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OUR GIFT. BOSTON: ABEL TOMPKINS, NO. 38 CORNHILL.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, By ABEL TOMPKINS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

"Quick, naow!" said Abel, who had heard the click of cocking the pistol, and saw that he held it in his hand, as he came towards him.

" Mr. Bernard did as Abel said,stupidly and mechanically, for he was but half right as yet.

Mr. Bernard did as Abel said; he was in a purely passive state, and obeyed orders like a child.

I ha'n't I tol' y' a dozen times?" As Abel spoke, he turned and looked at Mr. Bernard.

It was nothing but the handle of an ugly knife, which Abel instantly relieved him of.

The party now took up the line of march for old Doctor Kittredge's house, Abel carrying the pistol and knife, and Mr. Bernard walking in silence, still half-stunned, holding the hay-fork, which Abel had thrust into his hand.

The party now took up the line of march for old Doctor Kittredge's house, Abel carrying the pistol and knife, and Mr. Bernard walking in silence, still half-stunned, holding the hay-fork, which Abel had thrust into his hand.

Untie his hands, Abel.

You'll see to it,won't you, Abel?" Abel nodded assent, and Mr. Bernard returned to the Institute, threw himself in his clothes on the bed, and slept like one who is heavy with wine.

You'll see to it,won't you, Abel?" Abel nodded assent, and Mr. Bernard returned to the Institute, threw himself in his clothes on the bed, and slept like one who is heavy with wine.

R89946, 1Feb52, Mabel C. Hermans (A) HERMANT, ABEL.

pb id='276.png' /> MCALLISTER, ABEL J. Child accounting practice: a manual of child accounting technique, by Abel J. McAllister and Arthur S. Otis.

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Mrs. Abel J. McAllister (W); 16Aug55; R154585. MCALLISTER, MRS.

ABEL J. Child accounting practice.

SEE McAllister, Abel J. MCALLISTER, ALISTER. SEE Brock, Lynn.

ABEL, the second son of Adam and Eve; slain by his brother.

The death of Abel is the subject of a poem by Gessner and a tragedy by Legouvé.

ABEL, SIR F. A., a chemist who has made a special study of explosives; b. 1827.

ABEL, HENRY, an able Norwegian mathematician, who died young (1802-1828).

CORDITE, a smokeless powder, invented by Sir F. A. Abel, being composed principally of gun-cotton and glycerine.

Abel P. Upshur, late Secretary of State of the United States.

Within this fairy world there is the truth Of Cain and Abel, of Rebecca's craft, Of Rachel, who by Jacob's service wooed How hight this maiden? GARCERAN.

able 23655 occurrences

I think I may be able to secure my farm, and so have a place to retire to for the evening of my days, but even this may be denied me.

But finally, on the 24th, we passed them about eighty miles from here, and now we are about twenty-five miles ahead of them without the loss of a drop of blood, and we shall be able to beat them to Nashville, if we can get the wire in time, which is doubtful.

But now, with increasing wealth, the conditions were changed, and so they were married, and in their case it can with perfect truth be said, "They lived happy ever after," and failed by but a year of being able to celebrate their silver wedding.

That the inventor, harassed on all sides by pirates, unscrupulous men, and false friends, should, in spite of his Christian philosophy, have suffered from occasional fits of despondency, is but natural, and he must have given vent to his feelings in a letter to his true friend and able business agent, Mr. Kendall, for the latter thus strives to hearten him in a letter of April 20, 1849:

F.O.J. Smith is here, the same ugly, fiendlike, dog-in-the-manger being he has ever been, the 'thorn in the flesh' which I pray to be able to support by the sufficient grace promised.

Their father seemed better that day, and was able to look after the store with the help of Phil.

"We will knock up a little shed for the boat above the portage this summer, then when next winter comes we can lay her up there, instead of having to bring her down here," he said to Miles, as the two discussed the probability of being able to get the boat up the portage within a week.

"You will never be able to squeeze through that small window unless your shoulders are very narrow indeed.

The other was that he was now able to pray in Arabic for the conversion of the Mohammedans.

" If Gringo had been able to think clearly, he might have said: "This surely is a new kind of man.

This was the year when a beef-eating craze seemed to possess every able-bodied Grizzly of the Sierras.

It is even observable in regard to infancy, that the mother being able to carry her child about with her, wherever she goes, can perform the duty of a nurse with a great deal less trouble, than the females of many other animals, who are obliged to be constantly going and coming with no small labour and fatigue, one way to look out for their own subsistence, and another to suckle and feed their young ones.

Endeavour to represent to yourself the image of a tree in general, you never will be able to do it; in spite of all your efforts it will appear big or little, thin or tufted, of a bright or a deep colour; and were you master to see nothing in it, but what can be seen in every tree, such a picture would no longer resemble any tree.

The two sexes likewise by living a little more at their ease began to lose somewhat of their usual ferocity and sturdiness; but if on the one hand individuals became less able to engage separately with wild beasts, they on the other were more easily got together to make a common resistance against them.

Infant society became a scene of the most horrible warfare: Mankind thus debased and harassed, and no longer able to retreat, or renounce the unhappy acquisitions it had made; labouring, in short merely to its confusion by the abuse of those faculties, which in themselves do it so much honour, brought itself to the very brink of ruin and destruction.

When they submit to fetters, 'tis only to be the better able to fetter others in their turn.

On the contrary, the citizen always in motion, is perpetually sweating and toiling, and racking his brains to find out occupations still more laborious: He continues a drudge to his last minute; nay, he courts death to be able to live, or renounces life to acquire immortality.

"We shall soon be able to see our way, and a good start ahead of the war band is important.

" They did not stop long, as they knew the great war band behind them was pressing forward, but they felt little fear of it, as they were able to make high speed of their own, despite the weight of their packs, and for several days and nights they traveled over peaks and ridges, stopping only at short intervals for sleep.

I think the Mountain Wolf should not have awaited Sharp Sword here, but who am I to give advice to a leader, so able and with so much experience?"

A fat deer stood in their path and fairly asked to be shot, furnishing them all the food they might need for days to come, and they were able to dress and prepare it at their leisure.

This was a cause of the greatest discomfort to the rest who were not equally safe, because, being able neither to lament nor to share their views with others they could not in any way get rid of their thoughts.

Yet even so I will pay you the rewards, that no one may say that I after using you in dangers later showed myself ungrateful, even though you were unwilling to join my campaign while perfectly strong in body and able in other respects to prosecute a war."

Those who were overbold and able to cause some great evil he took away from Italy in order that they might not raise an insurrection by being left behind there; and in Africa he was glad to employ different men on different pretexts, for while he was making away with his opponents through their work, he at the same time got rid of them.

He was not yet able to bring the war to a satisfactory conclusion; he saw, furthermore, that to stay in the same place was difficult because of the lack of subsistence even if the foe should keep away from his troops, and that to retire was impossible, with the enemy pressing upon him both by land and by sea.

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