There is mostly at first great depression of strength in these cases, and it is therefore requisite to give some stimulant; a glass of hot brandy-and-water, or twenty drops of sal-volatile, is the best that can be given.

Looking-glasses were a passing invention.

Now, in the little Japanese village of Yowcuski a looking-glass was an unheard-of thing, and girls did not even know what they looked like, except on hearing the description which their lovers gave them of their personal beauty (which description, by-the-bye, was sometimes slightly biased, according as the lover was more or less devoted).

Nursed by a careful butler (or parlour-maid, as the case may be), a single bottle will sherry twelve guests, or, should the glasses be economical, thirteen.

Glass is a beautiful and most fragile article: hence it requires great care in washing.

A glass of wine is no crime.

Sir Tablloyd George, the famous physician, observed that a glass of hot whisky and lemon-juice on going to bed was a sovran remedy.

The glass is the only author he studies, by which his actions and gestures are all put on like his clothes, and by that he practices how to deliver what he has prepared to say to the dames, after he has laid a train to bring it in.

The Looking-Glass, you see, was heretofore a Man, even I, the unfortunate Fidelio.

The glass of the middle three is a memorial to Queen Adelaide, dated 1853.

But, if the exile said his mother was a Frenchwoman, the glasses would be forthcoming all the same, for "My father," the old man would say, "was a Frenchman of Martinique, with blood as pure as that wine and a heart as sweet as this honey; come, a glass of orgeat;" and he would bring it himself in a quart tumbler.

The drinking is extremely moderate, the smoking not quite so temperate; but neither the glass nor the cigar are the real attractions.

Vitrum glass, spica grass, tu es asinus, you are an ass.

Did he say any more?" "Said the weather-glass was risin', but too fast to put faith in.

You see that the left eye-glass is a concave cylindrical lens of some sort.

It seems hardly credible that this beautiful glass, the making of which is now a lost art, was deliberately destroyed at the end of the eighteenth century by the so-called "architect" James Wyatt.

Hilda had learnt that day for the first time that at a certain hour every evening George Cannon drank a glass of warm milk, and that this glass of warm milk was an important factor in his daily comfort.

'If an idea be reluctant,' he would sometimes say, 'a glass of port ripens it, and it bursts forth; if it come freely, a glass of port is a glorious reward for it.'

"I have told zem to take hot water upstairs," the Father was saying, "and I zink a glass of toddy would be a good sing for you."

We were rather distressed on first seeing them, being apprehensive that one of the preachers might, some very fine Sunday, when in a mood more rapturous than usual, send the points of his shoes right through them; but our mind was eased when an explanation was made to the effect: that the "glass" was ornamental zinc, and that the feet of the preachers couldn't get near it.

But as we desire a clear view of the contents at all times, glass is the best material.

The glass is coeval with the building, which has been described as the most perfect Gothic chapel in existence.

Then Alice remembered that the hand-glass had been her mother's.

Glass is a compound of silex and pearlash.

She glittered at court, fluttered in the park, and talked aloud in the front box; but after a thousand experiments of her charms, was at last convinced that she had been flattered, and that her glass was honester than her maid.