Do we say make or days

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On the hill above the western end of the city, stands a chapel on the spot where the Bavarians put an end to Protestantism in Bohemia by the sword, and the deluded peasantry of the land make pilgrimages to this spot, as if it were rendered holy by an act over which Religion weeps!

I endeavor, if possible, always to make several visitsto study those pictures which cling first to the memory, and pass over those which make little or no impression.

I endeavor, if possible, always to make several visitsto study those pictures which cling first to the memory, and pass over those which make little or no impression.

Lay it in his hand and make a cross over it, and I will reveal the numbers!"

The inside of the square formed by the Arcades and the New Residence, is filled with noble old trees, which in summer make a leafy roof over the pleasant walks.

In the middle, stands a grotto, ornamented with rough pebbles and shells, and only needing a fountain to make it a perfect hall of Neptune.

I could not distinctly make out the image, for it was placed back within the grating, and a strong crimson lamp behind it was made to throw the light around, in the form of a glory.

" The Ticino, in its course to Lago Maggiore has to make a descent of nearly three thousand feet, passing through three valleys, which lie like terraces, one below the other.

I noticed also that if the latter are as lazy as they are said to be, they make their horses work for them, as in a walk of a few hours yesterday after noon, we saw two horses drawing heavy loads, drop down apparently dead, and several others seemed nearly ready to do the same.

Don't make him lose so much time.'

I live by what little I make at odd jobs.

We used to make our living at home.

Travels "I wouldn't never a left Bartow County, but the white people made out that this was a rich country and you could make so much out here, and we moved out here.

It was quite a day to make them.

The Nile overflowed and rushed onward; the Egyptian could not choose the overflow, but he chose to work and make channels for the fructifying waters, and Egypt became the land of corn.

Believe me, I should not have cared to devour even ardent praise if it had not come from one who showed the discriminating sensibility, the perfect response to the artist's intention, which must make the fullest, rarest joy to one who works from inward conviction and not in compliance with current fashions.

If she made it clear in Middlemarch that the individual is crippled and betrayed by society, it was her purpose to make it quite as clear in Daniel Deronda how society may become the true inspirer of the individual.

While George Eliot has imagination enough to make a charming prose style, and to adorn her prose with great beauty and an impressive manner, yet its finer quality of subtle expression is not to be found in her poetry.

No ills on earth, though you should count them up With grains to make a mountain, can outweigh For me his ill who is my supreme love.

Then Armgart is brought to see that there is a noble privilege in living as her friend has lived, in making music a joy to others, and in doing what she can to make life better for humanity.

She could best make her comment on the ways of life while describing a character or studying an action.

Our getting the franchise will greatly hasten that good end in proportion only as every one of us has the knowledge, the foresight, the conscience, that will make him well-judging and scrupulous in the use of it.

Groups of British soldiers stood about smoking cigarettes and staring at us curiously through the gloom as though not quite sure what to make of us.

"If you call her in that voice, you may believe that she will never come!" "Don't make a public-crier of your Achilles," said the master to some one with a rich organ, given over to its own uncultivated power.

I exaggerated your mistake to make you aware of it; but you did your work in a way that was very satisfactory to all but your teacher.

days 49168 occurrences

A few days ago the industry suffered a check which, lasting not more than two minutes, lost several hundred pounds of hand-fired tea.

Set a hundred of the world's greatest spirits, men of fixed principles, high aims, resolute endeavour, enormous experience, and the modesty that these attributes bringset them to live through such a catastrophe as that which wiped out Nagoya last October, and at the end of three days there would remain few whose souls might be called their own.

People have no more than just begun to discover the place called the Banff Hot Springs, two days west of Winnipeg.

Once at Seattle, when that town was a gray blur after a fire; once at Tacoma, in the days when the steam-tram ran off the rails twice a week; and once at Spokane Falls.

It is possible; but it is also possible after three days in a new town to set the full half of a truck-load of archbishops fighting for corner lots as they never fought for mitre or crozier.

Suburban villas more or less adorn the flats, from which the liveliest fancy (and fancy was free in the early days) hung back.

Three days later, the hill-sides as far as the eye could range were afire, and the roads paved, with crimson and gold.

We had Time dealt out to usmere, clear, fresh Timegrace-days to enjoy.

A few days later I was shown a wire stating that a community of DoukhoborsRussians againhad, not for the first time, undressed themselves, and were fleeing up the track to meet the Messiah before the snow fell.

In those days men proved that Wheat would not grow north of some fool's line, or other, or, if it did, that no one would grow it.

I whispered to a man that I was a little tired of a three days' tyranny of Wheat, besides being shocked at farmers who used clean bright straw for fuel, and made bonfires of their chaff-hills.

These mountains are only ten days from London, and people more and more use them for pleasure-grounds.

It's open for two half-hours a day week-days and one on Sundays.

Their jesters are known to have surpassed in refinement the jesters of Damascus, as did their twelve police captains the hardiest and most corrupt of Bagdad in the tolerant days of Harun-al-Raschid; while their old women, not to mention their young wives, could deceive the Father of Lies himself.

He has been trained to look after himself since the days of Rameses.

That morning the concierge had toiled for us among steamer-sailings to see if we could save three days.

But they may skip a well or so, and do several days' march in one.

I went for a purposeless walk from one end of the place to the other, and found a crowd of native boys playing football on what might have been a parade-ground of old days.

The men who remember the old days of the Reconstructionwhich deserves an epic of its ownsay that there was nothing left to build on, not even wreckage.

MOON, the satellite of the earth, from which it is distant 238,800 m., and which revolves round it in 27-1/3 days, taking the same time to rotate on its own axis, so that it presents always the same side to us; is a dark body, and shines by reflection of the sun's light, its diameter 2165 m.; it has a rugged surface of mountains and valleys without verdure; has no water, no atmosphere, and consequently no life.

MYCENÆ, capital of Agamemnon's kingdom, in the NE. of the Peloponnesus, was in very ancient days a great city, but never recovered the invasion of the people of Argos in 468 B.C.; excavations point to its civilisation being more akin to Phoenician than Greek.

WOFFINGTON, PEG, actress, born in Dublin, where she made her first appearance in 1737, and in London at Covent Garden in 1740, in a style which carried all hearts by storm; she was equally charming in certain male characters as in female; her character was not without reproach, but she had not a little of that charity which covereth a multitude of sins, in the practice of which, after her retirement in 1757, she ended her days (1720-1768).

WULSTAN, ST., Saxon bishop of Worcester in the days of Edward the Confessor; being falsely accused by his adversaries, after the king's death, he was required to resign, but refused, and laying his crozier on the Confessor's shrine called upon him to decide who should wear it; none of his accusers could lift it, only himself, to his exculpation from their accusations.

It is not easy to imagine in these feverish days of travel what that journey must have meant to a young Irish lad brought up in a small town lad to whom even London probably seemed very far away.

Then, to make matters worse, provisions gave out, and the ship's company was reduced for twelve days to an unsavoury diet of water-buffalo and peanutsall they could get from a nearby island.

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