5. Building up the place of a home in a community means much more than a rivalry with one's neighbors, as to which one shall have the cleanest house, the prettiest or most expensive curtains and furniture, who shall entertain the most, and whose children shall present the best appearance in the world!

The Laughing Lass was one of the prettiest little schooners I ever saw.

"Johnnie Consadine is the prettiest-behaved gal I ever seen," she announced shrilly.

It seemed to me that to stand among wood-shavings and sawdust, making things at a bench with bright beautiful tools out of nice-smelling wood, was the cleanest, healthiest, prettiest work that any man can do.

One, the prettiest, was a tiny, green-backed little creature, with a crimson crest and a velvet-black band across a bright yellow breast: this one had a soft, low, complaining voice, clear as a silver bell.

We think the tale one of the quietest, prettiest things we have seen.

But if a friend said, "Not so; it dropped from a balloon, or from the clouds;" and told you the prettiest tale of how the bird came to so strange an end, you would answer, "No, no; I must reason from what I know.

The women own, you play'd a sparkling eye, 10 Taught the light foot a modish little trip, And pouted with the prettiest purple lip.

"I ordered the prettiest and the finest in Paris.

I was with Madame d'Esparbès de Lussan, my friend, the most amiable woman in the world, and the prettiest, though she squinted a little, and was slightly deformed.

Here, too, with those who were old enough to be careful in crossing the rustic bridges, I sometimes played on summer afternoons;gathered the prettiest flowers in the sweetest little woods, and dipped my feet into the clear running water.

One of the prettiest was inscribed in a copy of Miss Yonge's "Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe," which he gave to Miss Ruth Dymes: R ound the wondrous globe I wander wild, U p and down-hillAge succeeds to youth T oiling all in vain to find a child H alf so loving, half so dear as Ruth.

Farm work don't even wait on a bride, not even the prettiest bride in the world.

We set the plants out in the box in which they came, and mixed the grass with what cut flowers we had, in the very prettiest receptacle for flowers I ever saw, just given M.

She will be the prettiest widow in Europe before Christmas," said the young count.

Captain Crutchely had a thrifty wife, who had contributed her full share to render her husband comfortable, and Bridget thought that the room in which she was united to Mark was one of the prettiest she had ever seen.

He was immensely and justly proud of her as one of the prettiest, most accomplished, and most attractive women in the Bendras Presidency.

Come, muster your pleasantest smile, my dear, And put on your prettiest gown.

And among the very prettiest and most fetchingly arrayed newcomers you would quickly have noticed three with whom this carriage group exchanged signals.

My Romp, now the most graceful Person of her Sex, assumed a Majesty which commanded the highest Respect; and when she turned to me, and saw my Face in Rapture, she fell into the prettiest Smile, and I saw in all her Motion that she exulted in her Father's Satisfaction.

Mr. SPECTATOR, Now, Sir, the thing is this: Mr. Shapely is the prettiest Gentleman about Town.

The horse they drove was a pony, and the prettiest creature I ever saw, being formed like a full-sized horse, only very small, and with as much fire and spirit and gracefulness as could be got into an animal sixteen hands high.

Her straw hat was trimmed with delicate flowers, and her white muslin dress and pale blue ribbons made her the prettiest picture I ever saw out-of-doors.

Whenever the river twists itself around, as if to show us a new view, old Samivel would say: "Now isn't that the prettiest thing you've seen yet?"

Just ahead of us is another bend, and when we get around that you'll see the prettiest picture you've seen yet.