For all his disposition to keep hands off the personal development of his friends, perhaps on account of it, Gray made an excellent teacher, and these writingsthe garnered grain, the gist, of his own wide culturewere the very sinews for the race Johnnie was setting out on.

They did not express themselves precisely that way, but that was the gist of it.

"This, briefly, was the gist of the matter which Robertson related to the inspector with many repetitions and persistent volubility.

This is the gist of what he said, boys.

The last sentence is, in my view, the gist of the matter; the preceding sentences greatly overstate the case.

Here, then, is a preliminary test which may be commended to the would-be playwright, in order to ascertain whether the subject he is contemplating is or is not a good one: can he state the gist of it in a hundred words or so, like the "argument" of a Boccaccian novella?

"And this"I give you the gist of his meditations"this is Peggy's dearest friend!

A more significant settlement in the State was made by Samuel Gist, an Englishman possessing extensive plantations in Hanover, Amherst, and Henrico Counties, Virginia.

She was well, she had been "round" with Bertha Shallum, she had dined with the Jim Driscolls or May Beringer or Dicky Bowles, the weather was too lovely or too awful; such was the gist of her news.

What shall I do about it?" "The gist of the letter is all right," I said, "but the style wants polishing.

The following is the gist of what he said: "First of all you must know that the elder is good for anything in the world, but especially for swellings.

In the following verses will be found the gist of what he told me: "If thee true 'Glarcestershire' would know, I'll tell thee how us always zays un; Put 'I' for 'me,' and 'a' for 'o'.

Avarice and cruelty constitute the very gist of the whole slave system.

Popanilla is now constituted ambassador from Fantaisie, and goes through all the courtly scenes of diplomacy, for which we have not room; but their gist will be readily understood among the stars of St. James's, especially the authors allusions to Navarino and the late ministry, which are in good set terms.

The gist of the lost portion may in all probability be gathered from the following sentences of Xiphilinus (p. 3, R. Steph.): "When the consuls drew lots, Hortensius obtained the war against the Cretans.

I give you the gist of their talk, and that in all conscience is trivial.

HALBERT, L. A. Urban society, by L. A. Halbert & Noel P. Gist.

Mary L. Halbert (W) & Noel P. Gist (A); 26Jun61; R278069. HALBERT, MARY L. Urban society.

The Gist of the lesson 1950.

I have been struck, in reading Indian love-stories, by the fact that their gist usually lies not in an exhibition of decided preference for one man but of violent aversion to anothersome old and disagreeable suitor.

Similarly the union of man with God is the whole gist of that apparently most chaotic of the prophetic books, Jerusalem.

Christopher Gist went up the Kentucky in 1751.

; "a copy of the proceedings of the Virginia Convention, from June 15 to November 19, 1777, in relation to the Memorial of Richard Henderson, and others"; especially from the depositions of James Robertson, Isaac Shelby, Charles Robertson, Nathaniel Gist, and Thomas Price, who were all present.

He, when he hears and learns the story's gist, Will joy, I trow, in heart.

The gist of the whole matter is that Spencer Tucker was at the tienda the day after she sailed and after his boat capsized.

We'll make a willow wigwam to sleep in, you and I, jist in yon clump o' trees, not a stone's-throw to our right, where we'll have a run o' pure water beside us, and be near our buffalo at the same time.

Maybe,' thought I, jist before it went out o' my mind'maybe he thinks that'll stop the pistol from goin' off by accident;' for ye must know he'd let it off three times the first day by accident, an' well-nigh blowed off his leg the last time, only the shot lodged in the back o' a big toad he'd jist stuffed into his breeches pocket.

Maybe,' thought I, jist before it went out o' my mind'maybe he thinks that'll stop the pistol from goin' off by accident;' for ye must know he'd let it off three times the first day by accident, an' well-nigh blowed off his leg the last time, only the shot lodged in the back o' a big toad he'd jist stuffed into his breeches pocket.

So did I, for I wasn't sure the beast was dead, an' I had jist got up when it rose an' rushed at the natter-list.

o' his belt and let fly in the bull's ribs jist as it ran the poor man down.

Jist as we wos partin' I said, says I, 'D'ye know what it wos we lived on for a week arter we wos well-nigh starved in the prairies?'" "'What,' says he, 'when we got yon capital marrowbones?'

So Mr. Bowie went forth in his might that very evening, and finding two of the Oxford men, informed them in plain Scotch, that, "Gin he caught them, or any ither such skellums, philandering after his leddies, or his leddies' maids, he'd jist knock their empty pows togither."

One night, howsever,'t was jist about as dark as last night was,I'd been to the store at the Corners, for a jug o' molasses.

'T was mighty dark, as I was sayin', an' so I hooked her arm into mine, an' we went on comfortable together, talkin' about how we jist suited each other, like we was cut out o' purpose, an' how long we'd have to wait, an' what folks 'd say.

She looked at me pityin'-like, I must say, an' jist begun to cry,an' I couldn't help cryin' nuther, when I saw how it hurt her.

I felt mighty mean when I thought o' Rachel, an' was afeard no good 'd come of it; but father jist managed things his way, an' I couldn't help myself.

"Well, 't was all jist over, an' the kissin' about to begin, when I heerd the house-door bu'st open, suddent.

I couldn't take my eyes off of her, an' I couldn't speak: I jist stood there.

"It jist shut me up when she looked at me.

'It's jist the truth I've been, tellin' now.

He says this counthry's job is jist a-mindin' av her biz, And imparyilism's thrayson, so ut is, so ut is.

'T was in the War-r-d Athletic Club we had ut fixed ter hear 'em, And all the sates was crowded, fer the gang was there ter cheer 'em; A foine debatin' platfor-r-m had been built inside the ring, And iverybuddy said 't was jist the thing, jist the thing.

'T was in the War-r-d Athletic Club we had ut fixed ter hear 'em, And all the sates was crowded, fer the gang was there ter cheer 'em; A foine debatin' platfor-r-m had been built inside the ring, And iverybuddy said 't was jist the thing, jist the thing.

O'Hoolihan, he shtarted off be sayin', ut was safe Ter say that aich ixpansionist was jist a murth'rin thafe; And, whin I saw big Mack turn rid, and shtart ter lave his sate, Oi knew we 'd have a gor-r-geous toime at our big j'int debate.

Oi niver in me loife have seen sich char-r-min' illycution, The gistures av thim wid their fists was grand in ixecution; We tried to be impar-r-tial, so no favoroite we made, But jist sicked them on tergither, yis indade, yis indade.

Perhaps dis was jist before dey left West Virginia and was shipped to North Ca'liny.

Huh! You jist can't compaih emcan't be done.

For example, there is the cri de coeur of a passenger on a Clydebank tramcar in Glasgow on Saturday night, with a lady conductor: "I canna jist bottom this, Tam.

I keep down at de store jist for a relic of old days.

Hey? Jist as sure as shootin,' I'll kill that Wes'cott ef he tries to marry that angel.