"It is difficult to pronounce," said they, "for should the maiden, through the exercise of virtue, have merited to be born as a white elephant, her transmigrations must in the order of nature be but few; whereas should she have unfortunately become and remained a rat, a frog, or other shortlived animal, they cannot but be exceedingly numerous.

A Moor observed, "I hope to see any calamity befall the country rather than that of the slaves being liberated," He observed: "God shews his approbation of slavery by not permitting slaves to rise against their masters, or the free negroes to invade Morocco, who are infinitely more numerous.

The congregation of our Parish Church is tolerably numerous, and embraces many fine human specimens.

Its adherents, who included perhaps one-third of the ministers and people of the Church, were specially numerous in the Highlands, where United Presbyterianism was practically unrepresented.

We do not doubt that there were suchbut were they relatively numerous?

They looked these over and said that our papers were very nice and undoubtedly very numerous, but ungraciously insisted on that pass signed by the General.

" The curious crustacean known as the "fiddler crab" is unusually numerous in the marshes of Long Island, this summer.

* Provoked by the sins of the Christians, the Lord hath become as it were a destroying enemy, and a dreadful avenger; having sent among us a prodigiously numerous, most barbarous, and inhuman people, whose law is lawless, and whose wrath is furious, even as the rod of God's anger, overrunning and utterly ruining infinite countries, and cruelly destroying every thing where they come with fire and sword.

That they have done so is proved by the existence of the proportionately very numerous band of mestizos who inhabit the Islands.

In Mr. Cobbett's sanguine temperament the uses to which the grain is applicable are wonderfully numerous and important.

The graves were sadly numerous; and the sorrowing survivors had reverently decked the mounds that covered them with shrubs, and green boughs from the evergreens that abounded in the neighboring woods, as emblems of their abiding grief, and also of their immortal hopes.

C. Have you observed the alien in our midst, How strangely numerous he seems to-day,

The municipality have taken in hand some important housing schemes which may be advantageous to the working classes, and result in the erection of some of those new artisans' dwellings which, so far, have not been conspicuously numerous.

In the far Southwest he became aware that the increasingly numerous Mexican population was no longer a matter of box-car dwellers, more or less migratory.

The congregation of Lune-street Chapel is moderately numerous; but it has been materially thinned at intervals by the establishment of other Wesleyan chapels.

In the English islands precedents of conspiracy were set before the blacks became appreciably numerous.

General society he divided into classes: 'The noodlesvery numerous and well known.

Jeypore was the first place we found elephants used for business purposes, and they seemed to be quite numerousmore numerous than horsesand some of them were covered with elaborate trappings and saddles, and had their heads painted in gay tints and designs.

" REBECCAITES, a band of Welsh rioters who in 1843, dressed as females, went about at nights and destroyed the toll-gates, which were outrageously numerous; they took their name from Gen. xxiv.

There is no such street as he has named throughout the town, and the ovens are singularly numerous.

The very reverse was the case with the Indians, tenfold more numerous, who lived along our western frontier.

Jays and magpies are terribly numerous; they are rare egg-stealers.

You have been poisoned with the story that I covet certain women in this towntoo numerous to mention, I believe.

The regular verbs, therefore, are vastly more numerous than those which deviate from the stated form.

There Georges De Grapion settled, with the laudable determination to make a fresh start against the mortifyingly numerous Grandissimes.