This is the grand revenge of Mr. Jinksthis is the sweet morsel which he has rolled beneath his tongue for daysthis is the refinement of torture he has mixed for the love-sick O'Brallaghan, who personates the opposing Michael.

"But mind, whatever you do, don't let your wife run away with the idea that I've been mixed up in it at all.

He walked up and down like a man with a raging toothache, and arter follering 'im up and down the wharf till I was tired out, I discovered that 'is father-in-law 'ad got 'imself mixed up with a widder-woman ninety years old and weighing twenty stun.

"Only I don't want to get mixed up with any of the deadly stuff.

For an instant Joe had an ugly suspicion that his new assistant had played him falsethat, because of jealousy or from some other motive, he had mixed the chemicals in some way to make them ineffective.

New chemicals had to be mixed, to render it safe to handle fire.

Swallow a strong dose of pure poison, and the stomach may reject it; but take half as much, mixed with innocent water, and it will do you a mischief.

As the night deepened, a murmur from the city caught my ear; it grew loud, various, wild; it was soon mixed with the clash of arms; trumpets rang, torches blazed along battlements and turrets; the roar of battle rose, deepened into cries of agony, swelled into furious exultation.

This they mixed up with milk, and it greatly contributed to relieve their want.

Her ideas concerning the business of domesticity were now mixed and opposing and irreconcileable, and she began to suspect that the bases of society might be more complex and confusing than in her youthful downrightness she had imagined.

On the 29th of June, she fought and gained over the English the decisive battle of Patay; on the 9th of July, she took Troyes by a coup-de-main from a mixed garrison of English and Burgundians; on the 15th of that month, she carried the Dauphin into Rheims; on Sunday the 17th, she crowned him; and there she rested from her labor of triumph.

He looked quite respectable, in fact, in a business suit of gray mixed cloth, and would have passed muster in any assemblage.

They have been to school and college, but all the time they had their eye on the medal; they have gone about in the world and mixed with clever people, but all the time they were thinking of their own affairs.

To be deeply interested in the accidents of our existence, to enjoy keenly the mixed texture of human experience, rather leads a man to disregard precautions, and risk his neck against a straw.

So that I conclude of our melancholy species, as [1093]many politicians do of their pure forms of commonwealths, monarchies, aristocracies, democracies, are most famous in contemplation, but in practice they are temperate and usually mixed, (so [1094]Polybius informeth us) as the Lacedaemonian, the Roman of old, German now, and many others.

What physicians say of distinct species in their books it much matters not, since that in their patients' bodies they are commonly mixed.

They anoint their skins with goats tallow, mixed up with the juice of certain herbs, which thickens the skin, and defends them against the cold, of which they complain much, although their country is so far to the south.

This migwol, or palm- wine, is an exceedingly pleasant drink, which intoxicates like wine unless mixed with water.

With the blood of these serpents, mixed up with the seeds of a certain tree, he infected his weapons with so deadly a poison, that, if they drew but the least drop of blood, the person or animal wounded by them was sure to die in a quarter of an hour.

Though this country will be amply described in other voyages in our Collection, it may be proper to remark, that both sides of the river Gambia are inhabited by a mixed population of three nations, the Feloops, Foleys, and Mandingoes, each of whom have their own separate villages interspersed.

The consuls indulged the ardour of the legions, well knowing that the raw troops of the enemy, mixed with veterans dispirited by defeat, would be incapable even of attempting a contest.

Would he join, as one of two householders, in making a representation to the proper authorities? Elsley had never mixed in local matters: and if he had, he knew nothing of how to manage men, or to read an Act of Parliament; so, angry as Tom was inclined to be with him, he found it useless to quarrel with a man so utterly unpractical, who would, probably, had he been stirred into exertion, have done more harm than good.

Let the mixed race which we see here, from black to almost perfect white, springing from white fathers, answer the question.

"There's some sort of orangy liquid I mixed up from some other powder, too!

[Illustration] A monastery, I must tell you, was a place where a number of men lived together away from the rest of the world, in order, as they thought, to devote themselves more to the service of God, than if they were mixed up with the business and pleasure of life.