She had admiration enough, for to see her was to love her; many of the village youngsters had looked unutterable things as they met her at May-feasts and holidays, but up to this time she had received no poetical epistles nor direct proposals, and was as cheerful and heart-free as the birds that sang around her windows.

Such gibberish in an apostolic epistle!

There is no reason to think that she did not invent the later epistles as well as the former.

I yesterday told him, I was thinking of writing a poetical letter to him, on his return from Scotland, in the style of Swift's humorous epistle in the character of Mary Gulliver to her husband, Captain Lemuel Gulliver, on his return to England from the country of the HOUYHNHUMS: 'At early morn I to the market haste, Studious in ev'ry thing to please thy taste.

Boniface VIII., a pontiff not backward in asserting the claims of the papacy, did interpose to check the English conquest, and was answered by an elaborate and respectful epistle from Edward, in which the English claim is most carefully and confidently derived from the conquest of the whole country by the Trojans in the times of Eli and Samuelassuredly a very respectable antiquity of some two thousand four hundred years.

" It was just one week later that he showed her a part of a curious epistle he had himself received from Dab.

"He ought to be put in prison!" Dora's letter to Dick was an especially tender epistle, and he read it several times in secret.

The dedication was to "The Forty-Nine Members of the Friendly Society for the Benefit of their Widows, of whom I have the honour of making the Number Fifty," and in the dedicatory epistle it is stated that the Society was in some degree the cause of Number Fifty's commencing author, on account of its approving and printing certain lines which were spoken by him at an annual meeting it the Devil Tavern.

William, the barrister in London, was induced to write a letter, a very lengthy and elaborate epistle having come from Mrs. Bolton to his wife, in which the religious duty of all the Boltons was set forth in strong language, and in which he was incited to do something.

Nine A.M.Loch tells me he must be off, so I must end my brief epistle.

[Footnote 7: She brought an affectionate epistle from M.A. Calame.

One day after the most menacing epistle which I have ever readthe day after the copy of the treaty of 1852 had been solemnly placed before the Diet by Sir Alexander Maleton December 27, federal execution took place.

Perhaps the bust of Robespierre may one day replace that of Henry the Fourth, and, to speak in the style of an eastern epistle, "what can I say more?

Your packets posterior to the date of my misfortunes, commencing with that valuable consolatory epistle, are every day accumulating,they are sacred things with me.

And then she is sure to omit a most substantial word in the second draught (for she never ventures an epistle without a foul copy first), which is obliged to be interlined,which spoils the neatest epistle, you know.

Therefore the odour of honey and milk, so evocative of fresh flowers and fields, was spoilt that morning for me; and it was some time before I slipped on that beautiful Japanese dressing-gown, which I shall never see again, and read the odious epistle.

R74547, 21Feb51, Elizabeth Crump Enders (A) ERDMAN, CHARLES R. The pastoral epistles of Paul, an exposition.

When fifty years of age he had a small reputation as a writer of elegant epistles, and this reputation led certain publishers to approach him with a proposal that he write a series of Familiar Letters, which could be used as models by people unused to writing.

I heard from all the home people, even Peter wrote, a most characteristic epistle with only about half the words wrongly spelt, and finishing with a spirited drawing of the Scotia attacked by pirates, an abject figure crouching in the bows being labelled "You!"

Theodore, in high good humor, read the letter aloud at breakfastand, to tell the truth, it was a charming epistle.

With an astonishment which increased with every word, I read this extraordinary epistle: "My Dear Mr. Godfrey: "I have been highly flattered by your interest in the affaire of the cabinet Boule, and admire most deeply your penetration in arriving at a conclusion so nearly correct regarding it.

Her letters during this period are such as would be written by a loving wife and a tender motherhappy, cheerful messages of personal or domestic interest; yet even in these familiar epistles displaying a character of good sense and deep piety as well as womanly affection.

"Thus I suppose my innocent epistles are severely scrutinized; and when I talk of my grandchildren, they are fancied to represent all the potentates of Europe.

Besides these letters, John Yeardley kept his usual Diary, which often enables us to add to the narrative, traits of character and reflections not to be found in their joint epistles.

Oakley and Dalbiac had kept silence for several months, and had then stated, in an extremely formal epistle, that they thought the book might have some chance of success, and that they would be prepared to publish it on certain terms, but that I must not expect, etc.