She neither smiled nor scintillated now, but wore an expression of amiable practicality as she presently said, receiving back the rent-notice as she spoke: "I thank you, sir, but it might seem strange to him to find his notice in the hands of a person who can claim no interest in the matter.

It was partly for the sake of avenging himself on his mother, whose decisive practicality jarred the delicate music of a nature extravagantly ideal, that he so severely criticised all that she held sacred; and his strictures fell heaviest on the bow window, looking somewhat like a temple with its small pilasters supporting the rich cornice from which the dwarf vaulting springs.

"Nothin' but his shooting first," returned Patterson, with dismal practicality.

His plans mingled in a singular manner the bright enthusiasm of the youthful dreamer and the eminent practicality of the man of affairs.

By birth an Irishman, he had the innate practicality which commonly lies beneath the flash and colour of Irish forcefulness and rhetoric.

Griffin Hall was then chapel, museum, laboratories, and recitation-rooms; East, South, and West Colleges, with Kellogg Hall, on the West lawn,"factories of the muses," in Lowell's expressive phrase,stood forth in their naked practicality much as they stand to-day.

What interests me specially about these young men was their rare practicality.

His mind was little concerned either with the severe practicalities of life, or with the abstractions of religious faith.

In imagination one can make a new earth and improve all the land communications of our old one, but my unfortunate practicality stands in the way of my comprehension as yet.'