Before any other construction is possible to him, a child can make with sand, and this is a constant joy, from the endless puddings that are turned out of patty pans, up to such models as that of the whole "Isle of Wight" with its tunnelled cliffs and system of railways, made by an ex-Kindergarten boy as yet innocent of geography lessons.

This is the more deserving of attention, as it holds out the prospect of maintaining our Indian flower gardens, in life and beauty, throughout the whole year, instead of during the confined period hitherto attempted.

The momentary betrayal of womanhood and affection was passed, and this was the dreaded Sister Superior of the Convent School again.

This was a kind of medlin' with my private concerns that I didn't like, and I was bound to find out who the interloper was, and if possible, to make his acquaintance.

A few days ago this had been a happy, thriving home, and now it was absolutely desolated, done away with for ever.

This was her welcome hometo the home she had dreaded to come to, where she had meant to come only as a penitent, to leave her child and go forth to die.

"Isn't this splendid!"

The Antique Academy is almost covered with portraits, and the miniatures hang in cluster-like abundanceso that what with bright eyes and luxuriant tresses, this is not the least attractive of the rooms.

[Footnote 1: This is the most beautiful and the best known of Becquer's poems, and has often been set to music.

But that we had been gradually inured to such scenes, this would indeed have been the most impressive we have beheld.

"If you don't mind, this is my fly, sir," Kelson was saying as Gifford reached him.

This may be an enthusiastic, but is doubtless the faithful, impression of our tourist; and in descriptions of sublime nature, we should Survey the whole; nor seek slight fault to find, Where Nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

This is my beloved.

This of course is the ideal; nobody ever fully attains it.

Surely, this was the most remarkable of Wagner's triumphs and conquests.

Crewe proved this was not merely a lucky win by defeating the young South American champion, Caranda, shortly afterwards, when the latter visited England and played a series of exhibition games in London on his way to Moscow, where he was engaged in the championship tourney.

This is the honest, though mischievous, conservatism of the human mind.

" "Oh, but this was a white rose, and a white rose means something, though I don't know what.

This was the most popular of the early Elizabethan plays; it was revised again and again, and Ben Jonson is said to have written one version and to have acted the chief part of Hieronimo.

This, sir, is the happiness which I now enjoy, and for which those who never shall attain it, must look for an equivalent in lucrative employments, honorary titles, pompous equipages, and splendid palaces.

Nevertheless, from the report of one of his lieutenants who had examined its mouth, and from the stories of the rubber-gatherers, or seringueiros, Colonel Rondon had come to the conclusion that this was the largest affluent of the Madeira, with such a body of water that it must have a big drainage basin.

This was a great though not wholly new delight to Eunané and most of her companions.

" "This, he says, is a 'Record'how nice!"

This was a dainty which he had never tasted before; and being at once faint and hungry, he fed greedily upon it.

In two miles from Arish Mel the path ends directly above the delectable Lulworth Cove, and of all ways of reaching that unique and lovely little place this is the most charming.