According to Wordsworth, society and the crowded unnatural life of cities tend to weaken and pervert humanity; and a return to natural and simple living is the only remedy for human wretchedness.

Making returns blindly is a bad habit and leads to instinctive returnsthat is, habitual returns with certain attacks from certain parriesa fault which the skilled opponent will soon discover.

The return to Cherbury was a pang, and it was over.

He at the same time made overtures of reconciliation to the United Provinces, and hoped that the return of the Prince of Orange would be a means of effecting so desirable a purpose.

The return was down-hill, and they went back in half the time it had taken them to come.

The return of certain Negroes from Philadelphia to Petersburg, Virginia, during the first decade of the nineteenth century, is a case in evidence.

Many were slugged by mobs with pick handles, taken to the outskirts of the city and told that their return would be the occasion of a lynching.

The first time I saw her after her return was one night at the theatre.

All the excitement and interest we had enjoyed in exploring the Fitzroy thus far, now left us, and our return was comparatively tedious and monotonous work.

Mrs. Deacon's return was always automatic: "Herbert!" "Whose Bert?"

" The return of Abe Potash and Mawruss Perlmutter to London is not an event to be regarded indifferently.

Every slip, every fall, every return to selfishness is a lesson learned, an experience gained, from which a golden grain of wisdom is extracted, helping the striver toward the accomplishment of his lofty object.

When Scott says "the Giaour is praised among our mountains," and Byron returns "Waverley is the best novel I have read," there is no suspicion of flatteryit is the interchange of compliments between men, Et cantare pares et respondere parati.

Perceiving from her story, and from what the doctor could tell him of their meeting at the station that her return to town was as yet a secret to every one but themselves, he begged that the secret should continue to be kept, in order that the coup d'etat which he meditated might lose none of its force by anticipation.

Sir Walter's return to Abbotsford was an afflicting scene.

Again; the return of the monthly periods whilst the mother is a nurse always affects the properties of the milk, more or less, deranging the stomach and bowels of the infant.

The returns before us, and they are the only ones yet undertaken in Spain, and in order, embrace in detail nine only of the principal ports:

The return of Dick himself was to the Shands an affair so much more momentous than the release of John Caldigate from prison, that for some hours or so the latter subject was allowed to pass out of sight.

Flimsy construction is a direct result of the notorious lack of care taken by the tenant, so that quick returns must be the rule; also of the probability that the neighborhood will deteriorate and that a class which will bear crowding and be less critical will replace the first tenants.

"Rally in the gangways, and defy them!" was the animated cry"Rally in the gangways, hearts of oak." was returned by Trysail, in a ready but weakened voice.

His return was a triumph,a grand ovation, an unbounded tribute to his vanity.

In that eighteenth century, for decades the return to nature had been the rallying cry of those who attacked the artificial and degraded state of society.

Its return is not necessarily an evidence of either penitence or reform.

The House committed the sheriffs; but, when they sued out their habeas corpus, the judges decided that the return of the Sergeant-at-arms that they were committed by the House for breach of privilege was a sufficient return.

Still the months which intervened between that date and Michelangelo's return from Venice were but a dying close, a slow agony interrupted by spasms of ineffectual heroism.