Though not very well educated, the population was exceedingly devout;though theirs was a kind of superstitious and traditional devotion, it must he owned, rather than an enlightened or rational faith.

In consideration of their being guests of the house, these gentlemen were allowed to retain their coats.

One main secret of the delight they give us is their being poetical comments, as it were, on fancies and metaphors of our own.

There can be no more startling evidence of their being a distinct and comparatively aboriginal race, than to hear this unaltered Indian language, which the white man cannot speak nor understand.

Clark grumbled something about their being meteor-stones, whose ferruginous substance had been lured by the magnetic Pole, and kept from frictional burning in their fall by the frigidity of the air: and they quickly ceased to interest our sluggish minds, except in so far as they obstructed our way.

"Their encampment, careless manner of moving, and unguarded exposure of their persons, are all against their being Indians.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit; for their's is the kingdom of heaven.

And that was the first I knew of their being slaves.

"That's it," asserted Sylvia; "that's the very stingy, economical thing about them I hate, their not being a bother!

[Footnote 8: If the date of the Apocalypse is twenty years earlier than that of the fourth Gospel, I now feel no such difficulty in their being the composition of the same writer.

No heroes at all for us, if their heroism is to consist in their being not-men.

The most interesting consideration connected with their disappearance is their being "the only vertebrated animals which we can make certain of having lost since the creation.

"There will be in many words a transition from their being the figurative to their being the proper signs of certain ideas.

"For, or under pretence of their being heretics or infidels.

They took very different views of life and duty, and there seemed to be small prospect of their becoming intimate friends.

It may possibly be imagined that in the treatment these gentlemen received, the British commander-in-chief sheltered himself under the plea of their being "native-born British subjects," and perhaps when it was ascertained that Mr. Kinzie was indeed a citizen of the United States it was thought safest to release him.

There were no tents, no women or children, and the general aspect of the men showed Cameron conclusively that his surmise about their being a war party was correct.

To Stella's inner amusement, however, he did not make any reference to their having been fellow travelers for a day and a half.

The nipa wine is laid at six and one-half reals the jar, indistinctly; prices which, although extremely low, are still considered advantageous by the Filipinos themselves, more particularly when it is besides understood, that, from the circumstance of their being growers of this article, they are exempted from military service, as well as several other taxes and public charges.

Nobody could have doubted their being twin brothers.

Their is also a great collection of original drawings, of which three seem to deserve a particular mention: the first exhibits a representation of the inside of St. Peter's church at Rome; the second, of that of St. John Lateran; and the third, of the high altar of St. Ignatius; all painted with the utmost accuracy, in their proper colours.

It was gone in the manner we have set forth; but Janet could collect another, and no doubt in due time did; nor did she fail of any of her old peculiarities, all of which became endeared to Thomas by reason of their being veritable sacrifices to his domestic comfort.

"At least their being such rarely enhanceth our opinion, either of their abilities or of their virtues."Ib., p. 162.

This ought to silence those utilitarians at home, who oppose the cultivation of the fine arts, on the ground of their being useless luxuries.

Yet they had heard of nothing but my intense dislike of them and opposition to their becoming my neighbors.