Shorn of their pretensions in Armenia and the countries south of Taurus, the Turks may experiment in the art of government without the tragedies which their present domination has brought upon mankind.

The Robin is the Philomel of our spring and summer mornings in New England, and in all the country north and west of these States.

The country west of him was all peaks and table-land, and the farther away they were, the higher and wilder they looked.

The country east of the range is entirely granitic; grass very scanty, and very thinly wooded with ironbark.

As the tariff protecting the home grower of wheat had raised the price of bread and caused much suffering to the poor, England not only repealed this duty (1846) but also became practically a free-trade country.

We are invited to assist at a sheep-shearing scene, or at a harvest supper, because these scenes are not to be found in the works of George Eliot, because the reader is supposed to be interested in such things, because Mr. Hardy is anxious to show how jolly country he is.

Mr. Powis has no home of his own; and, for that matter, scarcely any country" "How can you know this, Nanny?" demanded Eve, with the jealous sensitiveness of a young love.

That the country outside was in their cavalry lines I well knew, and I hoped that for this reason their infantry would be less watchful; but this thought did not make me any the less prudent and slow in my advance.

Our country past and present.

Every new country needsvitally needsone-half of one per cent of its population trained to die of thirst rather than drink out of their hands.

In the preceding chapter I have dealt with the discussion of Proportional Representation in the British House of Commons in order to illustrate the intellectual squalor amidst which public affairs have to be handled at the present time, even in a country professedly "democratic."

In purely country districts cases of punctured foot are of far less frequent occurrence than in large towns.

It annoyed him to be so composedly defied by a rascally country merchant, and he resolved, if he must fight, to fight with all his might.

"There is a country four or five thousand miles westward of Tunis, where the females, to a very great extent, are emaciated for marriage, instead being fattened.

"It was as sightly a country as ever Adam and Eve had to themselves; but it wa'n't home.

From Provence chivalry spread to Italy and to the north of France, and Normandy became pre-eminently a country of noble deeds, though not the land of song.

Weddings were always home affairs among the strictly country folk, by common consent and custom, no matter to what denomination the people belonged.

In some parts an open space suddenly appears, from whence the whole country below bursts unexpectedly upon the view, which has, as may be supposed, an extremely fine effect.

Near St. Cloud are Pleasant, Grand, Briggs, and Rice's Lakes, where fishing and rowing may be had, while the country eastward of the town affords fair hunting.

[Footnote 18: "Lul-lu-bu," a country northward of Mesopotamia and Nizir.]

He went first into the country of the Sabines, northeast of Rome, where he wandered up and down, exposed continually to great dangers from those who knew that he was an object of the great dictator's displeasure, and who were sure of favor and of a reward if they could carry his head to Sylla

Egypt has always been considered as physically the most remarkable country on the globe.