These boon companions will satisfy him for the nonce.

Upon my word, if he had asked this boon from Saturn, he would not have got it, though he kept up Saturn's feast all the year round, a truly Saturnalian prince.

"Actual settlers" were of a great deal more use to him in Massachusetts, where they could vote for him, than in the territories, where that boon would not be extended to them.

"Sweet lord," quoth Beltane, "noble messire Pertolepe, of thy boundless mercyof thy tender ruth grant unto me this boon.

One more deadly I might have added, but I have refrained, "Write upon my tomb, that here he lies who forbore to perpetuate human affliction, and bestowed a fatal boon where alone it could be innoxious.

I give thy boon unbartered.

"And what boon has my annual petitioner to beg to-day?" said my father, as he entered the breakfast-room on the morning of my birth-day.

They are a boon to bishops.

Lady Marian hesitated a momentlooked out at the prospectup at the wallturned, and wondered where her brother was; and still finding the hand of the duke extended, while his eye rested on her in admiration, she gave him the boon with a cheek that vied with the richest tints of the flower.

Flashes of grotesque generosity alternated with longer stretches of inconceivable ferocity, and the skipper who fell into their hands might find himself dismissed with his cargo, after serving as boon companion in some hideous debauch, or might sit at his cabin table with his own nose and his lips served up with pepper and salt in front of him.

He knew nothing of the evil that he had done to his new boon companion, for of his many victims how could he remember the woman and the two boys whom he had slain with such levity so long ago!

The two boon companions sat listening in silence.

"Gentlemen," said Montgomery, "I think that you will acknowledge that I have boon very patient with you.

There the glutton, and here the sot; now the eye fell on the mean pander or the roystering boon-companion; now on the wit, looking with a roguish leer upon his fair neighbour, or the miserable wretch maudlin in his cups; and again on the knave profiting by the recklessness of those around him.

A little child lay asleep in her arms, his blond head, which pitying Nature had kept beautiful, resting against her breast; the meagre body was hidden beneath the folds of her mantle, which, in the graceful fashion of those days, passed over her head and fell below the knees; her face, very beautiful and tender, was bent over the little sufferer, who had forgotten his pain in the weariness it had brought him as a boon.

He could suppress all curiosity and go six months without knowing more than the nickname of a boon companion.

We hope and believe this publication will before long be given as a boon to the rising generation, our second-cousins, across the water.

Some of the free allies of Rome did not look upon the Lex Julia as a boon.

This will come as a great boon to music-hall audiences, who find that the kippers used by comedians are getting rather frayed at the edges through constant wear.

Chapters by Johan Willem Albarda, Adriaan Jacob Barnouw, Hendrik Nicolaas Boon & others.

What tidings have been winged to heaven, Since first the precious boon was given?

If you do I will confer a boon on you."

When the snake was safe the prince asked for the boon that had been promised him: "No boon will you get" said the snake: "you did a foolhardy thing in saving me, for now I am going to eat you, and you cannot escape from me.

She assured them that if she told she would die, but they insisted and at last she told them of the boon conferred on her by the Jugi, and what she had seen, and then she lay down upon her bed and died.

''T was all I had,' she stricken gasped; Oh, what a livid boon!