As the evening drew on, the air grew chilly, and I began to make preparations for passing a second night in the towertaking up two additional rifles, and a heavy ulster.

How I should have welcomed it; if only to have passed the time, away from my perplexities and thoughts.

They wanted very much to go to the Conciergerie to see the prison where the unfortunate Marie Antoinette passed the last days of her unhappy life, and Mr. Gladstone, inspired by the subject, made us a sort of conference on the French Revolution and the causes which led up to it, culminating in the Terror and the execution of the King and Queen.

Moreover, the great limitations of the Constitution, which forbid the majority, or even the whole body of the House and Senate, to pass laws either for want of authority or because they impair fundamental rights of individuals, are as emphatic a negation of an absolute democracy as can be found in any form of government.

I passed my hand, confusedly, across my forehead.

We soon found ourselves so much to each other's taste, that there was seldom an evening that I did not make him a visit, and pass an hour or two in his company.

When almost down the hill you passed a house with broken windows and unkept grass.

The one passes his life in ease, abundance, and enjoyment; the other in toil, privation, and care.

Then the Quebec Assembly unanimously passed an Alien Act in May 1794, and suspected characters began to find that two could play at the game.

March, 1853, saw Sir Colin Campbell in England; but though he had passed his sixtieth year, most of which had been spent in his country's service, his rest was not of long duration, as in 1854 he went out to the Crimea in command of the Highland brigade, consisting of the 42nd, 79th, and 93rd regiments.

" He called to a pupil passing the door, and told him the strangers would like to inspect the school work.

On hearing of Montgomery's defeat the Continental Congress had passed a resolution, addressed to the 'Inhabitants of Canada' declaring that 'we will never abandon you to the unrelenting fury of your and our enemies.'

I should have thought a girl like Miss Townsend, who has passed examinations in Germany, and so forth, would have had more sense of her responsibilitymore tact.

It would be doubtless carefully inspected by any curious banter passing that way, but theft or robbery are unknown here.

ABRAHAM paid taxes, and, as he was his own Senate and House, doubtless he passed a tariff bill to suit himself, and had any quantity of Protection.

I occasionally passed an evening at Niblo's Garden, viewing the many beauties of "The Black Crook," which was then having its long run, under the management of Jarrett & Palmer, whose acquaintance I had made, and who extended to me the freedom of the theater.

" The words had hardly passed the speaker's lips when the whole room was in an uproar.

Thus I passed the winter of 1862 and the spring of 1863.

As I readily paid them the unsuspected homage of my soul, I was graciously permitted to pass the gate.

He passed down the line like a general reviewing his troops, tapping lightly with a cane various arms and legs which were not in position.

And do you get the fragrance of the pine forests, and thethe" "The bumps?" asked Arthur, as the wagon gave a jolt a bit more emphatic than usual; "yes, Patsy dear, I get them all; but I won't pass judgment on Millville and Uncle John's farm just yet.

"Pass the word for the chief water tender," ordered the engineer, turning to one of the firemen.

"How I passed the next six months I could hardly tell you," he began again, quite abruptly.

"On the 11th of August I met a party of miners coming out who had passed Stewart River a few days before.

Aeacus hears the case against Claudius, refuses to hear the other side and passes sentence against him, quoting the line: "As he did, so be he done by, this is justice undefiled.