However, the first great obstacle had been successfully overcome; and so, on the strength of five borrowed silver dollars, the accredited commissioners of the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies made their state entry into what they still hoped to call the Fourteenth Colony.

" Other paragraphs in the report read thus: "Received anonymously five large cheeses; received a box of dessert knives and forks, a cruet, a silver soup ladle and a silver cup; from Clifton, twelve tons house coals; from Bedminster, a monster loaf, 200 lbs.

" He drew out a great silver watch.

There were a gold cross and a bunch of silver medals hung by a whip-cord about the neck of the dead man.

I hope he's not like thy last one, who stole three of my best silver spoons!"

He dressed for dinner every day, "like a regular West End swell," as his grandfather remarked; one of the domestics was affected to his special service, attended him at his toilette, answered his bell, and brought him his letters always on a silver tray.

I tell lost tales of savage wars; And you have known the desert sands, The camp beneath the silver stars, The rush at dawn of Arab bands, The fruitless toil, the hopeless dream, The fainting feet, the faltering breath, While Gordon by the ancient stream Waited at ease on death.

The genie returned with a silver bowl, twelve silver plates containing rich meats, two silver cups, and two bottles of wine.

I lost a silver chain.

By the light of a lantern shining in his eyes, together with the gray of the early day through the deadlight, he could perceive that two men were bending over himone, a negro in a striped shirt, with a yellow handkerchief around his head and silver ear-rings in his ears; the other, a white man, clad in a strange, outlandish dress of a foreign make, with great mustachios hanging down below his chin, and with gold ear-rings in his ears.

In the course of the year, Church fitted out a vessel for a whaling voyage, and being in want of hands to man her, he induced my son to go, with the promise of giving him, on his return, a pair of silver buckles, besides his wages.

The covers were being changed for the second course when a servant entered and approached the Judge, bearing a cablegram upon a silver salver.

He selected a cigarette from a silver case with considerable care, and having lighted it smoked for some moments in silence.

And presently there came softly into the blessed air the ringing of the great silver bells, which sound only for victory and great happiness and gain.

I put the bright silver coins into a sack, which I tied to my mule, and started home, thinking myself a millionaire.

Have the onions gathered when quite dry and ripe, and, with the fingers, take off the thin outside skin; then, with a silver knife (steel should not be used, as it spoils the colour of the onions), remove one more skin, when the onion will look quite clear.

" Although Mike put a small silver snuff-box that Maud at once recognised as Robert Willoughby's property into the young lady's hand, nothing was more apparent than the circumstance that he was profoundly ignorant of the true meaning of what he was doing.

"I know a heap about silver ore.

R80176, 25Jun51, Henri Beraud (A) BERGLING, JOHN MAURITZ. Style chart for jewelry and silver engraving.

" "Alas, poor gypsy, thou hast lost thy silver penny this time.

To part with a pardon for but two silver pieces were a grave folly!

You will find in this book," he added, presenting me with a small volume, bound in green parchment, and fastened with silver clasps, "a minute detail of the apparatus to be provided, and the directions to be pursued in making this wonderful voyage.

Some put on uniforms with gold and silver lace.

The dawn broke green For the high huntsman of the morn had flung His mantle o'er his back: stooping, he strung His silver bow; then rising, bright and bold, He shot a burning arrow of pure gold That rent the heart of Night.

As erst the bard by Mulla's silver stream, Oft, as he told of deadly dolorous plight, Sighed as he sung, and did in tears indite.