The troubles that now dogged the great conciliator's every step were of all kindsracial, religious, social, political, military, diplomatic, legal.

Now try to follow Ashley closely, as he dogs Aaron Cohen's footsteps.

The question being proposed, who had the greatest number of followersthe Quarter Days said, there could be no question as to that; for they had all the creditors in the world dogging their heels.

Every night now they had to build a stockade, and by day to march in a compact body, knowing the forest to be full of enemies dogging their path, for now they had nothing to give as presents, the men having even divested themselves of all their copper ornaments to appease the Chiboque harpies.

On ev'ry stage the foes of peace attend, Hate dogs their flight, and insult mocks their end.

For come Diseases on, and Penury's rage, Labour, and Pain, and Grief, and joyless Age, And Conscience dogging close his bleeding way 640 Cries out, and leads her Spectres to their prey, 'Till Hope-deserted, long in vain his breath Implores the dreadful untried sleep of Death.

But, moreover, by that coincidence which dogs this drama, the English of that Victorian epoch had found their freshest impression of the northern spirit of infancy and wonder in the works of a Danish man of genius, whose stories and sketches were so popular in England as almost to have become English.

" Court-perfidy dogged the Duke of Burgundy to the very head of the army over which the king had set him; Fenelon, always correctly informed, had often warned him of it.

One of the detectives had been dogging Duvall.

Failure dogged all their enterprises, and soon the glory of Shelburne departed.

So Frank Headley had to make up, at starting, the arrears of half-a-century of base neglect; but instead of doing so, he had contrived to awaken against himself that dogged hatred of popery which lies inarticulate and confused, but deep and firm, in the heart of the English people.

Whether from being originally on the doubting sideon the irreligious side we cannot suppose he ever could have beenhe has risen through his investigation into belief; or whether, originally on the believing side, he found the aspect so formidable, to himself or to the world, of the difficulties and perplexities which beset belief, that he turned to bay upon the foes that dogged himmust be left to conjecture.

Were proof wantedwhich it hardly isof that notorious ill-luck which has dogged the history of Ireland from the very beginning, it would be difficult to find a better one than the result of this same famous battle of Clontarf.

You seem to have taken to dogs an' horses with an affection almost brotherly.

The savage luck which dogs Kirkwood and Jane, and the worse than savagethe inhumancruelty of Clem Peckover, who has been compared to the Madame Cibot of Balzac's Le Cousin Pons, render the book an intensely gloomy one; it ends on a note of poignant misery, which gives a certain colour for once to the oft-repeated charge of morbidity and pessimism.

"Campbell," he cried, "dog her homeshe lies!"

And she wore the inexorable face with which I could picture her standing in his way; and in Catherine I could admire that dogged look and all it spelt, because a great passion is always admirable.

Unconvinced by Polly's explanation of her meeting with M. Raoul at the Nursery gate, he had nursed a dull jealousy and set himself to watch, and had dogged his man down at length with the slow cunning of a yokel bred of a line of poachers.

The spies of the savages dogged his march and knew all his movements

The very ambau recognise the mistress or the favourite, as dogs the master of their Earthly home.

Anxiety dogged their every moment.

"'The money in the Savings Bank,'" repeated Jenny unctuously, "'and any bits o' furniture what belongs to I, more partic'lar the clock over the chimney-piece, the two chaney dogs, and the warmin'-pan'" "Well, I never!" interrupted Susan; "them two chaney dogs my mother bought herself off a pedlar that come to the door.

With a short, easily-worked line, that can turn and double, and follow the tiger quickly, and dog his every movement, you can get far better sport, and bring more to bag, than with a long unwieldy line, that takes a considerable time to turn and wheel, and in whose onward march there is of necessity little of the silence and swiftness which are necessary elements in successful tiger shooting.

I once supposed that I had found an inverse relation between the double etiquette which dogs obey; and that those who were most addicted to the showy street life among other dogs were less careful in the practice of home virtues for the tyrant man.

Of course he would put it more suavely than that, though it is not, I think, by gentleness that you will get your rights; we are dogged ones at sticking to what we have got, and so will you be at our age.