Of all the passions to which poor human nature is the slave, the love of gold is that which endures the longest, and is often literally carried with us to the verge of the grave.

The principal owners of the Sea Lion, of Holmes' Hole, were husbandmen also; folk who literally tilled the earth, cradled their own oats and rye, and mowed their own meadows.

Those who were below literally "tumbled up," as seamen express it, and those who were aloft slid down to the deck like flashes of lightning.

Penguins were swimming about, filling the air with their discordant cries, while there was literally no end of the cape-pigeons and petrels.

Meanwhile, it gives a melancholy character to the place, for the walk which it closes is literally the only private walk in the grounds.

[Footnote 9: Literally, "Know'st thou it well?"

There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.

One of the Greek gods would literally descend on a mechanism from the rafters and save the day.

A term of existence in prison did not cure him, and when he was liberated he again resumed his primrose gloves, his Eau de Cologne, and his patent vernis for his boots, though at that time literally supported by his friends with an allowance of £120 per annum.

They literally darkened the air, descending in myriads and covering everything in our midst.

" "If that were only literally true," said the other, and the two friends exchanged an affectionate glance.

[Footnote 1: Literally, "opposition.

[Footnote 4: Literally, "the brilliant one," a title of the moon-god, which gave rise to the classical legend of Nannarus.]

[Footnote 3: "Sadi" in Assyrian, literally "mountain" or "rock," and apparently connected with the Hebrew "Shaddai," as in the phrase "El Shad-dai," "God Almighty."]

[Footnote 4: Literally, "horn."

[Footnote 15: Literally, "animals of the East."

In the north of Mesopotamia.] [Footnote 23: Literally, to my back.]

[Footnote 7: Literally, "from the face of.

[Footnote 12: Literally, "impaled on stakes."

[Footnote 42: Literally, Zurai, Sidunai, Gubalai, Makullat.]

[Footnote 47: Literally, sat.]

[Footnote 50: Literally, Kumukhaya.]

[Footnote 59: Literally, shepherd.

Mitchell then attempted to jump in, to take hold of him when Little struck him over the head with the barrel of his rifle, and literally mashed his skull to pieces; and, as he lay prostrate on the earth, Little deliberately pulled a large pistol from his belt, and placing the muzzle close to Mitchell's head, he shot the ball through it.

To me, it appears that the virus of slavery, introduced into the Constitution of our body politic, by a few slight punctures, has now so pervaded and poisoned the whole system of our National Government, that literally there is no health in it.