We have all seen John Charteris's portraits, and most of us have read his booksor at least, the volume entitled In Old Lichfield, which caused the Lichfield Courier-Herald to apostrophize its author as a "Child of Genius!

He apostrophizes his brain, telling it to set to work.

Don't you," he would add, apostrophizing the helpless bundle before him, "never go back on us.

"There ye are, ye ould divil's band-wagon," he said, apostrophizing the private car when his work was done.

I care not what view you take of humanity, whether you have Calvinistic tendencies and believe in the total depravity of infants, or whether you are a disciple of Wordsworth and apostrophize the child as a "Mighty prophet!

We shall meet this Medium again, but for the present we will leave him, after pausing for a minute over his business card, which, after stating his terms in prosaic dollars and cents, thus apostrophizes his clientele: "From the bright stars, And viewless air Sweet Spirit, if thy home be there, Answer me.

They were back to the truce of nonsense, apostrophizing the cooking of the Best Swell Place, setting exclamations to their glimpses of people passing in the street.

In his discourse delivered before this Society in 1818, Mr. Verplanck had apostrophized his native country as the Land of Refuge.

Then, while his voice grew gradually weaker, in a last outburst of enthusiasm, he apostrophized the courage of the heart, that persistent life maker, working ceaselessly, even during sleep, when the other organs rested.

"Great man!" apostrophizes the Czar, "I would give half of my kingdom to learn from thee how to govern the other half."

"My poor children," said she, apostrophizing the little dauphin and his sister, "it is cruel to give up the hope of transmitting to you so noble an inheritance, and to have to say that all is at an end with ourselves;" and, lest any one else should have any doubt on the subject, the Assembly no longer headed its decrees with any royal title, but published them in the name of the nation.

She did not apostrophize her fate, she did not weep; few real women do in the access of calamity, or when there is anything else to be done.

"Now fwhat the divvle will that be?" he rasped, pausing, torch in hand, to apostrophize his fireman.

[Footnote 8: I am not sure the queen is not apostrophizing the flowers she is throwing into or upon the coffin: 'Sweets, be my farewell to the sweet.']

I think this vein may be further opened; Peter Pindar hath very prettily apostrophized a fly; Burns hath his mouse and his louse; Coleridge, less successfully, hath made overtures of intimacy to a jackass,therein only following at unresembling distance Sterne and greater Cervantes.

In the concluding stanza of the King's Quair, a work composed by the Scottish King shortly before his return to his kingdom, he apostrophizes Gower and Chaucer as his dear masters, who sat upon the highest steps of rhetoric, and whose genius as poets, orators, and moralists, entitled them to receive the most exalted honour.

I hear the merry dinting of steel on steel; the sullen chug-chug of the wheels of Foul Peg, the Margrave's great cannon, which more than once he lent our Prince; the oaths of the men-at-arms shouldering her up, apostrophizing most indecently her fat haunches, and the next moment getting tossed aside like ninepins by her unexpected lurches.

On the crew of the Flora being treated to see Othello at the Portsmouth Theatre, Cassio's silly speech proved an exquisite relish to the audience, where he apostrophizes heaven, "Forgive us our sins," and endeavours to persuade his companion that he is sober.

A brilliant idea striking him at that moment, he apostrophized the infant in the touching words: By by, baby bunting, Daddy's gone a-hunting, To get a little rabbit skin To wrap the baby bunting in.

And he used up lots of language of a deep magenta tint, and apostrophized the insects in a style unfit to print.

" "Such an open, spring-like character!" apostrophized the lawyer, staring reflectively into the grate.

True it is that Addison apostrophizes liberty as a Goddess, heavenly bright!

Another Arabian poet apostrophizes "the maid of Okaib, who has haunches like sand-hills, whence her body rises like a palm-tree."

" I had by this time returned to the fireplace, and, reseating myself, began to apostrophize my magnificent black Newfoundland, who, having partaken of my dinner, was following the advice and example of Abernethy, and sleeping on the rug, as it digested.

he continued, tenderly apostrophizing the skeleton, "do we meet thus at last again?