The taste for natural history might certainly be transferred to that point, where the opportunity for discovery was the greatest.

In these raw, harsh days of boundless opportunity, the opportunity of the new education, because it is the most fundamental, is assuredly the greatest of all. VIII.

"Opportunity is a fine thing.

The discussions had cleared my ideas as to the primal steps to be taken for woman's enfranchisement, and the opportunity of expressing myself fully and freely on a subject I felt so deeply about was a great relief.

Probably the nearest opportunity which ever occurred to bring the Christian Apostle into intellectual contact with the Roman philosopher was this occasion, when St. Paul was dragged as a prisoner into the presence of Seneca's elder brother.

The opportunity was a capital one to counter on Zeigler, but Tom made no effort to do so.

The only opportunity that I had to learn more of the President's plan for a League before arriving in Paris was an hour's interview with him on the U.S.S. George Washington some days after we sailed from New York.

SwineCato assigns to a large estate ten stiespoultry, and pigeons were kept in the farmyard, and fed as there was need; and, where opportunity offered, a small hare-preserve and a fish-pond were constructedthe modest commencement of that nursing and rearing of game and fish which was afterwards prosecuted to so enormous an extent.

" "But an opportunity isn't an adventure.

Be they then restored, this very Christmas, to the English character; the opportunity is fast approachingbe it employed.

An opportunity of attempting the latter was not long wanting.

" "Yes, the opportunity I'm talking of was a grander one than them, though old Principle can't forget he owes his life perhaps to both of you boys' thought of him.

As the inevitable end approached, her friends warned her to leave Charlottenburg while the opportunity was still hersto escape with her jewels and her money (a fortune of £150,000)but to all such urging she was deaf.

This opportunity of time and place, with their circumstances, are so forcible motives, that it is impossible almost for two young folks equal in years to live together, and not be in love, especially in great houses, princes' courts, where they are idle in summo gradu,

Afraid that the boy, who must have reached home long before, would bring friends back, the tramps took their departure while the opportunity was theirs, and were seen no more.

The opportunity, which makes the thief, is also the touchstone of women's virtue.

Opportunity is an instinct to the man who dares.

The opportunity which he gave them of coming, to him one day in the week for private advice, was the means of exposing many outrages which would otherwise he unheard of: He observed that there were not a few whom he had liberated on account of the cruelty of their masters.

Then nature has taught you the lesson that early opportunities are the brightest and best.

Such an opportunity now offered at B, and the doctor became its rector about the period Sir Edward became possessor of his paternal estate.

" [-26-] "Some one might possibly reply: 'But you see that all such opportunities for toil are causes of jealousy and hatred.'

Men die but once, and the opportunity Of a noble death is not an every-day fortune: It is a gift which noble spirits pray for.

She had, therefore, double opportunities of acquiring a knowledge which seemed to interest her deeply; naturally, since it was so absolutely novel, and communicated by one whose very presence was the most marvellous of the marvels it attested.

But Mr. Smith's great opportunity was a gale.