For how else can they say, as I have known some say, that capital punishment is wrong, because "we have no right to usher a man into the presence of his Maker.

"Evasio Mon will not leave us long idle," said Sarrion, when the man had gone, and he had hardly spoken when the servant ushered in a second visitor, a man also of the road, who handed to Marcos a crumpled and dirty envelope.

[Illustration: The next minute the man of the island ushered in his two new guests.]

It paused in adoration while He ushered forth its crowning work.

A chill, uncomfortable morning ushered in the day.

At three o'clock the door-bell rang and Mary ushered in another strange persona pretty, fair-haired young lady, this time, who said she was to give Miss Doyle lessons on the piano.

But one day he had risen with some formality to usher a formal caller to the-door, when, to his slight amazement and my secret delight, his chairan easy-chair of good proportionsdeliberately jumped up and hopped after him across the room.

"[40] Translating into action what had long been restricted to academic discussion, these philanthropic workers ushered in a new era in the uplift of the blacks, making abolition more of a reality.

CHAPTER XVIII MAXINE MEETS DIANA Godensky was obliged to take his leave, which he did abruptly, but to all appearance with a good grace; and when he was gone Marianne ushered in a girla tall, beautiful girl in a grey tailor dress built by an artist.

Progress is secured by the swing of a giant pendulum from East to West, the end of each beat ushering in drastic changes in religion, economics and social polity.

Nathaniel, the waiting man, ushered into the parlor a droll little old woman, dressed in a short calico gown, with gay figures over it as large as cabbages; calf-skin shoes; and a green pumpkin hood, with a bow on top.

In April, 1783, Liberty Bell rang the proclamation of Peace, and on July 4th, 1826, it ushered in the year of Jubilee.

It is altogether appropriate to the Office of daybreak, as ushering in the dawn of a new era.

In short, it ushered in the Age of Electricity.

If is really wonderful how certain buildings at Cahors have been preserved to the present day through all the storms of the tempestuous Middle Ages, the furious hurricane of religious hatred that brought those centuries to a close, and that other one, the Revolution, which ushered in the new epoch of liberty and well-dressed poverty.

A golden day of sunlight and azure blue of sky ushered in the month of June.

" The wants of the Irish hobby having been thoroughly attended to, and the game little fellow having recovered in some measure his natural gaiety of spirits, the squire ushered the stranger into a long low hall, hung with pikes and guns and bows, and relics of the chase as well as of the wars.

Tiffles bowed acknowledgment of the empty honor, and ushered the three clergymen and families to the front row of seats, of which C. Skimmerhorn, Esq., and his train, occupied as much as they could cover by spreading out.

It was a relief to both of them when the door opened and Bella ushered in Dr. Murchison.

As soon as this was ended, the former returned, and ushered his companion into the presence of the substitute for the grand duke.

Then, after an eternity of suspense, the sombre-faced butler opened the door again and ushered in the doctor.

A gray-haired old servant answered the summons, and ushered Gilbert into the state drawing-room, an apartment with a lofty arched roof, eight long windows, and a generally ecclesiastical aspect, which was more suggestive of solemn grandeur than of domestic comfort.

'The morning of the 29th,' he says, 'was ushered in by the dismal ringing of bells, the groans of distant guns, and the savage shouts of the populace; and I arose from a long train of dreams, which defied recollection as well as interpretation.

No trumpet has been sounded, no earthquake felt, while State after State has ushered into legal existence one half of the population within its borders.

It was about five o'clock in the March afternoon, when Mary ushered John Hammond into Mr. Barlow's dwelling, and, in the dim glow of a cheery little fire and the faint light that filtered through the screen of geranium leaves, the visitor looked for a moment or so doubtfully at the owner of the cottage.