Since the unfortunate demise of my lamented wife, the profits of the mercantile establishment of which I am proprietor have largely increased, and as REBECCA is my only child, there is a considerable prospect of her bringing to the man who espouses her, a comfortable dowry, and probably a share in my business.

With him I began Latin, and continued till I went to the grammar school, where I threaded all the classes to the fourth, when I was recalled to England by the demise of my uncle.

And I'll see you all into your demises right now!"

He died in Ohio more than forty years ago, and it is said that the immediate occasion of his demise was an overdose of hilarity.

Do you not remember how, when he found you startled at Caesar's demise, he carried out all the plans that he chose, communicating some to you carefully dissimulated and at inopportune moments, and on his own responsibility executing others that inflicted injuries, while all his acts were characterized by violence?

For you will find that all of Antony's acts after Caesar's demise were ordered by you.

Upon the demise of Queen Caroline, in 1738, Savage experienced another proof of Walpole's dislike.

Its introduction to the stage was the work of Cibber; and Cibber, assisted by Chesterfield, labored zealously to secure the author a reversion of the laurel upon his own lamented demise.

After dinner we talked only of the things necessary to be done on a demise.

Goulburn seems to be unable to fix any time for the conclusion of the Session in the event of a demise.

I could not quite join in her vivid assertion that she would 'be a butterfly, Born in a bower, Christened in a tea-pot, And dead in an hour.' Aetat four, life is dear, and the idea of that early demise was far from welcome to me.

The manuscript of these Memoirs was purchased by Mr. Murray in the year 1821 for the sum of two thousand guineas, under certain stipulations which gave him the right of publishing them three months after his Lordship's demise.

Demise of the Scribonii, of Corbulo, of Paris, of the Sulpicii (chapters 17, 18).

Nero's flight and demise (chapters 26-29).

[Sidenote:25] Rufus mourned deeply his demise, but refused to accept the office of emperor, although his soldiers frequently obtained it.

The demise of three ex-Presidents of the revolutionary era (Jefferson, Adams, and Monroe), on this political jubilee of the republic, is certainly extraordinary, and appears, so far as human judgment goes, to lend a providential sanction to the bold act of confederated resistance to taxation and oppression, made in 1776.

Enough to say that no fears are at present entertained for its demise.

Her notification of its demise would come thus: "Hello, Fifer!

Stubborn and wilful when in health, he no sooner became the prey of disease, and pondered over the prophecies of the astrologers who had foretold his early demise, than he suffered himself to be governed without resistance by those about him; the ties of kindred, and the claims of family affection, resumed their rights; duties long neglected were admitted and recognized; he bewailed the past, and despaired of the future.

Humanity will lose no real sanctity or safeguard by her demise; only false shame and false morality will gobut true modesty, "the modesty of nature," true propriety, true religionand incidentally true love and true marriagewill all be immeasurably the gainers by the death of this hypocritical, nasty-minded old lady.

The Meaning of "Pallace."A lease granted by the corporation of Totness in Devon, in the year 1703, demises premises by this description: "All that cellar and the chambers over the same, and the little pallace and landing-place adjoining to the river Dart."

The near-demise of Mrs. Coe.

For as it befel the Sibyl to have been of service to mankind not alone while she lived, but even to the uttermost generations of men after her demise (for we are wont after so many years still to have solemn recourse to her books for guidance in interpretation of strange portents), so may not I, while I still live, bequeath my counsel to my nearest and dearest.

Before they had reached the confines of the city, however, the news of the old Duke's demise had reached the King, who was in high humour, and the result was, a courier had been sent to tell Cedric to return to his castle until after the funeral.

Mr. Heyward did not enlist in the army to help protect the south's demise but his eldest son, Charlie, went.