He had no intercourse with gifted and fortunate Romans; his acquaintance was probably confined to the praetorian soldiers, and some of the humbler classes who sought Christian instruction.

He does not represent a woman of fashion, but prefers one of humbler station, whom he clothes in the old German housewife style.

After all, Sir, tho' it may appear something absurd, that I seem to approach you with the Air of an Advocate for Punning, (you who have justified your Censures of the Practice in a set Dissertation upon that Subject;) yet, I'm confident, you'll think it abundantly atoned for by observing, that this humbler Exercise may be as instrumental in diverting us from any innovating Schemes and Hypothesis in Wit.

To humbler functions, awful Power!

Bees are not without their contingent of names; a popular name of the Delphinium grandiflorum being the bee-larkspur, "from the resemblance of the petals, which are studded with yellow hairs, to the humble-bee whose head is buried in the recesses of the flower."

Though men of larger means refused to take shares, some in humbler circumstances could recognize the great idea and the wonderful vision which Morse had struggled so long to establisha vision of a nation linked together by telegraphy.

She did not enter into the conversation, perhaps because of her humbler condition, or because her thoughts were bent upon the event to come.

For if the men on the humbler craft could be intimidated, the doctrine of Frightfulness would be justified by victory.

["General PERSHING has collected round him a staff of thin-lipped determined men."The Observer.] If physiognomists are right, And faces count as half the battle, We clearly ought not to invite Comparison with sheep or cattle, But rather should improve the features That mark us off from humbler creatures.

He had made her an officer of the company and paid her a salary of six thousand dollars a year, but she went on remembering his engagements, writing his letters and soothing the outraged feelings of his clients just as she had done in humbler days.

One of Mr. Stephens's humbler dishes is the following: "The only time Scotch farm-servants indulge in butcher-meat is when a sheep falls, as it is termed; that is, when it is killed before being affected with an unwholesome disease, and the mutton is sold at a reduced price.

The theme is very un-Homeric; it is thoroughly modern and German, "Germans themselves I present, to the humbler dwelling I lead you, Where with Nature as guide man is natural still."

In humbler equipages depart the many black women who have visited the steamer, some for amusement, some to sell the beautiful shell-work made on the island.

Old age restores it to more than its primeval significance; and when humbler erections have passed away and crumbled in ruins, it appears once more to rise above the customary uses of men, and to become a companion for tempests and clouds.

And even to do so physically is a step towards a juster and humbler estimate of yourself in more important things.

"Of course I know she's a lady born, but that don't prevent her making friends among humbler folk.

We are wont to scoff in a patronizing manner at that humbler follower of the great investigator, but, as a matter of fact, we should have been just as dull ourselves.

The present magnificent temple stands nearly on the site of Pepin's humbler foundation; and the great stone, now shown in the court, called the tomb of King Pepin, is very possibly that of Charlemagne's son.

Socially, however, he was thoroughly democratic in his tastes; and his chief objection to accepting the dignity of Prelate was the fear that it might restrict his intercourse with humbler friends.

all unheard Mutters a solemn mystic word With reverence the Sudra dips, And fervently the current sips, That to his humbler hope conveys A future life of happier days.

May God, then, inspire his Holiness Paul with the same thoughts as he instilled into Gregory of blessed memory, who rather chose to despoil Rome of the proud statues of the Pagan deities than to let their magnificence deprive the humbler images of the saints of the devotion of the people.

And now it would content me to yield up Those lofty hopes awhile, for present gifts Of humbler industry.

Though Autumn grave, and Summer fair, And joyous Spring demand a share Of Fancy's hallow'd power, Yet these I hold of humbler kind, To grosser means of earth confin'd, Through mortal sense to reach the mind, By mountain, stream, or flower.

There will always be many to whom the devotion to study for study's sake is invincible, but the ranks of the brain-workers are so overcrowded that it is a great pity to force into them a man or woman who would be content to be a worker in another and humbler line, especially in those of the manual occupations which bring their happiness in the following of them.

From this height I shall not stoop To humbler matter that detained us oft