"And lending her books, and all sich," he pursued doggedly.

Sunday all the mill operatives were free; and then groups of women and children added themselves to the men; dinners were taken along, lending a grotesque suggestion of picnicking to the work, a suggestion contradicted by the anxious faces, the strained timbre of the voices that called from group to group.

Byron showed a remarkable familiarity with the Scriptures, and with parts of Barrow, Chillingworth, and Stillingfleet; but on Kennedy's lending for his edification Boston's Fourfold State, he returned it with the remark that it was too deep for him.

After supper, Ulysses, who had well eaten and drunken, and was refreshed with the herdsman's good cheer, was resolved to try whether his host's hospitality would extend to the lending him a good warm mantle or rug to cover him in the night-season; and framing an artful tale for the purpose, in a merry mood, filling a cup of Greek wine, he thus began: "I will tell you a story of your king Ulysses and myself.

Can you not form yourselves into a Natural Science club, for buying such things and lending them round among your members; and for discussion also, the reading of scientific papers of your own writing, the comparing of your observations, general mutual help and mutual instructions?

But Will could not think of lending a hand until he had first of all lugged his beloved camera under shelter.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.'

A string of pearls was twisted in her soft, brown hair, lending a dim crown to her exquisite and gracious beauty in the tender light of the wax candles.

And truly, her thin and mobile lips were of a strangely bright coral, and her usually wan cheeks wore a delicate flush, lending her a beauty, not youthful, to be sure, but yet fascinating.

Since nothing was being offered at the moment to draw a bid from him, he maintained a semblance of interest solely to cover his thoughts, meanwhile lending a civil ear to the garrulous tongue of a dealer of his acquaintance who, having edged nearer to indulge a failing for gossip, found a ready auditor.

So the virtuous householder was rather more than unceremonious about yanking the princely housebreaker inside and lending him a foot to accelerate his return to the living-room; where Victor brought up, on all-fours again, in almost precisely the spot from which he had risen.

His friendship commonly is begun in a supper, and lost in lending money.

It was understood that these parties were not actors, but that the abbaye had sought out a couple, of corresponding rank and means, who had consented to join their fortunes in reality on the occasion of this great jubilee, thereby lending to it a greater appearance of that genuine joy and festivity which it was the desire of the heads of the association to represent.

Once master of the situation he drew in his horns, lending money only to people who could give ample security in land, government papers, or jewellery.

Friends advised him to try farming, or start a business in lending grain to cultivators.

He also started a business in lending ryots rice for their seed-grain and support till the harvest should be reaped.

He put me under a deeper debt of gratitude by lending me fifteen dollars, which he said I could pay back after I had secured work.

I believe in lending a helping hand.

But how can your support be more valuable than in lending him your unequalled understanding? Seward: The whole thing is coloured in his mind by the question of slavery.

And can we justify ourselves to the people by longer lending to it the money and power of the Government to be employed for such purposes?

" So Wayne had "stepped in" and was lending Ann the money to study stenography.

There are dozens of examples to prove that Milvain's success is a perfectly normal process, and the reason for his selecting the journalistic career is the obvious one that he has no money to begin stock-broking, still less money-lending.

LEMAN, Lake, iv. 350, n. 1. LENDING MONEY, influence gained by it, ii. 167.

*** The cow that walked into the lending library at Walton Heath has since explained that it merely wanted to look up "Manchuria" in the encyclopaedia.

Tidings as to the will reached him, and then he first perceived the injury he had done himself in lending his assistance to the payment of the creditors.