" "She draws and paints, however, in the most astonishing way, and she has a passionate energy, and concentration, and devotion to her work that I have never seen coupled with anything but an extraordinary talent.

Samuel Rogers used to say that they had lived in the reign of Queen Anne, so far back seemed their memories which were so coupled to the past; but the youth of their minds, their feelings, their intelligence, remained almost to the last.

The captain ignored the question in favour of a few remarks on the subject of his daughter's behaviour, coupled with stern inquiries as to where she learnt such tricks.

His excuse for following was the bag, his reason for leaving the volcanic condition of its owner's temper, coupled with the fact that he appeared to be sublimely ignorant that the most devoted steward in the world was tagging faithfully along a yard or two in the rear.

The captain ignored the question in favour of a few remarks on the subject of his daughter's behaviour, coupled with stern inquiries as to where she learnt such tricks.

Her father's careless words this morning, coupled with certain speeches of Mr. Kennaston's last night, have given her food for reflection.

Born for like lingering pains, Against his exile coupled with his good I'd gladly change the world's best heritage!

Such audacity (to call it by no coarser name) is in itself only calculated to excite laughter and contempt: coupled as it is with a most unprovoked and unwarrantable mention of the name of the Bishop of Lincoln, it excites indignation.

It is true, the slave, who never possessed libertywho was kidnapped at his birthmay not grieve, under the absence of it, as he does, from whose actual and conscious possession it had been violently taken: but the robbery is alike plain, and is coupled with a meanness, in the one case, which does not disgrace it in the other.

Having, time out of mind, heard the epithet great coupled with Historians, it was that, I believe, inclined me to write a history.

We are not unmindful of the manliness and stout cheer with which a very few of them have avowed their wish and faith that the Rebels may be utterly discomfited and held up before the world in their shame and friendlessness, and have coupled with these utterances words of warm sympathy and approval for the North.

What gravity can hold from laughing out, To see him drag his feeble legs about, Like hounds ill-coupled?

The trial couplings were applied to old and worn-out coal wagons, varying in relative heights and widths of buffers, and the tests were: 1. Coupling and uncoupling, and passing coupled round curves of less than two chains radius.

2. It can be coupled and uncoupled six times as fast as with the pole hook in the daytime.

This, coupled with the acute staff shortage at the Herald then and frequent resignations from staff, meant a junior sub-editor could get enough of an ego-boost to do the front-page layout within a year or so of joining!

As the result of this second rebuff Roch's anger became coupled with hatredan instinctive hatred of humanityespecially after his pourparlers with the British Admiralty came to naught.

"When a word beginning with a vowel is coupled with one beginning with a consonant, the indefinite article must be repeated; thus, 'Sir Matthew Hale was a noble and an impartial judge;' 'Pope was an elegant and a nervous writer.

"Two or more singular nouns coupled by AND require a verb or pronoun in the plural."Lennie cor.

" Obj. case, of how many constructions susceptible whether infinitives, participles, &c., can be in two nouns in, after a verb, how parsed, Whether any verb in Eng. governs two objectives not coupled Obj. case as governed by passive verbs, erron.

And then Crysant and Daria converted to him, coupled them together by the grace of the Holy Ghost, and feigned to be joined by carnal marriage, and converted many others to our Lord.

The broad-minded, generous-hearted people of this great far west, make no distinctions as to sex in apportioning their salaries for school work, and this, coupled with their numerous co-educational universities and normal schools, has given them an army of lady teachers and superintendents unequaled elsewhere in the world.

" Mrs. Quince subsided into vague mutterings as to what she would do if she were a man, coupled with sundry aspersions upon the character, looks, and family connections of Farmer Rose, which somewhat consoled her for being what she was.

The tales, coupled with the deeds, character, and fate of the notorious Kidd, were then still recent, and although magnified and colored by vulgar exaggerations, as all such tales are known to be, enough was believed, by the better instructed, to make his life and death the subject of many curious and mysterious rumors.

"I do not deny that the partiality of friends, coupled with my origin, have obtained the appellation, which is given, however, more in playfulness than in any serious opinion of its being meritedand now, as the hour is getting late, and this visit is at least unusual, you will permit me to seek my uncle.

Of course the adventure of the preceding night was concealed from Oriana, but it yet furnished the young men with matter for reflection; and, coupled with the exciting intelligence from South Carolina, it suggested, to Harold especially, a vision of an unhappy future.