A mother's bll-ess-ings go with you," gurgled the lady, who was not, it must be confessed, a woman of strong moral character.

How are mother and father and Esther?" "Mother and Ess are well, and father better.

"Come, Ess," said Charles, coaxingly, "tell me what this is about you and Mr. Walters.

"There must be something, Ess, or you wouldn't have blushed up so when Cad was about to speak of it.

Come," said he, kissing her, "tell me, now, like a dear old Ess as you are.

"Don't laugh, Ess; but tell medo you really intend to refuse him?"

Dear Old Ess again.

Yes, that is "dear old Ess," as Charlie calls her yet, though why he will persist in applying the adjective we are at a loss to determine.

"Come here, dear old Ess, and help me to convince this deluded girl of the preposterous manner in which she is conducting herself.

Walters and dear old Ess reared a fine family; and the brown baby and her sister took numberless premiums at school, to the infinite delight of their parents.

The scholar should say, "Dee I, de; Vee I Ess, viz, de-viz; I, de-viz-e; Bee I Ell, bil, de-viz-e-bil; I, de-viz-e-bil-e; Tee Wy, te, de-viz-e-bil-e-te."

pee cue ar ess tee you voe double u eks wi zed.

Masculine nouns make regular feminines, when their termination is changed to ess: as, hunter, huntress; prince, princess; lion, lioness.

11.For feminine nouns formed by inflection, the regular termination is ess; but the manner in which this ending is applied to the original or masculine noun, is not uniform: 1.

Better, use the names, Ess and Ex, and pluralize thus: "the Esses; the Exes.

Since the days of these critics still more has been done towards the restoration of the ed, in orthography, though not in sound; but, even at this present time, our poets not unfrequently write, est for essed or ess'd, in forming the preterits or participles of verbs that end in the syllable ess.

our being's end and aim!" Pope, Ess.

" Pope's Ess., iii, 233.

A faint far gnat-voice says, "Is that Zed Ess?" "No," I shout.

ess of Birkenhead (E); 26Feb62; R291685. SMITH, EMMA PETERS.

VAN ESS, DOROTHY.

SEE VAN ESS, JOHN.

VAN ESS, JOHN.

Dorothy Van Ess (W); 13Nov70; R494680. VAN KEUREN, FLOYD.

Heads, I order an assortment of vines and fig trees, go back to the Jornado and become a cattle-king, I proceed to New-York-on-the-Hudson, by the Ess-Pee at 3:15 this A.M. presently, and arouse that somnolent city from its Rip Van Winkle.

s Bank Holiday.

He gave S a purple everlasting flower, which will endure a great many years, as a memento of our visit to Eaton Hall.

Happy are the shes that can number among their ancestors Counts of the Empire; they have neither occasion for beauty, money, or good conduct to get them husbands."

He compares the noise of a tremendous battle heard in the neighbourhood to the sound of the cataracts of the Nile: "un alto suon ch' a quel s' accorda Con che

s, particularly poets, as heralds of their fame, and consequently the special fitness of the illustrious and superexcellent poet Lodovico Ariosto for receiving from Alfonso Davallos, Marquess of Vasto, the irrevocable sum of, &c. &c. Panizzi has copied the substance of it from Baruffaldi, vol.

Every one of Shelley s words is always worth consideration; but handwritings are surely equivocal testimonies of character; they depend so much on education, on times and seasons and moods, conscious and unconscious wills, &c.

[Footnote 39: "In casa mia mi sa meglio una rapa Ch'io cuoca, e cotta s' un stecco m' inforco, E mondo, e spargo poi di aceto e sapa, Che all'altrui mensa tordo, starno, o porco Selvaggio."]

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Thanne the sone bryngethe hoom with him alle his kyn, and his frendes, and alle the othere to his hows, and makethe hem a gret feste.

lineament feature trait lines; outline, outside; contour, face, countenance, physiognomy, visage, phiz., cast of countenance, profile, tournure^, cut of one s jib, metoposcopy^; outside &c 220.

My bloud beginnes to boyle; I could be pleasd To have this fellow by the eares but that Theres many of my betters heere in place.

Theres my shield.

In my first hasty reading of the play I took the long double "s" to be a double "f": the character is "La Busse." Mr. C.H. Herford, to whom I showed the MS., writes as follows:

It is not always easy to distinguish between final "s" and "e" in the MS.

I J K L M N O P Q R S T

j k l m n o p q r s t u v

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The last was a S; Swubble I named him.

á su amigo que le quiere Gustavo Becquer Espresiones á Pepe Marco S/c Calle de San Ildefonso Toledo.

Final s and final n, especially in the plural of nouns and in verbs, do not count.

A and B] theres your way.

AE] Theres not. l. 21.

The country has also been called Atyria in the language of the barbarians, the double S being changed to T).

The native can't say any word beginning with s without putting a y before it, thusy-spice beef, y-street.

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