It seemed to me that he had long been on the confines of the next world, that he had a hunger for eternity.

Ask anybody you meet, who is the biggest woman in Cambridge, and I 'll hold you a wager they'll say Mrs. Smith; she broke down two benches in Trinity Gardens,one on the confines of St. John's, which occasioned a litigation between the Societies as to repairing it.

My cage confines me round, Abroad I cannot fly;

It lay on the confines of the ruin, and our party was enabled to take their position near it, to observe the scene.

The King of Kashgar, seeing the bad state of his affairs, solicited the aid of Kudar, King of Chuton, a province of Tartary, on the confines of China, and that prince marched to join him with fifty thousand horse.

The two armies came in sight of one another in a great plain near the confines of the province of Peshawur.

He was, however, able to walk with the assistance of a crutch that his father had made for him; and he formed one of the group that followed the Indians in their procession through the village, and also escorted them as far as the confines of the wood in whose depths their village lay.

At the dawn of the twentieth century republican freedom seemed a remote dream beyond the confines of Switzerland and Franceand it had no very secure air in France.

And with a grace, That doth efface More laboured works, thy simple lore Can teach us that thy skilful lines, More than the scaly brood confines.

Fortunately for the British Empire there has never been any lack of those restless beings whose wandering spirits lead them to the confines of civilisation and beyond.

From the day Fernando Stevens began to read and learn of the great world beyond the narrow confines of his western home, he was filled with the laudable ambition to know more about it.

For he looked hopefully ahead, woke with plans, regarded the children in the street as if, conceivably, children might come within the confines of his life as he imagined it.

So a fresh order from the Government doomed him to a still more dreary solitude, on the utmost confines of the Roman Empire, on the coast of the Euxine, even the desert of Pityus.

Victory at one time seemed even to be on the side of Arbogastes: Theodosius was obliged to retire to the hills on the confines of Italy, apparently subdued, when, in the utmost extremity of danger, a desertion of troops from the army of the triumphant barbarian again gave him the advantage, and the bloody and desperate battle on the banks of the Frigidus re-established Theodosius as the supreme ruler of the world.

She walked up and down the narrow confines of her room, and then the necessity for action of some sort drove her out into the street.

Within its confines bubbles the spring which sprang from the tomb of that later Olaf who is the patron saint of Norway, and somewhere under its walls lie moldering the bones of medieval kings, four of whom accepted their consecration before the altar where King Haakon received his crown.

A goodly one, in which there are many Confines, Wards, and Dungeons; Denmarke being one o'th'worst.

Without entering into details, which would fill an article, we may safely say that the difficulty with the naturalist is all the other way,that all these broad differences vanish one by one as we approach the lower confines of the two kingdoms, and that no absolute distinction whatever is now known between them.

For thousands of miles beyond its confines the influence of the city was felt.

During slavery, all petty thefts, insubordination, insolence, neglect of work, and so forth, were punished summarily on the estate, by order of the manager, and not even so much as the rumor of them ever reached beyond the confines of the property.

So far, then, the learning of his letters contracts his practice; and were it not for keeping up his former habits of speaking, at home and in the playground, the teacher, during the six months or year in which he confines him to the twenty-six sounds of the alphabet, would pretty near deprive him of the faculty of speech.

He even licked George's hand one daya caress heretofore reserved exclusively for Ben Edwardsand he escorted Danny Kelly the full length of the town to his home in the East End, much as he dreaded the confines of the narrow city streets where he was brought into close contact with strange people and strange dogs.

He passed beyond the confines of the world into those sweet, haunted gardens where Cherubim and Seraphimvast Forcescontinually do sing.

"Yes, I saw you," with a delicate inflection of voice, which somehow confines the application of the remark to him.

But the modesty that confines most men within reasonable limits of untruthfulness has no restraining power over the Spurious Sportsman, to whom somewhat, therefore, may be forgiven for the sake of the warning he affords.