Mrs. Lavington now sits in state under her husband's ministry, as the leader of the religious world in the fashionable watering-place of Steamingbath, and derives her notions of the past, present, and future state of the universe principally from those two meek and unbiased periodicals, the Protestant Hue- and-Cry and the Christian Satirist, to both of which O'Blareaway is a constant contributor.

"What, then?" says the congressional candidate from Mettibemps; the "new contributor" to the oceanic magazine; Mrs. Potiphar, from behind her liveries; and poor Dives, senior, from Wall Street; "Are we to give up all ambition?"

While he wrote vigorously and well, and while he was a frequent contributor in later years to scientific literature, especially on the subject of solar physics, yet his best and natural mode of expression was the graphical representation of his designs on the drawing-board.

Though Walter Scott was not a founder of the Review, he was a frequent contributor.

Scott forthwith wrote to Constable: "The Edinburgh Review had become such as to render it impossible for me to become a contributor to it; now it is such as I can no longer continue to receive or read it.

Moreover yet, I submitted that each contributor should draw money for his article, be his rank what it may.

" Another contributor whom Mr. Murray was desirous to secure was Mrs. Inchbald, authoress of the "Simple Story."

On further consideration, however, Mrs. Inchbald modestly declined to become a contributor.

"The more I reflect on the importance of the contributions intended for this work, the more I am convinced of my own inability to become a contributor.

Walter Scott was the principal contributor, and was keenly interested in its progress, though his mind was ever teeming with other new schemes.

How Mr. Barrow was induced to become a contributor is thus explained in his Autobiography.

From this time Southey became an almost constant contributor to the Review.

The article did not appear in the Quarterly, and Mr. Pillans, the writer, afterwards became a contributor to the Edinburgh Review.

As a contributor to the magazines and newspapers, his name came under the notice of Washington Irving, who encouraged him to produce, in 1823, his "Life of Edward the Black Prince."

The Federal Government has ever been a liberal parent to the Territories and a generous contributor to the useful enterprises of the early settlers.

There is a lamentable obtuseness of intellect manifested in both collector and contributor; and there is no systematic arrangementno analytical process, and, in fact, no correctness of detail.

As there was a male branch association about to be organized, he begged the privilege of enrolling his name as an honorary member, and promised to be a constant contributor to its funds.

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From being an honoured contributor to the Spectator, Budgell descended to the depths of infamy, poverty, and despair, and so one day he threw himself out of a boat under London Bridge, and the waters of the Thames closed over him for ever.

How much a woman can do who has a firm conviction that she is not inferior to any one in this life, but that she is a contributor to her country, whichsoever vocation she follows in life, in that she can do her share!

On arriving there I was ushered into the imposing presence of the Free-will Baptist minister for examination; then I was made aware that although I had plenty of Greek and Latin, I was woefully uninstructed in the rudiments of our mother tongue, and was saved only by the fact that my cousin was the largest contributor to the dominie's salary.

She tells me she is good at shorthand, on the machine, or at correspondence, also that she has been a contributor to the magazines.

Bismarck was among the founders, among whom were also numbered Stahl, the Gerlachs, and others of his older friends; he was a frequent contributor, and when he was at Berlin was almost daily at the office; when he was in the country he contributed articles on the rural affairs with which he was more specially qualified to deal.

I was for several years a frequent contributor to Household Words, my contributions for the most part consisting of what I considered tit-bits from the byways of Italian history, which the persevering plough of my reading turned up from time to time.

" Miss X., the well-known contributor to the English magazine, "Borderland," several years ago, made a somewhat extended inquiry into the phenomena of crystal-gazing.