British prestige, confidence in British efficiency and power among neutrals has gravitated dangerously in the direction of zero, while admiration for Germany has correspondingly risen.

The Hebrew tribes appear to have gradually gravitated upon Canaan; slowly settling into agricultural pursuits, and winning from its previous occupants the land they coveted, inch by inch, in bloody strife.

It would soon be seen towards which the enterprising and the energetic would instinctively gravitate.

Then I slumberously gravitated, and dreamed thus: Old "LEATHERBRAINS" in SATAN'S livery, producing a hammer from a carpet-bag (he was a carpet-bagger), proceeded to shape my feet, and fill them with shoe-pegs.

That he should be going merely because he was invited to comemerely for the pleasure of breathing their atmospherethat he should be supinely gravitating toward themthis conclusion he positively could not allow; no, no; the love of books and the fear of women alike protested.

It was a case of necessity, the Colonel told them; they must either marry or gravitate ultimately to the workhouse.