It was in the maudlin fancies of some poor besotted literary hack maybe, that she found surcease from the pains of weariness, the carks and cares of her miserable estate.

The case of the reformers is that heretofore modern democracy has not had a fair opportunity of showing its best possibilities to the world, because the methods of election have persistently set aside the better types of public men, or rather of would-be public men, in favour of mere party hacks.

Nor was this all: brown, soberly-dressed old men and women in satin-padded carretas,heavy ox-carts on wheels made from solid sections of trees, and driven by a gañan seated on one of the animals; the populace in cheap finery, some on foot, others astride old mules or broken-winded horses, two or three on one lame old hack; all chattering, shouting, eager, interested, impatiently awaiting the bride and a week of pleasure.

And there shone out from her soul a contempt for the miserable hack, so dazzling that it would have blinded himhad he not been already blind.

Press notes handed out to newspaper offices are meant for lowly hacks to tackle.

Dramatic hacks who turned to prose fiction found it only a more commodious vehicle for incidents and scenes already familiar to them on the stage.

In spite of the small merit of the play from a poetical point of view, and of occasional extraordinary oversights in the plotfor instance, we are never told how the infant who is shipwrecked on the shore, presumably of Arcadia, comes to be a young man in the service of the king of Africaits badness has perhaps been exaggerated, and it is undoubtedly from the pen of an experienced stage-hack.

Carriages were not common in this region, and I was not surprised to find that this was the familiar village hack that met trains day and night at Glenarm station.

Such a night in the yard there never was seen (The horses were fat and the grass was green); Bursting of girths and slipping of packs As the stockmen saddled the fastest hacks.

It rests with you, whether the priest be honoured; It rests with you, whether the knight be knightly; It rests with you, whether those fields grow corn; It rests with you, whether those toiling peasants Lift to their masters free and loyal eyes, Or crawl, like jaded hacks, to welcome graves.

The boy evidently had a visionary idea in his mind that the little hack he was asking permission to ride, had accomplished the feat of trotting a mile in two minutes and forty seconds.

"I must get you a really well-mannered hack," he said joyously.

The world observed the chance was droll That sent so mild a hack To smite the invulnerable soul Whom WILLIAM could not whack; But spiteful folk remarked, of course, He must have used terrific force Before he got that wretched horse To throw him off its back.

Why he's the pleasantest hack in London.

Proud to learn that her guardian was so well known in the great city, and delighted that she had met a charioteer so minutely familiar with his house of business, FLORA stepped readily into the providential hack, which thereupon instantly began Rocking-Chair-ing, Old-Shoe-ing, and Gliding.

On week-day mornings she is a frequent attendant in the Row, the means of her father being apparently sufficient to provide her with a sleek and showy Park hack and an irreproachable groom.

It is as when a noble race-horse is beaten by a sorry hack; because the race-horse, as you might see, if you look at the list, is carrying twelve pounds additional.

She smiled, too, though a little more tenderly, over his own attemptnaive he had called itto go in harness, like a park hack, submissive to Paula's rein and spur.

But the big horse did not falter for a moment; down it came at a hard gallop, and Stafford's admiration was swallowed up in amazement when he saw that the rider was a young girl, that she was riding with about half an ounce on the reins, and that, apparently, she was as much at ease and unconscious of danger as if she were trotting on a tame hack in Rotten Row.

Many young gentlemen cantered up on thoroughbred hacks, spatter-dashed to the knee, and entered the house to pay their respects to the ladies, or, more modest and sportsmanlike, divested themselves of their mud-boots, exchanged their hacks for their hunters, and warmed their blood by a preliminary gallop round the lawn.

And putting him in a vacant hack, he disappeared with precipitation.

60 Reduced to drudgery and disgrace, (A life unworthy of my race,) Must I too bear the vile attacks Of rugged scrubs, and vulgar hacks? See scurvy Roan, that brute ill-bred, Dares from the manger thrust my head!

That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea, Say, wouldst thou hack it down? Woodman, forbear thy stroke, Cut not its earth-bound ties Oh, spare that aged oak, Now, towering to the skies.

Six hundred cortical layers were found outside of these antique hacks, indicating that they were made in the 12th century.

I find I am getting the whip out, although I promised not to thrash this wretched old economic hack.