" The girls watched her as she read and were amazed to see her expression change from satisfaction to surprise and from surprise to something like chagrin.

" Now, sir, observe that the Eastern States, who long ago have abolished slavery, did not approve of the expression slaves; they therefore used another that answered the same purpose.

" Savez-vous une autre expression pour: se disposer, force festins, faire un héritage, je ne saurais, faire signe, mettre en pièces? GRAMMAR REVIEW.LESSON V Voici.

(The Oral-self-expression method series)

She was pale and thin in her countenance, but there was a very calm and happy expression beaming in her eye.

J'essuie des expressions bien étranges, je n'entends plus que des choses inouïes, qu'un langage inconcevable: j'ai l'air embarrassé, il y a quelque chose, et puis c'est le galant Bourguignon qui m'a dégoûtée.

" White was a term of endearment,as in the common expression white boy.

It is a type of expression characteristic of the great mystics of the Catholic Church, especially in the Middle Ages, and we find a good deal of it in our earliest mystical writers.

There we may see the ribbons of orders of nobility; there the stars glitter, silk knee-breeches and satin trains rustle, golden spurs and old-fashioned French styles of expression clatter; there the knight struts and the lady spreads herself.

Find in the Declaration of Independence an expression complaining of non-representation in parliament.

C'est dans cette anecdote qu'il faudrait, d'après certains auteurs, voir l'origine d'une expression bien connue: nous voulons parler du "quart d'heure de Rabelais.

Perhaps two of the commonest expressions convey peculiarly English views of character.

Corporeality and reality appear well-nigh identical for him,the expressions corpora and res are used synonymously,so that there remains for minds and ideas only an existence as reflections of the real in the sphere of [an] ideality (whose degree of actuality it is difficult to determine).

"Each of these expressions denotes action.

He saw the defiant expression depart from the McFluke countenance, and a look of unmistakable relief take its place.

VOEU, X, m., expression d'un désir; promesse faite à la Divinité de faire un acte ou de s'en abstenir.

He does not look at me as he speaks; his eyes are on the long, dead knots of the colorless grass at his feet; in his expression despondency and preoccupation strive for supremacy.

The people are to be called upon to make an image to the beast, which expression doubtless involves the idea of some deferential action toward, or concessions to, that power; and the image, when made, is an image, likeness, or representation of the beast.

EXPRESSION EXERCISES FOR TRANSITION FEZZIWIG BALL, THE Charles Dickens FIVE LIVES Edward Rowland Sill GREEN THINGS GROWING Dinah Mulock Craik HERVÉ RIEL Robert Browning IF WE HAD THE TIME Richard Burton LADY OF SHALOTT, THE Alfred, Lord Tennyson LAUGHING CHORUS, A LIFE AND SONG Sidney Lanier LOCHINVAR Sir Walter Scott MONT BLANC BEFORE SUNRISE

The Spanish Inquisition made such a constant and cruel use of it, that the expression auto-da-fé (act of faith), strangely perverted from its original meaning, was the only one employed to denote the punishment itself.

These three expressions figure in the work of Pierre Leroux (De l'Humanité) in the following equivalent terms: sensation, sentiment, knowledge.

May the Babylonish curse Strait confound my stammering verse, If I can a passage see In this word-perplexity, Or a fit expression find, Or a language to my mind, (Still the phrase is wide or scant) To take leave of thee, GREAT PLANT!

She had already begun to remark it herself, as with her bare arms she would coil up her hair, standing before her mirror; and she thought nothing of it till one day, as she stood there, she noticed a curious expression flash into her face and go again almost before she could mark it.

he continued, seeing the color deepen in Mercy's cheeks, and a stern expression gathering in her eyes, as she looked steadily at him with unutterable surprise.

He averted his glance quickly, but almost as quickly refixed his gaze upon the impassive symbol of death, with an expression glowering and contemptuous, and with an angry gesture struck it down among the weeds with his stick.