"His father was a captain in thethe regiment," said the old gentleman rather pompously.

Georgie loved the red coats, and his grandpapa told him how his father had been a famous soldier, and introduced him to many sergeants and others with Waterloo medals on their breasts, to whom the old grandfather pompously presented the child; as on the occasion of their meeting with Colonel Rawdon Crawley and his little son.

" "Ahem!" said Frank pompously, as he arose.

" "Dr. Blundell," said Sir Timothy, pompously, "when I took the very unusual step of leaving home the day before yesterday, I had resolved to follow the advice you gave me.

"You will give John a wrong impression of our worthy neighbours, Mary," said Sir Timothy, pompously.

He took a step towards me, and gravely and rather pompously shook me by the hand.

Two nominal armies were formed, and two generals appointed to the command; and it is impossible to resist a smile of mingled amusement and admiration on reading the exact statement of the forces, so pompously and so effectively announced as forming the armies of Utrecht and Gorcum.

" "We're the voice of justice," said Judge Lodge pompously.

The pompously celebrated religious festivals were the only events that sometimes chequered the wearisome monotony.

"I have," announced Abner, pompously.

"Don't mention to me Mr. James Greely of the Millings National Bank!" Babe rose pompously.

These poems, by dint of puffing, reached a third edition; and though Mr. Coleridge pretends now to think but little of them, it is amusing to see how vehemently he defends them against criticism, and how pompously he speaks of such paltry trifles.

The little ones avoiding dexterously the appetites of their big friends, and these moving pompously, but warily, seeking what they might devour.

"It looks well," he said to Miss Bertram, a little pompously; "for the boys to have a man at their back, and I will have a few words with the principal myself about Roy's delicacy of constitution.

He laughed pompously at his own wordsthe others joining.

"Let your da' not worry," said the fat gombeen man pompously to Paddy.

But the uncle paid no attention to her words, and continued his walk on the side of the cloister bathed by the sun, talking pompously on his favourite theme, the present poverty of the Cathedral and its greatness In former times.

Let us seeapart from the material result of the professionwhy do you become soldiers?" "For the sake of glory!" said the cadet pompously, remembering the harangues of the colonel director of the academy.

This was the amiable purpose of the pompously-named "Statute of Kilkenny", passed by about a score of these colonists in 1367.

Their inquiries were prosecuted in various directions, and always with great caution, for all the tribes of the Iroquois, or, as they pompously called themselves, the Five Nations, being allies of Great Britain, were inveterate in their hostility to the Americans.

What avails to know?'" reply I, pompously spouting a line out of some forgotten poem that has lurked in my memory, and now struts out, to the anger and discomfiture of Mr. Musgrave.

" "And at 'Amen,' he would awake to find himself famous," says Algy, pseudo-pompously.

" "All Southerners do that," said Malcolm, pompously, "and I think it sounds lots better than the way Yankees talk.

From that time Colonel Prosper La Vigne fell gracefully back into his proper position, and I talked away fluently enough with his lady, as he pompously called his wife.

"I am also an angler," but, pompously, "I am a fisher of men."