His vigorous and uncompromising measures, especially his slaughter of the garrison of Drogheda (a retaliatory act), have been severely commented on.

" "Guess the East can be trusted to smooth her down," commented Bob grimly.

" "Quite so," commented Counsel drily.

Writing to his daughter Susan on June 19, 1838, before he had met with his rebuff from the Attorney-General, he comments briefly on the festivities incident to the occasion: "London is filling fast with crowds of all characters, from ambassadors and princes to pickpockets and beggars, all brought together by the coronation of the queen, which takes place in a few days (the 28th of June).

The plunder of Eustatius was bitterly commented upon In the British House of Commons.

She commented laughingly on the writers and addressees of the letters, and flirted with a passenger.

" "It's quite a stunt, all right," commented the corporal admiringly.

Had Polly been commenting audibly upon it?

" Lady Mary offered her arm with pretty solicitude, and guided her aged but perfectly active visitor through the drawing-roomwhere she stopped to comment favourably upon the water coloursto the terrace, where John was sitting in the shade of the ilex-tree, absorbed in the London papers.

Burke listened with scarcely a comment.

he commented ironically.

[Footnote A: The statement that appeared in the report on "Occupations" in the census returns of 1910, that there were but nine occupations in which women were not employed, has been widely commented upon.

"So it is," Mr. Phinuit commented amiably; indeed, not without a certain hint of satisfaction.

"That ain't goin' to hurt nobody," commented Pros philosophically.

"I'm hopelessly civilised myself," he commented smilingly.

"Evidently you ain't been a close observer, my boy," he commented at last, impersonally, "or you wouldn't be talkin' of Pete not lookin'.

"Team work certainly does pay," commented Roger enthusiastically when the Club met again to talk over the great day.

That she has now and then commented unnecessarily, and in a too-learned manner, is a very small detraction from the interest of her books.

The remarkable identity of the words relating to their religious beliefs and observances throughout this widespread group of tribes has been demonstrated and forcibly commented on by Alcide D'Orbigny, L'Homme Americain, vol.

Barnes Newcome had just discovered an article in the Newcome Independent commenting warmly upon a visit which Colonel Newcome and Clive had recently paid to Newcome, the object of that visit having been the Colonel's desire to gladden the eyes of his old nurse Sarah with a sight of him.

Mrs. Sharp dutifully comments: "The 'we' who stood on the pier at Greenock is himself in his dual capacity; his 'kinswoman' is his other self."

Two or three allowed this feeling to expand itself into headlines of some size; a few also commented on the situation editorially.

The idea on which I placed so much emphasis, that opportunity for prolonged courtship is essential to the growth of romantic love, was some years later set forth by Dr. Drummond in his Ascent of Man where he comments eloquently on the fact that "affection needs time to grow.

I have not a few instances in which the independence of the two faculties is emphatically commented on; and I have at least one clear case where great interest in outlines and accurate appreciation of straightness, squareness, and the like, is unaccompanied by the power of visualising.

In letters to Lafayette and others Washington commented facetiously upon the beast's failure to appreciate "republican enjoyment."