One morning at breakfast his tripe didn't suit him, and he immediately brained his wife and children and set the house on fire, varying the monotony of the scene by pitching his mother-in-law down the well, having previously, with great consideration, touched her heart with a cheese knife.

Next day, when they had run fifty leagues farther westward, the needle was observed to vary half a point to the eastward of north, and next morning the variation was a whole point east.

But it seemed to me that it was the planet of the theory, just as much if it varied a good deal from its prescribed place as if it varied a little.

The kind of poetry preferred varies a good deal but on the whole narrative or nonsense verses seem most popular; few children are ready for sentiment or reflection even about themselves, and this is why some of Stevenson's most charming poems about children are not appreciated by them as much as by grown-up people.

In order to vary the scene, and enhance the dignity of his subject, the author occasionally takes a prospect of the state of Rome and Italy, under the contending powers of the papacy and the new empire of the West.

Charles Bucke, in his work misnamed "A Classical Grammar of the English Language," published in London in 1829, asserts, that, "Substantives in English do not vary their terminations;" yet he gives them four cases; "the nominative, the genitive, the accusative, and the vocative."

The interesting suggestion follows that the pineal influences the body by varying the degree of light ray reaction.

This habit of varying his notes through so many permutations, and the singularly fine intonations of many of them, entitle the Song-Sparrow to a very high rank as a singing-bird.

"Would primarily denotes inclination of will; and should, obligation; but they both vary their import, and are often used to express simple event.

Neither can the bears be regarded as enemies; for, though they seek to vary their every-day diet of nuts and berries by an occasional meal of mutton, they prefer to hunt tame and helpless flocks.

But whether he wore the shawl or not in the safe privacy of Tower Cottage, whatever might be the truth about thatperhaps he varied his practice according to his conditionon one thing Doctor Mary would stake her life; he used the combination knife-and-fork!

I look back now on my twenty years of savage life and see nothing to vary its dreary sameness; the dangers were always alike, the excitements always the same, and the rest was a dead blank.

One of Bacon's longest works is the "Silva Sylvarum,"a sort of natural history, in which he treats of the various forces and productions of Nature,the air the sea, the winds, the clouds, plants and animals, fire and water, sounds and discords, colors and smells, heat and cold, disease and health; but which varied subjects he presents to communicate knowledge, with no especial utilitarian end.

However varied the forms that human destiny may take, the same elements are always present; and so life is everywhere much of a piece, whether it passed in the cottage or in the palace, in the barrack or in the cloister.

Within this belt the prakritic elementary substances varied their condition, combined, and made forms by increasing or decreasing vibration.

They are merely two of the modes in which idlers endeavour to vary their amusements.

To vary their appearance, finely-chopped almonds or currants may be strewn over them before the sugar is sprinkled over; and they may be garnished with any bright-coloured preserve.

There, they are in their natural element, and can vary their course with the greatest promptitudecan mount or descend with the utmost facility, and can light on any spot with the most perfect exactness, and without the slightest injury to themselves.

To fix the price of any commodity, of which the quantity and the use may vary their proportions, is the most excessive degree of ignorance.

For her own comfort, a good nurse will frequently vary this position, by changing from one arm to the other, and sometimes by laying it across both, raising the head a little.

Such attributes, endlessly varied and diversified, proceed from the basis of a common character, by virtue of which all men and eachone as truly as anotherare entitled, as a birth-right, to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Her long hair, fastened only by a silver band woven in and out behind the small rounded ears, fell almost to her knee; and, as it caught the bright rays of the morning sun, I discerned for the first time the full beauty of that tinge of gold which varied the colour of the rich, soft, brown tresses.

with all the strength of his lungs; and even in his terror and excitement varied this expression by giving the alarm of "fire!"for what reason, he always declined to explain, even to his most intimate friends.

Mr. L. Martin proposed to vary Article 7, Section 4, so as to allow a prohibition or tax on the importation of slaves.

Mr. Gouverneur Morris having so varied his motion by inserting the word "direct," it passed, nem.