Asked diffidentlyas diffidently as he could, that ishow many men my house would hold.

I didn't want my good name taken away, and I had to be careful, and many's the good arf-pint I 'ad to refuse because that little imitation monkey was sitting in the office drawing faces on 'is blotting-paper.

I am greatly indebted to Mr. Dodgson's relatives, and to all those kind friends of his and others who have aided me, in so many ways, in my difficult task.

Mrs. Tate has looked through my clothes and left in the trunk a great many that will not be wanted.

One of the persons that amused me was a Mrs. Gummidge, a wretched melancholy person, who is always crying, happen what will, and whenever the fire smokes, or other trifling accident occurs, makes the remark with great bitterness, and many tears, that she is a "lone lorn creetur, and everything goes contrairy with her.

"If the book were but a little more definite," he writes, "it might stir up many fellow-workers in the same good field of social improvement.

mannersthe sort of person one knows in a few minutes as well as many in many years.

The book in question, admirable as it is in many ways, has not commanded a large sale.

The piece we crossed, some fifteen miles from shore to shore, is very shallow, in many parts only six or eight feet deep, and every winter it is entirely frozen over with ice two feet thick, and when this is covered with snow it forms a secure plain, which is regularly used for travelling on, though the immense distance, without means of food or shelter, is dangerous for poorly clad foot passengers.

Lewis Carroll's dining-room has been the scene of many a pleasant little party, for he was very fond of entertaining.

Meanwhile "Through the Looking-Glass" was steadily progressingnot, however, without many little hitches.

But "Sylvie and Bruno," in this respect entirely unlike "Alice in Wonderland," was the result of notes taken during many years; for while he was thinking out the book he never neglected any amusing scraps of childish conversation or funny anecdotes about children which came to his notice.

Many people have tried to show that "The Hunting of the Snark" was an allegory; some regarding it as being a burlesque upon the Tichborne case, and others taking the Snark as a personification of popularity.

I think this fits in beautifully in many waysparticularly about the bathing-machines: when the people get weary of life, and can't find happiness in towns or in books, then they rush off to the seaside, to see what bathing-machines will do for them.

ANDREW BEDIENT, SIR: Many of my guests have caught the spirit of The Pleiad more readily and pleasurably, after making the acquaintance of one elsewhere designated, I believe, the proprietor.

Many were closing their annals of error in decrepitude and beggary; others were well-knit studies of evil, with health still hanging on, more or less, and much deviltry to do.

I met them at dinner in the Flamingo Room, and after listening to the Señora, the courtesies of the Spaniard were like so many cold shuddery waves of dread.

For Monkhouse talked alluringly, incessantly,and asked only to be with the strangerand many a time, all unknowing, he banished for the moment some devouring anguish with a tale of disruption told to a turn.

"Ah, yes, there are many grand swimmers in my country among the coast men.

"Like our host, I have sailed many seas and not a few with him," he added.

What came over him cannot be tolda break in his fine control; a sudden realization that he was whipped; a resurgence of all the shattered strategies in his brain, many of which certain others of the party did not yet understand; his doubt of Framtree, or his inability to reach the weapon,the exact point which goaded him to black disorder was never known, but the fury of it concentrated upon the Glow-worm.

Through the love of one, comes the love of many....

He had made many fair promises about a final transfer of this property to Albert and Katy when they should both be of age, but all that was now forgotten, as it was intended to be.

I remember now how many times of late years I have given her needless trouble.

She had made many apologies for Plausaby's previous offensesthis was too much even for her ingenious charity.