The uncertainty of his future, and the joys of gaining at last a foster-father in Abd al Muttalib, finds reflection in the Kuran in one little burst of praise to God: "Did He not find thee an orphan, and furnish thee with a refuge?" Life for two years as the foster-child of Abd al Muttalib, the venerable, much honoured chief of the house of Hashim, passed very pleasantly for Mahomet.

The friend cast his eyes on the calendar of the diocese of Munster, and saw that on that day they not only kept Mid-Lent Sunday, but likewise the Feast of St. Joseph, the foster-father of our Lord; he was not aware of this before, because in other places the feast of St. Joseph is kept on the 19th, and he remarked this circumstance to Sister Emmerich, and asked her whether she did not think that was the cause of her speaking about Joseph.

I never had a family, came out of an Orphan Asylum; my foster-father, a farmer down in Champagne, offered to bring me up; and you can bet he did it!

" The proposal to separate Eppie from her foster-father came from Godfrey Cass.

She looked at it with soft, excited cries of surprise and delight, instantly divining that the unopened parcels and sealed boxes contained more of the gifts which her foster-father was constantly lavishing upon her.

Still, he was willing to pay all proper deference to an old friend, and to the foster-father of the girl who was to be his wife.

Arthur's Foster-Father and Mother, sir Ector and his lady.

Anton the foster-father of Arthur.

ÉCOLE DES FEMMES, a comedy of Molière, the plot of which is borrowed from the novelletti of Ser Giovanni (1378.) ECTOR (Sir), lord of many parts of England and Wales, and foster-father of Prince Arthur.

When Liana recovered her sight, she was sent to Blümenbuhl for restoration of healthto the home of Albano's foster-father, the provincial-director Wehrfritz.

The dear old tramping quack-doctor, Oriel's foster-father, in particular might well be praised in language that would sound exaggerated.

After Tito Melema had done his first act towards denying his foster-father, we have this observation of the author's:

But for this awful sense of truth and reality unseen, which dwarfed to him all personal thoughts and all present things, he might have been a more finished writer, a more attractive preacher, a less indifferent foster-father to his own works.

I should have told my Reader, that whilst Florio lived at the House of his Foster-father, he was always an acceptable Guest in the Family of Eudoxus, where he became acquainted with Leonilla from her Infancy.

But before we enter on the treatment of the subject, it is necessary to say a few words on the character of Joseph, wonderfully selected to be the husband and guardian of the consecrated mother of Christ, and foster-father of the Redeemer; and so often introduced into all the pictures which refer to the childhood of our Lord.

* Another group of three figures consists of the Mother, the Child, and St. Joseph as foster-father.

Justin Martyr mentions, as a tradition of his time, that Jesus assisted his foster-father in making yokes and ploughs.

KANWA, chief of the hermits, foster-father of [S']AKOONTALÁ.

Hitherto, Sir, she has been engaged in the practice of religious duties, and has lived in subjection to her foster-father; but it is now his fixed intention to give her away in marriage to a husband worthy of her.

The lady is not her own mistress, and her foster-father is not at home.

When your venerable foster-father hears of it, he will not find fault with you.

[[S']AKOONTALÁ throws herself at her foster-father's feet.

He is [S']akoontalá's foster-father.

SILENUS, a satyr who attended Dionysus, being his foster-father and teacher; assisted in the war of the giants, and slew Enceladus; had the gift of vaticination; is represented as mounted on an ass and supported by other satyrs.

Lisbeth drew forth a little writing-tablet and read off the names of the peasants among whom she had been going around during the past few days for the purpose of collecting back-rent due her foster-father.