see that because a ... lunatic chooses to walk into a river, with his eyes open, at mid-day, I am any the more likely to be drowned in it, coming home at midnight.

Which of these, O king, wouldst thou choose, and where, O foremost of monarchs, shall we spend this year?' "Yudhishthira said 'O thou of mighty arms, it is even so.

Its sixteen volumes are so many tickets of admission to the vast and devious vaults of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through which we wander, tasting a thimbleful of rich Canary, honeyed Cyprus, or subacidulous Hock, from what dusty butt or keg our fancy chooses.

Which of these, O king, wouldst thou choose, and where, O foremost of monarchs, shall we spend this year?' "Yudhishthira said 'O thou of mighty arms, it is even so.

The first jog and shog are identical in meaning and derivation, and may be traced, by whosoever chooses, to the Gothic tiuhan, (Germ, ziehen,) and are therefore near of kin to our tug.

But do not even thy own frequent and involuntary remorses, when thou hast time, place, company, and every other circumstance, to favour thee in thy wicked design, convince thee, that there can be no room for a hope so presumptuous?Why then, since thou wouldest choose to marry her rather than lose her, wilt thou make her hate thee for ever?