One counts aloud how many enemies we have: there are already six.

Now in order that we may safely count on having sufficient food to sustain life during at least five weeks, it has been decided, after due deliberation, to put the entire garrison, the commandant as well as the men, on short allowance.

I have been married so often that I can scarcely count the wives I have had.

War, the ironic, had caused this noble property to pass into the keeping of a distant and degenerate branch of an old and honoured house; and its present lord and lady, having failed to win the social welcome they had counted on too confidently, were doing their silly, shabby best to squander a princely fortune and dedicate a great name to lasting disrepute by fraternizing with a motley riffraff of profiteering nouveaux riches.

He is counting not the days merely, but the hours, till you return."

" He was the eldest of the officers of the traghetti, accustomed to respect, upheld by the united forces of the people; this man of the people and this mouthpiece of the nobles measured each other fearlessly as they looked into each other's faceseach coolly choosing his phrases to carry so much as the other might count wise.

Deliberately Cartwright counted out the two stacks of shimmering twenty-dollar gold pieces, five to a stack.

"Well, she didn't," Shade countered swiftly, taking advantage of the turn things were showing.

Mechanically she counted the cars of the train which was winding its black, snake-like trail far down below them in the valley.

And I saw and understood better than ever before what a great feat that had been, and how heavily it had counted.

"That should be four, if I have counted correctly," said Harris; "and I've still four cartridges left.

With this view, we must beg leave seriously to assure him, that the mere rhyming of the final syllable, even when accompanied by a certain number of feet; nay, although (which does not always happen) those feet should scan regularly, and have been all counted accurately upon the fingers is not the whole art of poetry.

" Mr. RANKIN adds the following: "A Presbyterian preacher, now resident in a slave state, and therefore it is not expedient to give his name, stated, that he saw on board of a steamboat at Louisville, Kentucky, a woman who had been forced on board, to be carried off from all she counted dear on earth.

The three Hohenzollern kings, all named Frederick William, who reigned from the death of Frederick the Great (1786) to the accession of William I (1861) did not count much personally.

It is true that it was not called Christmas thenour ancestors at that date were not much given to the celebration of religious festivalsbut, taking the Gregorian calendar and counting backward just 200,000 plus 1887 years this particular day would be located.

Then stout Robin saw his chance, and, ere you could count three, Riccon's staff was over the hedge, and Riccon himself lay upon the green grass with no more motion than you could find in an empty pudding bag.

It began to be apparent that the same spirit was invading the forest that had possession of the camp; two, or at most three, did the work, and the rest shirked, got snow-blindness and rheumatism, and let the others do his share, counting securely, nevertheless, on his fifth of the proceeds, just as he counted (no matter what proportion he had contributed) on his full share of the common stock of food.

No, I shall endeavour to count up quite calmly, unlyrically, what we have seen during these three months: point for point, the whole list of surprises, for they have all been surprises, one after the other.

You see," Mr. Kennaston went on, with somewhat the air of one climbing upon his favourite hobby, "money is the only thing that counts nowadays.

Unconsciously he counted them.

Undoubtedly, however, the Ottoman sultanate can count on its religious prestige appealing widely, overriding counteracting sentiments, and, if it rouses to action, rousing the most dangerous temper of all.

Rome counts seven, and seven only; and this is the number commonly counted by liturgists and theologians.

The planter invariably counted the time from the moment that the slave commenced his work; and as it often occurs that his residence was on the border of the estate, he may have to walk five or six miles to get to the place he has to work.

" Ninon's disinterested counsel prevailed, and the Count afterward abjured his errors, becoming the Duc de Chatillon, Marquis d'Andelot, and died a lieutenant general, bravely fighting for his country, at Charenton.

the Frenchman counted good-naturedly, after the manner of captains when their crews are short-handed.