And even to my dearest friend, whose life, as I have traced it here, has been so full of sorrow and reverse, has come great happiness.

His heart was with the brave men he had lostnearly eight hundred out of less than thirty-five hundred and among them fifty-eight officers, many of whom were his dearest friends.

The ladies, who before had always been the dearest of friends, now fell to high words together.

It was the dearest little waddling thing, and so smooth and soft and velvety, and had such cunning little awkward paws, and such affectionate eyes, and such a sweet and innocent face; and it made me so proud to see how the children and their mother adored it, and fondled it, and exclaimed over every little wonderful thing it did.

" "And I, dearest uncle," exclaimed Grace, whose feelings trembled on her eye-lids, like the dew ready to drop from the leaf, "have I no connexion with your feelings?" "You are the daughter that I lose, my child, for Eve will still remain with me.

Evewhat am I to call you in future, ma'am?" "Call me Miss Eve, as you have done since my childhood, dearest Nanny.

The passion for the crusades was no less ardently felt by the Spaniards than by other nations of Europe; thousands of the best warriors were preparing to depart for the Holy Land, as if there were more merit in contending with the infidels, in a remote region, for a barren sepulchre, than at home for the dearest interests of manfor honor, patriotism, and religion.

IDONEA I was a woman; And, balancing the hopes that are the dearest To womankind with duty to my Father, I yielded up those precious hopes, which nought On earth could else have wrested from me;if erring, Oh let me be forgiven!

" O dearest, dearest boy!

" "You are the dearest thing, papa; that's just the way I want you to feel about it; and I think I can safely promise to make enough blunders to keep you giggling a good portion of the time.

'Why (said Johnson, smiling, and rolling himself about,) that is, because, dearest, you're a dunce[350].'

'MY DEAREST LOVE, 'I have been extremely ill of an asthma and dropsy, but received, by the mercy of GOD, sudden and unexpected relief last Thursday, by the discharge of twenty pints of water.

"Are the duties conflicting, dearest aunt?" "The Conde makes them so.

That "the dearest is the cheapest" is a tolerably good maxim, but does not apply forever in regions where nature's heart and man's heart and the man's hands are all tangled up together.

If he had been more versed in the wiles of the world, less astonished at his aunt's strange compliance with his dearest wishes, he would have noticed a keen suspiciousness in the glance with which she continually regarded him.

In Oz, natural enemies ofttimes become the dearest of friends.

He had lived to place his dearest treasure in the safest place on earth; there was nothing left for him to do.

He was required to part with the dearest thing he had on earth, in whom was bound up his earthly happiness.

Just as thou hast been doing This morning, dearest Elsie.

Wilbur says that's just the way with temperamental people, and he lost a job once just because he forgot to land pictures in the Sunday editions of all the newspapers in town of the manager's own particular guiding star, but planted a bunch of her dearest friend instead.

"My dearest, she is quite our equal in position," murmured Mrs. Lorimer.

Time had been when she had deemed it her dearest privilege to sit and listen to his sermons.

But unto thee most deare, O dearest Dame, His noble spouse and paragon of fame.

"So whilome raised they the puissant brood Of golden-girt Alcmena, for great merite, 380 Out of the dust to which the Oetaean wood Had him consum'd, and spent his vitall spirite, To highest heaven, where now he doth inherite All happinesse in Hebes silver bowre, Chosen to be her dearest paramoure.

out of thy soyle*, In which thou wallowest like to filthy swyne, And doest thy mynd in durty pleasures moyle**, 220 Unmindfull of that dearest Lord of thyne; Lift up to him thy heavie clouded eyne, That thou this soveraine bountie mayst behold, And read, through love, his mercies manifold.