For the one ship that struts the shore Many's the gallant, overwhelmed creature Nodding in navies nevermore. XXXIII. GRIEFS.

He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tip-toe.

He was a perfect pundit"a hellion on law," according to the Honorable Peckhama strutting little cock on his own particular dunghill, but, stripped of his goggles, books, forms and foolscap, as far as his equanimity was concerned he might as well have been in face, figure and general objectionability.

Lisping infancy learns the vocabulary of abusive epithets, and struts the embryo tyrant of its little domain.

He was not in any sense of the word a great actor, but he well adorned the station of theatrical life in which it had pleased heaven to place him, and strutted his lengthy hour upon the stage with much satisfaction to his companions and the public.

He inclined his be-wigged head, and strutted off in his dainty, dandified fashion.

After strutting round the very shallow hole he had dug, in an airy, self-satisfied manner, he concluded that everything was as it should be, and retired for the priest to perform his duty.

A silly fellow to look to, may have more wit, learning, honesty, than he that struts it out Ampullis jactans, &c. grandia gradiens, and is admired in the world's opinion: Vilis saepe cadus nobile nectar habet, the best wine comes out of an old vessel.

Melindy says there's one on 'em struts jes' like you, 'n' makes as much gabble.

"What? leave the nepenthe untasted?" They took him out, and he tucked his arms through theirs, and strutted down Drury Lane.

But she had not then the secret which unlocks the mystery of faces; she was still in the darkness in which most of us proudly strut away our lives, deriding as dreamers or cranks those who are in the light and see.

He strutted a little, and was a little grateful to her, andto do him justicereceived the tribute she accorded him with perfect satisfaction and equanimity.

that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart; Fop at the hostel, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a Lord.

These French officers have little "side"; none of that toe-the-mark, strutting militarism which the Germans think necessary to efficiency.

"Liars, cowards, ingrates, strutting peacocks, bladders of wind boring me and one another with their empty phrases, cringing lick-spittlesthey make me sick to look at them!

What matters it with what deep rascality in black mustachios you once strutted upon your boards?

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony; And children here will thrust and poke, Shoot and die, and laugh at the joke, With bows and arrows and wooden spears, Playing at Royal Welch Fusiliers.

Full grown young men could be so beautiful to her artist's eyes, that years were required to realize that these splendid exteriors held more often than not, little more than strutting half-truths and athletic vanities.

Once within the enclosure he saw all sorts of remarkable things, including the actors, "strutting round their balconies in their tinsey robes and golden leather buskins;" the rope-dancers, and the dirty eating-places, where "cooks stood dripping at their doors, like their roasted swine's flesh."

Grave Emptiness and strutting Vanity, found in high places, are mocked with immortal mimicry.

He had turned in an instant from the sneering, strutting old beau to the fierce soldier with set face and eye of fire.

When the peacock vein rises, I strut a Gentleman Commoner.

While the Cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn door, Stoutly struts his dames before; Oft listening how the hounds and horns Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing still.

"Palmer, whose father was a bill-sticker, and who had occasionally practised in the same humble occupation himself, strutting one evening in the green-room at Drury-Lane Theatre, in a pair of glittering buckles, a gentleman present remarked that they greatly resembled diamonds. '