" "He left a note for you," said the girl, handing him the letter which Haines had given her.

"Now, suppose a committeeman named Langdon absolutely refused to be taken care of, and insisted on handing in a minority report to-morrow, with a speech that read like the Declaration of Independence?" Steinert jerked his head forward quickly.

But enough of this:only may the Whitbury club, in recompense for my thus handing them down to immortality, give me another day next year, as they gave me this: and may the Mayfly be strong on, and a south-west gale blowing!

Here are Mariana's last words," she added, handing him a letter.

He had, indeed, picked up his adversary's sword, and while he did not wish, in handing it to him, to prick him with it, or do him some such underhand injury, he did not think it at all necessary to sharpen the weapon before giving it back.

Though this action was entirely independent, his dictatorship had been avowed as a preliminary step to handing over the island to Victor Emmanuel.

At that very moment Claude returned to Notre Dame, after handing over Esmeralda to the hangman.

The poet Cowper has done much towards handing the event down to posterity, in his touching account of the feelings of the poor outcast when he found himself on the desolate shore.

All women are pear shaped!" Joe (handing Maxie a quarter): "Very good, very good.

"A cold one after a day of scraping paint," he continued, reaching down and handing her the book.

" "Well," Willow said, handing the violin and bow to Martin, "I'm off to gather mushrooms, back to my dwelling of twigs and pine cones."

The arrangements were duly made, the proper guarantees given, and in June, 1880, I had the pleasure of handing over to the President the five hundred thousand dollars.

ah!" "Nor shall you have the wine," she replied; "there is water for you," she added, handing him a jug, which he drained with frantic eagerness.

"Just one cigar," said Lord Bearwarden, handing a huge case to his friends.

Without denomination no abstractions, no thought, no handing down of knowledge.

I drew up a paper with this view this morning, and after handing it round, found the sum of ninety-seven dollars subscribedseventy-five dollars of which are by four persons.

" "Thanks," said he, handing the case to me and rubbing his fingers; "it is rather ponderous.

Some were marked with tears, some with smiles, and some stole unawares upon us, just as on that bright June evening, when we did not find our sisters, and aimlessly followed others to the little shop where a friendly-appearing elderly man was cutting slices of meat and handing them to customers.

The jeweller hesitated again in the parlour, and then handing Brother Burge his candle turned out the gas, and led the way slowly upstairs to the room which had been prepared for the honoured visitor.

"Look here," ses Bob, handing it back, "I've 'ad enough o' your insults; I don't know where your cat is.

When a person, fails to pay his taxes, after a specified time the collector has authority to seize upon his property and sell it at auction, paying the tax and costs out of the proceeds of the sale, and handing over the balance to the owner.

" "No, Mr. Finn," replied Perkins, handing Finn a cigar.

" "Here it is, sir," said the man, pulling out a glass of about six inches long, and handing it to Fred.

Later, during the summer, the guards of the ruins and the workmen in the excavations would have to flee to their homes in the mountains, handing the country over to the reptiles and insects of the marshy fields.

" He jabbed in the needle, and then handing it with a phial to me: "Heretake this.