What could be more instructive than to observe how his Beneficence encreased by its exertion and success; while his desire of befriending the wretched became, as it were, the vital spirit that gave strength and duration to his own existence!

"Although I have certainly no particular reason for befriending Mr. BUMSTEAD," said he, reflectively, "I shall take measures to keep him from you.

Cornificia more than any one had contrived to suggest to the praetorian guard that their interest might best be served some day by befriending Pertinax; she more than any one had disarmed Commodus' suspicion by complaining to him about Pertinax' lack of self-assertiveness, which had become Commodus' chief reason for not mistrusting him.

All this time our hero was fully aware that he was befriending a competitor; and he was not without his suspicions that Daggett wished to keep him within his view until the visit had been paid to the Key.

" CHAPTER XVIII A NARROW ESCAPE Joe Strong was in two minds as he heard this warning and observed the face of the man he was befriending.

In the meantime they have one bulwark; they have a General who is befriending them as I think never, after the fighting was over, has a General befriended his men before.

God will bless you for it, madam,' he continued: 'he will bless you for befriending the orphan in his loneliness; and my mother will bless you, and pray God to shower his mercies thick and plenteous on you all the days of your life.'

This Humourist gives up all the Compliments which People of his own Condition could make to him, for the Pleasures of helping the Afflicted, supplying the Needy, and befriending the Neglected.

ABOARD THE DAZZLER X WITH THE BAY PIRATES XI CAPTAIN AND CREW XII JOE TRIES TO TAKE FRENCH LEAVE XIII BEFRIENDING EACH OTHER XIV AMONG THE OYSTER-BEDS XV GOOD SAILORS IN A WILD ANCHORAGE XVI 'FRISCO KID'S DITTY-BOX XVII 'FRISCO KID TELLS HIS STORY XVIII A NEW RESPONSIBILITY FOR JOE XIX THE BOYS PLAN AN ESCAPE XX PERILOUS HOURS XXI JOE AND

Not long before emancipation, Mr. Scotland was imprisoned for befriending the negroes.

Not long before emancipation, Mr. Scotland was imprisoned for befriending the negroes.

Whether or not the leaders held any distrust of Vesey cannot be known; but his little scheme for befriending Monteith Sterry was nipped in the bud by his being retained at the front of the building, where, as has been shown, he acted as the bearer of messages between Inman and Capt. Asbury.

What great political cause, her own or another's, is England befriending to-day?

I believe that there is no charitable institution which more thoroughly deserves support than the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants, affectionately contracted by its supporters into the "MABYS.

Thus step by step has philosophy loosened the connection of the order of nature with the ground of reason, befriending, in exact proportion as it has done this, the principle of miracles.

In 1699, when Somers and Halifax were the great chiefs of the Whig Ministry, they joined in befriending Addison, then 27 years old, who had pleased Somers with a piece of English verse and Montague with Latin lines upon the Peace of Ryswick.

This Humourist gives up all the Compliments which People of his own Condition could make to him, for the Pleasures of helping the Afflicted, supplying the Needy, and befriending the Neglected.

Santerre had seen Necker distribute corn to the poor of Paris in a time of famine, and now he was befriending the daughter for this noble act.

She had the best heart in the world, he knew that, and wouldn't ask to do anything that was not kind; she'd try to make up as well as she could for the "differ of things" by doing all in her power for his father and mother and by befriending him.

I should like to place myself on record as befriending Mrs. Fulham, not her husband.

" "But don't you see that you are befriending her when you shield him?" "Woman's logic," said the President.

The endless-chain boycott, a measure of excommunication without limit, pronounced against an offending employer, non-union workers, and every one in any way befriending them, is an effort to drag every one else into a dispute that is primarily a private matter.

She almost regretted that in former years she had promised to assist her father in befriending the Carroll relations.

Throughout life I have been apt to injure myself in befriending others; and you see "Mr. Mortimer flourished a hand"where it has landed me.

A few years later Andromachus performed the signal action of his life by befriending Timoleon, as great a character, in my eyes, as Plutarch records the glory of.