They, being plain, blunt men, unaccustomed to the amenities of election time, and not knowing how to skilfully approach a subject of this kind, simply announced that they had come for John Thomas.

There is a good deal of time spent in the kindergarten on the cultivation of politeness and courtesy; and in the entirely social atmosphere which is one of its principal features, the amenities of polite society can be better practiced than elsewhere.

For all stood aside as he passed out, and one opened the door as to a prince; of which amenities he took no heed.

He belonged to an ancient English family, and believed in monarchy as a devotee believes in his saint, "and he brought to the little capital at Jamestown all the graces, amenities, and well-bred ways which at that time were characteristic of the cavaliers.

The graces and amenities of life can exist without reference to future rewards and punishments.

We see many heroic traits, many manly virtues, many domestic amenities, and many exalted sentiments in pagan Greece, even if these were not taught by priests or sages.

Among the Greeks was the network of trades and professions, as in Paris and London, and a complicated social life in which all the amenities known to the modern world were seen, especially in Athens and Corinth and the Ionian capitals.

'You need not talk of conditions, for I shall not come to America again!' 'Oh, do stop quarrelling!' laughed Cordova as they reached the door of her box, for she had heard similar amenities exchanged twenty times already, and she knew that they meant nothing at all on either side. 'Have you any beer?' inquired Stromboli of the Primadonna, as if nothing had happened. 'Bring some beer, Bob!'

To their relief she was alone, and after the usual amenities thanked them warmly for all they had done for her.

"He's going to fight you," shrilled Miss Nugent, who thought these amenities ill-timed; "he said so.

[Sidenote: Girlish Amenities]

During these amenities his eyes flew about the room.

Steeped in this utter poverty,dwelling in low, dark, smoky huts, with earthen floors,it is yet wonderful to see how these people preserve not merely the decencies, but even the amenities of life.

Nay, already the pioneer has found them, and many a hut and cottage and huddle of houses show whence art and science and all the amenities of human life, shall one day radiate.

Chip had arrived rather out of breath and excited, having got decidedly ahead of the amenities that would have been particularly expedient under the circumstances.

All the amenities and charities of domestic life are outraged, are annihilated.

[Illustration: DYNASTIC AMENITIES LITTLE WILLIE (of Prussia): "As one Crown Prince to another, isn't your Hindenburg line getting a bit shaky?" RUPPRECHT (of Bavaria): "Well, as one Crown Prince to another, what about your Hohenzollern line?"]

The amenities of the High Command are growing lively, since the Navy is also concerned, and the failure of the U-boats to check the influx of American troops needs a lot of explaining away.

Bookmaking and kindred amenities.

Up to the present, however, no confirmation can be obtained of the startling rumor that The Spectator has been purchased by the proprietors of The Kennel Gazette, and will henceforth be devoted to the interests of our four-footed friends, the supplements being restricted to purely feline amenities.

By the side of Flint, Lily Condor loomed a very paragon of the social amenities.

* MURMAN AMENITIES.

The Tavern, shorn of its amenities, a mere drink-shop, survived as far down the century as 1874, soon after which date it also disappeared.

Fierce and idle, with hardly one of the necessities or amenities that belong to civilised existence, they are hardy endurers of hardship, and reckless to a savage degree of the value of life, whether their own or others.

By this time, what do you think of the moralities, as well as the amenities, of slave life?