In case we were at war, a single action might cause us to expend in a few hours as much as half a dozen quarterly peace allowances.

It is pleasing to learn that the Olympians kept early hours, conforming, in this respect, to the rule of Poor Richard.

Mrs. Haughton and her sons were frequent guests at our house; and we, too, spent many pleasant hours in the vine-covered porch of the cottage.

Then he took to lying on the sofa for hours together.

One night there was a great change; physicians were summoned in haste; there were hours of anxious watching.

The lady from Gujerat left Peshawur three hours later.

For myself, I am bound to say, it was a precious two hours that I passed beside it, seated on a crumbling stone in the shade of a dying orange-tree.

We had missed the noon train, with which we were advertised to connect, by so many hours that I had ceased to think about it.

This I did, and the agent, in turn, advised me to walk up the track to the "Junction," and be sure to tell the conductor, when the evening train arrived, as it probably would do some hours later, that I had a trunk at the landing.

Those quiet, incurious hours are among the pleasantest of all my Florida memories.

Some hie to the nearest tank or stream; at all hours of the day, at any ferry or landing stage, you will see swarthy fine-looking fellows up to mid waist in the water, scrubbing vigorously their bronzed arms, and neck and chest.

It was a miserable night, the hours seemed interminable, the dense volumes of smoke from the water-sodden wood nearly choked us.

At last, after some hours spent in this miserable manner, we heard a faint halloo in the distance; it was now past eleven at night.

Some have been known to travel eighty miles in the twenty-four hours, through thick jungle, over rivers, and through swamp and quicksand.

We had been trying to oust the tigress for over four hours, but she was as wise as she was savage, and refused to become a mark for our bullets in the open.

After eight hours' walking, we came upon a number of Puris, who led us into their huts, situated in the immediate vicinity, where I beheld a picture of the greatest misery and want: I had often met with a great deal of wretchedness in my travels, but never so much as I saw here!

Another source of entertainment, no less popular, as well among the ladies as the gentlemen, consists in kite-flying, and they will sit for hours looking at their paper monsters in the air.

The Shallums were the centre of a like-minded group, and in the hours the ladies could spare from their dress-makers the restaurants shook with their hilarity and the suburbs with the shriek of their motors.

Fancy twelve hours in the trenches, and then twelve hours in the tents, with no fires, and nothing but those thin great-coats, and scarcely anything to eat.

After his meal he dozed quietly, for some hours, until aroused by the arrival of supper which consisted again of soup with some poached eggs served on vegetables.

The act of emancipation specified 45 hours a week as the period the apprentice was to work for his master, but the master so contrived matters as in most instances to make the 45 hours the law allotted him run into the apprentice's half of Friday, and even in some cases into the Saturday.

The act of emancipation specified 45 hours a week as the period the apprentice was to work for his master, but the master so contrived matters as in most instances to make the 45 hours the law allotted him run into the apprentice's half of Friday, and even in some cases into the Saturday.

I have, within the last two hours, amid the new mass of papers laid before your lordships within the last forty-eight hours, culled a sample which, I believe, represents the whole odious mass.

I have, within the last two hours, amid the new mass of papers laid before your lordships within the last forty-eight hours, culled a sample which, I believe, represents the whole odious mass.

A late law of Louisiana reduced their value 25 per cent, in two hours after its passage was known.

We shall reach a population of two hundred millions in the very near future, as time is counted in the lives of nations, and there is nothing more certain than that this country of ours will some day support double or triple or five times that number of prosperous people if only we can bring ourselves so to handle our natural resources in the present as not to lay an embargo on the prosperous growth of the future.

It is ours to use and conserve for ourselves and our descendants, or to destroy.

One of its great contributions is just this, that it has added to the worn and well-known phrase, "the greatest good to the greatest number," the additional words "for the longest time," thus recognizing that this nation of ours must be made to endure as the best possible home for all its people.

We seldom realize that ours is actually what it pretends to bea representative governmentand our legislatures are extraordinarily sensitive to what the people, the politically effective people, really want.

He must have been a singular person, this prisoner of ours, to have gained the affection of such a gang.

Otto brought me, and he'll take the Doctor back." "Oh, the hospital telephones are out of commission, so they're using ours about all the time.

An acquaintance of ours, who had emigrated to New York a few years before, and had shortly after married a Mr. G., had heard from her brother in Berlin of our departure for America in the ship "Deutschland;" and these good people, thinking that they could be of use to us in a new country, had been watching for its arrival.

Can the Constitution at the same time secure liberty to you, and expose us to oppressiongive you freedom of speech, and lock our lipsrespect your right of petition, and treat ours with contempt?

them was plesent ours when the carnashuns and tullups was all in blo, wasunt them mi deer luv.

God, in clothing thee with a form almost human, has undoubtedly given thee a soul almost like ours; the gleam of tenderness and intelligence which shines in thine eyes, where could it have been lighted, but at that divine fire whence all affection and devotion emanate?

When last this cherish'd day came round, What aspirations sweet were ours!

It contains every description of information, from the embarkation at Calais to all the Lions of Londonhow to punish a roguish hackney-coachmanto criticise Miss Kemble at Covent Gardento write an English letter, or to make out a washing-billwhich miscellaneous matters are very useful to know in a metropolis like ours, where, as the new Lord Mayor told a countryman the other day, we should consider every stranger a rogue.

Glancing at the fêtes or holidays, there is a woeful falling off from the Parisian listin ours only eleven are givenbut

You'll set an example of inestimable value in this republic of ours.

" He stopped and put his hand upon my shoulder and continued: "My young friend, if you would make us a gift, I wish it might be something that will give us pleasure an' not trouble, something that money cannot buy an' thieves cannot stealyour love an' good wishes to be ours as long as you live an' we liveat least.

We showed the manuscript to a friend of ours, a critic, a man who has a greater Command of the language of criticism than perhaps any two men in New York to-day.

My husband thinks the French body is far better modelled than ours.

In this good land of ours, popularity adds to its more worthless properties the substantial result of power; and it is not surprising that so many forget their God in the endeavour to court the people.

'tis ours the goodly land Look roundthe heritage behold; Go forthupon the mountains stand; Then, if ye can, be cold.

He loves you too, with such an holy fire, As will not, cannot, but with life expire: Our vow'd affections both have often tried, 830 Nor any love but yours could ours divide.

Ours is in Mesopotamia.

"We girls are so crazy over pink that we're going to try a pink bed at both of Dorothy's gardens as well as in ours," she laughed.

"Grandfather says he wouldn't ask for plants to blossom better than ours are doing."

" "It has been as much comfort to the women as ours have been to us.

Their prep school has beaten our academy both in football and basketball for the last five years; their city baseball team beat ours every time they played; they got ahead of us in the number of men who enlisted in the army, and they outdid us in the Liberty Loan.