The ticket given me called by number for a certain berth, and I sought until I found this, throwing within the small bundle I bore, and then finding a chance to sit down on the deck beneath.

Lying quietly in my berth, braced to prevent being thrown out, amid a darkness so intense as to seem a weight, every sound from the deck above, every lift of the vessel, brought to my mind a sea message, convincing me of two thingsthat the Romping Betsy was a staunch craft, and well handled.

You have been ill?" "Not seriously, but confined to the berth for a couple of days.

I rested quietly in my berth for a long time, staring blankly up at the dark deck above, unable to sleep, and endeavoring to figure out the true meaning of all these occurrences.

In the intensity of my feelings I must have unconsciously spoken aloud, for a shaggy head suddenly popped out from the berth beneath where I lay, and an interested voice asked solicitously: "Hy, thar; whut's up, mate?

" We talked together for quite a while longer, our conversation gradually drifting to the recounting of various sea adventures, and my thoughts did not again recur to Sanchez until after I rested back once more in my berth, endeavoring to fall asleep.

Oh, Jose an' me carried him inter the for'cassel, an' shoved him inter a berth ter sleep off his liquor.

" "Then it's yer intention ter work out'er this yere berth?"

However, as I sat there, staring about at this scene, and uncertain as to what my next move should be, there was a stir within the upper berth on my own level, and a moment later, an uplifted face appeared suddenly in the yellow flare of light.

" "I pitch about so in my berth," said Octavia, who was Rollo, "that next thing I shall be out on the floor.

And, besides, as the trade of a miller never enriched his father, Lepailleur curses his mill from morning till night, and declares that he won't prevent his boy Antonin from going to eat white bread in Paris, if he can find a good berth there when he grows up.

Lepailleur, in particular, distinguished himself by the violent raillery he levelled at this Parisian, a gentleman born, with a good berth, who was so stupid as to make himself a peasant, and fling what money he had to that rascally earth, which would assuredly swallow him and his children and his money all together, without yielding even enough wheat to keep them in bread.

The servitor of Don Camillo assumed his oar, and the boat glided gracefully into its berth.

He had, however, discovered what he considered a snugger berth.

He determined to go to Australia, and secured a berth in a clipper ship bound for Melbourne, but some accident prevented his reaching the pier in season; the vessel sailed without him, and was never heard of afterwards.

No. 5 is an observation berth; there is one fixed up for us on this sleeping-coach.

"If one unscrews that knob one can see into the next berth, No. 5.

A beam of light stabbed the darkness of his berth, and putting his eye with some difficulty to the holeone's nose gets so confoundedly in the wayhe saw Hagan comfortably arranging himself for the night.

It appeared that he had been educated at Blundell's School, had lost his parents at about sixteen, had done a course in some electrical engineering shops at Plymouth, and when twenty years old had secured a good berth on the engineering staff of the Vernon.

" Dawson and his subaltern were moving towards the sleeping-coach in which a double berth had been assigned to them, when two tall gentlemen in civilian dress slipped out of the crowd and stood in their path.

The two officers, so anomalously associated, entered their berth the best of friends and talked together far into the night.

Better give 'em a wide berth, or we'll have their wash aboard.

Then, having grown sleepy, I said goodnight, and went to my berth, and so had my first sleep upon a mattress, for some weeks.

While we were going to our berth, the 'Pique' came in sight.

Occasionally the police had some trouble with wandering tramps, but Chief Waller's strong point seemed to lie in that direction, and as a rule hoboes gave Bloomsbury a wide berth.

They content themselves with exposing some of the crimes and follies to which public commotions necessarily give birth.

They gave birth to "Götz von Berlichingen" and the "Sorrows of Werther," to the first inception of "Faust," and to many of his sweetest lyrics.

A girl of low birth and vulgar circumstance, imbued with the ideas and habits of her class, speaking the language of that class from which she never for a moment deviates into finer phrase, takes on, through the magic handling of the poet, an ideal beauty.

Birth and youth-time; Collingwood's "Life" and his own "Praeterita".

Darwin; birth, parentage, and education.

Birth, parentage, and early engineering career.

Art of printing; birth of alchemy.

In 1815, two years after Wagner's birth, the King of Saxony founded a German opera in Dresden, where theretofore Italian opera had ruled alone.

Nothing existed before his birth!

I need not for these robes of mine The loveliness of earth, But happenings remote and fine Like threads of dreams will blow and shine In gossamer and crystalline, And I was glad from birth.

How short the days we linger here: A birth, a breath, and thenthe bier!

If you both happen to know Mr. Smith of Des Moines, the Bromide inevitably will say: "This world is such a small place, after all, isn't it?" The Bromide never mentions such a vulgar thing as a birth, but "The Year Baby Came.

He can speak of birth and death without metaphor.

" Cosimo has been called "a great merchant and a grand party-leader: the first of Florentines by birth and the first of Italians by culture."

Dante Alighieri, who has always been known by his Christian rather than surname (partly owing to the Italian predilection for Christian names, and partly to the unsettled state of patronymics in his time), was the son of a lawyer of good family in Florence, and was born in that city on the 14th of May 1265 (sixty-three years before the birth of Chaucer).

But the naked multitude of souls whom he had spoken to changed colour, and gnashed their teeth, blaspheming God, and their parents, and the human species, and the place, and the hour, and the seed of the sowing of their birth; and all the while they felt themselves driven onwards, by a fear which became a desire, towards the cruel river-side, which awaits every one destitute of the fear of God.

At his birth just before dawn rays not cast by any beam of sunlight yet visible surrounded his form.

Savage claimed to be the illegitimate son of the Countess of Macclesfield, who was divorced from her husband in the year of his birth on account of her connexion with his supposed father, Lord Rivers.

MEHMED: "I'm afraid I am!"] I like to think it did not fall to earth, A wounded bird that trails a broken wing, But to the heavenly blue that gave it birth, Faded in silence, a mysterious thing, Cleaving its radiant course where honour lies Like a winged victory mounting to the skies.

The War was over, but another had yet to be waged against poverty and sordid environment; against the disabilities of birth; against the abuse of wealth; against the mutual suspicions of Capital and Labour; against sloth, indifference, self-complacency, and short memories.

Roses's work, which promised to be a giant, dwindled down to a miserable pigmy; and that under "The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" was strangled in its birth.

THE GALLERY, with Notices Biographical and Critical, a Portrait of WILKIE, and a View of his Birth-place.

Despise the land that gave thee birth!

The Life is preceded by an Historical Introduction, from A.D. 476, to A.D. 749, recounting the state of Gaul from a little previous to the final overthrow of the Roman Empire, to the birth of Charlemagne.

The year of his birth, however, seems to have been A.D. 742, about seven years before his father, Pepin, the Brief, assumed the name of king.