" Richard, who had coolly taken his sight, while speaking, now deliberately applied the match with his own hand, and, with a philosophy that was sufficiently to be commended in a mercenary, sent what he boldly pronounced to be "a thorough straight-goer" across the water, in the direction of his recent associates.

Straight goer to hounds and straight in every other capacity, I should say.

A Guernsey craft, and a desperate goer, when she wakes up and puts on her travelling boots.

This business of trade seems to be a sort of chase between one man's wits and another man's wits, and the dullest goer must be content to fall to leeward.

I am not an enthusiastic play-goer.

His mare, too, was in the height of fettle and one of the fastest goers in the county.

But few ladies, only the inveterate mass-goers, were out.

And then, after a while, those two invisible air-goers appeared all at once before our eyes, seated on the battlements, in the form of a pair of vultures.

From that day I necessarily became a persistent theatre-goer, and almost insensibly I began to change.

He was a splendid theater-goer, and took the keenest interest in all the Lyceum productions, frequently writing to me to point out slips in the dramatist's logic which only he would ever have noticed!

"Lard, he du be a vast goer, be Joe Blundell.

"Not sufficient go in it," observes veteran Opera-goer, with book in his hand, dated eighteen hundred and sixty something, containing a cast of characters which, he says, though he doesn't show me the book, comprises the names of MARIO, GRISI, VIARDOT-GARCIA, and HERR FORMES.

He became, therefore, all of a sudden, a violent church-goer.

When I remember the gay boldness, the graceful solemn plausibility, the measured step, the insinuating voiceto express it in a wordthe downright acted villany of the part, so different from the pressure of conscious actual wickedness,the hypocritical assumption of hypocrisy,which made Jack so deservedly a favourite in that character, I must needs conclude the present generation of play-goers more virtuous than myself, or more dense.

"Rope-dancing won't go down with these aristocratic church-goers.

"Hash." HASTE The ferry-dock was crowded with weary home-goers when through the crowd rushed a manhot, excited, laden to the chin with bundles of every shape and size.

Although attending worship, although manifesting an interest and zeal in the subject to which we are little accustomed, although assiduous church-goers, and liberal givers, they have not yet felt within themselves a conviction strong and clear enough to make a public profession of faith.