They couldn't seem to make me a bed that was fine enough; and as for food, they couldn't be satisfied with anything but game and delicacies that were out of season; and every day the friends and neighbors flocked in to hear about my heroismthat was the name they called it by, and it means agriculture.

And as for that: Why should I have faith in you, Liane?

As for Mary, you know her way of inviting people to lunch, and then going out for a walk, or up to her room, as likely as not.

As for meat, it's little is needed beside.

In Utah Miss Anthony keenly and justly observes that suffrage is as much of a success for the Mormon women as for the men.

As for constructive agreement, they had none, and every one's suggestion for improvement was sneered at by all the rest.

I valued it for my poor sister's sake as well as for my own, so long as it was the natural reward of conscientious service, and not the prize of hypocrisy and cunning.

Up stairs and down you run, as for a race, And each man wears three nations in his face.

As for legacies, they are good or not, as I please; for let me tell you, a man must take pen, ink and paper, sit down by an old fellow, and pretend to take directions, but a true lawyer never makes any man's will but his own; and as the priest of old among us got near the dying man, and gave all to the Church, so now the lawyer gives all to the law.

As for her eyes, the customary similes of the court poets were gigantic onyxes or ebony highly polished and wet with May dew.

By this time the tide beginning to flow, I perceived my coat, waistcoat, and shirt, swim away, which I had left on the shore; as for my linen breeches and stockings, I swam with them to the ship; but I soon found clothes enough, though I took no more than I wanted for the present.

They live well in Fleeceborough, as every fresh experience of the place will prove; they have plentiful food, and of the best quality; poultry abounds, for every resident having a great garden (many, too, have paddocks) keeps fowls; fresh eggs are common; as for vegetables and fruit, the abundance is not to be described.

As for the father's great pride in his daughter, and his guarding her like a treasure, that is, by the concurrent testimony of the authorities, not a token of affection or a regard for virtue, but a purely commercial matter.

" As for the husband, he "is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land," which is an easy and pleasant thing to do; hardly in accordance with the curse the Lord pronounced on Adam and his male descendants.

Herod was now prepared to hear any thing in her prejudice, and immediately ordered her servant to be stretched upon the rack; who in the extremity of his tortures confest, that his mistresses aversion to the king arose from something Sohemus had told her; but as for any design of poisoning, he utterly disowned the least knowledge of it.

As for this Part of the fair Sex who are not of the Salamander Kind, I would most earnestly advise them to observe a quite different Conduct in their Behaviour; and to avoid as much as possible what Religion calls Temptations, and the World Opportunities.

Some acumen there, he thought, in medicine or mind: as for himself, it was true enough; whatever success he had gained in life had been by no flush of enthusiasm or hope; a dogged persistence of "holding on," rather.

So she listened graciously to the news of his betrothalnay, she was pleased with it, as for the time being it would divert his mind and keep him out of mischief.

It is by far the wisest thing you can dofor you as well as for myself, who will then wash my hands of the affair.

But as for myself I was tired, and the ride had been rather unprofitable, and this camp-site, to say the least, did not inspire me.

But as for me, the harder and farther I tramped and the longer I watched and waited the less opportunity had I to shoot a bear.

As for Mr. Jessup, behind the shelter of the wind-glass he was calmly preparing to sketch.

I say the things he said, for I cannot otherwise give his way, and that trust of love in which these thoughts were born on my lips; all those years, in many a distant place, I had thought for him almost as much as for myself.

As for myself, I am anxious to reach the San Juan and get something to report about it.

As for his pictures, they were based on the Italian traditionrich, accurate, learned, full of literary allusion and reminiscence.