And so he came in retrospect in due time to the moment when he had come to the porch and had looked in through the window to take his last farewell of her; when he had seen her standing at Gratton's side.

For how far may such a retrospect be extended?

This doctrine appeared inexpugnable; but it now seemed to me, on retrospect, that my teachers had occupied themselves but superficially with the means of forming and keeping up these salutary associations.

And now, on a calm retrospect, I can perceive that the men were less in fault than we supposed, and that we had expected too much from them.

'As to your complaints of my diffidences, and the like, I appeal to your own heart, if it be possible for you to make my case your own for one moment, and to retrospect some parts of your behaviour, words, and actions, whether I am not rather to be justified than censured: and whether, of all the men in the world, avowing what you avow, you ought not to think so.

When we take a retrospect of what was then our condition and contrast this with its material prosperity at the time of the late Presidential election, we have abundant reason to return our grateful thanks to that merciful Providence which has never forsaken us as a nation in all our past trials.

He looks back upon the past and the retrospect is a worse than wasted life; and when the future looms up before him he shrinks back from the contemplation, for the sins of the past throw their shadow over the future.

I have been passing in retrospect, the various journeys I have made, but during none has my anxieties to return been so great as this.

Idolatry such as ours for a child, was fit to be rebuked, and the severity of the blow led me to take a retrospect of life, such as it is too common to defer, but, doubtless, wise to entertain.

I conceived it to be in the highest degree absurd and iniquitous, to cut off a man qualified for the most essential and extensive utility, merely out of retrospect to an act which, whatever were its merits, could not be retrieved.

It was rather in retrospect, in his memory of her sweet and earnest face, the tones of her voice, the shine of her hair.

Ordinary anniversaries lead to retrospect: after a year of the greatest of all wars it is natural to indulge in a stock-taking of the national spirit, and comforting to find that, in spite of disillusions and disappointments, the alternation of exultations and agonies, the soul of the fighting men of England remains unshaken and unconquerable.

But when we turn to other aspirations the retrospect is more cheerful.

For this once, by your leave, we won't "can" the sentiment,to use an idiom in which you are the master-artist on this continent,but I, at least, will luxuriate in retrospect, as I write your name by way of dedication to this volume of essays, for some of which your quick-firing mind is somewhat more than editorially responsible.

Nothing in retrospect is so barren as a life lived in accordance with the hypocrisies of society.

"Nought so sweet as melancholy," sings an old poet, and, while the melancholy of the exercise is undoubted, there is at the same time an undeniable charm attaching to those moods of imaginative retrospect in which we summon up shapes and happenings of the vanished past, a tragic charm indeed similar to that we experience in mournful music or elegiac poetry.

To recall certain magic moments out of the past is to run a risk of making the happiest present seem like a desert; and for most men, I imagine, such retrospect is usually busied with some fair face, or perhapsbeing menwith several fair faces, once so near and dear, and now so far.

SMITH, NORA A. A Thanksgiving retrospect; or, Simplicity of life In old New England.

SEE Lawrence, D. H. Retrospect; an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books.

Once when they were alone, her softened heart would have confessed to Herbert this painful conviction, but he was too happy and too generous to permit her for a moment to indulge in such a remorseful retrospect.

Because we realize completely only in retrospect, it may well be that the present exists chiefly for the sake of the future.

Considered in leisurely retrospect, that visit offered quite a number of problems that called for elucidation.

And then, that we have followed them We more than half suspect, So intimate have we become With their dear retrospect.

RETROSPECT.

There was, however, one incident that I found unpleasant in the retrospect.

In addition to these sensations, you will find, if you introspect carefully enough, that your mind also contains a number of ideas and imaginings; thoughts about the paragraph you just read or about one of your lessons.

If you introspect carefully, you will undoubtedly discover that many of your annoying lapses of attention can be traced to such conditions.