The thrashing machine, so valuable an addition to the working establishment of a modern farm-steading, is minutely explainedthe varieties in its construction illustrated by wood-cutsand the respective merits of the different forms of the machine examined and discussed.

His horsemen too would be an insufficient protection against an attack from the numerous hordes of thieves who infested the desert, and would surely be on the alert to pounce upon so valuable a booty.

But, if fresh milk is so valuable a food for the sick, the least change or sourness in it, makes it of all articles, perhaps, the most injurious; diarrhoea is a common result of fresh milk allowed to become at all sour.

To trust our senses again with a good philosophic conscience!who ever conferred on us so valuable a freedom before?

She had not the Deeside language, but she and her sister Lady Ramsay, Yorkshire women, and educated in the city of York, helped to give the Dean that curious northern English talk which he mixed pleasantly with the language of Angus and Mearns that he loved so well; and he inherited from the Bannermans the sweet voice, so valuable an inheritance to a preacher.

No, no! we will put him in jail and feed him on bread and watertoo valuable a nigger to be hung-ung.

They endeavour to force an entrance and encourage one another not to cast from their hands so valuable a prize.

If this runs me a little into the beaten style of dedication, even the modesty of your lordship will excuse me, when I have so valuable a reason for adopting it.

This however was not all; it was not to be expected that Napoleon should render Prussia so valuable a service without receiving something in exchange; we know Bismarck's opinion of a statesman who, out of sympathy for another country, would sacrifice the interests of his own.

The knight, thinking it a pity to throw away so valuable a sword, concealed it twice; but the dying monarch detected the fraud, and finally prevailed upon Bedivere to fulfill his wishes.