When he saw me, James (for his name was James Noble) made a curt and grotesque "boo," and said, "Maister John, this is the mistress; she's got a trouble in her breestsome kind

" James was the youngest of four brothers and two sisters, a handsome boy, and his mother's darling.

James was a man of many affairs and schemeshe might have had valuable securities, papers relating to designs, papers containing secrets of great moment; he was interested, for example, in several patentshe might have had documents pertinent to some affair of such importance that ill-disposed folk, eager to seize them, might have murdered him in order to gain possession of them.

Mr. Edwin James was the next prominent speaker.

To find James now became his one desire, but think of whatever scheme he might, it seemed that to have patience and wait to meet him in Chicago was the only method he could discover.

Haven't I 'personally conducted' the family all over Europe?" "James is a base hireling," said the caller, blandly.

The Markhams were all good-looking, and James was not an exception.

Miss James was the daughter of the rector of Beguildy, in Shropshire.

She was the more encouraged to hope for the success of this proposal as James had already been a candidate for the hand of her elder daughter; nor was she deterred by the knowledge that the Grand Duke of Tuscany had offered one of his sisters, with an enormous dowry, to the British Prince.

Jesse James was my neighbor.

or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?'" "Mother, James is not an infidel.

James was a slave to Mr. McCalmont of Delaware.

But then, James is not your father.

In the year 1840, George, Lord Bruce, the eldest son of Lord Elgin by his first wife, died, unmarried, and James became heir to the earldom.

And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, were partners with him in the same business.

Moreover, Ambler, my lad, James knew him and James wasn't the sort to take up with wrong 'uns.

James is the superintendent and manager of a Wesleyan Sunday-school; and in point of perseverance, and constancy in the prosecution of duty, he is quite a pattern.

James is one of those people who, possessing what Country Life would call one of the lesser country-houses of England, has an indeterminate bit of ground beyond the garden, called, according to choice of costume, "the rock-garden," "the home-farm," "the grouse moor," or "no rubbish may be shot here."

This stone was very hard, and was afterwards removed to the first Catholic church built in Jerusalem, near the Pool of Bethsaida, during the time that St. James the Less was Bishop of that city.

" "Yes, my dear," and for five hundred years after Duncan was murdered, there were kings of Scotland and England also; but when Queen Elizabeth died, her nearest relation happened to be the king of Scotland, James the sixth; he was her cousin, and as she left neither brothers nor sisters, nor children, James became king of England as well as of his own country; and since that time there has been but one king to govern both kingdoms.

BALL`ANTYNE, JAMES, a native of Kelso, became a printer in Edinburgh, printed all Sir Walter Scott's works; failed in business, a failure in which Scott was seriously implicated (1772-1833).

Do you fancy a Haig? Shall our James be a Haig?

Miss James was Mary Lamb's nurse.

Of the coffee-houses enumerated, St. James's and White's were the headquarters of men of fashion and of politics; the Grecian of men of legal learning; Will's of men of Letters.

Though he complimented me on my self-denial in making what he called "some sacrifice of beauty" to pass for a boy, "so that the audience can't say, 'Why, James must be a fool not to see she is a girl,'" he scolded me for my want of bluntness.