Showing his visitor into this ingeniously condensed establishment, he induces the pigs to retire to a corner, and then dons his hat.

and then I ease the Dons of a pickle silver or send a Frenchman or two to purgatory, what worse am I doing than His Majesty's troops in Flanders, or your black frigates that lie off Port Royal?

His hood and cloak of many hues he swiftly dons, and sets Upon his brow his turban gay with pearls and amulets; Of many tints above his head his plumes are waving wide; Like a crescent moon his scimitar is dangling at his side; And standing at the window, he gazes forth, and, hark!

He finds his camel, unfastens him, dons his ordinary clothing, takes his wife upon the camel's back with him, and departs.

However, Don Sanchez explains that our visitor is excusing his appearance as being forced to change his wet clothes for what the innkeeper can lend him, and so we, grinning to express our amiability, all sit down to table and set toMoll with her most finicking, delicate airs and graces, and Dawson and I silent as frogs, with understanding nothing of the Dons' conversation.

In a moment he transmigrates, dons the required character, and with moonstruck philosophy justifies the act in question.

The verse-inciting process is, nevertheless, remorselessly carried on during three years more at Oxford and is much oftener the test of patient stupidity than of aspiring talent, Yet of what stupendous importance it is in the attainment of scholarships and prizes; and how zealous, how tenacious, are dons and 'coaches' in holding to that which far higher classics,

All Nature mourning dons her sad attire, And plants and trees with falling leaves expire.

There is but one dialect of courtesy, and the muleteers and common peasants address each other with the same grave respect as the Dons and Grandees.

Sometimes the Dons arrive,Secretaries of State, of War, of Navy,or military Dons, bestriding prancing steeds, but bestriding them as if "'twas not their habit often of an afternoon."

Sometimes the Dons arrive,Secretaries of State, of War, of Navy,or military Dons, bestriding prancing steeds, but bestriding them as if "'twas not their habit often of an afternoon."

In his life of Patrick Henry, p. 36, speaking of the different classes of society in Virginia, he says,"Last and lowest a feculum, of beings called 'overseers'the most abject, degraded, unprincipled race, always cap in hand to the dons who employ them, and furnishing materials for the exercise of their pride, insolence, and spirit of domination.

The Dean met him at the station, and all the dons assembled in Tom Quadrangle to welcome him.

In short, every thing is a bore that brings the dons into personal collision of any kind with people that don't belong to the world.

The author discourses eloquently of "the charming Andaluz," and other intriguantesabsolute Dons of fathers and monsters of husbandsmingling "bloody-minded assassins," and hideous wretches, with the sweet emotions of dark eyes, jetty ringlets, and heaving bosoms.

As for the coffee wits, he says not much; Their proper business is to damn the Dutch: 20 For the great dons of wit Phoebus gives them full privilege alone, To damn all others, and cry up their own.

What the unreformed Fellows of All Souls' were among the common run of Oxford dons, that, it may truly (and with better syntax) be said, the late Lord Houghton was among his fellow-citizens.

But, unluckily, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and college dons who forced us to face the agonies of the Schools, instead of an amiable guardian who bestowed on us "the highest encomiums," and sought to plant us on Ladies of Position, "with literary tastes preferred.

no more I'd care Than for their plate the Dons of Clare.

Next succeed three or four Spanish Dons, with a long fence of names attached to each, who give their views of the establishment in the grave, sonorous words of their language.

"She's worse than all the dons in Cambridge.

Pica would absorb herself in languages and antiquities, and maintain the rights of women by insisting on having full time to study her protoplasms, snubbing and deriding all the officers who did not talk like Oxford dons.

When the war is ended, we find our soldier returning in triumph, but little cares he now for honor or fame; he renounces his warlike career, shaves his head, dons a priestly garb, devotes the rest of his days to holy pilgrimage, never turning his back to the West, where lies the Paradise whence salvation comes and whither the sun hastes daily for his rest.

He would tell in after-life, with much enjoyment, how the dons of the University, who, hearing that he had something in the press, and knowing that his theological views were not wholly sound, were looking for a publication on the Articles, were astounded by the appearance of that fresh and frolicsome poem.

Young Drake's experiences on that occasion fixed the character of his relations to the Dons forever afterward.