Therefore she knew quite well what she risked through the scheme which she had so boldly propounded to Sir Marmaduke.

I shall now briefly propound some inducements to the observance thereof.

" They went to the giant; and, after cordial salutations, Tom propounded his question carelessly, with something like a white lie.

As I turned from his retreating figure and flung myself down before the hearth, this was the question I continually propounded to myself, in vain repetition.

If thou hadst studied all the courtesies Humanity and noble blood are linkt to, Thou couldst not have propounded such a benefit, Nor heapt upon me such unlookt for honour As dying for his sake, to be his Martyr, 'Tis such a grace.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, the doctrine held by the Roman Catholic Church that the Virgin Mary was conceived and born without taint of sin; first distinctly propounded in the 12th century, at which time a festival was introduced in celebration of it, and which became matter of dispute in the 14th century, and it was only in 1854 that it became by a bull an article of the Catholic faith.

I do not say he did: I merely propound the question for the student's consideration.

Whether the mortification felt by Keats at the critique was small (as is now generally opined) or great (as Shelley thought), it cannot reasonably be propounded that this caused, or resulted in, the rupture of the pulmonary blood-vessel.

All that can be safely propounded on such a subject is that the sequence of seasons is a constant and infallible phenomenon of Nature in that condition of our planet with which alone we have, or can have, any acquaintance.

"What would you give," he propounded thickly, "for a hay harvest breeze?" He climbed, or rolled, upon the billiard-table, turned head toward punkah, and suddenly lay still,a gross white figure, collapsed and sprawling.