As it was, all 'e got was a black eye for shoving another man, and for a day or two he was so down-'arted that 'e was no company at all for the other two.

" "But look a-here, Mr. Watson,Dr. Miller, is we-all jes' got ter set down here, widout openin' ou' mouths, an' let dese w'ite folks hang er bu'n a man w'at we know ain' guilty?

The getting of this enormous creature out of the water would have been a matter of no small difficulty had there not been such a large party present.

The getting of the logs together was the hardest.

There was scarcely a van-load of small furniture and boxes, but the getting together of all the small things was a bore,books, bibelots, music, cards, and notes (these in quantities, lettres de condoleance, which had to be carefully sorted as they had all to be answered).

The getting of supplies became at times a very serious question.

The getting of it on is anguish, and as to the getting of it off, I heard her moan to her nurse the other night, as she wriggled her curly head through the too-small exit, "Oh I only God knows how I hate gettin' peeled out

Our soil is sterile, our modes of farming have been rude until within a few years; and under the circumstances,with the Yankee notion that the getting of money is the chief end of man,exclusive devotion to labor has been deemed indispensable to success.

The getting of this feeling of independence and of nationality was a very great step forward.

The getting into the labyrinth was a trifle in comparison to the getting out.

It will be easily seen, that the getting of the Abraham into the water was an affair of a good deal of delicacy, under the circumstances.