She is man's aim, his beginning and oft-times his end.

But howhow?" "My lord," spake Sir Fidelis, "I have heard say that few may go where many oft-times may not.

'Tis not for fish alone that man fisheth, for fishing begetteth thought and thought, dreamsand to dream is oft-times sweet!" "ButBenedict, what of the Abbess?" "The Abbess?

" "Sweet children," spake the friar, "this world is oft-times a hard and cruel world, but God is a gentle God and merciful, wherefore as he hath given to man the blessed sun and the sweet and tender flowers, so hath he given him love.

Behold in me no vulgar wizard, no mere astrologer or alchemist, but a compeer of Merlin and Michael Scott, with whose name it may be the nurse of thy infancy hath oft-times quelled thy froward humours.

" "O father," he replied, "I have oft-times heard of your fame for wisdom, and of the great strength of your arm, but the venturous mind which your speeches now indicate moves me even to amazement: for in no wise can it consist with wisdom or a sound mind, that two should try their strengths against a host.

Oft-times I thought to run away; For me it was a woeful day.

And thus it was that Small Porges with his bundle on his shoulder, viewed this tall, dusty Uncle with the eye of possession which is oft-times an eye of rapture.

But soon I learned to wet one eye— Misfortune oft-times made me sigh.

The purpose of the complot which ye tell; For well I wot (compar'd to all the rest Of each degree) that beggers life is best, 180 And they that thinke themselves the best of all Oft-times to begging are content to fall.

Or why doe not faire pictures like powre shew, In which oft-times we Nature see of Art Exceld, in perfect limming every part?

I have oft-times delivered thee, and for all this I ask thee nothing but that thou bear in mind my love.

Now all the time that I did go, there was the shore unto my right; but alway to my left, and around me oft-times as I did say, the great forests.

And in that one day I past thirty and seven boiling springs; but whether they boiled truly, I do have no knowledge; only that they sent out a great steam oft-times; and some did make a strong roaring noise; so that to hear them afar off in the forests was to think odd times that some wild beast roared strangely.

He was nothing if not superlative: his diatribes, now culminating in a very extravaganza of hyperbolenow sailing with loose wing through the downy, witched, Dutch cloud-heaps of some quaintest tramontane Nephelococcugia of thoughtnow laying down law of the Medes for the actual world of to-dayhad oft-times the strange effect of bringing back to my mind the very singular old-epic epithet,

And all that night he attacked Leothric fiercely, and oft-times nearly caught him in the darkness; for his gleaming eyes of steel could see as well by night as by day.

"Well," said Balin, "if I must fight, then must I fight, but a traveling man and his horse are oft-times weary.

Mrs. Barton nursed him admirably; he was kept very neat and nice, and his room always had a clean tidy appearance; but it lacked the little tokens of love which oft-times turn the sick chamber into a kind of paradise.

Many a summer afternoon have I rowed joyously with these same maidens beneath these steep and garlanded shores; many a time have they pulled the heavy four-oar, with me as coxswain at the helm,the said patient steersman being oft-times insulted by classical allusions from rival boats, satirically comparing him to an indolent Venus drawn by doves, whi

I. One morning Miss Lucy, As oft-times before, Went out in the fields With maid Ellenore: II.

When last I roved these winding wood-walks green, Green winding walks, and shady pathways sweet, Oft-times would Anna seek the silent scene, Shrouding her beauties in the lone retreat.

But our father corrected all this, that the learning might do him no harm, for oft-times he brought him to Mekran Kot (where my mother tried to poison him), and he took him across the Black Water and to Kabul and Calcutta and showed him the world.

PLAYMATE We carried Dessauer back to the boat with the utmost tenderness, the Prince walking by his side, and oft-times taking his hand.

"And nothing else?" "No, ma'am, no," answered the nurse; "and if you had, what would it signify?" Madam Melcombe let them settle her in her chair and give her her cordial, then she said "Folks are oft-times known to talk wild in their age.

By sorrow darkened and by care disturbed, Apt likeness bears to hers, through gathered clouds, Moving untouched in silver purity, And cheering oft-times their reluctant gloom.