It was but for one second, and then he was again the physician, and turning to me, went on, "I have another patient to whom I must instantly go, and whom I may not be able to leave for hours.

Our leave-taking was very short.

Annie herself, however, refused to consent to this: of course no satisfactory reason could be alleged for any such delay; and she said as frankly as a little child, "Edward and I have loved each other almost from the very first; there is nothing for either of us to do in life but to make each other happy; and we shall not leave papa and mamma: so why should we wait?

I dared not leave her there, for her first unconscious movement might be such that she would fall over the edge.

It seemed impossible to go away and leave her, but it was cruel to delay.

At school the boys used to tell him everything, and leave things to his decision.

Almost every day, somebody would call out, at recess or intermission, 'Well, I'll leave it to Nat'or 'I'll tell Nat.'

"I replied, 'I cannot leave Nat, Mr. Maynard.

I thank you very much; you are very good; but it would break my heart to leave him, and I am sure papa would never forgive me if I should do it.'

'I shall never leave Natnever, so long as I live.'

I exclaimed, 'you might have had everything you wanted for that.' "'But he shall have it still, Miss Kent,' said Robert'I shall give you a check for the whole amount before you leave this room, and I do assure you that your brother has a fortune in his talent for drawing.

"It was hard to come away and leave him.

I alone knew that on many occasions when Mrs. Long was spending the evening at our house, Ellen availed herself of one excuse and another to leave them alone for a great part of the time.

"Oh, Mr. Gray, Mr. Gray!" called Emma, "I was just coming to take Ellen and the children for a turn, and we can leave you at the office on our way.

I do not want to leave Little Rivers!"

I will leave the millions to the shadows!

Victor Le Roy spoke these words quietly, as if aware that he might safely leave them, as well as any other true words, to the just sense of Jacqueline.

It was not in her heart to go away and leave those eyes to waken upon solitude.

And when I'm taen and hangit, mither, a brittling o' my deer, Ye'll no leave your bairn to the corbie craws, to dangle in the air; But ye'll send up my twa douce brethren, and ye'll steal me frae the tree, And bury me up on the brown brown muirs, where I aye looed to be.

Fellow countrymen! is such the tranquillity you desireis such the heritage you would leave to your children?

If slaveholders will not trade with us, unless we consent to be slaves ourselves, then let us leave their money, and their sugar, and their cotton, to perish with them.

I leave it to your own good sense and candor to decide.

I leave it to your own consciences to decide.

I leave it to your own candor to corroborate my assertion.

I left the consulate in the hands of a new vice-consulan Englishman long resident in the island,my Greek vice-consul having died during the insurrection, and I had decided not to return at the end of my leave of absence; but I did not resign, as I knew that both the Turkish and my own government wanted me to do so.

However, I'd just as lieve walk out there, if only to convince you what a forlorn old place it is.

"I'd just as lieve people would know how old I am.

"Well, you see, I didn't have any ticket, an' the conductor, he told me totohe asked me if I wouldn't jest as lieve git off here.

I'd just as lieve work as not.

Ain't it a piece of ingratitude, when Peg and I go to the trouble of earning the money to pay for gingerbread for you to eat, that you ain't even willin' to go in and buy it?" "I would just as lieve go in," said Ida, "if Peg would give me good money to pay for it.

Wil-lie whistl-ed, and cut a-way, not-with-stand-ing the burn-ing heat of the sun: his sic-kle glis-ten-ed, and the corn fell in such long sweeps that I do be-lieve it was as ma-gi-cal as the hands them-selves.

Why, I do be-lieve that the gi-ant hands are drag-ging it along!

With regard to a John-dory, which you desire to be particularly informed about, I honour the fish, but it is rather on account of Quin who patronised it, and whose taste (of a dead man) I had as lieve go by as anybody's (Apicius and Heliogabalus exceptedthis latter started nightingales' tongues and peacocks' brains as a garnish).

If I had no wit but what I must shew at the expence of my virtue or my modesty, I had as lieve be as stupid as * *

" "I think that your grandmother was right; but what did Joe say?" He said that the teacher didn't spite him; that he would as lieve sit by me as any girl in school, and that he liked girls.

lieve that wild crowds had given chase on foot to moving trains, or fore-run them in the frenzied hope of inducing them to stop.

17.With an adverb of comparison or preference, as better, rather, best, as lief, or as lieve, the auxiliary had seems sometimes to be used before the infinitive to form the potential imperfect or pluperfect: as, "He that loses by getting, had better lose than get.

"I had as lieve the town crier spoke my lines.

By and by they tired of play-ing sol-dier; and then they pulled down some old dress-es and hats that hung on a peg, and put them on, and made be-lieve that they were grown peo-ple.

I'd as lieve be there as in a mansion.

It lay on a close network of rivers and canals, formed partly by these two main streams, and partly by the minor channels of the Lieve and the Moere, which together intersect it into several islands.

It also extends beyond the Lys to the little island on which is situated the church of St. Michael, and again to the islet formed between the Lieve and the Lys, which contains the château of the Counts and the Palace Ste.

I'll once turn Bawd: go to, they are good mens offices, And not so contemptible as we take 'em for: And if she be above ground, and a Woman; I ask no more; I'll bring her o' my back, Sir, By this hand I will, and I had as lieve bring the Devil, I care not who she be, nor where I have her; And in your arms, or the next Bed deliver her, Which you think fittest, and when you have danc'd your galliard.

Mar. Faith Bessus, such Commanders as thou may; I had as lieve set thee Perdue for a pudding i'th' dark, as Alexander the Great.

" "Well," said Dunn gloomily, "I reckon perhaps you'd as lieve left me in hell, for all the love you bear me.

I'd as lieve ride of a boiling kettle.

" "I'd as lieve ride of a dead man," said the old groom.