True mirth we may enjoy in thacked stall, Nor hoping higher rise, nor fearing lower fall.

Smiling a genial and affectionate smile, and hoping that it wasn't too dark for it to register, I spoke with a jolly cordiality: "Why, hallo, Tuppy.

The beetle, which, during the recent exchanges, had been clinging to his head, hoping for the best, gave it up at this and resigned office.

What I had been hoping, of course, was to see Tuppy bending solicitously over Angela in one corner, while Gussie fanned the Bassett with a towel in the other.

The time I had allotted to remain in New York having expired, and being anxious to proceed on my route before the close of navigation, I reluctantly bade adieu to my kind friends in that city, and made preparations to pursue my way to the more western part of the Union, hoping to reach the Mississippi country before the season when the rivers and canals leading to it would be locked up in ice.

Prasildo, a nobleman of Babylon, to his great anguish, falls in love with his friend's wife, Tisbina; and being overheard by her and her husband threatening to kill himself, the lady, hoping to divert him from his passion by time and absence, promises to return it on condition of his performing a distant and perilous adventure.

By the Hebrew writers, bad rulers are viewed as a misfortune to the people ruled, which they must learn to bear, hoping for better times, trusting in Providence for relief, rather than trying to remove by violence.

I wrote to Sir J. South about the support of the instrument, hoping to remove one of the difficulties in the litigation; but it produced no effect.

Hoping to inspire jealousy, he affected to love Marion de Lormes, a proceeding which gave Ninon great pleasure as it relieved her from the importunities of the Cardinal.

He was a Frenchman, sold to English interests, and hoping, by favor of the English leaders, to reach the highest preferment.

And she went on in this strain, hoping, no doubt, to persuade Maxime and draw a formal promise from him.

If he could effect a sale at this price he would be doing a splendid stroke of business, and would effectually defeat the plans of Mr. Jackson, who, it appeared, had pretended that he was the owner of the farm, hoping to obtain it from Mrs. Hamilton at a valuation which would have been suitable before the discovery of oil, but now would be ludicrously disproportionate to its real value.

Here, on a Sunday afternoon, were two young fellows who had brought to town a mother coon and three young ones, hoping to find a purchaser.

For some time longer I hung about the glade, vainly hoping that the grosbeak would again favor my eyes.

I went out of the city by an untried road, hoping to find some trace of migrating birds, especially of certain warblers, the prospect of whose acquaintance was one of the lesser considerations which had brought me so far from home.

He peered curiously at clouds to find strange shapes in them, and in his pursuit of the grotesque examined the spittle of sick persons on the walls or ground, hoping for suggestions of monsters, combats of horses, or fantastic landscapes.

It was evident now, that, in order to deceive any party that might follow them, they had entered the river and followed its bed through the water, nearly ten miles; hoping thereby to successfully hide their course.

This suggestion met my cordial approval; and, after giving directions concerning the camp, Jerry and myself started across the prairie, intending to strike the river some miles above, and follow its course down; hoping, in this way, to fall in with the boys, on their return.

Norton had been strolling about the lobby, hoping to be noticed.

Over a year had passed since she was last reported, and her owners began to look doubtful in regard to her fate; and there were rumors that the Tantalizer was counted among the missing vessels, yet no one dared to breathe the thought to the still hoping family, while there was the least possibility that she might be heard from again; and who would wish to be the first to pronounce that gentle wife a widow?

The sad little group of friends had gathered at Froment's house; each one had come hoping to meet the others, without previous appointment.

She stumbled down, hoping to meet Jenkins.

I breathed the very air more eagerly, hoping, like other travellers, to inhale the fragrant odours wafted to me from the plantations of costly spices.

Zip was hoping that when the pirates saw the blip on their radar, they would conclude it was the derelict and pay no attention.

It's not revenge, it's not vanity" He waited, his soul in his eyes, hoping for more than this; but she fell silent again.

It was a pleasant spot, and while we sat there dozens of small birds, of the size and general appearance of the cuckoo, save in their hooked beaks, attracted by the scent of our cold meats, came hopping tamely about on the lower limbs of the forest trees around us.

Sitting at work in my window, I fell into the way of watching my Red Cap, as I called him, with more interest than I did the fat doves on the roof opposite, or the pert sparrows hopping in the mud below.

It would serve you right to keep you hopping a bit longer.

The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze.

She went hopping and jumping up to Madame, exclaiming: "What do you think is going to happen now?

The walk changed to hopping and dancing, as she warbled various snatches from ballets and operas, settling at last upon the quaint little melody, "Once on a time there was a king," and running it through successive variations.

" Dunbar takes us with him on a fresh spring morning, where "Enamelled was the field with all coloúrs, The pearly droppés shook in silver showers," where we can hear the matin song of the birds hopping among the buds, while "Up rose the lark, the heaven's minstrel fine.

Match-makers have a slack season, in which many of them sell flowers, or go "hopping."

"Dear me, Charlotte, how you do go chirping and hopping round, and me with this great baby and my sick-headache!

Won't she be hopping mad!"

"Good!" cried Jimsy, hopping out of the car.

Then the other stopped his hopping and also made that queer noise.

" A few minutes later Sheila discovered that emphatically she was not the hopping kind.

No, not right yet, all uneven; the frame with the cutters seems to be hopping a little.

It was perhaps because, on that particular day, a spiral pain was twisting around in the back of his head, and digging in a little deeper with each twist, and because the figures on the balance sheet before him were hopping about like black imps in an infernal forward-and-back, that the picture hung there so persistently.

From Hay-Time to Hopping.

Fozbrooke says that the term "hopping mad" is applied to people who are very angry; but we do not happen to have heard it in Gloucestershire.

"We are hopping back to see him," said Tilly and Timothy Toad.

Little Dick is hopping in his cage.

Moreover, on the causeways and terraces, large-headed creatures similar to the greater winged flies, but wingless, were visible, hopping busily upon their hand-like tangle of tentacles.

He several times saw certain clumsy bipeds, dimly suggestive of apes, white and partially translucent, feeding among certain of the lichenous trees, and once some of these fled before one of the hopping, round-headed Martians.

F. Yes; and I see them hopping about among the boughs.

By this means I have always the Musick of the Season in its Perfection, and am highly delighted to see the Jay or the Thrush hopping about my Walks, and shooting before my Eye across the several little Glades and Alleys that I pass thro'.

It was curious to observe them hopping along over the grass or underneath the trees, with the large males bringing up the rear of a certain number of does.

"If he comes crow-hopping on my reservation; I'll kick his pantalettes on top of his scalp-lock.