That is the trouble;love-sick-ness blinds her to the truth.

Spinster, wife, and widow, they had every one been warped by the testy just-so-ness of the old maid.

" "I know it, papa, and I do think that selfish ness is the worst fault there is; and though I fight against it, do you know I sometimes think that living here alone with you, and having my own way in everything, is making me rather a selfish individual myself.

At Oak Run, their railroad station, they found Jack Ness, the Rover's hired man, awaiting them with the big sleigh.

spluttered Jack Ness, straightening up and twisting his shoulders.

The boys passed the day as best they could in reading and playing games, and in snowballing each other and Jack Ness and Aleck Pop.

" "Can't no hoss git through these drifts," came from Jack Ness.

I say nothing of the personal wretched-ness of a debtor, which, however, has passed into a proverb.

In the year 1779, in the twenty-ninth year of his age, was his first appearance in the ministry, in great fear and broken-ness of spirit: but being obedient to the manifestations of truth, he experienced an advancement therein, and was a good example, adorning his profession by a circumspect life.

When we came up out of the earth at Kings Cross, I saw a busy-ness such as I had never seen before.

[**ea ness in original] and rapidity with which it was thrown off the mind of the writer, exhibits rather the fervour of an eloquent advocate, than the laboriousness of a minute biographer.

my wife cried, as Mrs. Brede sobbed on her shoulder, "why didn't you tell us?" "W-W-W-We didn't want to be t-t-taken for a b-b-b-b-bridal couple," sobbed Mrs. Brede; "and we d-d-didn't dream what awful lies we'd have to tell, and all the aw-awful mixed-up-ness of it.

To the Longstone might with truth be attributed the opening lines of Kipling's poem, "The Coastwise Lights": "Our brows are bound with spindrift, and the weed is on our knees, Our loins are battered 'neath us by the swinging, smoking seas; From reef, and rock, and skerry, over headland, ness, and voe, The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go.

The testimony of Messrs. Doddridge, Powell, and Alexander, of Virginia, Chief Justice Cranch, and Judges Morsell and Van Ness, of the District, has already been given.

Eet is bad beez-ness, dis Conjur' House.

By the adding of ness, ity, ship, dom, or hood: as, good, goodness; real, reality; hard, hardship; wise, wisdom; free, freedom; false, falsehood. 2.

VAN NESS, BETHANN FARIS.

Bethann Faris Van Ness (E); 3Oct55; R156836.

VAN NESS, BETTIANN FARIS.

VAN NESS, BETHIANN FARIS.

DALY, ARTHUR J. Horsie, keep your tail up, keep the sun out of my eyes, by Clarke Van Ness, pseud. of C. V. Clark, and Arthur J. Daly.

C. V. Clark (Clarke Van Ness) (A); 14Mar63; R312349.

VAN NESS, CLARKE, pseud.

God demands unity in spirit and one-ness in purpose.

' "'Good-ness gra-cious!' says Percival.