Then, before I could use my rifle, or do anything, there came a sharp crackcr-ac-k; and the window-frame gave way under the weight of the Thing.

Of the simple, stiffly given account of weird and extraordinary matters, I will say little.

I saw the Emperor quite distinctly as he rode up and gave some orders.

To me also is given the opportunity of development, of majesty of character, of high service.

So Claudius was led out, and the first to be asked his opinion was Father Janus: he had been made consul elect for the afternoon of the next first of July,[Footnote: Perhaps an allusion to the shortening of the consul's term, which was done to give more candidates a chance of the honour.]

It was an extraordinary place, and since much happened there, I must give you an idea of it.

The cabinet still lived, but merely to give Grevy time to make another.

EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

The green twilight that had reigned for so many millions of years, had now given place to impenetrable gloom.

" "True; but your rule must at least be a troublesome one, and give rise to a great many nice distinctions, that make it difficult in the application.

I realised instantly after the first word of thanks and interest how easy it is for princes, or any one in high places, to give pleasure.

They were drawn up in a line, and seemed to be under regular discipline; for, whenever the captain of the band gave the word, "Vilti Mindoc!"

Having put the volume away safely, I turned-to and gave Tonnison a hand with his self-imposed task of excavating; yet, though we put in over an hour's hard work, turning over the whole of the upheaped stones and rubbish, we came upon nothing more than some fragments of broken wood, that might have been parts of a desk or table; and so we gave up searching, and went back along the rock, once more to the safety of the land.

Everywhere people were talking of this great man who had given his life to tell the people of Africa about the Saviour.

After that day, we enjoyed our holiday to the utmost; though both of us looked forward to the time when our driver should come; for we were tremendously anxious to inquire of him, and through him among the people of the tiny hamlet, whether any of them could give us information about that strange garden, lying away by itself in the heart of an almost unknown tract of country.

He seemed surprised at seeing me, so I sat down with him on the live-oak log he had been cutting, and made haste to give a reason for my appearance in his solitude, explaining that I was anxious to find out something about the mountains, and meant to make my way up Eaton Creek next morning.

Comparatively few men thoroughly understand how to rate other men, and to these few men, as in all other great enterprises, must be given the power and authority to select and adjust.

They gave money.

Possibly volcanic action, deranging by its electric and gaseous outpourings the normal course of the winds, had given birth to it.

Just give it one hard look and it's off.

It may very likely have been true, but not more marked with him than with the generality of Anglo-Saxons and Northern races, who rather look down upon the Latins, hardly giving them credit for their splendid dash and pluckto say nothing of their brains.

"And here arises a question which science has not solved, and to which the philosophy, the wisdom, the logic of the past can give no answer.

The large Gray Squirrel gives trouble also, although the Douglas has been accused of stealing from him.

When the glorious pearl and alabaster clouds of these noonday storms are being built I never give attention to anything else.

He was an old diplomat, knew everybody, and would give me very good advice.