The Maid implored them to persevere, promising the capture of the city within three days.

" The society young lady, watching the scene in sulkiness, notes various faults in each rider and feels that the truly promising pupil of the class is sitting in her chair at that moment; but she says nothing of the kind, contenting herself by asking the master, with well-adjusted carelessness, if it would not be better for the teacher to speak softly.

And you'll go back, promising to come home in a year's time, after you've wound up your business, and leave us all your money.

Many a promising domestic hearth is wreckedsuch is the weakness of human natureby the ignorance or disdain of humble acquirements, or what seem humble to fortunate women, and yet which are really steps to a proud ascendency.

And Legion it was whose advice was taken that they should assault the town in all pretended fairness, covering their intentions with lies, flatteries, and delusive words; feigning things that will never be, and promising that to them which they shall never find.

Old Dalton at first imagined himself in a dream, and it was only when Sullivan, promising to explain all, came over and shook hands with him, and asked his pardon, that the old man understood he was innocent.

Several commissions were entrusted to me, and I went off, promising to return about noon.

When we drove away, after promising the lady a decisive answer within a day or two, he said to me: 'That would never do.

Ben was always kind to his mothera bright, popular, promising boyand though at present he was unable to earn much, in a few years he would be able to earn a good income, and then his mother knew that she would be well provided for.

Don Lopez left us, promising to send a maid with the necessary appointments for Moll's toilette.

As we trudged along the road toward Ravellos, we fell debating on our case, as what we should do next, etc., Don Sanchez promising that we should have redress for our ill-treatment, that his name alone would procure us a supply of money for our requirements, etc., to my great content.

And here I fully thought we were to dawdle away another week at the least, this being a very populous and lively city, promising much entertainment.

'So unfortunate for Mr. Millings,' every one said; 'such a promising young man.' Mary Jane was sent away to a great manufacturing city of the Midlands, where work had been found for her in a cloth factory.

I afterwards learned from Ned, that, ever since the boy had become the owner of a buckskin suit, he imagined that it little comported with the dignity of a person who could sport "sich an illegant suit, to ride in wagins, or walk afoot, whin he ought to ride on horseback, like a gintilmon;" promising, that, if Hal would procure him a mule in Tucson, he would pay him double price on reaching California.

He tried to get Cook to make a longer stay, promising supplies of fresh meat as an inducement, but as such promises had so often been broken before, Cook replied he should leave the next day.

Before they got clear away, however, two canoes came out, and the coast opening up in a more promising manner, they ran in again and found ground in twenty-five fathoms.

Edgar, seeing Cook and King running along the shore, thought it right to detain the second canoe, which unfortunately belonged to Parea, who at the time of the theft was in Clerke's cabin and, promising to obtain the tongs, had immediately left for the shore.

When Miss Wimple would have soothed her, tenderly caressing, and promising her a sister's kindness and protection,a home safely guarded from intrusion, Madeline assailed her savagely, bidding her be off, with her smooth treachery, her pretty lies.

The continuation of the Cumberland road, the most important of them all, after surmounting no inconsiderable difficulty in fixing upon the direction of the road, has commenced under the most promising auspices, with the improvements of recent invention in the mode of construction, and with the advantage of a great reduction in the comparative cost of the work.

As a matter of fact, the woods around the castle of the Laroques were the remains of the famous forest of Broceliande, and I had always been promising myself a long ramble through this region of romance, but I had never found time to explore it.

The most promising career in a pecuniary sense was still to be found on the stage.

He looks upon his virtuous resolution with a sort of aesthetic satisfaction, and with the glow of a virtuous man contemplating a promising penitent.

"Yes, sir," replied the promising disciple, "but not equal to Fleet Street."

He studied medicine and natural philosophy when very young, and under promising patronage.

" "Not a very promising lead," he said over his shoulder, "but Dan will have the dope for us in a minute.