The slave-colony, garbage-laws, magistrates, and murderers are mixed in motley, and there are whirling vacant-lot schemes abroad, potato-patches, wood-yards, organized charity, Wayfarers' Lodges, resounding cries of municipal reform, and various other interests of the wisdom-scale.

We jaw an awful lot about freedom and about what's American.

"It probably won't commence at sea, but you'll have to do your little lot, without a doubt.

"Mighty lot you know about it!"

They were a rough hairy lot, here and there a sturdy English countenance meeting my gaze, but the faces were largely foreign, with those of two negroes conspicuous.

Something Esther said made Felix ask suddenly, "Can you imagine yourself choosing hardship as the better lot?"

Such is my unhappy lot, Unbefriended and forgot!

The bed of the lake is but a rushy swamp and the massive ruins of the castle only serve to show what their splendor once was, and to impress on the musing visitor the transitory value of human possessions, and the happiness of those who enjoy a humble lot in virtuous contentment.

One of them when he saw the pettifoggers putting their heads together, and lamenting their sad lot, up comes he and says: "Did not I tell you the Saturnalia could not last for ever?"

That meant a lot of money, a fat lot of money.

"Girls are a queer lot," the dazed youth confided to Bob, as they went back to their quarters.

"What was the cipher?""How did they find it out?" these and a hundred other questions were continually being dinned in their ears, coupled with slaps on the back, ejaculations of "Well done!""You're a precious sharp lot!" and many other expressions of approval.

They're a splendid lot.

There are such a tremendous lot of girls and married women nowadays, there are so many more of them.

O bitter lot!

In this sort of love it is the forsaker who has the melancholy lot; for an abandoned belief may be more effectively vengeful than Dido.

But as we commence to probe the machinery and to examine the looms more carefully, we begin to understand why the wheels creak, and why there are seconds and odd lots in the product as well as the rare and precious firsts.

If such was the happy lot of prisoners during the war, what was the wretched lot of Loyalists after the treaty of

" "Hard-harted old man, yool rue this day," they all cride in Koruss, and the hull lot commenced snivellin, as if their harts was busted.

I didn't at all know at first what a tidy lot he had.

"It would give Doctor Berkeley such a fearful lot of work," she answered.

Neither doth he ever look up, and consult in his forecasts with the supreme Moderator of all things, as one that thinks honour is ruled by fortune, and that heaven meddleth not with the disposing of these earthly lots; and therefore it is just with that wise God to defeat his fairest hopes, and to bring him to a loss in the hottest of his chase, and to cause honour to fly away so much the faster, by how much it is more eagerly pursued.

Better for me that I die quickly, than endure longer my evil lot.

"They're a mixed lot," said Dravot, reflectively; "and it won't help us to know the names of their tribes.

Italians, like Greeks, are a dangerous lot when their blood is up."