What the other conditions may have been that enabled Sequoia to establish itself upon these oldest and warmest portions of the main glacial soil-belt, I cannot say.

" "I don't say nothing how her mother treats Vetsburg, her oldest boarder, and for what he pays for that second floor front and no lunches she can afford to cater a little; but that such a girl shouldn't be made to take up a little stenography or help with the housework!

Colonel Musgrave was his mentor throughout the process; and the oldest families of Lichfield very shortly sat at table with the former overseer, and not at all unwillingly, since his dinners were excellent and an infatuated Rudolph Musgravean axiom now in planning any list of guests,was very shortly to marry the man's daughter.

This was the oldest part of all.

"She was," says Dr. Whitaker, "the oldest and most independent courtier in the kingdom," at the time of her death.

On this walk we found two of the oldest and most gnarled hemlocks that ever afforded study for a painter.

In the West, people are not respected merely because they are old in years; people there have not time to keep up appearances in that way; when they cease to have a real advantage in wisdom, knowledge, or enterprise, they must stand back, and let those who are oldest in character "go ahead," however few years they may count.

The town of Arundel is one of the oldest and most beautifully situated in Sussex, that county of ancient towns, and its castle, a wonderful feudal fortress, was originally bequeathed by Alfred the Great to his nephew Adhelm.

In the city itself the most interesting of the old churches is St. Martin's, reputed to be the oldest in England (admission, 6d.).

On the south side is University College, which claims the oldest foundation, although the present building only dates from the seventeenth century.

The oldest portion was erected in the reign of William Rufus and Henry I., and additions were continually made to the fabric until 1534, so that it contains an almost unbroken series of the architectural styles prevailing from the Conquest, yet so wonderfully has the design been managed that no disagreeable effect is produced.

Close to the tower is the large Parish Church, which contains much Decorated Gothic work, although its oldest portions are Norman, the church having been partly rebuilt after the destruction caused by the French in 1380.

It contains a wonderful clock, made in Queen Elizabeth's reign, and said to be the oldest in England still in working order.

Pan. Pan, being one of the oldest of the gods, might well, in an age eager for novelty, expect to be the latest fashion; but the revival of his worship is something far more than a mere vogue.

It was the Yankees made my oldest brother go.

Colonel Radford was his own overseer and Charlie his oldest boy.

They rung the big farm bell and had the oldest niggers stand in a line and us little ones in front so we could all see.

My father lived till I was eleven, and I thought since I was the oldest boy I could take his place of bossin', but my mother would take me down a button hole lower whenever I got too high.

The oldest had an arm and four ribs broken in an auto accident last January on the sixteenth of the month.

One night we was having it at our house, only I was the oldest and was in another room sound asleep on the bed.

'Simon here,' pointing to a big buck of fifty-five sitting on the front porch, 'is Liza's oldest boy.'" Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies [JAMES CORNELIUS Magnolia, Mississippi] James Cornelius lives in Magnolia in the northwestern part of the town, in the Negro settlement.

He is the oldest son of Isaac Johnston, and was named for his grandfather, George Johnston, the youngest son of Isaac Johnson, who lived on his farm, one mile west of the east end of Mason and Dixon's line, as early as 1755.

He was the oldest of four children, namely: Zebulon, a sketch of whose life appears in this volume; Anna Maria, who married James Sewell; and Martha, who married the Reverend William Torbert.

The older men were silenced, and Fenwick was leaning across the table, gesticulating with one hand, and lifting his port-wine with the other, addressing now Lord Findon and now the Ambassadorwho stared at him in amazementwith an assurance that the world only allows to its oldest favourites.

Eugénie was dearer to him than any other human being, and Welbyhis ward, the orphan child of one of his oldest friendshad been from his boyhood almost a son of the house.