In July, 1856, the people living in the vicinity of our homefeeling the necessity of more extensive educational facilities for their children than they had yet hadstarted a subscription school in a little log cabin on the bank of the creek, which for a while proved quite a success.

The spacious level and unclouded horizon of Chaldaea afforded peculiar facilities of observation; and its pastoral and contemplative inhabitants, uncontaminated by the vices and superstitions of subsequent ages, active-minded and fresh, discovered after a long observation of eclipsessome say extending over nineteen centuriesthe cycle of two hundred and twenty-three lunations, which brings back the eclipses in the same order.

' Johnson's extraordinary facility of composition, when he shook off his constitutional indolence, and resolutely sat down to write, is admirably described by Mr. Courtenay, in his Poetical Review, which I have several times quoted: 'While through life's maze he sent a piercing view, His mind expansive to the object grew.

The Vendean, carrying his musket in a bandoleer, and leaning upon a long pole, leaped from one bank to the other with amazing facility.

In this respect he presents a marked contrast to the hoop-snake, which has no more back-bone than a timid politician, and can put its tail in its mouth, and roll in any direction with the utmost facility.

The government being aware of the requirements and possibilities of the country, has undertaken the task of making preliminary surveys for trails and railroads, and no doubt in the near future the avenue for better and quicker transportation facilities will be opened up.]

Families crowded together in close cabins and places of temporary shelterthroughout a city constructed, like most of those in Greece, with little regard to the conditions of salubrity and in a state of mental chagrin from the forced abandonment and sacrifice of their properties in the country, transmitted the disorder with fatal facility from one to the other.

Prosperity increased with rapid strides; and the beneficial effects of extirpating wasteful rivalry and building up a substantial system with superior facilities and provident management gave the new organization a dominating influence among the telegraph companies of America.

The farm, even with the few improved facilities secured, barely supported the widow and her daughter.

Under the supposition that this was the case, the additional facilities to be derived from the establishment of commercial regulations with the Porte were deemed of sufficient importance to require a prosecution of the negotiation as originally contemplated.

It was almost inaccessible; while the formation on the other sides, offered singular facilities, both for a dwelling and for security.

He felt very old, as old as the dead-and-gone authors from whom he had quoted with such remarkable facility.

We had taken 10,000 prisoners, we had gained our point of forcing th$ battle into the open, and were prepared for the enemy's reaction, which was bound to come, as he had good roads and ample railroad facilities for bringing up his artillery and reserves.

From many indications Eliza Haywood would seem to have taken a lively interest in the Stuart cause, but certainly she had no exceptional facilities for reporting the course of events, and consequently her budget of information was often stale or filled with vague surmises.

When we see the comparative facility with which the detective slips the handcuffs on the villain in the last act of Adelphi dramas, we are apt to be misled as to the difficulty which police officers meet with in the execution of one of the most arduous parts of their duty.

"But, returning to the Chinese, I say that they are of quick comprehension, with an astonishing facility of assimilation.

This is attended with a marvellous facility in directing readers to turn to them, and a most unaccountable talent of fixing on such as suit almost every imaginable variety of circumstances in common life.

The result was the Conference of Algeciras, at which the independence and integrity of Morocco was once more affirmed (the clauses looking to its partition being still kept secret by the three Powers privy to them), and equal commercial facilities were guaranteed to all the Powers.

We hadn't adequate facilities for towing her.

It was in harmony with the spirit of the age, and it was not long before every town of any considerable importance regarded telegraphic facilities as an indispensable necessity.

Unlimited facilities for hide-and-seek.

On the contrary, this branch of the fiscal affairs of the Government has been, and it is believed may always be, thus carried on with every desirable facility and security.

I am partial to it on account of the somewhat extensive facilities it affords for Sea Bathing.

"We will confine our observation to the dangerous facilities afforded by this code for the escape of the homicide.

Copies, whether of the phonographic or stylographic writing, are multiplied with extreme facility and perfection.