by Gunn & Stuart, Richmond.] "I know a city, whose inhabitants dwell on the tops of trees like rooks."

He passes it over, as it were, as a thing which he ought not to dwell on; and why should we put words into St. John's mouth which he did not think fit to put into his own?

He told me so, that afternoon when I walked with him.' 'Really!' Griggs was a little surprised, but as he did not connect Van Torp with the possibility that Miss Bamberger had been murdered, his thoughts did not dwell on the broken engagement.

I shall not now dwell on the great national loss which we have all sustained in this dispensation; but, perhaps, I may be permitted to say that to me the loss is not only a public one, but a private and personal calamity likewise.

The mulattoe is as capable of continuing his own species as his father; a clear and irrefragable proof, that the scripture[077] account of the creation is true, and that "God, who hath made the world, hath made of one blood[078] all the nations of men that dwell on all the face of the earth.

I need not dwell on the embarrassments of Franklin in raising money for the American cause.

I need not here dwell on the contentions and slanders and hatreds which were so prominent at the time the two great national parties were formed, and which divided the country until the Civil War.

But she did not dwell on the subject, and, thank Heaven!

I need not dwell on this part of my story.

"We cannot enlighten these people without help from on high; and their circumstances are too melancholy to dwell on.

You need not dwell on that.

Let me not dwell on this subject.

All these things have been so often described that I will not add one more description to the list, nor dwell on that strange feeling of awe, of wonder, of delight, that everyone must have felt, when the glory of the peaks clad in "everlasting snow" is for the first time seen against the azure sky on the horizon, and you whisper to yourself, half breathless: "The Alps!

We need not dwell on the far-famed absurdities which the poem containsabout God turning a "crystal pyramid into a broad extinguisher" to put out the fireof the ship compared to a sea-wasp floating on the wavesand of men in the fight killed by "aromatic splinters" from the Spice Islands!

The historian guides us rightly in urging us to dwell on the virtues of our ancestors with emulation, and to cherish our sense of a common descent as a bond of obligation.

I will not dwell on this, as you will, on a moment's reflection, see the embarrassment which might be produced by any authorized statement of his opinions.

Adieuthe subject is too humiliating to dwell on.

It is pleasanter to dwell on the beauties of Hinduism and ignore the unprintable actualities, but if we are to help we must feel how terrible and immediate the need is.

There are some other coincidences, but it is unnecessary to dwell on them.

But the good lady would not allow her mind to dwell on that proposition; it was too dreadful!

A class should go on slowly, and dwell on details so long as to fix firmly and make perfectly familiar whatever they undertake to learn.

But in a few minutes he had gained confidence, and again his gaze removed itself from the swirl around the blade and began to dwell on the reaches ahead.

On the stage, I can pass swiftly from one effect to another, but I cannot fix one, and dwell on it, with that superb concentration which seems to me the special attribute of the tragic actress.

Happening to look round, I caught her winking at the girls near us, and felt that she was brewing mischief, but I had no time to dwell on it.

And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, 14, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the eaith, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.