"That reminds me," as tale-tellers say, of an incident among the hills, which was interesting, though far from singular in my experience.

As I was helping my aunt exchange her bridal for her travelling attire, I whispered, "What say you to my doctrine of first love, aunty?" "That it finds its best refutation in my experience.

She is a most interesting and absorbing person,one entirely unique in my experience.

"Well," I said, "there are in my experience a great many different kinds of hells.

Frederick is a noble-hearted man; perhaps the noblest I have ever met with in my experience of my fellows....

Past the time it was; but by some luck, very unusual in my experience, the mail was not even yet ready to start.

Now that I should be deceived, or the eye-witnesses have been deceived, under all the circumstances of those miracles, with all antecedents, accompaniments, and consequents, is quite as contrary to, that is, unparalleled in my experience, as the return to life of a dead man.

In my experience, both as teacher and scholar, I have observed among the young those who read a great many books, but at the end appear but little wiser.

This much have I learned in my experience as a public functionary.

She had a physical influence which was unique in my experience.

he whispered, and for the first time in my experience I knew what it was to hear tears of terror in a human voice.

When we got there we had a little scene, rather a novelty in my experience of drojky-driving.

Rossetti was naturally angry, and, for the first and only time in my experience of him, lost control of his temper, bursting out on the culprit with a torrent of abuse which cooled the hilarity of the poet instantly, and reduced him to decorum with the promptness of a wet bath.

The lordly, triumphant manner with which he bantered Gladstone for his dealings in the Straits of Malacca, the demonstrative confidence with which he took victory for granted, and the magnetism of his personal bearing, made an impression on me quite unique in my experience of men.

Here, for the first time in my experience with Orthodox convents, lodgings were refused me by the old hegumenos, and I instantly ordered the horses to be loaded again, without attempting to soften his surliness.

Among these were Lord Sherbrooke, whose aptness in quotation and dexterity in repartee have never, in my experience, been surpassed; and Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, whose "sunny face and voice of music, which lent melody to scorn and sometimes reached the depth of pathos," were gracefully commemorated by Lord Beaconsfield in his sketch of Hortensius.

The very highest dignitaries of the Church in London have never, in my experience, contributed very largely to its social life.

Wells and Oxford on a large scale, Burford and Chipping Campden on a small scale, are in my experience the four most beautiful places in England, as far as buildings go.

The following story happened in my experience with this race about ten years ago.

It is, perhaps, even more strange that while, in my experience, Italian Spirits neither understand nor speak Italian, and French Spirits can neither comprehend nor talk French, and German Spirits remain invincibly dumb in German, it is reserved to Indian 'braves' to be glibly and fluently voluble in the explosive gutturals of their own well-known tongue.

Unfortunately, in my experience, Dante's motto must be inscribed over an investigation of Spiritualism, and all hope must be abandoned by those who enter on it.

No more of reality collected together at once is extant anywhere, perhaps, than in my experience of reading this page, or in yours of listening; yet within those bits of experience as they come to pass we get a fulness of content that no conceptual description can equal.

Both sides of this apparent contradiction were lately verified in my experience.

What breaks friendship, in my experience, is the loss of that sense of equality; and the moment that friends become criticalin the sense, I mean, that they want to alter or improve each otherI think a friendship is in danger.

The most glorious fact in my experience is not anything I have done or may hope to do, but a transient thought or vision or dream which I have had"; his chief works are "Walden," the account of a two years' sojourn in a hut built by his own hands in the Concord Woods near "Walden Pool," "A Week on the Concord and Merrimac River," essays, poems, etc.