If he had betaken himself to some richer trade, he could not have choosed but done well; for in this, though a mean one, he is still plying it, and putting himself forward.

"I was a twin and they choosed us for the cook and washer and ironer, but surrender come along 'fore we got big enough to do anything.

"But I choosed rather to do thus.

The answer to that question I will borrow from the satire itself, as you choose to term your scurrilous lampoon.

He saw Henry Fairfield Osborn, the president of the museum, who wrote me that the museum would be pleased to send under me a couple of naturalists, whom, with my approval, Chapman would choose.

The Serbs choose war.

'I shall state my opinion respecting your father, madam, with the most perfect unreserve, wherever and whenever I choose; quite convinced that, however you esteem that opinion, it will not be widely different from the real sentiments of the only parent whom you ought to respect, and whom you are bound to obey.'

She was indeed most anxious to behold him, and though she was aware that her heart fluttered not slightly as the moment was at hand, she commanded her gaze, and her eyes met his, although she was doubtful whether he might choose or care to recognise her.

Each time they told a more pitiful tale, set in such a realistic framing of hardship and exposure that a stranger could not choose but believe.

But I suppose clergymen can't choose where they'll live.

CURIOSITIES OF MODESTY There are many Christian women who, if offered the choice between death and walking naked down the street, would choose death as being preferable to eternal disgrace and social suicide.

The question is very difficult to answer, because if a man is to marry at all, he must choose a particular girl, and this choice can be interpreted as preference, though it may be quite accidental.

A savage is like a gardener who has only one kind of flowers to choose betweenall of one color too; whereas we, with our diverse secondary characters, our various intermixtures of nationalities, our endless shades of blonde and brunette, and differences in manners and education can have our choice among the lilies, roses, violets, pansies, daisies, and thousands of other flowersor the girls named after them.

The Persian poet Sadi, says (Bustan, 12), "Choose a fresh wife every spring or New Year's Day; for the almanack of last year is good for nothing."

If in such a case the one thought dead returned, the neighbors and the parties interested seem frequently to have held a sort of informal court, and to have decided that the woman should choose either of the two men she wished to be her husband, the other being pledged to submit to the decision and leave the settlement.

The backwoods Presbyterians managed their church affairs much as they did their civil government: each congregation appointed a committee to choose ground, to build a meeting-house, to collect the minister's salary, and to pay all charges, by taxing the members proportionately for the same, the committee being required to turn in a full account, and receive instructions, at a general session or meeting held twice every year.

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Bacon's chapters are a manual of circumspection, whether we choose to give to circumspection a high or a low rank in the list of virtues.

Instead of France these persons choose, as they have an equally good right to do, to look for precedents to Spain, Belgium, or South America.

Even if any of them are contributors, be assured they never will withdraw because you choose to keep your course free and independent.

Neither perhaps can they be said to have lost, for though of two articles of equal merit an editor would naturally choose the one which should carry the additional recommendation of a name of recognised authority, yet any marked superiority in literary brilliance or effective argument or originality of view would be only too eagerly welcomed in any Review in England.

I once asked my friend Carson from Colorado if he could choose but one gift in all the world, what would it be?

How wise you were, Mate, to choose home and husband instead of a career.

Nothing like system, Bohannanthat, and knowing how to choose your men!" He turned, and the other three followed him into the enclosure.

Well, which do you choose now, Majorbullets or vibrations?"