If I were to begin at the beginning and go straight along, even if I skipped ever so much, the story wouldit would be a great deal too long.

"The very man," was the reply; "and he was the most formidable rival I ever had in that sort of affair.

"I had good reason to remember those words of Nebuchadnezzar, for they were the last I ever heard him speak.

If ever a man counted his chickens before the eggs had been placed in the incubator, Jim Misterton was he.

That he is doomed for ever to be the slave of his own needs, enforced by an internecine struggle for existence?

Have you ever heard of any important treasure being unearthed along the coast?" "Never."

In this country was the best whale-fishing that Ohthere had ever seen, the whales being so numerous, that he was one of six who killed threescore in three days[10].

It was the most complete and important victory ever gained over the Northwestern Indians, during the forty years' warfare to which, it put an end; and it was the only considerable pitched battle in which they lost more than their foes.

Wayne had shown himself the best general ever sent to war with the Northwestern Indians; and his victorious campaign was the most noteworthy ever carried on against them, for it brought about the first lasting peace on the border, and put an end to the bloody turmoil of forty years' fighting.

Wayne had shown himself the best general ever sent to war with the Northwestern Indians; and his victorious campaign was the most noteworthy ever carried on against them, for it brought about the first lasting peace on the border, and put an end to the bloody turmoil of forty years' fighting.

All the use they had ever made of it was to visit it with their hunting parties, as did the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Shawnees, Delawares, and many others.

He wrote to Blount that though he earnestly hoped the people of the border would observe the treaty, yet that the Cherokees had done more damage, especially in the way of horse stealing, since the treaty was signed than ever before, and that it was not possible to say what the frontier inhabitants might be provoked to do.

Blount immediately wrote to Robertson directing him to explain to these "inconsiderate persons" that all they could possibly do was to attempt the conquest of West Florida, and that they would "lay themselves liable to heavy Pains and Penalties, both pecuniary and corporal in case they ever returned to their injured country."

Dorchester considered these plans of sufficient weight to warrant inquiry by his agents, but nothing ever came of them.

Kentucky grew as rapidly as Colorado grew, a hundred years later; but Denver grew thirty or forty times as fast as Lexington had ever grown.

His strong character and keen mind struck the Englishman, who yet saw that the old hunter belonged to the class of pioneers who could never themselves civilize the land, because they ever fled from the face of the very civilization for which they had made ready the land.

The first comers to the new country were so restless and so intolerant of the presence of their kind, that as neighbors came in they moved ever westward.

In my saddened and rebellious heart a more innocent passion stirred and awokethe tender pleasure I have always found in seeking out those shy people of the forest, the wild blossomsa harmless pleasure, for it is ever my habit to leave them undisturbed upon their stalks.

Spring languor was in earth and sky, and in my bones, too; yet, through this Northern forest ever and anon came faint reminders of receding snows, melting beyond the Canadasdelicate zephyrs, tinctured with the far scent of frost, flavoring the sun's balm at moments with a sharper essence.

how thirsty they appear to be!" "There's the handsomest man I ever saw," murmured Cecile to Dorothy, "Captain O'Neil, of the New York line.

Ere you could speak I should be yours, now, this very moment, for a look, a smilewere it not for that pale spectre of my own self which rises ever before me, stern, inexorable, blocking every path which leads to you, and leaving only that one path free where the sign reads 'honor.' ...

I overlook the impertinence for the sake of the man whose white blood you carry; but h-mark you, if ever you bring your Parisian airs and self-sufficient face on a level with mine again, h-I will slap it.

She made one poor attempt, but her husband was nearer doing her an unkindness than ever he had been before; he made a slow sign for silencewith his fist; and every mouth was stopped.

"Mr. Frowenfeld, those two ladies whom you went to see the other evening" His listener started a little: "Yes." "Did they ever tell you their history?" "No, sir; but I have heard it.

In the distant Grandissime mansion, Agricola Fusilier was casting about for ways and means to rid himself of the heaviest heart that ever had throbbed in his bosom.