Nicholas' father lives here?" "No.

"Nicholas 'fraid, too," she whispered, "when the devil talks.

With that faculty on the part of the unlearned that one is tempted to call "American," a faculty for assimilating the grave conclusions of the doctors, and importing them light-heartedly into personal experience, he realised that what met his eyes here in Nicholas' house was one of the oldest pictures humanity has presented.

What did you give him?" Nicholas' mental processes may not have been flattering, but their clearness was unmistakable.

The Boy felt her inexpressive gratitude, and was glad his journey had been delayed, or else, poor devil Joe had stopped to speak to "Who on earth's that white woman?" "Nicholas' sister.

He would have them to know, so highly were these present specimens of the doubtful race regarded by the Pymeutssuch friends were they, that Nicholas' sister had given him this for an offering to Yukon Inua, that the Great Spirit might help them on their way.

The pilgrims must have built their huts and set up some sort of little oratoryfavored, as was the case even in Pope Nicholas' day, by the excellent quarry of the Circus close at handas near as possible to the great shrine and basilica which they had come so far to say their prayers in, and attracted, too, no doubt, by the freedom of the lonely suburb between the green hill and the flowing river.

He also built the Belvedere in the gardens, and surrounded the whole with strong walls and towers (round), one of which, according to Nibby, still remained fifty years ago, which very little of Nicholas' building has done.

c. Their vigils and fasts, their ceremonies at Christmas, Shrovetide, Candlemas, Palm Sunday, Blaise, St. Martin, St. Nicholas' day; their adorations, exorcisms, &c., will think all those Grecian, Pagan, Mahometan superstitions, gods, idols, and ceremonies, the name, time and place, habit only altered, to have degenerated into Christians.

It proved to be the chequered buoy, St. Nicholas' Gate, off Yarmouth, and opposite his own door, but distant from the land four miles.

Gray, who published his Chorographia, or Survey of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, just three years after this, describes St. Nicholas' as having "a stately, high, stone steeple, with many pinakles, a stately stone lantherne, standing upon foure stone arches, builded by Robert de Rhodes....

He gave to St. Nicholas' Church its great east window; but, on its needing repair in 1860, it was removed entirely, and the present one, in memory of Dr. Ions, inserted; and the only fragment left of Thornton's window is a small circular piece inset in a plain glass window in the Cathedral.

Charles Avison, the musician and composer, was organist of St. John's in 1736, and afterwards of St. Nicholas'.

It closely resembles one belonging to St. Nicholas' Chapel, Lynn, save that the latter is not equal in refinement of detail and proportion, and the bird is less vigorous in pose and modelling.

(There was also an ancient custom of choosing a boy from the cathedral choir on St. Nicholas' Day (December 6) as a mock bishop.

St. Nicholas' Church is a large building in the Decorated and Perpendicular style, much restored.

St. Nicholas' travels; a miraculous biography.

St. Nicholas' travels.

St. Nicholas' travels; a miraculous biography.

St. Nicholas' travels.

Tofte's work, however, while purporting to be 'done into English,' makes no mention of the original author, and though indebted for its form and title to Nicholas' romance does not appear to bear much further resemblance to it.

BOY BISHOP, a boy chosen on 6th December, St. Nicholas' Day, generally out of the choir, to act as bishop and do all his episcopal duties, except celebrate mass.

I said... "and what about Nicholas' inventions?" "He's given them up for ever."

I think that Vera put out her hand to cover Nicholas'.

See Nicholas' Voyage to New Zealand, vol.