Then Aunt Phoebe decided that the two-mile walk to school was too much for her, and had her taken and called for in the machine, much to Hinpoha's disgust, for that walk was her chief joy these days.

Their next take was a boat-load of children and an old grandmother.

The taking of the offering is also a pretty ceremony.

Every one, apparently, on the train had the same experiencethe Austrian drummers looked wise and muttered "baksheesh," and in Bucarest an evil-eyed hotel porter kept pulling me into corners, saying that this taking of passports was a regular "commerce," and that for five francs he would have it back again.

"The taking off of the great chain was a murderous job.

" The taking off of Adelaide's veil was not a process to be accomplished ill-advisedly or lightly.

The voter, who, by voting, sends his fellow citizen into office as his representative, knowing beforehand that the taking of this oath is the first duty his agent will have to perform, does by his vote, request and authorize him to take it.

It was no wonder, then, that our leave-taking was a solemn onea parting which all felt might be for this world.

My anti-leave-taking foible is certainly not so much affected when I quit the residence of an hotelthat public homethat wearisome resting-placethat epitome of the worldthat compound of gregarious incompatibilitiesthat bazaar of characterthat proper resort of semi-social egotism and unamalgable individualitiesthat troublous haven, where the vessel may ride and tack, half-sheltered, but finds no anchorage.

But what a taking are poor clients in when this too much trusted cunning companion, better read in Piers Plowman than in Plowden, and in the play of "Richard the Third" than in the pleas of Edward the Fourth, persuades them all is sure when he is sure of all!

[Footnote 11: 'A second leave-taking is a happy chance': the chance, or occasion, because it is happy, smiles.

[Illustration: The Taking of The Bastille] For years, there had been mutterings.

But the taking of those trout with our hands was quite another matter.

Note-taking is an art and as you practise you will develop skill.

He had taken it on the instant, as a rule, and as a rule, his takings had been dust and ashes as soon as they were in his hands.

The taking of this was a difficult piece of work, which, after some delay, was successfully carried out at the beginning of April.

The taking of the warrant was an act of resentment, she thought.

Their leave-taking of the public, their "retirement," as biographers call it, is one death; since a playgoer then considers an actor dead "to all intents and purposes"a very non est.

And therefore how they could refuse to receive the King, till he consented to take the Covenant, I know not, unless the taking of the Covenant had been a condition on which he was to receive his crown by the laws or fundamental constitutions of the kingdom, which none pretendeth.

While the taking of Riga would not necessarily be a decisive blow, it would make the Baltic more than ever a German lake, leaving the Russian fleet in the position of the mouse in the rathole to the German cat, just as the Kaiser's fleet was the mouse to the English fleet outside.

This leave-taking shall be the red flag for the bull.

Ye kiss that ye take is ye one ye want.

The taking of Creutznach was the next service of any moment.