One naturally sympathizes with the bold denouncer of Alexander VI.; but there was a lack of benevolence in his head and his heart.

The Capuchin, with uplifted crucifix, was seen to head the attack, and to lead the boarders to the assault.

Unfortunately, at this moment he was struck by a musket-ball in the head, and stretched senseless on the gangway.

He could not believe that any treasure would be worth so much to him as the head of the pasha.

Throwing out his signals for retreat, the Algerine was soon to be seen, at the head of his squadron, standing towards the north, under as much canvas as remained to him after the battle, and urged forward through the deep by the whole strength of his oarsmen.

but it's a spine in the back,makes him kinder' faint by spells, so's he loses his conscientiousness all to once; so he left the chickens 'n' things for Melindy to boss, 'n' she got somethin' else into her head, 'n' she left the door open one night, and them ten turkeys they up and run away, I'xpect they took to the woods, 'fore Melindy brought to mind how't she hadn't shut the door.

"The big tree near the pigeon-house is head down, root up, torn, smashed, prostrate, while good-for-nothing saplings are standing.

Suppose the storm had laid my head low, and turned up my toes; what then, eh, little girls?" turning to the group of young creatures standing with their eyes very wide open at the recital of the misdeeds of the turbulent wind, and now as suddenly off into a laugh at the image of the Doctor's decease so represented.

you are well off, if you only knew it!" He walked over to where his weeping wife sat, laid his hand on her head, and stooping, kissed her brow.

"Not at all a trick, Doctor," said Martina, shaking her head.

A few days before Hans's death, the Doctor had taken it into his head he would like to hire this tower of the municipality, to which it belongs, to make a garden within its walls.

I don't know how I managed to raise my gun,I did it quite dreaming like; it went off with the biggest noise ever a gun made, and the bullet must have gone through the very head of the ghost, for it waved its thin arms fearfully.

I beg her to save me seeds and bulbs, get fresh directions for laying down, and inoculating, grafting, and potting, and go home with my head full of improvements.

Frightful!" "Never trouble your little head, Kate, with fear that there will not be Ophelias enough, as long as the world stands.

There is an old jest that if you settle an Englishman and a German together in a new country, at the end of a year you will find the Englishman governor, and the German his head clerk.

When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, the jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head and smile), Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here?

Jenny, dinna toss your head, An' set your beauties a' abread!

There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade!

Maggie coost her head fu' high, Looked asklent and unco skeigh, Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh Ha, ha, the wooing o't!

SONG Fresh from the dewy hill, the merry year Smiles on my head and mounts his flaming car; Round my young brows the laurel wreathes a shade, And rising glories beam around my head.

A CRADLE SONG Sweet dreams, form a shade O'er my lovely infant's head; Sweet dreams of pleasant streams By happy, silent, moony beams.

o' the door," whined the other, rubbing his head dismally.

A second head had by this time shown up.

"Don't ask me," he replied, shaking his head; "it isn't quite fair to give poor old Uncle Toby away like that

And, in this way, the garrison of Gibraltar often gets 500 or 1,000 head of cattle more than the stipulated number, at five dollars per head duty instead of ten.