"I hire you men to fight when I tell you to, and only then," said the captain sternly.

The poet, after spending a month on board the "Hercules," dismissed the vessel, and hired a house for Gamba and himself at Metaxata, a healthy village about four miles from the capital of the island.

He was very enthusiastic over this scheme, claiming that he would make far more money by it than he was then receiving from hiring out his slaves.

' We might have taken a chaise to Fort Augustus, but, had we not hired horses at Inverness, we should not have found them afterwards: so we resolved to begin here to ride.

So, being determined to find out for myself the truth about this wonderful new land, I left him the business in the town, bought two good horses, hired a servant, by name John Faulkner, who had worked out his time as a redemptioner, and set out on my travels.

Then he hired a boat, and set sail, alone, o'er the boundless bosom of the Atlantic.

We'll change our names and go up to the tavern, where we'll hire rooms and be gintlemen traveling for pleasure.

You can't walk more than three miles here, and if you hire a carriage you will find that you can't ride less than that distance.

Where the slave was an exceptional one, and where the owner had only two or three slaves, a pass would readily be given to hire himself out, or hire his own time, as it was generally called, he being required to turn over to his master a certain amount of his earnings, each month or week, and to make a report to his master of his whereabouts and receipts.

"When the sun is low I'll go to the factory up the creek and try to hire some native boys.

The Carthaginians hire troops from Greece and give the command to Xanthippus.

"Aunt Amy's just as likely as not to lose what little bit of head she has and hired help are broken reeds.

Now, Jack, nothing more need be done, than to hire a little trim vessel, which shall sail a pleasuring backward and forward to Portsmouth, Spithead, and the Isle of Wight, for a week or fortnight before we enter upon our parts of the plot.

For on the western coast, from whence great supplies may be expected, almost every sailor has a vote, to which nothing is there required but to hire a lodging, and boil a pot; after which, if this exception be admitted in all its latitude, he may sit at ease amidst the distresses of his country, ridicule the law which he has eluded, and set the magistrate at open defiance.

But I remember Brother Hartley said that we are very particular at our mill to hire no young people below the legal age.

"They sent out two first-class tugs and a number of highly-paid men; they ought to have hired negro laborers at the spot.

"I'VE HIRED A SPLENDID TEA-SERVICE FOR BROWN TO PRESENT TO US; IT WILL MAKE QUITE A SENSATION, AND I'VE GOT IT CHEAP FOR THE EVENING.

The next day, Friday, we hired a two horse wagon, and made preparations to start on our perilous undertaking Saturday morning.

"The worst they can say is 'no,' and maybe we can hire a team to drive to Rockford, if they can't keep us.

I dare say you could hire somebody for a small sum per week to call you Patricia for a given number of times every day.

Next day they prepared to enter its interiour apartments, and, having hired the common guides, climbed up to the first passage, when the favourite of the princess, looking into the cavity, stepped back and trembled.

"So far all I've done was to hire my hands for a year, give them high wages, an' caution them when strangers come round to feed them an' be civil an' send them on.

The German inns in this place were all full, and to procure a wholesome lodging, the; drove the next day four miles among the hills, where they hired a large apartment at the house of a German.

Exasperated at this, Lord Sanquhar hired ruffians, and had the fencing-master assassinated; for which his lordship was capitally tried, condemned, and hanged.

And, by the way, hire women or girls for every position they are competent to fill.