He was the only real provider ever came my way.

"Consadine's a poor provider," she said plaintively, alluding to her absent husband.

"Maw said to me when I would have him that he was a poor provider; and then he's got into this here way of goin' off like.

Nevertheless, the Government is the sole provider for the army, and assumes the main responsibility of the physical condition of its members.

" I looked around, and it struck me that the trade of the place mainly consisted in chops and steaks for chance customers at mid-day, and tea and cake for those swarms of women who each afternoon buzz around that long line of windows of the "world's provider."

Here is money for my meat, which I would have left on the board when I had made my meal, and parted with prayers for the provider."

Yet why did he not address himself to the soil, man's everlasting provider and nurse?

Yet he seemed a quiet, manageable man, and likelyagain in Mrs. Tipping's phraseto prove a "good provider;" so she had risked his heterodoxy, which indeed was a somewhat fanciful objection on her part, and made him, as he declared with his dying breath, the best of wives.

But seeing that his kind provider looked greatly disappointed, he swallowed a few mouthfuls, and raised the bottle to his lips.

A white man, you know, has that vague hope unconsciously latent in him, that he is, or shall give birth to, the great man of his race, a helper, a provider for the world's hunger: so he grows jealous with his blood; the dead grandfather may have presaged the possible son; besides, it is a debt he owes to this coming Saul to tell him whence he came.

He was a painter and a fine provider.

" No Virginia slaveholder has ever had a better name as a "kind master," and "good provider" for his slaves, than John Randolph.

"Blimey, Joe, if 'ere ain't a blooming Universal Plum-an'-Apple Provider. 'Ere, 'oo stole the strawberry jam?" "You let me in on this ball game," said Rawbon.

Half an hour's delay of "the paper" makes us fret and fume and condemn the fair provider of our breakfastfor over-roasted coffee and stale eggsall because the paper is not "come;" but when would it come without short-hand?

What brought Hans at this time very often to the monastery, was, that his uncle, whose turn it was to be purveyor or provider for the convent, had employed his mother to make what they called writing color or dye, for the copyist.

It did not shock Wilbur Cowan that nations should plunge into another madness the very day after a certain fair one, mentioned in his meditations as "My PearlMy Pearl of great price," and ekefrom the perfume label"My Heart of Flowers," had revealed herself but a mortal woman with an eye for the good provider.

That the Jackal is the "Lion's Provider," entirely, is an erroneous idea; but it is true that the terrific cry of this animal when in chase, rouses the lion, whose ear is dull, and enables him to join in the pursuit of prey.

Joseph the provider.

LOWE-PORTER, H. T. Joseph the provider.

Joseph the provider.

Of the Plains Indians in general Colonel Dodge remarks (20): "Jealousy would seem to have no place in the composition of an Indian woman, and many prefer to be, even for a time, the favorite of a man who already has a wife or wives, and who is known to be a good husband and provider, rather than tempt the precarious chances of an untried man.

The man was the armed protector and provider, the bread-winner; the woman was the housewife and child-bearer.

In the wilderness a husband was almost a necessity to a woman; her surroundings made the loss of the protector and provider an appalling calamity; and the widow, no matter how sincere her sorrow, soon remarriedfor there were many suitors where women were not over-plenty.

In fact, Kittie Fleming told me when I went down to their place after some seed oats, that Grandma Thorndyke had said at the Flemings' dinner table that I was an exemplary boy, in my way, and when I grew up I would make some girl a husband who would be kind and a good provider.

"And is your husband a good provider?" "'Deed he am a good providah, ma'am," was the enthusiastic reply.