If I were you, I should stay on here.'

I dare say if I were to stop and watch I should see something happen in consequence.

"And it's so much better than the reality up around where I used to live that I wouldn't head him off if I were you.

I should be wanting in candour, however, if I were not to state that, in my opinion, the demands which you prefer involve, in some of their details and consequences, questions of considerable nicety.

In the first place, this knowledge was necessary for me, if I were to complete my work on The Impolicy of this Trade, which work, the Summary View, just printed, had announced to the world.

If I were a king and she were a housemaid, my eye would recognise her qualities.

I had a feeling as if I were at last about to taste life.

"If I were you, Howells, I'd take this hairy old theorist up as a suspicious character.

It wouldn't sound dull if I were telling you about it by word of mouth.

'Why do you talk to me as if I were a child?

And as for Molly, well, now, really, if he happened to take a fancy to her, and if she happened to like him, I wouldn't bosh the business, if I were you, grandmother.

Vapours, Mr. SPECTATOR, are terrible Things; for though I am not possess'd by them my self, I suffer more from em than if I were.

For an instant I was about to rush up with him, and then I bethought myself that, after all, I had my own mission to think of, and that if I were taken the important letter of the Emperor would be sacrificed.

" "I shall never forget the way you kissed me, as if I were a rather repulsive piece of wood.

Louis having made his declaration, the gendarmes and police-officers were on the full cry after me; and there was one Jacquard amongst them who undertook to secure me if I were in the city.

But if I were to take you, what would become of little Neenah?" "Oh, Neenah?" said Selim easily.

shall I never be a light in that London, long, low, misshapen, that dark monumental stream flowing through the lean bridges; and what if I were a light in this umber-coloured mass,shadows falling, barges moored midway in a monumental stream?

For instance, doctor, sometimes I feel as if I were travelling at a speed of more than two hundred miles an hour; drawing.

" "If I were there," cried Grizel, "I would not have the parlour standing empty all this time.

We have both our tastes; mine, if I were a man, would incline more to the brilliant and handsome.

" "I wouldn't do that if I were you," said Nick, stepping forward.

Ev'n to hang us forth Upon their walls a sunning, to make Crows meat, If I were not assur'd o' the Burgomaster, And had a pretty excuse to see a niece there, I should scarce venture.

It might prove a little tiresome, but it would no doubt "look well," in the sense that going to church "looks well," if I were to write in here ten pages of praise of our national bard.

"If I were missed it would all be over.

But I think that I should be speaking, if perhaps presumptuously, yet truly, if I were to add that there was also one very far from great personage, whose influence in the same direction was greater than even that of Prince Metternich or of any other great folks whatever; and that was the son in daily and almost hourly communion and conversation with whom she lived.