Phil was Tony's own kind, college-trained, with a certified line of good old New England ancestry behind him.

Phil was her companion always now, because when she was absent Miles must be at home to look after the store.

I don't believe Uncle Phil was a saint, either, was he, Granny?"

Phil was my chum at college, and in inviting me home to spend the vacation with him I thought he had fancied the resources of his village larger than they proved.

Phil was certainly quieter than usual that afternoon, and sat at Anne's feet by the fire, filling little sacks with bran to be loaded on his toy cart to go to the mill, but not chattering as usual.

"Phil was always a blarney," he said.

Accordingly Phil was a second time that day surprised by the unheralded arrival of Carlotta's father, a rather dusty, weary and limp-looking gentleman this time, but exuding a sort of benignant serenity that had not been there early in the day.

In an open space near the Central Station, between the Chronicle Office and the Lit. and Phil., there is a fine statue of George Stephenson, by the Northumbrian sculptor, Lough.

He wished Phil were Methodist.