All Germany's energies in the domain of diplomacy have been set in motion to make the balance of power a mere figment of the imagination.

It was no fancy, no distorted figment of a dream.

whence the valley arose, and I could see one of its long peaks lined with cocoanut-trees, and all cloud burned out of the sky except the flimsiest lawn-figments, and the sea as absolutely calm as a lake roughened with breezes, yet making a considerable noise in its breaking on the shore, as I have noticed in these sorts of places: I do not know why.

Onetwothreefour o'clock came, and passed, and were reported by the deep-tongued clock in the room beneath me, before I slept, and then I dreamed a vision so vivid, that I wakened from it excitedexhaustedas though its frightful figments had been stern realities.

You merely see an idle figment of a brain that does not yet fully know my friend, the great young Onondaga.

"LOI- AUTE, steadfastness to principle, is noble, but personal loyalty, to some mere puppet or the bush the crown hangs on, is a pernicious figment."

But that Antimachus knew anything of such love is a pure figment of Benecke's imagination.

murdererhis little Prueperhaps borne him children, while he, Joel Rae, had been all too scrupulously true to her memory, fighting against even the pleased look at a woman; fightingonly the One above could know with what desperate valouragainst the warm-hearted girl with the gray eyes and the red lips, who laughed in her knowledge that she drew himfighting her away for a sentimental figment, until she had married another.

In Hindoo dramas several of the artificial symptomspure figments of the poetic fancyare incessantly referred to.

Just how Mr. HARRIS BURLAND and the villainous figment of his lively imagination perform these deeds of dastard-do is not for me to reveal.