You had better buy a porter's knot."

In fact, Johnson, while employed in Gray's inn, may be said to have carried a porter's knot.

She wore no hat, and the rich chesnut hair was rolled in a loose knot at the back of the small Greek-looking head.

He wore a black silk necktie, with a small pearl pin in the mathematical centre of the perfect rhomboid of the upper part of a sailor's knot.

"Well, it is a hard knot for her to untie, poor child; and on the strength of having saved my life, she shall untie it her own way.

Nothing could have been plainer than Draxy's cheap gray gown; but her dress always had character: the tiniest knot of ribbon at her throat assumed the look of a decoration; and many a lady for whom she worked had envied her the expression of her simple clothes.

Her head was bare, her beautiful brown hair wound tightly round and round in the same massive knot as usual.

One morning George brought me a small bunch of lovely wild things from the pine woods, Tiarella leaves just tipped with claret color by the early frosts, sprays of Linnea, two or three tiny white maiden's hair ferns, all tied by a knot of patridge-berry vines thick-set with scarlet berries.

It was a pretty pattern, a very pretty pattern for a chintz; and there wasI laughed out in spite of myself, as I stood in the crowd on the sidewalkyes, there was the ugly great knot in one of the trees which had made King Herod's stomach.

Her fine brown hair had been drawn back smoothly away from her forehead into a loose knot.

" A little knot had gathered about them, with offers of assistance.

" "Then," pronounced the Bonnie Lassie, "he's a stick of woodhardwoodwith a knot-hole for a heart.

From a knot of persons gathered round one of the fires he learnt that the enthusiast was addressing the crowd at the west side of the building, and proceeding thither he perceived him standing on the edge of the balustrade of the south-western tower, surmounting the little church of Saint Gregory.

It depends largely upon how a pout is took, whether it'll contrac' itself into a hard knot an' give trouble or thess loosen up into a good-natured smile, an' the oftener they are let out that-a-way, the seldomer they'll come.

For several days Cicely and Miriam cut and stitched and fitted and took in and let out, and one morning Miriam came down to breakfast attired in the pink chintz gown, its skirt touching the floor, and with her long brown hair tastefully done up in a knot upon her head.

No need to mention the ribbons that we knot under our wide, square collars for becomingness, our coquetry "under difficulties," nor the gauntleted gloves wherewith we protect our hands, nor the daintiness of the little boots that peep from the loose trousers, which have something Turkish in their cut.

The reports are traced to a knot of free livers, free drinkers, and infidels, who meet a-nights, in the village, to be merry, and who drew some of the mission boys into their revelries.

" Then I made one, and Charley made one, and the pen wouldn't join Charley's neatly, but twisted it up into a knot.

But she stopped herself short in manifest contrition when, happening to look around at him, she saw a knot of baffled concentration in his forehead.

By means of the double representation, the minority command the whole, and a KNOT OF SLAVEHOLDERS GIVE THE LAW AND PRESCRIBE THE POLICY OF THE COUNTRY.

By means of the double representation, the minority command the whole, and a KNOT OF SLAVEHOLDERS GIVE THE LAW AND PRESCRIBE THE POLICY OF THE COUNTRY.

By means of the double representation, the minority command the whole, and a KNOT OF SLAVEHOLDERS GIVE THE LAW AND PRESCRIBE THE POLICY OF THE COUNTRY.

A little unnoticed knot of Salvationists surprised Jay at a distance by singing the tune of a sentimental song popular five years ago, and then they surprised her again, as she passed them, and heard the words to which the tune was being sung.

The second mate peered earnestly in the direction in which the light had been seen; and Mivins, turning in the same direction, screwed up his visage into a knot of earnest attention so complicated and intense, that it seemed as if no human power could evermore unravel it.

The only way we could fasten the band around the animals was for one to get on each side and pull it as tight as possible then tie a knot, as we had no buckles or ring in our harness.

Observing his agitation, Kanto Babu observed gently, "I don't see why a matter, which is not even mentioned in our Shástras (holy books), should cause one moment's hesitation.

" "Not so fast, friend," shouted the bailiff.

The Indian peasant's lot is not a happy one.

"And the son of a pig owes me rent?" "Now, please, do not abuse me, Babuji," protested Sádhu, "only listen to my tale for one minute!"

Again his arrears of rent were demanded, and once more he feebly protested that he could not discharge them.

Rich people find little difficulty in securing suitable matches for their girls; but Babu Jadunath Basu, widely known as "Jadu Babu," was not blessed with a large share of this world's goods; and his sister Basumati was close on her teens.

The marriage-broker had certainly suggested more than one aspirant for her hand, but they were not to Jadu Babu's liking.

A match was at length offered which was passably good, although it did not answer Jadu Babu's expectations.

Rashbehari Babu's scepticism vanished, and he assented to his nephew's whispered hint that they need not ask Jogesh to produce the barabharan.

The luckless girl was kept on very short commons and locked into a dark room when she was not engaged in rough household work.

Such an acquaintance was not to be lost sight of.

" "Sir, I am ready to declare in the name of God and His Prophet that I gave her nothing but homopotik, only nuxo bomicka (nux vomica) in doses which would not have harmed a baby.

Nalini Babu was not long in ascertaining how the land lay.

"We must not loiter, for we should be suspected of plotting together.

Except he hadn't gotten the job done, not unless you counted the paintings as kids.

We're not a police state, yet.

Not going to pull out those hinges.

It is a fact; and one that forebodes serious consequences, not only to the Negro but to any class of citizens who may happen to come into disfavor with some other class.

Red shirts have entered the pulpits, and it is a matter boasted of rather than condemnedthe South is not the only scene of such outrages.

On July 1, 1898, our regiment was not a part of the firing line, and was not ordered on that line until the fire got so hot that the white troops positively refused to go forward.

Poor Hood had also to unite comedy with tragedy,not for a night, or a day, or a week, but for months and years.

But in the intermingling of the grotesque and terrible, and in the infinite diversification of them as thus united, not only has Hood no equal, but no rival.

Not to carry this melancholy list farther,which might be indefinitely prolonged,we close it with the name of Thomas Hood.

He gives them distinctly to understand, that they need not go out of themselves to form a just estimation of their position, duties, and prospects, as standing in the presence of the Messiah.

With such a temper, they WOULD NOT; in such circumstances, they COULD NOT.