She was by nature and choice the advocate of the oppressed, whenever and wherever met with.

Some of the lesser captains, however, were mutinous, and treated the Governor to choice bits of Border-Ruffian rhetoric.

His brother fell in love with Mrs. Forster at first sight, and sat silent until she remarked to him how strangely the hotel omnibuses resembled old English stage coaches, when he became recklessly talkative and soon convinced her that American society produced quite as choice a compound of off-handedness and folly as London could.

In helping to choice dishes, stuffings, &c., the carver should always calculate the number of the company, and proportion the delicacies discreetly.

But first inrich the chamber with perfumes; Burne choice Arabian Drugs more deare then Waters distil'd out of the spirit of Flowers; And spread our costly Arras to the eye.

It thus displays a combination rare in this kind of poetry: the spirit of an untutored will, embodied in a form the romantic expression of which might seem only congenial to choice and delicate fancies. . . .

We have never seen so good and choice a florilegium.

The fellow had spoken these last words in French, and choice French at that.

In Thee I place my trust, On Thee I calmly rest; I know Thee good, I know Thee just, And count Thy choice the best.

Necessary to choice Majority of states.

Surely M. Assonquer himself must have wakened her to so choice an opportunity.

I had stepped in from the kitchen to ask Mrs. Bird about the salad, when I came abruptly, at the door of the sitting-room, upon as choice a picture as one is likely to see.

Bits of carved ivory, rich lacquer ware and choice pieces of satsuma and cloisonné appeared in the windows.

In his wildest dreams he had not imagined so choice a position, and he resolved to give full play to an idea which suddenly occurred to him.

Then my eyes opened to, or rather in, as choice a specimen of mist as had yet been met with.

However, we are describing, not choice spirits or chartered viveurs, but the blameless Minister, whose whole life during the Parliamentary session is the undeviating and conscientious discharge of official duty; and he, when he lays his head upon his respectable pillow any time after 1 a.m., may surely go to sleep in the comfortable consciousness that he has done a fair day's work for a not exorbitant remuneration.