Not that I made it of wine because wine is rare; nor the walls of gold because gold is rare: that would have been too childish: but because I would match for beauty a human work with the works of those Others: and because it happens, by some persistent freak of the earth, that precisely things most rare and costly are generally the most beautiful.

Its scant tie of ribbon, her touch told her, was a bit of the one she had that other time thrown down to him, and the thing it tied and that looked so black in the dusk was a red, red rose.

The important thing to know is the kind of help that should be given, and when and how it is needed.

A weekly journal gravely informs a correspondent that "the line, 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever,' occurs in TUPPER's Proverbial Philosophy.

Strange how frail a thing is human happiness, that the small matter of a misdirected 12-inch shell should blight the lives of a whole army and tinge our thirsty souls with melancholy.

Things grow the best when to themselves Left, and to nature's vigor rare.

Boggley thought we had better ask some people to dinner, so we did, though I pointed out that we had no silver or anything to make the table decent; and the boarding-house things are none too dainty.

"'That's his lay,' says I; 'he goes up to a man and don't look fierce, and the first thing you know there's a funeral.'

The first thing to be seen on entering is the Crystal Fountain, a most elegant one about thirty feet high at a rough guess, composed entirely of glass and pouring down jets of water from basin to basin; this is in the middle of the centre nave, and from it you can look down to either end, and up both transepts.

The principal thing worth seeing at Mosul is the palace, about half a mile from the town.

All such things are valuable helps to the doctor.

May I order dinner for them?' 'Of course, they must have dinner,' said her ladyship, resignedly, as if the whole thing were an infliction; and Mary ran out and interviewed the butler, begging that all things might be made particularly comfortable for the travellers.

Her fear is banished by his voice, Her fluttering hope set free: "The needful thing is Mary's choice, She shall remain with me.

"She says the thing she was singing is a Polish folk-song about death and sorrow, and it's called awhat was that, Anna?" "Dumka."

A holy thing is sleep.

Now, since the beginnings of adulterous love are only the stimulant fires and itchings of the flesh, it is evident, that these things in the spirit are filthy allurements, which, as they ascend and descend, and reciprocate, so they excite and inflame.

When therefore any one came on deck, the first thing he felt on groping his way about was the cold noses of the dogs pushed against his hands, as they frisked and gambolled round him.

After my two explorations in unknown realms,the one voluntary, looking at the painting on the wall, the other involuntary, looking at a human soul in sorrow,I resolved to shut my eyes to all that they ought not to see; and therefore I stationed myself in the green glade of a chair, and very properly decided that the only thing I would look at should be the fire.

The thing in front of her was Tawny Hudson.

The only thing he thinks about is courage and strength.

The Christmas holidays were approaching; and it became at once clear to him that the very thing which he wanted was a representation with real figures of one of those pictures of the scene in the stablea sacred exhibition such as at this holy season good Christians delight to offer to the divine Mother and her Child, of the manner in which she, in her seeming lowliness, was honored first by the shepherds and afterward by kings.

She kissed me again as she put me to bed, and the last thing I saw before drifting away into the land of dreams was her sweet face bending over me.

A straight line, we will suppose, is the first thing shown by the position of the children; the next thing to be formed is a curve, by the advancement of each end; then a half-circle,a circle, by joining hands in a ring;two equal parallel lines, by the division of the number in action; next a square,triangle, &c. &c.

The things out av me pockuts were lyin' on the flure by meall barrin' the key av me room.

The thing, whatever it was, was forty yards from him; and it was a cold night for wading.