why, what is it, dear?" "I was reflecting," said Colonel Musgrave, "that, as you justly observe, both Agatha and I have been practically indebted to you for our support these past five years" VII

The disciplinary rules are strictly observed by them.

When you come to observe faithfully the changes of each humblest plant, you find that each has, sooner or later, its peculiar autumnal tint; and if you undertake to make a complete list of the bright tints, it will be nearly as long as a catalogue of the plants in your vicinity.

He scarcely observed that Don Camillo Monforte was still present, nor did he note the brightness and joy which glowed in the eyes of the ardent Violetta.

"Vous êtes un peu agitée, ce matin, ma bonne Annette," she merely observed, when her maid had committed a blunder more material than common.

" "Skeelty doesn't seem the right man to handle those fellows," observed Mr. Merrick thoughtfully; "but as he owns the controlling interest in his company, and Boglin is fully as unreasonable, we cannot possibly oust him from control.

"These Annapolis affairs are never very serious, I imagine," Belle observed calmly.

"This is carrying out to the full, John, the conceits of the composite order," observed Mr. Effingham, drily.

Four hundred and seventy surgeons and assistant-surgeons were attached to the hundred regiments of infantry.[80] It is made the duty of the medical officer to keep constant watch over all the means and habits of life among the troops,"to see that all regulations for protecting the health of troops, in barracks, garrisons, stations, or camps, are duly observed."

Let us pass by the other world, which is fraught with such happenings; but observe attentively only thine own city!

On the coast of Suffolk its vernal and autumnal visits have been accurately observed.

At the end of the story he observed gravely, "The belief in diabolical personalities is not to be lightly dismissed, Mr. Beaumaroy.

"It is altogether a most mysterious affair," he observed sagely, being free, now that his late guest's perplexing disappearance was accounted for, even in that tragic fashion, to regard the business and to moralize over it without much personal feeling in the matter.

There should be fixed times for meals and for sleep, and these should be rigidly observed, and there should be regular times for the children to go to the lavatories; all these establish regularity and self-control, as well as improving general health.

"You had better hope she will get well," observed the Doctor, coolly; "for if she should happen to die, my good Pasqualina, it would be very possible that your father and brother might be sent to the galleys.

They all pretended great joy; but to such as more narrowly observed their behavior, it was easy to be discerned that most of them did but feign it; and, notwithstanding all their outward dissimulation, they had been better pleased if the Duke of Burgundy had been successful.

" "I am not a doctor," observed the young man, coldly.

The household duties were scrupulously observed, each man assuming his rôle in the complicated ménage.

She would have observed her host a little more curiously, had she been aware that he once proposed to place her darling Floracita at the head of that stylish mansion.

" The younger Pliny (Ep. iii. 7) relates that Eilius Italicus religiously observed Vergil's birthday.

"If they stuck to their flaggood-bye," observed Trendon grimly.

I do not speak here of the small trees and shrubs, which are commonly observed, and which are now withered, but of the large trees.

It has been shrewdly observed that Foote must have meant a diminutive, or pocket edition.

Those who so fancy, can know very little of human nature, and have observed their own hearts and their fellow creatures very carelessly.

" "In that event, my dear, you will have an opportunity to become more intimately acquainted with the mysteries of the culinary art," observed Mr. Everidge cheerfully.