Too slowly for counting they raise little islands from the bog and reclaim the land.

For it is not to be imagined, that any law will immediately reclaim the dispositions, or reform the appetites of the people.

Oons, Jack, is there impiety in seeing me?Would it not be the highest act of piety to reclaim me?

He had done so largely as an experimentto see whether his influence would thereby be strengthened with those in his own congregation and beyond it whom he wished to reclaim from intemperance.

In a letter of this date from Mr. J.D. Stevens, of the Mission of Michilimackinac, he suggests a colony to be formed at some point in the Chippeway country of Lake Superior, and inquires whether government will not patronize such an effort to reclaim this stock.

It possesses adaptabilities for the highest display of artificial culture, amid the greatest wonders of Nature that the world affords, and is beautified by the grandeur of the most extensive mountain scenery, and not many years can elapse before the march of civil improvement will reclaim this delightful solitude, and garnish it with all the attractions of cultivated taste and refinement.

" "But can nothing be done to reclaim her?" asked Faith, eagerly.

One interesting feature of this plan to reclaim the desert is found in the character of the water to be utilized.

The sad melancholy of these wretches, depicted upon their countenances, the flight of some, and the death of others, do not reclaim their masters; they wreak upon those who remain, the vengeance which they can no longer exercise upon the others.

THIS CLAUSE WAS EXPRESSLY INSERTED TO ENABLE THE OWNERS OF SLAVES TO RECLAIM THEM.

In her desire to reclaim Marmaduke also, she entrusted the letter to George, who undertook to deliver it, and further Julia's project by personal persuasion.

He was a perfect drunkard, helpless, poor; his friends' best efforts to reclaim' him were of no avail.

"Some natures the more pains a man takes to reclaim them, the worse they are."L'ESTRANGE: Johnson's Dict., w. Pains.

Efforts were made, with infinite trouble, to reclaim him, which would be successful for a time,and then again he would slip away into the mud.

On coming back from Nancy I went to reclaim my bag and rug.

John Saltram would recover, to seek and reclaim his wife, and then those two must needs pass for ever out of Gilbert Fenton's life.

But civilization is again advancing to reclaim the lost town and to revive the memory of the wilderness wanderer who helped to found it.

We had not time to go after them; but Rondon remarked that as soon as he again came to the neighborhood he would take some soldiers, hunt up the Indians, and reclaim the dog.

Milton has touched this subject with so chaste and elegant a pen, that the description, one would think, must confirm the husband in his happiness, and reclaim the man of profligate and licentious principles: "Hail, wedded love!

If for instance a suicide is recognised, his relations or friends may reclaim him, take him home, and bestow the rites of sepulture on him at his own house?' "'No, the Morgue does not give back what has been once deposited here.

Yes, gentlemen, it is in abuses themselves that there is to be found a mine of wealth which the state has a right to reclaim and which must serve to restore order.

The glorious sun seeks not to reclaim the lustre his rays have given to the tiny dewdrop.

And indeed I should be glad to have them handled a little tenderly at the first; but if fair means will not prevail, there is then no other Way to reclaim them, but by making use of some wholesome Severities; and I think it is better that a Dozen or two of such good-for-nothing Fellows should be made Examples of, than that the Reputation of some Hundreds of as hopeful young Gentlemen as my self should suffer thro' their Folly.

At first, all the women in the hotel had petted him; but with their own cares and ailments to reclaim them they let the invalid fall to the peculiar charge of the childless widow who had nothing else to do, and was so well and strong that she could look after the invalid Professor of Archaeology (at the Champlain University) without the fatigues they must feel.

Fenwick started, made a half-movement as though to reclaim his property, and then withdrew his hand.