I could not help stopping to survey a scene which accorded so well with my previous notions of female refinement.

Yea, he was also a Moses on the mount of Pisgah, from which with prophetic eye he could survey the promised land of indefinite wealth and boundless material prosperity, which he was not permitted to enter, but which he had bequeathed to civilization.

And so, after surveying Deacon QUIRK'S spiritual potato fields, or perhaps some fresh (spiritual) manifestation of Miss PHELPS'S piety and intelligence, we may have the pleasure of seeing the sun and moon hung with tidies, and a lamp-mat under each star.

Then the latter stood back and surveyed his work.

He surveyed the room with a scrutinizing eye, apparently, interrogating the furniture and the walls, as if he were asking them if they had not been witnesses of some unusual event.

I quitted my camp early in the morning to survey the neighboring country, leaving my guide to take charge of the horses until my return in the evening.

"Yet I must admit, if laughter were my habit" he paused and surveyed Mr. Lane's pinched and bony figure.

" He climbed the ladder, pushed open the trap-door, crept half through, and surveyed the gloomy place.

"Is this yer a d-d picnic?" said Uncle Billy, with inward scorn, as he surveyed the sylvan group, the glancing firelight, and the tethered animals in the foreground.

Commander Whitehouse has recently spent thirteen months surveying with infinite pains these coasts and islands.

Couriers dash up to the impassive chief, calm-eyed, keen, alert, surveying the line, dispatching brief commands, receiving reports.

" After delivering this strange astrological exhortation the dusky maiden slowly retreated toward the entrance of a nearby cavern, the paleface meandered forth to survey the ground of his future greatness and the voyageur resumed his lonely journey toward the setting sun.

Moral certitude was the lofty platform from which he surveyed the world, and upon which, as a rock, he rested in the storms of life.

" Louis surveyed the fashionably dressed, weak-faced, sandy-haired young man from head to foot.

I shall hope, that he who once intended to increase the learning of his country by the introduction of the Persian language, will examine nicely the traditions and histories of the East; that he will survey the wonders of its ancient edifices, and trace the vestiges of its ruined cities; and that, at his return, we shall know the arts and opinions of a race of men, from whom very little has been hitherto derived.

We cannot have another popular Prime Minister come triumphing back to England with a gross of pink spectaclesthrough which we may survey the prospect of the next great war.

The sun was now warm, and shining brightly, forming a wondrous contrast to the dark and dismal cellars; and it was with comparatively light feelings, that I made my way up to the tower, to survey the gardens.

Little golden America, two famous Soviet humorists survey these United States.

To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 11th of this month, I transmit, for the information of the Senate, a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, relating to the progress made in surveying the several tracts of military bounty lands appropriated by Congress for the late army of the United States, and the time at which such survey will probably be completed.

Having arrived at the west front, we can not avoid pausing to survey the beauty of its workmanshipthat of the great William of Wykeham;

" She surveyed the table critically, bread and fruit and milk; there was nothing beside.

I had surveyed the landscape through the prism of poetry, which tinged every object with the hues of the rainbow.

The climax of the service came with the singing of "When I survey the wondrous Cross."

The clerk, startled at these evidences of sense and self-reliance in one he had been accustomed to see under the special protection of the very woman she was now confiding to his care, surveyed her eloquent features beaming with quiet resolve, and for a moment seemed at a loss how to take this change and control the strange situation.

Tell me what you'd be.' So said, upborne upon a cloud, The clown surveyed the anxious crowd.