Or maybe he seeks a hilltop for a view of the fields that lie below patched in many colors, as though nature had been sewing at her garments and had mended the cloth from her bag of scraps.

Woe is the Kirk, when her foes shall be of her own household, for it is with the words of the Gospel that he seeks to overthrow the Gospel work.

Skeelty dared not carry out this threat, for fear of a lawsuit, but his men, who had urged the matter of Smith's discharge upon their manager, were of the class that seeks revenge at any cost.

But the mind is so constituted that it does not willingly rest in facts and immediate causes, but seeks always after a knowledge of the remoter links in the chain of causation.

A good musician keeps unremitting command over every possible touch of each key and at the same time seeks sweeping mastery over vast and complex harmonies.

When yon lady seeks her lover In the cold and pearly morn, She will find that he has fallen

Who share the dark communion of the tomb, A kindred genius seeks your dread sojourn; Ye heirs of glory!

thy son, oppress'd so long, is free: He seeks the realms where tyranny is not, And those shall hail him who have died for thee!

" "But let a maid thy pity share, Whom love has taught to stray; Who seeks for rest, but finds despair Companion of her way.

Mr. Rochester is a man who deliberately and secretly seeks to violate the laws both of God and man, and yet we will be bound half our lady readers are enchanted with him for a model of generosity and honour.

Consider how, in his introductions, he first endeavors to shift us to the period and to make us acquainted with the personages; how he then makes his author speak in a way which we already know, akin to our own thought and familiar to our ear; and how, finally, in his annotations, he seeks to explain and to obviate many a detail which might remain obscure, rouse doubt, and be offensive.

Foreigners have sagaciously observed that German authors regard the public less than the writers of other nations, and that, therefore, one can tell from his writings the man who is developing himself, and the man who seeks to create something to his own satisfaction,and, consequently, the character of these two types soon becomes obvious.

He is a ferocious and destructive beast, inhabits the forests, and seeks his prey by watching, or by openly seizing cattle or horses in the enclosures.

When I am safe it may be found, and they will lay it to rest in the earth, if that is what it seeks.

As it is supposed that the evil spirit seeks to obtain possession of the body, musicians are called in to lull it to sleep while preparations are made for its removal.

Once more death bends the fatal bow, Again he seeks a shining mark; Another blooming son lies low, Death steals away the vital spark.

He seeks the dear paternal hearth, To die by his fond parent's side; To him the dearest friends on earth, Who with a smile each tear would hide.

The saint, at twilight's pensive hour, Here seeks the sweet secluded bower; While whisp'ring zephyrs linger near, And waft to heaven the humble prayer.

I wish my true love to see all things clearly, and to be the just and honest man I have always deemed himnot a cynic who seeks a sorry comfort in misfortune by carping at the rest of mankind. FROM MADAME D'ORBE

"It is the king, of course, who seeks to escape," the sailor said.

Thus princes ease their cares; but happier he, Who seeks not pleasure through necessity, Than such as once on slippery thrones were placed; And chasing, sigh to think themselves are chased.

When next he seeks your Presence, indicate to him with that tact which is the birthright of princes that he no longer enjoys your favour.

With the best compressors of the dry system one-half of this loss is saved by water jacket absorption, so that we are left with about 11 per cent., which the slow moving compressor seeks to erase.

[ANSELM hastens after the Jew, and seeks to lead him back.

As he seeks to reduce his stock of money to due proportions by buying more goods, he thereby distributes a part of the excess of money to others.