Soup made of the bark of the slippery elm, or stewed acorns, were the only food that many had subsisted on for weeks.

321):'To make verses was his first labour, and to mend them was his last. ...

But from this they were dissuaded by one who "had sene bestiall curet be taking are quik seik ox, and making are deip pitt, and bureing him therin, and be calling the oxin and bestiall over that place."

" "Rumor has it that their make of aeroplane is the most up-to-date and complete yet constructed, but nobody knows the details so far.

Very ordinary make and shape are these toys, such as you may see in any middle-class English home, and each of them looking like favouritesjudging from the signs of much use they present.

Bed-making, chamber-sweeping, and water-fetching were doubtless great preservatives against too much vain philosophy.

Another very early "making" is the arranging of furniture for shops, carriages, trains, and the "ships upon the stairs," which made bright pictures in Stevenson's memory.

"The making of the tuner, the wiring, the aërial and the assembling are all technicalities that may be mastered by a careful study of the subject and the result will be a simple and inexpensive set having a limited range.

"The making ourselves clearly understood, is the chief end of speech.

I.The Making of a Craftsman It is a duty incumbent on upright and credible men of all ranks, who have performed anything noble or praiseworthy, to record the events of their lives.

Pun-making was a fashion among the conversationists of that day, and took the place of better wit.

The making of the cake was a great mental help to Aunt Amy.

Yet bread-making in well-ventilated kitchens and sweeping in open-windowed rooms are calisthenics so bracing that one grudges them to the Irish maidens, whose round and comely arms betray so much less need of their tonic influence than the shrunken muscles exhibited so freely by our short-sleeved belles.

The only really considerable element making for discomfort now was Mr. Downing.

The making of the criminal is largely a question of his fortune or misfortune in the environment where he is placed.

This condition was implied in the engagement; otherwise the making of the engagement would have been a sin, and the keeping thereof would have been a sin also, and so an adding of sin to sin.]

[Footnote 1: Porcelain-making was then a great secret in Germany, only known in Meissen; the process being conducted with closed doors, and the foreman bound by oath.

I should not wonder if the constant making out of such paragraphs is the cause of that weakness in Mrs. W.'s eyes, as she is tenderly pleased to express it.

"Watch-making is my business, and it's watch

"The making of books is his amusement.

Law-making is a formal, deliberate act, performed by persons of mature age, embodying the intelligence, wisdom, justice and humanity, of the community; performed, too, at leisure, after full opportunity had for a comprehensive survey of all the relations to be affected, after careful investigation and protracted discussion.

["Victorian love-making was at best a sloppy business ...

Naturally he did not tell me if he had closed with the proposition, but the making of it by the committee was a revelation as to the purity of American politics which he fully understood.

As a result of the contagious ideals of Wall Street, the making of money was then a passion with me.

We have for any complaint, substituted serious personal injury, and I cannot but observe that the making of the Emperor the final judge, in such case, is a stretch of too great confidence in Moorish justice.