He had two Schutzenfest targets in his cuffs; in one hand he held an enormous cane, in the other a cigar, and through an eyeglass he gazed at the ankles on the gang-plank with an air of patient weariness with this slow old world that was very touching.

" "Oh, that's all right," said the mackinaw man, with an air of princely generosity.

The short and massy tower in the center, the work of Bishop Walkelin, the cousin of the Conqueror, has the very look of that distant age, and, to eyes accustomed to the lofty and rich towers of some of our cathedrals, has an air of meanness.

In stepped Mike, with an air of the greatest secrecy, handed me a letter and the box.

Shall we suppose it out of gaiety to give an air of reality to a system more chimerical than the tales of the fairies?

The count himself was tranquil and even cheerful, although his face wore an air of stern determination.

he asked, with an air of mock horror.

There is an air of sanctity about this lovely white freestone temple which no amount of neglect can eradicate.

" Mrs de Lacey turned, with an air of great dignity and entire decision, to Wilder, as she continued,"I have, then, made a small mistake in memory which is not surprising, when one recollects, that he who taught me so much of the profession is no longer here to continue his lessons.

" "Because you came from America!"with an air of disgust,"where there is yet no race, and the population is still too fluctuating for the mould of one.

Mr. Stanton said with an air of deprecation on behalf of his state of Rhode Island: "I wish the law made so strong as to prevent this trade in future; but I cannot believe that a man ought to be hung for only stealing a negro.

I know not whether it will be admitted as a sufficient reason, that the distinction into metrical feet hath a much greater influence in poetry on the rise and fall of the voice, than the distinction into words; and if so, when the cadences happen mostly after the long syllables, the verse will naturally have an air of greater gravity than when they happen mostly after the short.

An air of historic gravity was given to this tissue of Welsh legends by an exact chronology and the genealogy of the British kings, and the author referred, as his authority, to an imaginary Welsh book given him, as he said, by a certain Walter, Archdeacon of Oxford.

The office was unchanged; it had kept through the years since Dave had last illumined its gloom an air of subdued, moneyed discretion.

The words unity, action, sentiment and diction, pronounced with an air of authority, give them a figure among unlearned readers, who are apt to believe they are very deep because they are unintelligible.

There was an air of anxiety, of restless feverish energy, about him.

Every thing is marked in an inventory, just as left; and an air of arrangement and residence leads one to reflect, that the owner did not imagine at his departure he was quitting it perhaps for ever.

" As long as they were on the street they maintained an air of pride and vexation; but as soon as they entered Gotzkowsky's house and stood in his presence, they were all gentleness, humility, and friendliness.

When the Iniquity of the Times brought Socrates to his Execution, how great and wonderful is it to behold him, unsupported by any thing but the Testimony of his own Conscience and Conjectures of Hereafter, receive the Poison with an Air of Mirth and good Humour, and as if going on an agreeable Journey bespeak some Deity to make it fortunate.

Wait till you're asked to take a holt," advised the man on the wagon, regarding the group with an air of perfect neutrality.

He vanished the next day with an air of relief.

An air of great geniality pervaded him.

it would be so easy thena smoking-cap, a tobacco-pouch, a cigar-holder, a hundred things!" "Is it quite settled about Loschwitz?" asks the young man, with an air of indifference.

"If any one else had asked me that question," answered James, with an air of injured dignity, "I should have considered it an insult.

And with the words he turned with an air of finality and went away.