A little encouragement from you and we could perk the place up right smart.

With the slightest encouragement, Catrina would have told her companion all that had passed.

My greatest debt is to Professor Charles Sears Baldwin, whose constant inspiration, enlightened scholarship, and friendly encouragement made this book possible.

"Go on, Sam," she said, with kindly encouragement; "how much does this jug hold, Jack?" "Quart," replied her brother.

But it forms so important an aid to education, and tends so much to keep alive in the public memory impressions which policy will not permit to fade, that both from the State and from the younger portion of the community it receives an encouragement quite sufficient to reward the few who bestow their time and talent upon it.

It withheld laborers from the estates which needed them; it was calculated to make the regular field hands discontented, and it offered a direct encouragement to the negroes to follow irregular modes of living.

Our manufactures find a generous encouragement by the policy which patronizes domestic industry, and the surplus of our produce a steady and profitable market by local wants in less-favored parts at home.

The mathematical Table, placed at the front of the Essay, therefore leads to a secret suspicion or a bare-faced assumption, that we ought in mere kindness and compassion to give every sort of indirect and under-hand encouragement (to say the least) to the providential checks of vice and misery; as the sooner we arrest this formidable and paramount evil in its course, the less opportunity we leave it of doing incalculable mischief.

Be it said here, to the credit of France, that from her came constant encouragement in the great work.

Still, they needed all this mutual encouragement and heartiness of coöperation which was so nobly, so generously manifested; and it was sincere enough to insure the very result of contentment and satisfaction which they were so wise as to anticipate.

No absolute repression is forced, no absolute encouragement is indorsed.

; they also sent them ten basins, and the good Germans felt the impulse of this substantial encouragement.

The opposition party, on the contrary, saw in the success of the French people, in their overthrow of kings and nobles, a cheerful encouragement to their own struggle against the aristocratic Federalists, and would allow no sanguinary irregularities to divert their sympathy from the great Democratic triumph abroad.

The living find no permanent encouragement, and the dead speak to no purpose in such a case.

And thanks to Ellen Miller for her consistent encouragement and support.

The Lieutenant seemed in excellent humor, laughing often, and talking incessantly, although it occurred to me the man received scant encouragement from the others.

A self-important, presuming, familiar, ignorant, and ill-bred woman, with a little beauty and a little accomplishment, who was always expatiating on the charms of Mr. Suckling'sher brother-in-law'splace, Maple Grove, she soon excited disgust in Emma, who offended her by the scanty encouragement with which she received her proposals of intimacy, and was herself offended by the great fancy which Mrs. Elton took to Jane Fairfax.

Your cordial encouragement confirmed me in my design of visiting the East, and making myself familiar with Oriental life; and though I bring you now but imperfect returns, I can at least unite with you in admiration of a field so rich in romantic interest, and indulge the hope that I may one day pluck from it fruit instead of blossoms.

I will tell her all you have said, and if she gives me the faintest encouragement' 'She will not; that is a foregone conclusion.

Among the many to whom I became greatly indebted in my young womanhood for valuable data and gracious encouragement in my researches are General William Tecumseh Sherman, General John A. Sutter, Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, Mrs. Jessie Benton Frémont, Honorable Allen Francis, and C.F. McGlashan, author of the "History of the Donner Party.

" Ki K'ang, when consulting Confucius about the government, said, "Suppose I were to put to death the disorderly for the better encouragement of the orderlywhat say you to that?" "Sir," replied Confucius, "in the administration of government why resort to capital punishment?

"I do not remember what it was, my good mademoisellenothing, I am sure, that ought to grieve youat least nothing that was intended to have that effect," replied the lady, in a tone of gentle encouragement.

Liberal encouragement was given by the Government and the Board of Trade to the importation of all that could be produced.

The only estimates available are those made by commanders opposing the German forces, and these were confessedly cautious, the allied policy being to minimize estimates of enemy reverses, so that no false encouragement might reach the public in any of the allied countries.

For this flattering encouragement and honorary patronage, the most grateful acknowledgments are rendered.