For proof thereof, I did not cease urging on Harry his careless promise, that our union should have our father's blessing on it; and the good pastor falling in with my whim, prevailed on Mr. Truelocke to remarry us very privately in the little church I spoke of, he himself assisting. '

Being molded from concrete, it is practically proof against weather and time, and it is fireproof in a sense of the term far more literal than that generally adopted in large cities.

The events succeeding his arrival at Conjuror's House warmed the Factor's anger to the heat of almost preposterous retribution perhapsfor after all a man's life is worth something, even in the wildsbut it was actually retribution, and not merely a ruthless proof of power.

The proverb is, How many men, so many minds, Which maketh proof how hard a thing it is, Of sundry minds to please the sundry kinds.

Writing in March, 1830, concerning the old whist days, to William Ayrton, one of the old whist-playing company, and the neighbour of the Burneys in Little James Street, Pimlico, Lamb makes use of an elision which, I think, may be taken as more than support of the theory that Mrs. Battle and Mrs. Burney were largely the samepractically proof.

The worst titles of all are those which have been stolen, those, I mean, which have already been borne by other books; for they are in the first place a plagiarism, and secondly the most convincing proof of a total lack of originality in the author.

With a mind stubbornly proof against all thissuch an attack of frenzy, rather than of love, had perverted his mindAppius ascended the tribunal, and when the claimant went on to complain briefly, that justice had not been administered to him on the preceding day through party influence, before either he could go through with his claim, or an opportunity of reply was afforded to Verginius, Appius interrupted him.

Pain you may have once caused me; but, oh, you know not how blessedly one proof of affection, one hour of devotion in a child can obliterate from a mother's heart the remembrance of months of pain.

I confess, after a reasonable amount of inquiry into this subject, that I can find no proofs whatsoever of Tasso's having made love to Leonora; though I think it highly probable.

The proof in his case isthere!" He pointed to the dead man, at whom the night-porter was staring with astonished eyes.

Adj. insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient^, callous, thick- skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.

I'll tell you that, son, but first I want to know what you got agin' himand your proofsmostly your proofs!" The distaste which Bull had felt for the sheriff from the first now became overpowering.