There was a hair-raising unearthliness about the sudden coming and departure of Black Bart.

And all the old wholesome customs in connection with Christmas were to the effect that one should not touch or see or know or speak of something before the actual coming of Christmas Day.

Throughout that day there was a vast deal of mysterious coming and going aboard the brigantine, and in the afternoon a sail-boat went up to the town, carrying the Captain of the brigantine and a great load in the stern covered over with a tarpaulin.

Much given was he also to frequent comings and goings within the green to no apparent end, while Beltane, within the little cave, lay 'twixt sleep and waking; moreover, full oft as they ate their evening meal together, he would start, and falling to sudden silence, sit as one that hearkens to distant sounds.

They were used to change, and the mere coming of armies could not be permitted to derange them.

That obstacles in the way of the speedy coming of Christ be removed.

It all went off and ended in a glory,the glory of the sun pouring great backward floods of light and color all up to the summer zenith, and of the softly falling and changing shade, and the slow forth-coming of the stars: and Ruth gave them music, and by and by they had a little German, out there on the long, wide esplanade.

As the time for her coming draws nigh, I fall to thinking of the different occasions since my marriage, on which I have watched for expected comings from this windowhave searched that bend in the drive with impatient eyesand of the disappointment to which, on the two occasions that rise most prominently before my mind's eye, I became a prey.

THE JESTER'S RETURN The gradual coming of spring that year was like a benediction after the prolonged rigour of the frost.

On the 27th Mr. Fagel arrived from England with a letter from the Prince of Orange, announcing his immediate coming; and finally, the disembarkation of two hundred English marines, on the 29th, was followed the next day by the landing of the prince, whose impatience to throw himself into the open arms of his country made him spurn every notion of risk and every reproach for rashness.

The coming of the day, keen and cold, had a depressing effect upon the atmosphere of the room, making it heavier, thicker.

I could never learn anything from her, and that must be my excuse for my present literary short-comings.

To Joe, however, came that vision, and when it came it seemed as if the last drop of his blood would be little to offer, even in anguish, to help, even by ever so little, the coming and the consummation of that Victory.

He could not sing, to be sure, when he graced the "Beggars' Opera," but the audiences took the will for the deed, applauded his gaiety of action, and quickly pardoned his lyric short-comings.

All this implies trade contacts far below the horizon of history, and obscure comings and goings of restless throngs across incredible distances long before the Phenicians planted their first trading posts on the north African coast about 1200

Mrs. Proudie, while she lent her assistance in reciting the palatial short-comings in the matter of gas, hot-water pipes, and the locks on the doors of servants' bedrooms, did not give up her hold of Mr. Harding.

Not one of those peaceful comings-to that betoken the tranquil mind after a good rest, but a return to consciousness with every warlike tendency in his being aroused to the highest pitch.

Early the sister must wait on her brother, and wait on her parents; Life must be always with her a perpetual coming and going, Or be a fetching and carrying, making and doing for others.

Since his election, he had been daily reminded of his religious short-comings by keen newspaper attacks.

It was a riotous home-coming, for Piers was in boisterous spirits.

Her romantic coming and her romantic name pleased him; and, too, he thought her beautiful.

It was a sad home-coming, and when Roy saw Rob's Bible his grief burst out afresh.

Have you ever heard of him?" "Yes, indeed," I replied, recalling an occasional article which had appeared in the newspapers regarding a dusty and dirty old house in that part of the Heights in Brooklyn whence all that is fashionable had not yet taken flight, a house of mystery, yet not more mysterious than its owner in his secretive comings and goings in the affairs of men of a generation beyond his time.

For I knew that if I only kept quiet I should see that which I had never yet seenthe home-coming of our famous foraying Duke.

Adj. repeated &c v.; repetitional^, repetitionary^; recurrent, recurring; ever recurring, thick coming; frequent, incessant; redundant, pleonastic. monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive [Comp.], unvaried; mocking, chiming; retold; aforesaid, aforenamed^; above-mentioned, above-said; habitual &c 613; another.