Now the principles that are seen to govern the material universe are but a large-lettered display of those that rule in perfect humanity.

Neatly lettered on the inside, in the fine and slightly angular writing characteristic of the Teutonic scholar, was the legend: Karl Augustus Schermerhorn, 1409-1/2 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Stephen was helpless, the nobles defiant, their strongholds were untouched, and the treaty remained practically a dead letter.

I will write Malagigi, not merely a letter, but a whole packet-full of your praises; and so I will to Orlando; and you shall be set free, depend on it, your company has been so perfectly agreeable.

" Then came a long and anxious silence; and then a letter, not from Mexico but from California,one out of several which had been posted; and then letters, more regularly from Australia.

On April 6, 1780'a day,' wrote Horace Walpole (Letters, vii. 345), 'that ought for ever to be a red-lettered day'Mr.

Close one eye, and with the other we soon see either the letters distinctly or the fine threads of the veil, but we cannot see both equally distinct at the same time.

I saw the mystic sign of him deep-lettered in the hearthstone of a home; I heard it speaking bravely from the weak lips of a friend; it is carved in the plastic heart of many a boy.

And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

On the ground-glass comprising the upper part of the door, the words "Sample Room" were elaborately lettered.

Essentially a business letter of the correspondence-school type.

(Opens letter feverishly) Damnation, I must be going there at once.

I write her every day; wretched letters, which she thinks delightful, fortunately.

The belief that the meeting would be held in spite of the proclamation was supported by a statement on green-lettered posters that appeared later next the British dictum: "LORD MAYOR REQUESTS GOOD ORDER AT RECEPTION!"

Then he said amiably, a little huskily: 'Letter from a friend?'

There is a letter inside.

Don't leave the rig to come home without a driver, though, and money letters aboard, as you did last week.

Luckily a diplomatically composed letter, addressed by the English envoy to one of the favorite wives, resulted in Ismaël's changing his mind, and the captives were finally given up, and departed with their rescuers.

She has left this letter for your majestysurely a letter that will bring balm in this terrible hour.

A novice in the game generally seeks to embarrass his opponents by giving them the most minutely lettered names; but the adept selects such words as stretch, in large characters, from one end of the chart to the other.

Writing to Rickman in February, 1802, Lamb sends the second epitaph:"Your own prose, or nakedly the letter which you sent me, which was in some sort an epitaph, would do better on her gravestone than the cold lines of a stranger.

So he took down his Virgil,it was the smooth-leafed, open-lettered quarto of Baskerville,and began reading the loves and mishaps of Dido.

There were only four letters for him personally.

Take, for example, this letter to his wife, when, having left London, precipitately, in response to the call of the Isles, he wrote: "The following morning we (for a kinswoman was with me) stood on the Greenock pier waiting for the Hebridean steamer, and before long were landed on an island, almost the nearest we could reach, that I loved so well."

Roughly lettered in lampblack beneath it were the words, "Clocks Mended."