Our own house, three miles away, was its nearest neighbor, and scarcely a congenial one.

Her meeting Cousin Ann on the way was merely one of those unpleasant coincidences with which life is filled, although it is hardly possible, usually, for two such disagreeable persons to be on the same small spot at the same precise moment.

The monument in practically one to ROBINSON CRUSOE.

The night of March 28, 182-, was precisely one of the nights that were wont to call forth these expressions of commiseration.

How many things she has to think of, day by day, not one of which she dares forgetand yet can seldom or never, for all her recollecting, contrive to get them all done?

"The whole distance," says his Lordship, "from the place whence we started to our landing on the other side, including the length we were carried by the current, was computed by those on board the frigate at upwards of four English miles, though the actual breadth is barely one.

" "And consequently one that carries its own mitigation.

W. replied, saying he would do what he could, and added that we were to have two large dinners and receptions,one with the Comedie Francaise afterward and one with musicwhich one would they come to.

" Hardly had the words been uttered when some one in the passage outside crowed like a cock.

The speculative mind of man was not at a loss to devise expedients, to effect this desirable purpose; and undoubtedly one of the boldest, most extraordinary, and most ingenious attempts ever made to lengthen the period of human life was made at this time.

Gradually one perceived that beneath the girlish mask, beneath the contours and the complexion incomparably delicate, there was an individuality intensely and provocatively male.

He plunged his hands down into his trousers pockets and fished up a knife, his second-best one, fortunately.

To isolate each factor and consider it separately is apt to result in false values, but there seems no other way in which the subject, which is essentially one, may be divided into the definite parts which are consequent on the form of a course of lectures.

They have also made some windlasses with which to haul their boats up hill, notably one at the foot of the cañon.

What they respectively said in their separate departments I was unable to discover, as I only heard distinctly one gallant Veteran, whose character was particularly dear to me.

One day I saw a shell go clean through the roof of it, but there was no one inside at the time.

No one aboard except myself will know where we are.

There was no one upstairs just then.

New and enlarged editions, each time making the book substantially a new one, were published in 1857, in 1867 and in 1871.

Will any one henceforth doubt my fortitude? I have one rather comforting reflection, apropos to that rencontre.

But then, as it would never do for all minds to be literally one, any more than it would for all magnetisms to be identical in their modes of manifestation, or for all the rivers, creeks, and canals to flow together, so we have our natural barriers and channels, our propriums, as the Swedish seer has it,and so we live and let live.

See him wave his hand to some one ashore?

I have never yet observed a single specimen of the mule-deer of the Great Basin west of the summit, and rarely one of the black-tailed species on the eastern slope, notwithstanding many of the latter ascend the range nearly to the summit every summer, to feed in the wild gardens and bring forth their young.

As each candle measured approximately one inch in diameter, it took sixty-six candles to complete the circle; and I need hardly say that every number and measurement has a significance.

Yes, a jolly one!