Once in so often the batch of bread "went sour," and there seemed to be an unfailing supply of stale bread which "must be eaten first."

An upper deck of the steamship Mauretania, sister ship of the ill-fated Lusitania, as she steamed into New York harbor, bringing back the first batch of returning troops.

At Aerschot, a first batch of 78 men were taken out of the town, and ordered to advance in groups of three, holding each other by the hand, when they were made to pass in front of some German Military Police, who shot them all at short range with revolvers.

The sword had no sooner cut the sack across and punctured the tin, than a fat villain in a loin cloth, squatting on the earthen floor, kneaded flour and oil into a grimy batch of dough.

After a gap of one week to ten days the next batch of eggs is laid in a fresh egg sac, and fertilised with the help of stored sperm.

In truth the last batch of the Representatives, prisoners of the Quai d'Orsay, the batch destined for Vincennes, was passing through the Faubourg.

Every time a batch of new arrivals recognized Peter's tall form on the terrace, a fresh burst of cheering rose.

" The selection of a fresh batch of authorities occupied us for another quarter of an hour, and then, having handed in the volumes that we had squeezed dry, we took our way out of the reading-room.

A batch of 1,000 still remained under arms, but surrendered to Aquilius.

In a few moments I heard John come up, say a few words to Ellen, and then go down-stairs, calling back, as he left her room, "Don't keep awake for me, wifie, I have a huge batch of letters to answer.

To finish the party there were a batch of the Marquis's relations, who had come specially from Paris.

In the morning, she went for a walk, gathered wildflowers for the kitchen table, and mixed a batch of bread, placing it to rise in the sun, covered with a dishcloth.

It was the moment, a month or two before his boy's birth, when, glancing over a batch of belated Paris bills, he had come on one from the jeweller he had once found in private conference with Undine.

Meanwhile the first of the month was at hand, with its usual batch of bills; and there was no time to think of any struggle less pressing than that connected with paying them... Undine had been surprised, and a little disconcerted, at her husband's acceptance of the birthday incident.

Recently elected to the office, this was his first batch of cases, and he was anxious to make as good a record as possible.

Mrs. Burton was making a batch of bread, and had to limit her welcome to cheery words and smiles; but the twins immediately claimed him as an old friend, rushing upon him with a freedom from shyness which was surprising, until one knew that they were never troubled with that complaint at home.

On the 23d she wrote to Mrs. Smith: We have got here safe and sound with our little batch of invalids.

She had a napkin in her hand, which contained a large loaf of bread; and half apologizing for offering it, said she had unintentionally made "a larger batch of bread" than usual that day, and though she hardly knew why, she thought it might be acceptable there.

" Dave had from time to time left his post and gone to keep up the fire and to put a fresh batch of dough in the pan, and as soon as a shadow fell across the valley he said, "Now we will be off.

For the correction of all this great batch of errors, I shall simply substitute in the Key one short definition, which appears to me to be exempt from each of these inaccuracies.

There was more life at Bruggabrong in a day than you crawlers 'ud see here all yer lives," she retorted with vigour, energetically pommelling a batch of bread which she was mixing.

" The same words were used to me on the same night by a surgeon who had just come from the station of Dunkirk, where the latest batch of woundeda thousand of themwere lying on the straw.

I'd just put the batch of bread into the oven, and gone upstairs and opened the box that stands on my drawers to get a lozenge, and I missed the brooch.

A BATCH OF DINNERS HOLIDAY DINNERS, A Special dinner for a holiday celebration has so long been a time-honored custom in most families, that the majority of housewives consider it indispensable.

They brought a new batch of monstrosities from the wagon: Echinopses, issuing from padded compresses with rose-colored flowers that looked like the pitiful stumps; gaping Nidularia revealing skinless foundations in steel plates; Tillandsia Lindeni, the color of wine must, with jagged scrapers; Cypripedia, with complicated contours, a crazy piece of work seemingly designed by a crazy inventor.