Another item of news merits your attention.

Such passion and such devotion merited consideration from the man who had called them forth.

He may recline upon a couch studded with spikes, until from the induration of his skin he shall have merited the title of a rhinoceros among sages.

Hastings replied that they merited the punishment of traitors.

We remember a writer who merited more notice than he actually received, for his well-considered thoughts on the behavior of Mourners,whose conduct, as a general thing, is certainly open to criticism.

Landino's work on Vergil and Horace merits the warmest praise.

" "Men like you, father, merit the esteem they crave.

To no one, general, have I been as much indebted as to yourself for uniform kindness and consideration, and it has always been my ardent desire to merit your approbation.

The combination in Florida for the unlawful purposes stated, the acts perpetrated by that combination, and, above all, the incitement of the Indians to massacre our fellow-citizens of every age and of both sexes, merited a like treatment and received it.

'Tis a rude gust, and merits your reproaches:

Perhaps they merited some censure, but surely they did not merit the censures heaped on them by hostile critics like Thiers, Henri Valois, and the Franciscan, Cavalli.

And I'll return th'uncivil Treachery; You merit Death for this base Injury.

This merits the description given of it in The Nation"a really dashing experiment in State Socialism."

Assist me then, in this, the hour of my tribulation, and you, my dear Mr. PUNCHINELLO, will merit the lasting gratitude of an UNHAPPY FATHER.

Well did that lone and nearly barren mass of earth and rock merit these appellations!

A dog with such powers of discrimination certainly merits a place in this true history.

I believe my letter spoke of him as an able and graceful pleader, meriting judicial honors, or something of that sort.

Conscious that he engaged in the cause of his fellow-creatures, solely upon the sense of his duty as a Christian, he seems to have supposed either that he had done nothing extraordinary to merit such a distinction, or to have been fearful lest the acceptance of it should bring a stain upon the motive, on which alone he undertook it.

The most repulsive thing in the whole business is this hypocritical Pharisaism; it merits only contempt.

He, in short, united, for the simple people by whom he was surrounded, the functions of lawyer, physician, schoolmaster, and divine, and richly merited the reverential respect in which they held him, as well as their little presents of eggs, fruit, and garden stuff.

Surely, my faith merits a due reward in time and space, seeing that I, taking delight in thee more than do all other women, wish to see the number of thy subjects increase forever and ever.

Could this young fellow have really merited his fate?

But it is objected, my lords, that though our measures should be allowed not to have been wholly ineffectual, and our money appear not to have been squandered only to pay the troops of Hanover, yet our conduct is very far from meriting either applause or approbation; since much greater advantages might have been purchased at much less expense, and by methods much less invidious and dangerous.

True, we must not fancy that we have any righteousness of our own, that we merit God's favour above other people; our consciences ought to tell us that cannot be; our Bibles tell us that is an empty boast.

No other man will protect our rights: no other man can merit our confidence.