I have stood upon the immense boulder that forms the head or summit of Baldface Mountain, a lofty, isolated peak, looming thousands of feet towards the sky, and counted upwards of twenty of these beautiful lakessleeping in quiet beauty in their forest beds, surrounded by primeval woods, overlooked by rugged hills, and their placid waters glowing in the sunlight.

She looked very young, scarcely more than twenty, and I could hardly believe that she was, what her card indicated, a married woman.

It was barely twenty minutes past four.

There was first a "lecture" and then a sermon, each about fifty minutes long; several portions of psalms were sung; and of the three prayers, the first, or "long prayer," was seldom less than twenty minutes in length.

We were precisely twenty minutes in passing through it, with the full force of paddles.

One is not diffident at twentyby the way, I was now twenty-oneespecially after dining at the Maison Dorée.

But antique Art, waiting so patiently twenty centuries to afford aid to the artist, waits also to sit in judgment upon his worth and acts.

I am sorry that I am later than my intentionmy account with my banker[There's a dog, Jack!] took me up longer time to adjust than I had foreseen [all the time pulling down and stroking his ruffles]: for there was a small difference between usonly twenty pounds, indeed, which I had taken no account of.

There was a time," he spoke with some emotion, "when I would have given anythingcertainly most willingly twenty years of my lifeto be so absolutely convinced.

The Virginians bought them allonly twenty in number.

Yorkonly twenty miles distantfrom some of the tribe who had communicated with us and been well treated, but they would not take her over, and even watched her more narrowly than before.

There was a time," he spoke with some emotion, "when I would have given anythingcertainly most willingly twenty years of my lifeto be so absolutely convinced.

" It would have astonished these brave men to tell them that, on the contrary, it had been known, and that a certain Danish servant possessed a dog which pronounced distinctly twenty words.

At 7.0 a.m. set out on a north course; at 8.5, finding the thicket almost impassable, I ascended a cypress-tree, where a most cheerless view met my sight to the north, east, and west; not a break was visiblenothing but thicket in all directions, with scarcely an undulation of any kind; the view to the north-west was most extensivenearly twenty miles of thicket could be seen, with a surface as level as the sea.

Or if some one you know gives twenty indications in a day that he or she (let us say she) is of a petted temper, regard these merely as twenty proofs of one lamentable fact, and not as twenty different facts to be separately lamented.