I say it is a swindle: they didn't give any account of that fourth eleven match against Robertson's second, and they made fun of us in the 'Quad Gossip,' and said that in 'The Happy Family' there was a preponderance of monkey."

The guide, when he came, said that he would take them in five days to a place whence they should see the sea; if not, he would consent to be put to death.

He said that 'annihilation was better for the wicked than everlasting punishment,' and to that I assented.

It may also be said that a fable is nothing else than a false discourse shadowing forth the truth: for a fable is the image of truth.

The bruising deacon who said that grace was a good thing, but that that knocking down an impertinent member was a better didn't miss the bull's eye of natural philosophy very far.

"Mother," said that young person breathlessly, "I must tell you what I didn't tell at the time, for fear of troubling you.

" Mr. Davis almost smiled, and then, suddenly remembering his wasted twenty years, shook his head grimly over the friendship that attached itself to easy-chairs and glasses of ale, and said that there was plenty of it about.

But though they say walls have ears, I have never heard it said that they have tongues.

I have already said that it was a large room, and when I add that it was lighted only by two candles, which stood upon the table in the centre, some idea will be afforded of its general dreariness.

(I should have said that before the Queen came I called on Dr Haviland, also on Scholefield, also on the Master of Christ's.)

I have heard it said that the Germans eat ants.

Speaking to him about it, he said that he once struck a slave so as to put one of her eyes entirely out.

He had often said that, if he were killed in battle, he wished to be buried where he fell.

Some said that it was salt because of the sea and others that it was salt with mariners' tears.

She said that she liked me a twelvemonth ago!

We lingered long at that noon meal,fifteen minutes, at the very least; for you hospitably said that you did not have these little social festivals very often,owing to frequent illness in the family, and other causes,and mast make the most of it.

Burke once said that he did not know how to draw up an indictment against a whole people; but these, apparently, have no difficulty in drawing up an indictment against the whole Church.

We know a poet has said that, if she sang by day, she might be thought to sing no more sweetly than the wren.

" Jonas asked Rollo a great many questions about all the people at homehis father and mother, and his cousin Lucy; and he said that he was very glad indeed, that Rollo had come to see him.

Indeed, he said that my conceptions of culture were not as clear-cut as he had hoped.

" "I hope," say I, anxiously, "that you will never tell any one that I said that.

That morning the pilot of the admirals ship said that they were now 578 leagues west from the island of Ferro.

In her restlessness she presently said that she would go out to the ghyll and sit by the water a little.

Thousands had said that somehow a person felt better after he had seen Anton Lang.

It is said that shells as big as fans are found on its shores, from which pearls, sometimes the size of a bean or an olive, are taken.