Questions elicited the fact that the woman was nervous over the recent explosion and looked for further trouble from the mill hands.

I made enquiries of all whom I thought likely to know anything concerning this post, but failed to elicit any information showing that there ever had been such a place.

In this way many an initial difficulty would be overcome, and the reading, with simple explanation, of stories from the Gospels would elicit the response, "The words are good," and the request for the gift of a New Testament.

Fresh questions elicited fresh replies; but the blind man, shaking his head with an air of incredulity, immediately cried out: 'No, no; it is all a feint; that is the voice which conversed with me on the heights of Argenteuil.'

The grand Hospital is also on the Quai; the facade is beautiful; its architecture is of the Ionic order and the building itself as well as its interior economy has frequently elicited the admiration of travellers.

" "That's easy enough, I'm sure," says the society young lady, taking it upon herself to answer, and eliciting an expression of astonishment from the teacher, not because he is surprised, habit already rendering him sadly familiar with young women of her type, but because he wishes to relegate her to her proper position of submissive silence as soon as may be.

Before the actor's death Miss More had completed another play, The Fatal Falsehood, which was afterwards performed, and which elicited almost as much applause as Percy.

He visited his numerous friends and told them of his trouble, which elicited much sympathy.

Those who are acquainted with southern scenes will see nothing extraordinary in this recital, for they are every-day occurrences, and scarcely elicit a remark, unless the perpetrator should happen to be a slave-holding Wesleyan or Whitfieldite, when, perhaps, he would be called to some accounthis own version of the affair being of course admitted in limine.

Theatricals of all sorts, especially ballets, had a great attraction for him and elicited his enthusiastic comments.

The thin woman then looked forward at the red-haired youth and in a clear voice said "Bin round there yeteh?" which elicited the answer "Yea, and comed whoam."

I will, therefore, give the points of the questions which elicited the truth from the Christian warrior; and probably the non-legal reader of these memoirs may be interested in seeing what may sometimes be done by a few judicious questions.

[-10-] The performances of his next to be enumerated elicited the censure of all without distinction.

While thus occupied, a perfumed note was brought to her, the contents of which elicited from her an exclamation of surprise.

What are the classes of acts, under their most general aspect, which elicit the feelings of moral approbation and disapprobation?

The chivalry and grace of the young noble elicited a murmur of approbation, as he courteously indicated his friend.

This school deals in speculations and experiments confined to a narrow compass, like those of the alchemists,too imperfect to elicit the light which should guide.

Mrs. Marston resolved to improve the Tate-à-Tate, for the purpose of eliciting from mademoiselle an explanation of her strange behavior.

This is not half the stipend of "forty pounds a year" that poor Goldsmith's brother thought himself rich upon; and it is apprehended the colonel will hardly find the inducement sufficient to elicit attention to so very remote a quarter.

They elicit a manifestation of antipathy between races and of jealousy between the recently united provinces, which is much to be regretted.

Even in that moment she did not forget that she knew her own mother, for she took the precaution to elicit a confirmatory letter from her mother's attorney, under guise of thanking him for the friendly interest he had "ever manifested" in the welfare of the Lansdales.

He knew that his master had a habit of speaking when alone, and concluded that the accidental breakage of some glass or chimney-ornament had elicited the volley of words he had heard.

"It is too bad," she cried, as she ceased playing: "here I have performed some of your favourite airs, and that too without eliciting a word of commendation.

I frequently proposed questions to elicit her views on these and kindred topics; and when, drawn out in conversation, she often gave utterance to weighty and discriminating thoughts, judicious counsels, animating recollections of the past, and bright anticipations of the future.

This elicited the cheers of the few, which were immediately drowned in the hisses of the many.