As RACHEL mourned for her step-mother, I sighed for me home.

He did not approve his step-father, but admitted that Cartwright could be trusted to handle a matter like this.

Two or three days afterwards they started, and at the station she gave Cartwright her hand with a smiling glance, but Cartwright knew his step-daughter and was not altogether satisfied.

Below appears a ricketty old step-ladder leading into darkness.

His father died comparatively young; and, when he was himself fifteen, his mother married the rector of Newry, the Reverend Thomas Skelton, whose influence over the six step-children of the household worked wholly for their good.

" He started for the house and met his step-son at the porch.

Then came the birth of Mrs. Newcome's twin boys, Hobson and Bryan, and now there was no reason why young Newcome, their step-brother, should not go to school, and to Grey Friars Thomas Newcome was accordingly sent, exchangingO ye gods!

I couldn't bear to think that she was my step-sister, and I was glad that, at least, not a drop of the same blood ran in our veins.

But Care again his steps pursues; Warns him of blasts, of blighting dews, Of plund'ring insects, snails, and rains, And droughts that starved the laboured plains.

Masser Mile, em 'ere step-husband, after all, nebber jest like a body own husband!

Then they wandered down in a meadow to get a drink of water from a fine spring near the foot of a huge old tree, and having refreshed themselves, turned their steps homewards.

Albert H. Knopf (C); 2Sep65; R367009. KNOX, ROSE B. The step-twins.

The fellow was without conscience, driven by the fear of the fate that drew nearer with every step southward.

Step light, Lesterand the rest of you.

John Boynton was a step-cousin of Lizzy Griswold's.

On she went, meeting at every step men wounded in the head, in the body, in the limbs,on horseback, on foot, on planks, on barrows,besides the bodies of the slain.

Hasty and overmuch heat he accounts the step-dame to all great actions that will not suffer them to drive; if he cannot overcome his enemy by force, he does it by time.

If a waistcoat be worn, it should have a double sateen back with canvas interlining, and may be high in the throat or made with a step collar like that of the waist.

Something in her look made the outstretched arms fall nerveless; made his springing step pause suddenly; made the very words die away on his lips.

Faith, my knees do knock at sound of her voice, her very step doth set me direly a-tremble.

Before the principal entrance, to which several flights of steps lead, stand two figures of elephants above life-size.

Every concession we made to their insolent threats was only a step downwards to a deeper abasement; and we parted with our most cherished convictions of duty to purchase, not their gratitude, but their contempt.

And there stood Mistress Madison beside me, doing somewhat of a dainty step-dance upon the flooring of the look-out, and singing a quaint old lilt that I had not heard that dozen years, and this little thing, I think, brought back more clearly to me than aught else how that this winsome maid had been lost to the world for so many years, having been scarce of the age of twelve when the ship had been lost in the weed-continent.

Our little Clive has been to London on a visit to his uncles and to Clapham, to pay his duty to his step-grandmother, the wealthy Mrs. Newcome.

How fearfully my step resounds Along these lonely bounds: Spare, savage blast!