"He is just the age for Rosa," the fond parent thought, and glanced towards that dear child, a little miss of seven years.

There ain't overly much o' the fool in me, but there's enough to make me hate ownin' up to a clean miss.

'You, dear Sir, have, I hope, a more cheerful scene; you see George fond of his book, and the pretty misses airy and lively, with my own little Jenny equal to the best[460]: and in whatever can contribute to your quiet or pleasure, you have Lady Rothes ready to concur.

Oh, there's a reason good for this, You laughing little bright-eyed miss!

" "You have it already, you have it already, young galyoung miss, I mean," he said, with a wave of the hand, which meant to be courteous, no doubt, but seemed only defiant.

His self-controlled companions wondered, ridiculed, misinterpreted, and made fewer hits as well as fewer misses.

Nevertheless, she experienced a positive pride at being brought into a scandal with George Cannon; she derived from it a certain feeling of importance; it proved that she was no longer a mere girlish miss.

But they wasn't born just yesterday and lets you know their mind; The M.O. and the Padre is as thoughtful as can be, But they ain't so good to look at as our V.A.D. She's a honourable miss because 'er father is a dook, But, Lord, you'd never guess it and it ain't no good to look For 'er portrait in the illustrated papers, for you see

And the impulsive miss placed the saddle in his grasp before he knew it.

I killed a wood-ibis on the wing with the handy little Springfield, and then lost all the credit I had thus gained by a series of inexcusable misses, at long range, before I finally killed a jabiru.

" "You might ha' made sure I'd come that instant, miss," answered Jim, his face brightening with excitement and delight.

distinctly I remember, it was drawing nigh September, And each trivial Tory Member pined for stubble, copse, and moor; Eagerly they wished the morrow; vainly they had sought to borrow From their SMITH surcease of sorrow, or from GOSCHEN or BALFOUR, From the lank and languid "miss" the Tory claque dubbed "Brave BALFOUR," Fameless else for evermore.

"Some women was pretty mean and old miss was one of 'em.

Nevertheless, she experienced a positive pride at being brought into a scandal with George Cannon; she derived from it a certain feeling of importance; it proved that she was no longer a mere girlish miss.

"By my soul, Robin," quoth he to himself, "that was the narrowest miss that e'er thou hadst in all thy life.

Yes, but friends of yours leave pamphlets in people's entries, to be picked up by nervous misses and hysteric housemaids, full of doctrines these people do not approve.

The little brown girl, who yesterday had not one square inch of cloth on the whole of her tiny person, comes out a petite miss in a crimson bodice and a white skirt, with her shining black hair oiled and combed and plaited and decked with flowers, and her neck and arms and feet twinkling with ornaments.

But it appeals to be not an inconvenient course to disentangle what is not unlike a wood, or a vast promiscuous miss of materials all jumbled together, and after that to point out how it may be suitable to corroborate each separate kind of cause, after we have drawn all our principles of argumentation from this source.

Like the provident miss she was she turned the wick down after lighting in order that the chimney might heat slowly.

He had broken his boy's heart, time after time, for some commonplace, little provincial miss who knew not "the god's wonder or his woe."

"The lines are very pretty," said my aunt, "but I trust it's only poetizing, Kate; I should be sorry indeed to have you join the school of romantic misses who think first love such a killing matter.

But this time he made a scandalous miss, for the shot knocked a little white dust from the stone wall a full yard at one side; and the fellow never shifted his negligent posture or qualified his sardonic smile during the procedure.

"I'm housekeeper for my father, and in my father's house, but to the great outside world I'm still a shy and bashful young miss.

'I'm very sorry, miss, that nothing seems to suit you' 'Oh, we shall get right in time!'

It is seldom that a young sovereign misses a governor before he tastes the fruits of his own incapacity.