[Footnote 6: Foscolo, ut sup.

"It does look a little super-timid to wear a life-preserver just because one happens to be walking by the side of a canal.

The administration of aloes in this case is extremely apt to induce a fatal super-purgation.

We have multiplied our daily seasons of refreshment, and eat and drink far oftener than our ancestors; but the truly genteel Briton never sups; the word is scarcely in his vocabulary,like Beau Brummel and the farthing"Fellow, I do not know the coin!

And yet a solace soothes my brow, Making my air a shade less gloomy: Six shillings in the pound is now The figure out of which they do me; But, were we man and wife to-day (So close the Treasury loves to link 'em), A grievous super-tax they'd lay On our coagulated income.

When a penniless but oh, so ladylike "companion" goes to the Savoy in answer to a "with a view to matrimony" advertisement, what more natural than that the party of the first part should prove to benot a genteel widower in the haberdashery business, but a handsome super-burglar of immense wealth and all the more refined virtues.

Already in her short experience she had seen enough of the women who sacrifice future security for immediate success, and she meant to lay solid foundations before she began to build up the light super-structure of enjoyment.

When he came up to me, I found he had been quite home for an earthen jug, or pot, to bring his father some fresh water, and that he had two more cakes or loaves of bread; the bread he gave me, but the water he carried to his father; however, as I was very thirsty too, I took, a little sup of it.

As you mounted the gangway of this mighty super-Dreadnought you were bound to thinkat least, an American wasof another flagship in Portsmouth harbour, Nelson's Victory.

THE FIRST VOICE And by the favour of thy prayers obtain The needful daily sup and crumb!

With them we watched good Major Yeates Contending with litigious peasants, With "hidden hands" within his gates, With claims for foxes and for pheasants; We saw Leigh Kelway drop his chin That precious English super-tripper In shocked amazement drinking in The lurid narrative of Slipper.

It may be traced again, I believe, all round the Weald of Kent and Sussex, from Hythe to Farnhamwhere it is peculiarly richand so to Eastbourne and Beachey Head; and it furnishes, in Cambridgeshire, the greater part of those so-called "coprolites," which are used perpetually now for manure, being ground up, and then treated with sulphuric acid, till they become a "soluble super-phosphate of lime.

"He's a splendid young super-tough in my employ," said Vincent.

Hale, ubi sup., 167.

Waves of pity, too, invaded him for the first timepity for this sweet girl, brought up in ignorance of any other possible world; pity for the deaf old housekeeper, already partially broken, and both sacrificed to the dominant idea of this single, heaven-climbing enthusiast; pity last of all for himself, swept headlong before he had time to reflect, into the audacious purpose of this violent and headstrong super-man.

THE FIRST VOICE And by the favour of thy prayers obtain The needful daily sup and crumb!

But if you'll only give me one wee sup of good liquor, sir, I'll die like an Irishman and a gentlemanof fortune!" "No, liquor, Major," the Master answered, shaking his head.

There is a touch of Sterne about the book; not the exaggerated super-Sterne of Tristram Shandy, with eighteenth-century-futurist blanks and marbled pages, but the fluent, casual, follow-your-fancy Sterne of the Sentimental Journey.