As the gros mobilier was already there, we only took over personal things, grand piano, screens, tables, easy chairs, and small ornaments and bibelots.

She is motoring, and I should have been with her but that I have un gros rhume"she produced a tiny scrap of lace handkerchief and held it to her nose as though in support of her statement"and she rings me on the telephone from different places and tells me the things she does need, and I do send them on to her.

The human race is not grateful en gros.

At the same time Lord Elgin learned that the French, on whose co-operation he counted, could not act until the arrival of the chief of the mission, Baron Gros, who was not expected to reach China till the end of September.

The plan, then, if we can accomplish it, is this: To run up as fast as I can to Calcutta, and to return so as to meet Baron Gros, who is not expected till the middle of September.

There remained now nothing to keep him longer at Calcutta; a body of troops was on its way to Hongkong, to take the place of those that had been diverted to India, and the end of September was the time at which he had arranged to meet Baron Gros in the China seas.

[Sidenote: Arrival of Baron Gros.]

I hope I shall get Baron Gros to go with me; but if not, I shall go at Canton alone.

Gros showed me a projet de note when I called on him some days ago.

Baron Gros and I have been settling our plans of proceeding, which we are conducting with a most cordial entente....

I am on my way to join Gros, in order to decide on our future course of action.

But such a site as the castle hill could not long remain idle in the stormy days of the Norman Kings, and William le Gros, Earl of Albemarle and Lord of Holderness, recognising the natural defensibility of the rock, built the massive walls which have withstood so many assaults, and even now form the most prominent feature of Scarborough.

Dr. C.R. Gilman inquires, "Is the rock at Gros Cap granite?

Information was received, that a strong party of Boisbrules and Indians, who went west from Red River early in the fall, to hunt the buffalo agreeably to their custom, were met and attacked by the Gros Venters and Sioux of the plains, and one hundred of their number killed in the affray.

A letter of this date, from Fort Union, on the Missouri, published in the St. Louis Bulletin, gives a frightful account of the ravages of the small-pox among the Mandans, Aurickerees, Minitares and Gros Venters, of the Missouri.

Jacques Noailles, the vender of jewels en gros, second door below, must be the man.

Gros Venetian cut work scarf and luncheon set, no. 24-11-81 and -82.

Gros Flo-Flo et petit Rip. Illustrations de Felix Lorioux.

Gaston Bayle, nee Nesto Gros-Long (NK of Pierre Devoluy); 27Feb58; R201826.

Everything is "colossalised"events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitionseverything is in the extremeall en-gros, not en-detail.

The popularity of such Reviews means that really large audiences, le gros public, are eagerly interested In the radical discussion of propositions which twenty years ago were only publicly maintained, and then in their crudest, least true, and most repulsive form, in obscure debating societies and little secularist clubs.

By the end of the month he was back again at Coxwold, "returned to my Philosophical Hut to finish Tristram, which I calculate will be ready for the world about Christmas, at which time I decamp from hence and fix my headquarters at London for the winter, unless my cough pushes me forward to your metropolis" (he is writing to Foley, in Paris), "or that I can persuade some gros milord to make a trip to you.

A number of the Winnebagoes (for we had been among our own people since leaving Gros-pied Lake) set out for the appointed place by water, paddling their canoes, of which they had selected the largest and strongest.

The Frenchmen who frequent Madame Lavretsky's drawing-room call him le gros taureau de l'Ukraine.

" "Cornes du diable!no more a knave than yourself, gros usurier!"

Or perhaps miraculous properties are like all other faculties, as they grow old they become worn-out, and an elect who has stoutly brought the dead to life when he was only an aspirant for honours, is now only capable of curing the ringworm.

But in proportion as she felt astonished at her shame, as she saw into what a corner she had been driven, as she dreaded the man's scorn, for whom she had fallen so low, did she feel her love grow greater.

They slumber in their priesthood, take their emoluments, grow fat, go their small way, and believe they have discharged their duty.

The fact is that I care very much for the questions themselves, but grow wearied to death of all the details and personalities belonging to them, and consequently of the conversation of lady politicians, made up as it is of these details and personalities.

They [the absentee landowners] thought only of themselves and their own enjoyments, they left their people to grow up and multiply like brute beasts, they stifled in them by their tyranny all hope and independence and desire of advancement, they made them cowards and liars, and have now left them to die off from the face of the earth.

And all things weighed in custom's falsest scale; Opinion an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.

The Charleston right-fielder opened the third inning with a graceful fly just this side the right-fielder's reach, in that field where base-hits seem to grow most plentifully.

Miss FAITH CELLI as his daughtera sort of Peter Pan girl who does grow up, far too tallwas delightful in the true BARRIE manner.

Furthermore, because this Church was not exceedingly militant, and certainly not missionary, it failed to grow rapidly.

If I had children, rather than that they should grow up in ignorance, I would feed upon bread and water: I would sell my teeth, or extract the blood from my veins."

Wherever Christianity prevails, the artificial distinctions which grow out of birth, condition, sex, are done away.

She began to think her son would grow up a good scholar after all, and being now well off, owing to the King's kindness, she resolved on sending little Joachim to school.

Then the distance between them seemed to grow less.

Love is woman's dominion; let her but once enter it, and she becomes a queen; her heart and soul grow grander, the light of love crowns her.

" "As matters stand between us, they require explanation," she said; and he saw her lips grow pale.

" He saw her face grow pale even to the lips.

"And then, again, on Mr. Phillips' own ground, the discussion is perfectly in order, since nearly all the wrongs of which we complain grow out of the inequality of the marriage laws, that rob the wife of the right to herself and her children; that make her the slave of the man she marries.

Others are new plans of instruction or government, generally founded on some good principle carried to an extreme, or made to grow into exaggerated and disproportionate importance.

Not only will such a result follow in individual cases like this, but, unless the teacher watches and guards against it, it will grow into a habit.

Still deeper, richer, more divine grow the great walls and temples, until in the supreme flaming glory of sunset the whole cañon is transfigured, as if all the life and light of centuries of sunshine stored up and condensed in the rocks was now being poured forth as from one glorious fountain, flooding both earth and sky.

Strange to say, in the full white effulgence of the midday hours the bright colors grow dim and terrestrial in common gray haze; and the rocks, after the manner of mountains, seem to crouch and drowse and shrink to less than half their real stature, and have nothing to say to one, as if not at home.

But it is fine to see how quickly they come to life and grow radiant and communicative as soon as a band of white clouds come floating by.

Others seem to grow from mere points, and fly high above the cañon, yet following its course for a long time, noiseless, as if hunting, then suddenly darting lightning at unseen marks, and hurrying on.

they always seem to rejoice the more and grow plumper and juicier the hotter the sunshine and sand.

Several species of tree yuccas in the same deserts, laden in early spring with superb while lilies, form forests hardly less wonderful, though here they grow singly or in small lonely groves.