With a view to encourage this disposition, as well as to ascertain how those fared who chose that abode, he paid Daggett a visit, and passed a night or two himself in the cabin of the craft.

They used them with as much severity as they chose; they measured their treatment only by their own passion and caprice; and, by leaving them on every occasion, without the possibility of an appeal, they rendered their situation the most melancholy and intolerable, that can possibly be conceived.

Every man wandered where he chose, changing his residence, as a spot attracted his fancy, or suited his convenience, uncontrouled by his neighbour, unconnected with any but his family.

Hence also (as every thing was common) he collected what he chose without injury, and enjoyed without injury what he had collected.

These letters were sent to the author of the present Essay, with liberty to make what use of them he chose, by the gentleman to whom they were written.]

The American poet Lowell chose Sir Launfal, a less prominent figure in Arthurian romance, for the hero of his version of the search for the Grail, and had him find it in every sympathetic act along the common way of life.

The exodus was very rapid during the next twenty years, since those who insisted on worshiping God as they chose were thrown into prison and sometimes had their ears cut off and their noses mutilated.

This age was far more imitative, but it chose to imitate Jonson and Donne in preference to Shakespeare.

Three lyrical poets, George Herbert (1593-1633), Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), and Richard Crashaw (1612?-1650?), usually chose religious subjects.

He chose the closing lines of Comus: [Illustration: MILTON'S MOTTO FROM COMUS, WITH AUTOGRAPH.

The two greatest poets of the period, John Dryden and his successor, Alexander Pope, usually chose such subjects.

Such was the general depression that President Van Buren was compelled in 1837 to call an extra session of Congress; nor were the difficulties removed until the celebrated Bankrupt Law was passed in 1840, chiefly through the efforts of Daniel Webster, which virtually wiped out all debts of those who chose to avail themselves of the privilege.

He chose the law for his profession, studied laboriously for three years, spending eighteen months at the then famous law school at Litchfield, Connecticut, and gave great promise, in his remarkable logical powers, of becoming an eminent lawyer.

She had the right to discuss Florrie's case with aloof disdain, if she chose.

They had nothing but themselves, and they could, if they chose, create all their future by a single gesture.

When Euripides, in one of his dramas, chose to avail himself of a wild and unauthorized tradition, and to represent Helen as spotless, he surely violated no sanction of moral truth; and in the instance of Mary, Mickle might have pleaded some uncertainty which a poet was at liberty to interpret to the better part.

He chose for his subject the extorting of Magna Charta from King John.

Between the two dreadful alternatives of peonage or persecution they chose the latterand the lesser.

All the men who had died, from Neegah the first of the Mandells, to Howgah the last of the Hungry Folk, came and sat with him, but he chose the terror of their company rather than face the horror which he felt to lurk in the thick blackness.

The Ginori, an ancient and lordly family, intimately connected with the Medici, claimed satisfaction at the hands of the Grand Duke for what they chose to call the assassination of their young relative.

They chose it because Mr. Varick knew something of the doctor therehe didn't know him very well, but they became very great friends, in fact such friends that poor Milly left him a legacyI think it was five hundred pounds.

I'm afraid"she leant forward, and passed her right hand, with a touch of tenderness most unusual with her, over his upturned face and curly hair"I'm afraid, Bill, that, almost without knowing it, I chose evil, 'Evil, be thou my good.'

But he chose sly methods of perpetual annoyance.

Then the pair chose a suitable day for their journey, and obtained horses and palankeens.

Having entered, they chose seats by the window and sat down.