Aylmer's attention and kind thought for her had absolutely won her heart.

This is the kind of way in which he won his victories.

Notwithstanding her own weak and failing health she laboured on, winning the love and gratitude of the blind, and accomplishing a great work of which any one might feel justly proud.

"It is stated that a well-known yacht failed to win the prize in the late race, because her rudder slipped out of her fastenings and was lost.

He had won a battle which once and for all broke the naval power of France and Spain, and delivered Great Britain from all fear of attack by the great Napoleon.

From this it may be seen that not one-half, perhaps not a quarter, of all the various forces that won the Revolutionary war were purely American.

When a gentleman undertakes public work, he will carry out the duties proper to it; and he knows beforehand that right principles may not win their way.

For a long time the scales of victory seemed balanced between them; but at length the tall man, who had great self-possession, and who played with consummate skill, won the game: soon after which he rose up, and making a graceful, respectful bow to the rest of the company, he retired.

They seemed determined to win the race by fair means or foul.

The paper speaks of him as "our esteemed and talented townsman, Col. W.," and alludes to his "beautiful and accomplished wife," who, by the way, was formerly waiter in an oyster saloon, and won the Colonel's affection by the artless manner in which she would shout: "Two stews, plenty o' butter.

My keeper, whose name was Sing Fou, and who, from a long exercise of magisterial authority, was rough and dictatorial, behaved to me somewhat harshly at first; but my patient submission so won his confidence and good will, that I soon became a great favourite; was regarded more as one of his family than as a prisoner, and was allowed by him every indulgence consistent with my safe custody.

Your invaluable "Hints for the Family," published some time since, seem destined to work a revolution in our domestic economy; as the plans you propose must win the admiration of housekeepers by their extreme simplicity, aside from any other motives to their adoption.

The Anzac Mounted Division, composed of six regiments of Australian Light Horse and three regiments of New Zealand Mounted Rifles, had been operating in the Sinai Desert when they were not winning fame on Gallipoli, since the early days of the war.

And as she sighed, she sang aloud a melancholy strain; "And who would wish to die," she said, "though death be free from pain?" For evil tongues, who thought to win her favor with a lie, Had told her that the bold Gazul ordained that she should die;

The meeting was divided, and it looked as though Claudius was to win the day.

and he won place by the consent of all.

In his campaigns he was chiefly remarkable for caution, for he would not, if he could help it, begin a battle of which the issue was doubtful; nor did he wish to emulate those generals who have won themselves a great reputation by running risks and trusting to good luck.

Ronleigh was fortunate in having a staff of masters who won the respect and confidence of the boys.

What might have been a weakness in the first position, was a mighty asset in the latter one, and he had won an immense success.

I've won Money to Night, Betty, to buy thee Clotheshum humWell said, Frank, towse the little Jilts, they came for that purpose.

In those days, there were however, some men from whom the somniferous faculty was withheld: they were, therefore, admonished to repeat their prayers and oblations, in order to win the divinity's favour: and the ultimate and customary resort was, if success did not crown his perseverance, to pronounce it a token, that such patients were an eyesore to the divinity.

Any group of college and Manhattan Trade School girls could be pitted against a group of women from the farms and win the laurels in staying powers.

What he lays down as a precept, that he tries to live up to, in the way that shall win the approval of the eternal years.

His great exploits were written on history's brightest page, And rightly was he reckoned as the mirror of his age; Great deeds he did with point of lance and won bright honor's crown, Before the year when each red cheek was clothed in manly down.

The British had won the fight.