So in May, 1854, Bessie commenced her life work.

However, towards the close of the O. P. war, (which, by the way, excited more the attention of the Parisians than the national contest in which we were engaged,) the public had adopted the plan of never commencing operations until half-price, to the injury of the manager's purse.

I reminded him of the peculiar circumstances under which our countrymen had commenced their career.

In midsummer, 1835, (December 18th,) the Gaucho chieftain commenced his fateful journey.

It was he who commenced the railway bookstall business.

The dispositions having been made, the Bucks Hussars and Dorset Yeomanry got out of the wadi and commenced their mounted attack, the Berks battery in the meantime having registered on certain points.

The Desert Corps had orders on November 7 to push through as rapidly as possible to the line wadi Jemmameh-Huj, and from that day the Corps commenced its long march to Jaffa, a march which, though strongly opposed by considerable bodies of troops, was more often interfered with by lack of water than by difficulty in defeating the enemy.

I did not like it; and when the necessity for some active employment came looming up in the distance, I chose a different calling, and at six-and-twenty, commenced the study of my present profession.

This was no sooner said than it was corroborated by acts, for the young man immediately commenced his preparations for the journey.

Thus commenced that tedious war which not only ruined so many Florentine merchants, but retarded the cause of learning so materially.

The trees towering among the houses, the high spires and gilded domes, have a most imposing effect; but what is the astonishment of the traveller when he commences his ascent up steep, narrow, clumsily-pitched streets.

With the assistance of Ludovico's nurse, who rode behind him, he had just lifted Tisquantum to his own saddle, and was preparing to mount himself, and endeavor to support the unconscious old man, and again commence the race far life or death.

He commenced hostilities by inflicting a blow on the wealth and prosperity of Greece, from which it never recovered.

After taking my rooms, I strolled about the flat, uninteresting town, wondering how best to commence my search.

Smith had trolled scarcely a quarter of a mile, when his hook was struck by a trout, and then commenced a struggle that was pleasant to witness.

But if thou yield not to our prayers, so soon as the sun shall commence his course our armies will launch upon thee their poisoned arrows; and when the sun shall end his course, they will give thee over to all the horrors of famine; and this will they do from year to year.

He is going to preach next Sunday on the moral progress of social sciences, and next month he commences his series of sermons on the social problems of the day.

The lofty turrets of its towers were tipt with the golden light of the sun, and the neighboring peasantry had commenced their daily labors, as the different attendants of the equipage we have mentioned collected around it at the great entrance to the building.

Mr. Jinks does not directly reply to this question, but, reaching up, hands in the bundle, and commences a whispered conversation.

When any person commences a suit against another, he sets down his claim in writing, and the defendant writes down his defence, which he signs, and holds between his fingers.

In anticipation of the report steps had already been taken to commence the system, the first homeward bound Atlantic convoy starting on May 24.

Ferdinand and Isabella commence their joint reign in Castile.

They carried provisions for fifty days, and commenced the voyage on the sixteenth day of the fourth month.

About 11 o'clock that day while Major Babcock was ahead of the main command with his company, and while we were crossing a deep ravine, we were surprised by about three hundred warriors who commenced a lively fire upon us.

He therefore led his troops back into their camp; and as the Romans did not venture on an assault upon his intrenchments, and Hasdrubal did not choose to commence his retreat in their sight, the day passed away in inaction.