These, properly administered, as they never were by the Turks, gave a basis of good government, and, with the old abuses connected with the collection of revenue removed, and certain increased taxation and customs dues imposed by the Turks during the war discontinued, the people resumed the arts of peace and enjoyed a degree of prosperity none of them had ever anticipated.

She received news of them, however, through her grandson, Lord Kew, and his friend Jack Belsize, who enjoyed dining with the old lady whenever they were given the opportunity.

After that it became the daily program for Patsy to spend her mornings in Aunt Jane's little garden, and although they sometimes clashed, and, as Phibbs told Beth, "had dreadful fights," they both enjoyed these hours very much.

At first the new King enjoyed great popularity.

Whether as "Uncle Pete" in the garden and corn-field, or "Brudder Pete" in the church, he enjoyed the good opinion of everybody excepting one person, and that was his wife.

the felicity he then enjoyed, no pen can chronicle!

In a famous discourse, In Praise of the New Chivalry, the holy abbot sets forth, in eloquent and enthusiastic terms, the spiritual advantages and blessings enjoyed by the military friars of the temple over all other warriors.

He spoke to her once or twice more, as he waited on her, each time in English, as though he enjoyed the humble melody of its tone, and presently, as she turned to go, he said: "Madame Carraze!"

Most of those present had enjoyed the privilege of this lecture enough times to know what picture was coming next and what Eustace would say about it.

In the words of the Argus, "his powerful singing was highly enjoyed by all present.

" "Oh, I enjoyed the work, I assure you," replied Ethel.

For twenty years he's enjoyed the use of what isn't his'n, an' I say he'd oughter be thankful.

She wore a habit stained by use and weather, and so short that it was little better than a skirt, and left her almost as absolute a freedom as that enjoyed by the opposite sex.

You have been out, I see; I hope you have enjoyed your ride.

"We have had a capital dinner, and have enjoyed it tremendously; was that '72 port you gave us?"

"In fact, I rather enjoyed it.

How did he look?" "I dare say he looked about as he always doesa little pale around the gills, perhaps, as one usually does when one's performing an unpleasant duty!" "Dad!" "You don't mean to say you think he enjoyed it?" "Theythey always have to do it in Europe," faltered Sue.

Evidently she rather enjoyed the situation, creating for herself a spot-light much in the manner of Monona.

He seemed to have her now, and enjoyed his triumph.

This gentle fellow was always excited by life, so faintly excited by him, and enjoyed its presentation in any real form.

But the person who most enjoyed the recital could not afterward have told two words that he said.

Monona found that she enjoyed crying across the water and kept it up.

Although political liberty was dead, the fullest personal liberty was enjoyed under the emperors, and it was under their sanction that jurisprudence in some of the most important departments of life reached perfection.

We approached the hoary old sentinel carefully, for it would be a sin to even bark its shaggy sides; and, dropping a rope over a projecting broken "knee," we enjoyed a striking object lesson on the effects of erosion.

We always enjoyed these changes of mind.