He looked at the young man with the same strange look, and said in a low tone: "Must have seen what?" "Why, this!" said Verty, half extending his arm, and pointing toward a far imaginary horizon, on which his dreamy eyes were fixed"this!

After vainly searching for an imaginary ball and finding that we were not actually attacked from the rear, we ventured at length to return.

"I think a good title would be, Have I Put Everything in?" "Sounds like a manual of bayonet exercise," said the soldier, and he made imaginary lunges at imaginary Huns.

"I think a good title would be, Have I Put Everything in?" "Sounds like a manual of bayonet exercise," said the soldier, and he made imaginary lunges at imaginary Huns.

On some of these fond swain fix thy desire, And burn not with imaginary fire.

It had been shown to be carried on by rapine, robbery, and murder; by fomenting and encouraging wars; by false accusations; and imaginary crimes.

The fairies and fairy-gardens of British romance, and the fabulous glories of the house of Este, now proclaimed for the first time, were added by the author to the enchantments of Pulci, together with a pervading elegance; and had the poem been completed, we were to have heard again of the traitor Gan of Maganza, for the purpose of exalting the imaginary founder of that house, Ruggero.

The Roman government, just then on the point of beginning its critical war with the great-king of Asia, observed the progress of these events, as may easily be conceived, with apprehension; it was no imaginary danger that the Carthaginian fleet might land in Italy and a second war under Hannibal might spring up there, while the Roman legions fighting in Asia Minor.

The resemblance is not imaginary.

The phantasy alone is free, and his commander reason: as appears by those imaginary dreams, which are of divers kinds, na

It is not impossible that they might contemplate the imaginary terrors of the torrid zone, as handed down from some of the ancients, with all its burning soil and scorching vapours; and they might consider the difficulties of Cape Bojador as a providential bar or omen, to warn and oppose them against proceeding to their inevitable destruction.

The change may have been imaginary, but from the moment it passed into our possession the branches seemed less despondent, the needles more erect.

I think my imaginary heroine died of a broken heart at this juncture, a catastrophe that would naturally account for her secret dying with her.

With this poem the love-story proper comes to a close, and "the melancholy, no doubt more than half imaginary and poetical, of his love poems seems to broaden out into a deeper sadness embracing life as a whole, and in which disappointed passion is but one of the many elements."

This contemplation fastened on my mind, and I sat, days and nights, in imaginary dominion, pouring, upon this country and that, the showers of fertility, and seconding every fall of rain with a due proportion of sunshine.

In proportion as there is less pleasure in retrospective considerations, the mind is more disposed to wander forward into futurity; but, at sixty-four, what promises, however liberal, of imaginary good can futurity venture to make?

" The old man went away into his imaginary paradise, and Nan into that domestic purgatory on a summer day,the kitchen.

I think I could find it in my heart to murder an imaginary friend or two, if I had to stay here long.

for imaginary crimes, or for causes which make us shudder at their wantonness and barbarity, an unfortunate victim has been torn from the bosom of his family, to perish unheard of and unknown!

They fancy it was made for them, because they observe things in it which they know how to improve to their own conveniency; but all they ascribe to the design and contrivance of an imaginary architect, is but the effect of their preposterous imaginations.

Then there are strange and attractive stories of "myths," imaginary forms or persons, like fairies, gods, and goddesses.

He was very fond of his mistress, and always, unless shut up at home, accompanied her to school, where he spent most of his time lying under the teacher's desk, or, in cold weather, by the stove, except when he would go out now and then and chase an imaginary rabbit round the yard, presumably for exercise.

Such are some of the consequences of slavery; consequences not imaginary, but which connect themselves with its very existence.

I conjured up an imaginary conversation in bad German with an officer in a pointed casque.

The times and manners amid which they lived have been painted for you in more or less imaginary colors.