A low wooden settle stood by the fire, one or two plain deal chairs by the wall, and little John's three-legged stool was placed close to his father's arm-chair.

With these reflections he stumped downstairs, and seated himself on the black, oaken settle in the hall to await the boy's advent.

The old-fashioned settles which gave so cosy an air in the olden time to the inn room, and which still linger in some of the houses, are not heremerely forms and cheap chairs.

Our two vehicles being thus placed on the other side, we resumed our drive,first glancing, however, at the old woman's antique cottage, with its stone floor, and the circular settle round the kitchen fireplace, which was quite in the mediaeval English style.

'Time is past,' and as you speak a dove settles to rest upon a pediment.

We crossed the Potoka to Princeton, a neat town, surrounded by a fast settling country, and so on to Harmony.

... Virginia proceeded to open a land office for the sale of her Western lands, which produced such excitement as to induce Congress, in October, 1779, to interpose and earnestly recommend to "the said State and all States similarly circumstanced to forbear settling or issuing warrants for such unappropriated lands, or granting the same, during the continuance of the present war.

A near-sighted claim agent came to the haystack where the fat woman was, and the boss told her now was her time to have a mess of hysterics, so she set up a cry that scared the agent, who thought there were at least six women on the haystack, and he said: "What will all of you people up there on the haystack settle for in a lump, for I am in a hurry?"

When the steady, ominous settling of the huge ship's bulk broke through this shallow confidence, there was a solemn change.

] TABLET VIII May Nin-cigal, the wife of Nin-a'su, turn her face toward another place; may the noxious spirit go forth and seize another; may the propitious cherub and the propitious genie settle upon his body.

Their true policy consists in the rapid settling and improvement of the waste lands within their limits.

Who does not know poor souls in all stages of all these,outbreaks of rebellion against all forms, all creeds, all proprieties; secret adoptions of perilous delusions, fatal errors; and slow settling down into indifferentism or narrow dogmatism, the two worst living deaths?

When the steady, ominous settling of the huge ship's bulk broke through this shallow confidence, there was a solemn change.

A dark brown mustache upon a somewhat smooth sunburned face, and a stern settling of the strong yet delicately finished features gave him a military look; but the sparkle of his blue eyes contradicted his otherwise cold expression.

Yeast from home-brewed beer is generally preferred to any other: it is very bitter, and, on that account, should be well washed, and put away until the thick mass settles.

Actual "settlings" were the dregs of humanity.

And over them againover the small space just then allotted them in the worldwas settling once more the intangible, indefinable spell awakened by their first light contact.

Eric the Red, a Norseman, first visits Greenland, which he thus names, and afterward settles.

Sahwah was behind the big carved settle in the hall, fishing for a bead that had rolled underneath, when the telephone rang.