"Hullo, old chap!" said Thurston, entering his friend's study a few moments later; "you made rather a mess of that speech of yours.

coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound?

Well, I'd delight to make use of my scatter-gun, and let him have a mess of number ten shot at, say sixty yards.

That fellow made a mess of everything, and I don't blame you for turning it down.

Think what a mess of it the militia officers make, when they undertake to meddle with a regular corps.

Some men give up too easy in the game o' married life; They haven't got the courage to be worthy of a wife; An' I've seen a lot o' women that have made their lives a mess, 'Cause they couldn't bear the burdens that are, mixed with happiness.

"I didn't mean to be mysterious; I was only anxious not to make a mess of the affair.

You've no business to make a mess of hers.

Yer ma promised me a mess o' tea, an' I guess I may ez well take it neow ez any day.

Then she described how the shawls were all thrown in a mess together in a room, and how the captains of vessels bought them at hap-hazard, without knowing anything about their value or their relative fineness, and how you could often, if you knew about the goods, get great bargains.

"My room's in a mess," she explained; "and she's not hurt so much as Sammy said.

I can't tell you about it, but it is a mess.

I am horribly sorry to knife you like this and go off without saying good-by and leaving such a mess behind but truly it is the best thing I could do for the rest of you as well as myself.

" "It is a mess indeed," Captain Martin, said.

The first dish Bridget ever literally cooked for Mark, with her own hands, or indeed for any one else, was a mess of 'grass,' as it was the custom of even the most polished people of America then to call asparagus.

"What a mess!"

She had felt, as she sat listening to him, that his speech was a pack of lies, a mess of conventional trumpery and platitudes!

They have bartered their birthright for a mess of pottage."

" "So you think this Parker case is a mess?"

In these last three weeks, I have almost forgot what my teeth were made for; last night good Mrs Bibber here took pity on me, and crumm'd me a mess of gruel with the children, and I popt and popt my spoon three or four times to my mouth, before I could find the way to't.

Another time, when we had sate up very late at ombre in the country, and were hungry towards morning, he plucks me out (I vow to gad I tell you no lie) four ten-penny nails from the dairy lock with his teeth, fetches me out a mess of milk, and knocks me 'em in again with his head, upon reputation.

The idolized son of pious parents, whose youth was surrounded at home with the halo of Bible and prayer; but like Esau, he "sold his birthright for a mess of pottage" and afterwards "found no space for repentance, though he sought it earnestly and with many tears.

One chapJeff Tresawna it was: his mother lived over to Looehad tried to open a vein, to drink, an' had made a mess o't an' bled to death.

If they can fill their bellies with a mess of glory I'll not grudge them what they can snatch; but I'll fill mine with food less spiced, and we'll see which of us thrives bestthese sons of Mars or the old patroon who stays at home and dips his nose into nothing worse than old Madeira!" He gave me a cunning look, pushed his wig partly straight, and lay back, puffing quietly at his pipe.

For a Mess, there is usually a spare apartment of some kind.