They must needs have fish in Lent, we know; and paid the penalty of it by ague and fever.

With lifted eyes, his ear to her he lent; Her kindly solace brought his soul relief.

I have never since lent a stranger or casual acquaintance money. 3d.

Upon this piece of lent land stood our favorite oak.

So, with his rustic neighbors sitting down, The homespun frock beside the scholar's gown, Pastorius, to the manners of the town Added the freedom of the woods, and sought The bookless wisdom by experience taught, And learned to love his new-found home, while not Forgetful of the old; the seasons went Their rounds, and somewhat to his spirit lent Of their own calm and measureless content.

"Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent theeby these angels he hath sent thee Respiterespite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!

What's in it I can't guess; Perhaps 'twas brought by some one in distress, And left in pledge for loan my mother lent.

They have eminent foreign advisers also, or one at least; for Mr. W.H. Russell, self-appointed plenipotentiary near the Court of St. Jefferson, is said to have lent the aid of his valuable military experience to that commanding officer so appropriately named Captain Bragg.

Haley grew impatient, and said, 'If you don't pay what you owe me, I will take your house and lands, and sell them to pay myself back all the money I have lent to you.'

After chancel and nave have been duly adorned, and again disrobed against the coming sobrieties of Lent, there are other temptations to the woods.

The larger conception lent its glow to the paling belief that Ann would persist, triumph.

They lent an unreality to everything.

An Indian chief, or rajah, lent us an elephant to carry us to the shooting ground.

A salt-laden breeze from the ocean a few miles away lent a crisp sparkle to the air.

The negroes frequently raise the money by loans to purchase their freedom, and they are scrupulous in repaying money lent them for that purpose.

He never changed his nature, he was as free from cynicism as a barrister who represents successively opposing parties in suits or politics; and when he wrote polemics in prose or verse he lent his talents as a barrister lends his for a fee.

From the beginning his craftsmanship was perfect; from the beginning he took his subject-matter from others as he found it and worked it up into aphorism and epigram till each line shone like a cut jewel and the essential commonplaceness and poverty of his material was obscured by the glitter the craftsmanship lent to it.

His daring and splendid genius made the local universal, raised out of rough and cynical satirizing a style as rich and humorous and astringent as that of Rabelais, lent inevitableness and pathos and romance to lyric and song.

He at first lent it to some of the elder boys, who read it, and enlarging on some of the most despicable incidents to be found, disgusted my meek spirit of it, by their report.

"Well, you know the attack you made upon me at Brussels, for the convenient purpose of getting buried along with your victim a certain little piece of dirty paper I have in my pocket, whereby you became bound to pay to me a thousand florins which I lent you, on the faith of one I took for a gentleman.

I have lent myselfand

And he said to himself, as his cash he lent, Or started out to collect his rent, "The shif'less fool do'n't charge a cent, I'm getting the whole show free.

The Carnival had been celebrated with greater joyousness than in any year before; the proverbial gayety of the town was doubled during the concluding festival of Shrove Tuesday; and Lent had scarcely thrown as deep a shade as usual over the devoutest inhabitants of the city.

Lent drew to a close, and there was every prospect that Passion Week would be succeeded by a season of rejoicing over impending defeats of the Royalist Goths in Coro and Guiana; and Passion Week came.

"Till religion, the pilot of the soul, have lent thee her unfathomable coil.