The object of this novel is to satirize the state of literature in England, and to hold up to censure authors, editors, and publishers as profligate, selfish, and corrupt.

But they wither on my hand, and hold down their heads, just as I want to do now my mother is dead.

This idea seemed ever present, and served many times to hold him back from adventurous pursuits and untried schemes.

Pray, Mary, what are you going to do with those crumbs which you hold in your hand? Mary.

One or two of my speeches in the hall of the Cooper Institute, on various occasionsas you may perhaps remembergave me a good headway with the party, and were the chief cause of my nomination for the State office which I still hold.

The Dukes of Norfolk and Leeds no longer hold their property, and Earl Manvers, as a representative of the Kingston family, preserves at Thoresby the traditions of his race.

There they were together, he and this girl of whom he had dreamed;and now he was leaving her, because he did not know how to hold her in conversation for ten minutes!

But they had not done so, and there was no reason why the original proposition should not hold good.

The last remnant of that original sense of deference and of gratitude caused him to hold himself in check lest he should strike that treacherous coward in the face.

This I swear by all that I hold most sacred....

At last a footman got hold of it and carried it off.

BANEBERRY.This plant is also considered as a deadly poison; but we have no authentical accounts of its mischievous effects, although Parkinson has mentioned it in these words: "The inhabitants of all the mountaines and places wheresoever it groweth, as some writers say, do generally hold it to be a most dangerous and deadly poison, both to man and beast; and they used to kill the wolves herewith very speedily.

As an objection to this view, it may occur to some minds that the two-horned beast exercises all the power of the first beast before him (Greek [Greek: enopion], literally, before his eyes) and does wonders in his sight; and how can the United States, separated by an ocean from European kingdoms, hold such an intimate relation to them?

And the people have taken hold to lay out their work on the grand scale that nature has indicated.

That great instrument which our forefathers set forth as their bill of rights, the Declaration of Independence, contains these words: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of hapiness."

Then men bound the elements to their chariots, and reaching up laid hold upon the very lightning and made it their message-bearer around the world.

We answer, there are certain points which they hold in common, and which are sufficient to form a basis of co-operation.

"Q. Does the Scripture anywhere command the Sunday to be kept for the Sabbath? "A. The Scripture commands us to hear the church (Matt. 18:17; Luke 10:16), and to hold fast the traditions of the apostles.

These are the very methods, by which, in a country like ours, great revolutions are brought about; and no movement has ever arisen so suddenly as this to so high a position in public esteem with certain classes, and taken so strong a hold upon their hearts.

The Business Committee recommended that the delegates to this Convention hold meetings in their respective localities to ratify the resolutions adopted at Cincinnati; that twenty thousand copies of the proceedings of this Convention be published in tract form; and that the friends of the Association be urged to form auxiliary associations.

And the same rule would hold good in relation to the adoption of such an amendment by Congress or by the Legislatures of three-quarters of the States.

Not one of those men ivho thus violated the Sabbath is fit to hold any official position in a Christian nation.

" From all this, we see the important place the Sabbath question is to hold in this movementthe important place it even now holds in the minds of those who are urging it forward.

For we no longer hold with Robert Owen and the socialists that man is necessarily controlled and moulded by his surroundings, that he is absolutely subject to the laws of animal evolution.

We shall assume that the sane man will hold the little home in the country with all outdoors to breathe in as worth the half-hour journey and the early breakfast, and that the woman will have time set free by the labor-saving devices sure to come as fast as she will use them wisely.

A warship, taking its line from an aeroplane, fired at the bridge from a range of 14,000 yards, got two direct hits on it and holed it in the centre, and there must have been thirty or forty shell craters within a radius of fifty yards.

"The first reinforcements to arrive were posted in a glass factory, the walls of which were loop-holed, and we doggedly held that position until nightfall, when we fixed bayonets and lay in wait in case the enemy made an attempt to rush the position in the darkness.

The whole gang were ready to undertake it; but only fifty of the volunteers were accepted, and many among them were those who on much lighter occasions had usually pleaded infirmity and inability: but the ground having been moist, they holed twelve acres within six days with great ease, having had an hour, more or less, every evening to spare, and the like experiment was repeated with the like success.

He had his land holed at one-fourth of the usual rate.

Holed up somewhere out in the woods.

Fullaway started at sight of Allerdyke, button-holed him, and led him into a corner.

It may be that Peaches felt like a holed rat in a hole too small for comfort.

They're both badly holed."

It may very well happen, of course, that it has to waitthat it has to be pigeon-holed for a time, until its due turn comes.

As Lampton had started as a poet, the editors were bound to keep him pigeon-holed as far as they could, and his ambition to write short stories was not at first much encouraged by them.

Whipple holed out on his next try, adopting a wooden putter this time, and the score stood fifteen strokes each.

From there, on the next shot, he holed out very neatly in eighteen.

Yet that is what West did it in; and strange to relate, and greatly to that young gentleman's surprise, Whipple duplicated the performance, and amid the excited whispers of the onlookers the two youths holed out on their next strokes; and the score still gave the odd to West29 to 30.

Mr. Walters had converted his house into a temporary fortress: the shutters of the upper windows had been loop-holed, double bars had been placed across the doors and windows on the ground floor, carpets had been taken up, superfluous furniture removed, and an air of thorough preparation imparted.

I carefully circumvented this with my faithful putter and holed out in my smallest score of the round so far.

'Holed her badly,' Ken answered. '

When a group of families moved out into the wilderness they built themselves a station or stockade fort; a square palisade of upright logs, loop-holed, with stro

The Watauga forts or palisaded villages were of the usual kind, the cabins and blockhouses connected by a heavy loop-holed picket.

At each corner was a two-storied loop-holed block-house to act as a bastion.

They were loop-holed like the block-houses.

The people fled into the already existing forts, or hastily built others; where there were but two or three families in a place, they merely gathered into block-housesstout log-cabins two stories high, with loop-holed walls, and the upper story projecting a little over the lower.

Mr. H.T. Cresson, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, has critically examined the various Aztec clay flutes, whistles, etc., which are there preserved, and has reached the following conclusions: "I. That upon the four-holed clay flageolets the chromatic and diatonic scales can be produced with a full octave.

Six lions chased, rounded up, treed, holed, and one lion killed, and we haven't even his skin to show.

That they happen to be catalogued under the general title of Diego Estenega is a mere detail; an accident, for that matter; they might be pigeon-holed in the skull of a Bandini or a Pico.

"It's been, so to speak, eyelet-holed.