Strange, too, that in spite of promises we never received a new one.

Tarquinius, driven on by the blind passion of the woman, began to go round and solicit the support of the patricians, especially those of the younger families: he reminded them of his father's kindness, and claimed a return for it, enticed the young men by presents, increased his influence everywhere both by making magnificent promises on his own part, as well as by accusations against the king.

This rule, the present biographer promises, shall guide his pen throughout the following narrative.

To this it may be sufficient to answer, that the Royal society has not been dissolved by sullen disgust; and the modern academy, at Somerset house, has already performed much, and promises more.

To give a stronger testimony of love Than sickly promises (which commonly In Princes find both birth and burial In one breath) we have drawn you worthy Sir, To make your fair indearments to [our] daughter, And worthy services known to our subjects, Now lov'd and wondered at.

Then it was given out, by mistake, that my lady was dead, and the three ladies showed their brothers Sir Kit's letters, and claimed his promises.

After the election shoals of people came from all parts, claiming to have obliged him with votes, and to remind him of promises he never made.

The tamasha which the snake-charmer promises the sahib will include serpent dances, a fight between a cobra and a mungoose, the inevitable mango tree, and other tricks of juggling.

"She promises to do a thing and she does it, even if the other party is not prompt in stepping forward to attend to his share of the affair.

And the infant school, lately organized under the direction of an admirably qualified teacher, promises to gratify the hearts of parents.

As a general fact, the Christian Indians whom I have known, seize with great simplicity of faith on an Intercessor and his promises.

"The English did not come up to their promises.

They had been assembled in large bodies, by the delusive prophesyings of Elksatawa, and by the not less delusive promises of the agents of the British Indian Department, on the lines, that the Americans were to be driven back to the line of the Illinois, if not of the Ohioan old and very popular idea with the lake Indians from early days.

To ponder and doubt on a thousand points which may occur on such a subject, is something in effect like asking a bond of the Lord, in addition to his promises, that he will preserve the man and his family in all scenes of sickness and dangers, in the forest and out of the forest, scathless.

Germany promises not to annex Belgium.

Germany promises not to annex France.

Germany promises not to annex England.

How long must we pursue a road in which promises are all fetishes in front of us and all fragments behind us?

The day is as yet cool and sweet, and it gives many promises.

It looked back at spring, at the early days when it first felt the promises of life's glory and scarcely dared believe them true, at laughing May, at wide and spacious June, and then the turning of the year.

"Greater is the glory of sunrise than the glory of sunset, for the sunrise promises what shall be, whereas the sunset only tells the glory of the past.

The sunrise promises beautiful days, the sunset looks back upon beauty as if there were nothing in the future to compare with what has just departed.

All true visions are promises, and that which we had was but a glimpse of a Jerusalem we shall one day live in altogether.

DAILY TELEGRAPH."A deeply interesting volume that will stimulate in many readers a desire for that fuller work on his trampings which Mr. Graham promises....

Mr. Graham may feel sure that we look forward eagerly to his next book, in which he promises to tell the full story of his pilgrimage to Jerusalem.