You do the square thing by me, won't you?" Lydia Sessions had got her neophites safely launched, and they were making a more or less tempestuous progress across the floor.

And then, Mandy being thus launched on the congenial themethe one theme upon which she was ever loquaciousout came the story of the purchase of the dress, the compliments of the saleswoman, the refusal of the borrowed jewellery.

I know they are there, for I once spent a long summer's day in the former place, searching those files for a copy of the delightful ballad sung (or attempted to be sung) by Dick Fletcher in Scott's "Pirate,"the ballad beginning "It was a ship, and a ship of fame, Launched off the stocks, bound for the main.

On this inclined plane, with the assistance of windlasses and numerous yokes of oxen, the vessels were hauled up one after the other to the summit of the hill, from whence they descended with difficulty to the point beyond the present arsenal, where they were launched into the port under the protection of batteries prepared for their defence.

Against Lorenzo and his associates a brief of excommunication was launched, and the city was urged to regain the papal favor by surrendering the offenders.

In June they launched a great attack on a seventy-mile front, which was to have made an end of Italy; but the Italians beat them back.

By the fifth morning she was launched; and Ulysses, furnished with store of provisions, rich garments, and gold and silver, given him by Calypso, took a last leave of her, and of her nymphs, and of the isle Ogygia which had so befriended him.

The countess launched into a disquisition on the heinousness of marrying any but a compatriot.

De Chauxville shook hands with the new-comers, and, while the countess prepared tea for him, launched into a long description of the preparations for the bear-hunt of the following day.

He singled out a warrior of inferior grade, toward whom he made at a gallop, and, insulting him by word of mouth, after the ancient fashion of the Celtic warriors, cried: "Frank, I am going to give thee my first present, a present which I have been keeping for thee a long while, and which I hope thou wilt bear in mind;" and launched at him a javelin which the other received on his shield.

When recovered, he applied himself anew to his work; the canoe was finished, launched into the stream, and, by the further aid of his companions, equipped and prepared for a voyage.

With a bear-skin covering, and a good supply of provisions, he launched into the current and floated leisurely down, seldom using the paddle, till, while engaged in reading, the canoe approached Below's Falls, the noise of which, rushing among the rocks, suddenly aroused him; the danger was imminent; had the canoe got into the narrow passage, it must instantly have been dashed in pieces, and himself inevitably have perished.

" Thus we found ourselves suddenly launched on a new undertaking, and with some amusement and much trepidation I realised that I was "in business", with business knowledge amounting to nil.

George Sand was now launched,with brilliant success, in the world of letters, unheeding the conventional restraints of domestic life.

Then with bold speed he flew, The life-boat launched, and dared the smiting rocks.

The most conspicuous instance of this practice of his is in the invective which he launched in the Senate against Piso, who had made a speech reflecting upon him.

Besides, we could never get a craft of those dimensions off the ship's decks, and must, of necessity, build it in some place where it may be launched.

She launched into a description of her cares and anxieties and maternal sentiments.

The keel was laid in August, 1885, and the ship was launched July 29, 1886, on which occasion it was christened Greif.

It will be launched by the last of the summer or early in the fall.

Consider the plantation affair launched, carried, and consummated.

He did have, he told me, a fleeting desire to know just how many other ships Janet might have launched, but it wasn't strong enough to take him to see her.

On the other hand, if the brig lay too near the entrance to the caves, the treasure-laden boats must be launched through the surf, and, in case of high seas, this operation might be hazardous; consequently, he determined to anchor in the Rackbirds' cove and submit to the delay and inconvenience of the land transportation of the gold.

But our little bark On a strong river boldly hath been launched; 560 And from the driving current should we turn To loiter wilfully within a creek, Howe'er attractive, Fellow voyager!

[I] Well is known The inglorious issue of that charge, and how He, who had launched the startling thunderbolt, 115 The one bold man, whose voice the attack had sounded, Was left without a follower to discharge His perilous duty, and retire lamenting That Heaven's best aid is wasted upon men Who to themselves are false.