"Dr. Willis tells me that, from what Ellen writes to him of her health, he thinks it would be safer for her to remain abroad another year," said John to me one morning at breakfast.

But I do think it will be safer to burn the letters.

"Lord a-mercy, Jane," he said to his wife, "what is the world coming to?" The world was indeed changing beneath the old man's feet, and the heavens opening as never before in his timewith, he might be right, some assistance from beneath; andit was undoubtedly safer in the kitchen.

It will be far safer too.

It is usually a safer assumption that our observation is in error.

It is much safer than lobbing over the man's headif at all short your ball will be instantly killedand it also gives your partner at the net plenty of time to anticipate any kind of return.

For very many years the black variety has been the better in type; and in breeding, if blacks are desired, it will be safer as a general rule to insist upon the absence of white and black blood in any of the immediate ancestors of the sire and dam.

Flags had been hauled downthe American consul was even asked if he didn't think it would be safer to take down his flagsome of the civic guards, fearing they would be shot on sight if the Germans saw them in uniform, tore off their coats and threw them in the canal.

" "Would it not be better,would it not be safer, if she is in the precarious state you describe, that some one of her own sex should accompany her?" said Nizza.

To kill a hundred women and children makes far more impression than to kill a thousand men, and it is far safer, unless, of course, it is preferred to use them as a screen to protect your own advancing troops from the enemy's fire.

"I must bear it," he answered; "at least it is safer than sitting still.

There are spiritual diseases which coil poisonously among distorted instincts and disordered nerves, and one would be generally safer in standing sponsor for the soul of the gymnast than of the dyspeptic.

He says cross saddle is safer.

"I suppose it really is pretty safe, Captain Clephane?" "Safer than most dangerous things, I believe; and they are the safest, as you know, because you take most care.

If there are eggs still unhatched, the father, when disturbed, takes the little ones away to a safer spot, whilst the mother sticks to the nest.

This fact has led me to think that probably my reputation as a judge of a good article was safer by sticking to the two named, which I shall do until I know there is something better.

He knew all about the Underwoods and knew that his erratic nephew could not be in a safer, pleasanter place.

If Mr. Arnold must change the measure, Chaucer's "Nonnes Preestes Tale" would have been a safer guide to follow.

But experience clearly shows that in all doubtful cases it is safer to let the balance incline in favour of local self-government than the other way.]

Do you want me to baptize the child or not?' 'It would be safer, wouldn't it?' said Mrs. Egan.

This is but a small boat in which we sit and it could not resist the waves of a great storm, but at present it is far safer for us than any land near by.

My life would have been safer in the hands of one I had never seen than in yours, whose mouth and whose eyes for ever ran over with crocodile affection!

Do you know why I hope Fred will decide to return to the East with you and your mother?" "I suppose because we shall all be safer there;" and then she added, forgetting her sorrow for the moment, "that is if we do not go skating to Wolf Glen.

"Then do you wish me to stay here?" "I think it is safer.

The safer position is, to claim that they have done just enough to show what they might have done under circumstances less discouraging.