St. John Climacus says it is the great cry of petition for help to triumph over our invisible enemy, who wishes to distract us and to mar our prayer.

In the metrical calendar of Oengus, the feast is assigned to the 3rd May, and in his Leabhar Breac, the scribe adds the Latin note, "Feir mar Muire et reliqua, i.e., inceptio ejus ut alii putantsed in februo mense vel in Martio facta est illa, quae post VII.

Decorous, demure, sedate, sober, staid, prim, proper. Deface, disfigure, mar, mutilate.

men scoffed at it as new; a Clinton, Duke of Newcastle; a Percy, Duke and heir of Northumberland, that name of high romance; a De Burgh, Marquis of Clanricarde; a Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, twenty-sixth Earl, and head of a house which for eight centuries has stood on the steps of thrones; a Courtenay, Earl of Devon; an Erskine, Earl of Mar, an earldom whose origin is lost in the mists of antiquity, and many another.

"Such a fortune as yours," he said, with an easy laugh, "would make or mar any cause you see.

It is so fine that it will not mar the feathers of the bird it kills.

Oh when the saints Go mar chin' in.

A very trifling disregard of it will mar an effect.

We laugh at "Then came Dalhousie, that great God of War, Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Mar," because of the relaxation which follows the sudden tension of the mind; but if we remove the idea of the colonelcy from this position of anti-climax, the same couplet becomes energetic rather than ludicrous "Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Mar, Then came Dalhousie, that great God of War.

We laugh at "Then came Dalhousie, that great God of War, Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Mar," because of the relaxation which follows the sudden tension of the mind; but if we remove the idea of the colonelcy from this position of anti-climax, the same couplet becomes energetic rather than ludicrous "Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Mar, Then came Dalhousie, that great God of War.

Ye'll mar-r-ch t'rough Ameriky, and never see his aiquel!"

But imagine what the Mayor has just told father: he has had something placed in the narrow pathway which leads through the grape vines which no one can see; but if anyone steps on it, it discharges a shot in the face and burns it so that no one could recognize him any more, for it would mar him so badly.

That's my secretary, Mrs. Mar" "Sh!" interrupted the chief.

No doubt let now thy bosom mar; Send up the shouthurrah, hurrah!

Our author was soon removed from his command as captain of the guard, which was bestowed upon Sir Thomas Erskin, his majesty's favourite as well as countryman[10], the predecessor to the earl of Mar, whose actions, performed in the year 1715, are recent in every one's memory.

The boundless expanse of sapphire blue and dazzling white, with not a speck to mar it, save where, occasionally, the warm sun-rays had, here and there, laid bare chains of dark rocks, giving them the appearance of islands in this ocean of snow.

He spoke with becoming sorrow of the behavior of Italy, and did not mar this charming little fete champetre with any remarks about American shipments of arms.

(In More fun comics) © Jerome Siegel & Joe Shuster (A) Mar-Apr45.

(In Sunday mirror, New York, Mar, 23, 1947)

(In The Saturday evening post, Mar 27, 1947)

(In Red Ryder comics, Mar, 1948)

Manserah, Mar (snake) Canal.

Then, after he was gone, she stood still on the broad stone terrace, with that strange smile on her face, which seemed to mar while it deepened her beauty.

"Look interested in it, or you will mar my happiness.

Never mar their effect with anything bordering on sobs and hysteria; such violent manifestations being neither refined nor artistic.