Simon was now the only remaining son of Mattathias; and on him devolved the high-priesthood, as well as the executive duties of supreme ruler.

Simon was a very mild performer in the water, but he had coolness, presence of mind, and inflexible tenacity of purpose.

Sir Simon the Shrew, who had come to live in the Emerald City after Princess Ozma had magically enlarged him to human-size, had become very good friends with Dorothy.

"The Jews and the priests have found it good that Simon shall be their leader and high priest forever until there shall arise a trustworthy prophet."1

Simon and Sally were children when that happened, and since then they had grown up together in the closest family intimacy, interrupted only by Sally's winter schooling in New York, and renewed every summer by her regular seasons at Hendrik.

Simon was afterwards Bishop of Jerusalem.

'Simon here,' pointing to a big buck of fifty-five sitting on the front porch, 'is Liza's oldest boy.'" Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies [JAMES CORNELIUS Magnolia, Mississippi] James Cornelius lives in Magnolia in the northwestern part of the town, in the Negro settlement.

It would be an awful blow to him to know that Old Simon is actually his grandfather; and there's no need, now, to tell him. "'Where ignorance is bliss,' you know the rest, And a still tongue is generally the best.

Simon, as Count of Montfort l'Amaury, was not a powerful lord; but he was descended, it was said, from a natural son of King Robert his mother, who was English, had left him heir to the earldom of Leicester, and he had for his wife Alice de Montmorency.

Pierre Simon, my husband, was a bad man, and so I left him.

Sir Simon of Lee, a distinguished companion of Douglas, was the person on whom, after the fall of his leader, the custody of the heart devolved.

Spinoza, for instance (above, p. 138), and Simon, a Frenchman whose books were burnt, were pioneers; and the modern criticism of the Old Testament was begun by Astruc (professor of medicine at Paris), who discovered an important clue for distinguishing different documents used by the compiler of the Book of Genesis (1753).