We found a new-made grave, where they had evidently buried the man whom I had shot.

As soon as the Marshal and Madame de MacMahon were announced, she came in, meeting them at the door, making a circle afterward, and shaking hands with all the ladies.

The old soldier returned from his interview with General Herkimer at about the same time our newly made friend finished his recital of what had been done in and around Johnson Hall, and, observing the look of satisfaction on the sergeant's face, I understood, even before he spoke, that his mission had been, at least in a certain degree, successful.

Thus, while we both appeared to others to be merely making a tour of Hindostan, it was soon known to both of us, that my chief purpose was to pursue him, and his to elude my pursuit.

We may remark at the outset, that unless glaze is wanted in very large quantities, it is seldom made expressly.

We could scarcely make any headway against it, though we had the wind fresh and fair.

Still later, the Roman father possessed arbitrary powers of life and death over his children; but it is probable that natural affection and a more advanced civilization commonly made the law a dead letter.

Consequently they made use of the two to suit their own desires.

Such was the temple of the Greeks, reappearing in all the architectures of nations, from the Romans to our own times,so perfect that no improvements have subsequently been made, no new principles discovered which were not known to Vitruvius.

Then, having stored all our belongings, we dismissed the driver, as he had to make his way back as speedily as possible, and told him to come across to us at the end of a fortnight.

I got some indefinite information about this river, from an Indian who happened to meet me just below its mouth, but I could not readily make him understand me, and his replies were a compound of Chinook, Tagish, and signs, and therefore largely unintelligible.

A ready-made education plastered on the outside cultivates nobody.

At one time the costers had used their donkeys and ponies shamefully, had overworked and underfed them; but gradually they were made to see how much better it was to treat their animals well.

No matter, make sure of those Seamen however; that they may be ready upon occasion.

The pedal members of the old English barons were of a peculiar aristocratic conformation, and lasts were made expressly for them.

Coles, in his "Art of Simpling," for instance, informs us how, "they take likewise the roots of mandrake, according to some, or, as I rather suppose, the roots of briony, which simple folk take for the true mandrake, and make thereof an ugly image, by which they represent the person on whom they intend to exercise their witchcraft."

Hastily the Germans made a rush for their aeroplanes to give chase.

But the workmen, fearing that stereotyping would eventually ruin their trade, purposely made errors, and, when their masters were absent, battered the type, so that the only two prayer-books completed were suppressed by authority, and the plates destroyed.

We cannot deliberately make thoughts.

She promptly made those observations which the unillumined have ever considered it witty to make concerning those who play at solitaire.

I desire to preserve those, whose valour has heretofore made our nation the terrour of the world, from the mortification of seeing themselves insulted by childhood, and commanded by ignorance; by ignorance exalted to authority by the countenance of some rhetorician of the senate, or some mayor of a borough.

Since then many of my friends have visited the White Sulphur, and you invariably made the same remark to them.

Undoubtedly some preparations were made to evacuate the place, but the temptation to hold on was too great.

Now that was a promise, which, while it was rarely made, was never broken.

They believed that the utmost concession that could be safely made to democracy was the power to select suitable men to legislate for the common good, and nothing is more striking in the Constitution than the care with which they sought to remove the powers of legislation from the direct action of the people.