Perhaps it might have been chance, or it might have been true of all the American squads, but the fact was that Dorn's squad was a strangely assorted set of young men.

Just then it would have been very hard to guess what the relations were between the oddly assorted pair, as they sat a little apart from each other before the grate.

Do not the nobles of all Italy seek their equals in condition and in the gifts of fortune, in order that their union may be fittingly assorted.

" "And ingeniously assorted?

The elder was laboriously assorting these postscript commissions in his memory, well knowing that to return with any one of them neglected would cause trouble in the family circle.

" "Adolph Metzner in despairthe famous Haythorne pearl necklacemagnificently assorted pearlsvalued by experts at from fifty to seventy thousan' dollars.

They are nicely assorted also to all the different gradations of emotion and passion which are expressed in common with the descriptions of them.

And all the trunks and bags and baskets from the ship were similarly assorted, according to the numbers they bore.

Nay more, as some of the others gradually lounged in, and as the meal became a trifle more animated, he told himself that after all Mr. Burnaby might have turned out a spoil-sport, especially with regard to a secret, all-important matter which he, the convener of this curiously assorted Christmas party, had very much at heart.

The Banker shoved over three stacks of patriotically assorted colors and made a memorandum.

[106] With the respect which we have seen in Marivaux for the marriage relation, we are not surprised to note in his characters such fear of poorly assorted unions, that it is only with much questioning into their own and each other's hearts, and with manifold misgivings, that they are brought at last to say the final word.

From the Irish potato, the cabbage, and most of the more northern vegetables, he did not expect much, under any circumstances; but, he thought he would try all, and having several regularly assorted boxes of garden-seeds, just as they had been purchased out of the shops of Philadelphia, his garden scarce wanted any plant that was then known to the kitchens of America.

" The old man, when satisfied that no inconvenience could be entailed on any one by this move, readily complied, and the singularly assorted couple once more went through the streets together.

We are a tolerably assorted set,difference enough and likeness enough; but still it seems to me there is something wanting.

But he was a man of unexpectedly assorted moods.

The links must be accurately assorted as to thickness, and the outer links countersunk, to admit the bolt.

The vagabond gang was so wretchedly assorted for industrial purposes that it was probably soon disbanded and its members distributed to their customary tasks.

When I looked up again from reverie, Mrs. Clayton had settled herself to work with a basket of stockings on her knees, which she appeared to be assorting assiduously.