" A sound escaped her like the rising moan of a gale up a flue; then she sat down against trembling that seized her and sent ripples along the iridescent sequins.

" He kissed her lightly, perking up her shoulder butterflies of green sequins, and standing off to observe.

" "Nay, this will not sufficethou art known to be abounding in sequins; one of thy race and riches will never refuse a sure loan with securities as certain as the laws of Venice.

A thousand sequins, and that quickly.

You are now my debtor some six thousand sequins, and were I to make this loan of money in trust, and were you to return ittwo propositions I make on suppositiona natural love for my own might cause me to pass the payment to account, whereby I should put the assets of Levi in jeopardy.

" "Settle that as thou wilt with thy conscience, Hoseathou hast confessed to the money, and here are jewels for the pledgeI ask only the sequins.

As the pledges offered were really worth the sum to be received, Hosea thought, taking the chances of recovering back his ancient loans, from the foreign estates of the heiress, into the account, the loan would be no bad investment of the pretended sequins of his friend Levi.

"Nay, I have mistaken thy character!" said Donna Florinda, secreting the sequins, and taking the unresisting hand of the silent girl.

" "'Tis well, thou wilt find a hundred sequins in this sack.

Pounds sterling, Pagodas, Rupees, Fanams, Xeraphims, Laris, Juttals, Matte, Reis, Rials, Cruzadoes, Sequins, Pice, Budgerooks, and Dollars of different values were all brought into the official accounts.

But he answered the murmur by a laugh; and stopping in front of a beggar, who lay at the corner of an hospital roaring out for alms, demanded the instant loan of fifty sequins.

The beggar lifted up his hands and eyes in speechless wonder, and then shook out his rags, which, whatever else they might show, certainly showed no sequins, "The sequins, or death!"

The beggar lifted up his hands and eyes in speechless wonder, and then shook out his rags, which, whatever else they might show, certainly showed no sequins, "The sequins, or death!"

The beggar fell on the ground convulsed, and from his withered hand, which every one had seen empty the moment before, out flew fifty sequins, bright as if they had come that moment from St. Mark's mint.

I demand a hundred sequins.

He received it; and striking away a projecting stone in the wall, out rushed the hundred sequins.

Here, you fellow!" said he, turning to one of the half-naked soldiery, "lend me five hundred sequins!"

At the third blow a burst of gold poured out, and sequins ran in every direction.

But their devotions were not long, for the sublime podesta ordered the hall to be cleared, and himself, the stranger, and the sequins, left alone.

The blowing-up of his little steam-boat, which had nearly furnished his drama with a tragic catastrophe, added to its effect; and his discovery of the sequins was managed by three of his countrymen.

He selected the fairest of his slaves, a well-rounded woman of great physical charm, and bribed her with a girdle of sequins.

Soon after they plundered the Malabar ship, out of which they took as much money as came to £200 sterling a man, but missed 50,000 sequins, which were hid in a jar under a cow's stall, kept for the giving milk to the Moor supercargo, an ancient man.

According to Clavigero, this plate was thirty palms of Toledo in circumference and was worth 10,000 sequins, representing what he calls the Mexican centary, or rather cycle of fifty-two years, and having the sun in the centre.

" "As a Greek girl covers her head with sequins to show the amount of her fortune, and an English girl puts a rose in her hair for grace and beauty only," said I, fancying that I had made rather a clever observation.

Gold we rarely saw, but golden sequins (zecchini) were in existence, and were traditionally used, as it was said, for I have no experience in the matter, in the payment by the government of prizes won in the lottery.

But a brutal sequence of events in 1914 showed themif they had not been convinced during the preceding three yearsthat they had drawn false conclusions from their observations.

There is nothing to prove that these four sonnets on Night were composed in sequence.

In the present volume I have endeavored to set before the reader the conception of a sequence of creative action commencing with the formation of the globe and culminating in a vista of infinite possibilities attainable by every one who follows up the right line for their unfoldment.

This is a big thing, and if it is possible at all it must be by some sequence of cause and effect, and this sequence it is our object to discover.

This is a big thing, and if it is possible at all it must be by some sequence of cause and effect, and this sequence it is our object to discover.

What we are in search of, then, is a sequence of cause and effect so universal in its nature as to include harmoniously all possible variations of individual expression.

This primary necessity of the Law for which we are seeking should be carefully borne in mind, for it is obvious that any sequence which transgresses this primary essential must be contrary to the very nature of the Law itself, and consequently cannot be conducting us to the exercise of true creative power.

Before we pursue further the sequence of events, two passages from the diary may be here transcribed, which could not have been inserted in the order of time without interrupting the narrative.

" But a hooped skirt with a history, touching and teaching, is no theme for flippancy; so, by your leave, I will unwind my story tenderly, and with reverential regard for its smooth turns of sequence.

'That's the objection to them,' answered the beauty with more sarcasm than grammatical sequence.

Wars and devastations and untold calamities and brutal forces were the natural sequence of barbaric invasions, and of the progressive fall of the old civilization, continued from generation to generation for a period of two or three hundred years, with scarcely any interruption.

Bellman's songs generally form a sequence, a continuous chain of lyrical romance.

Free as he thought himself from superstition, the dream made an uncomfortable impression on him, though he admitted that it was the natural sequence of his waking thoughts.

He saw the oppression they had combated now humbled and overthrown; and he forms the third in a sequence of family renown, the most surprising and the least checkered afforded by the annals of Europe.

So in a single square several plays would be presented in rapid sequence to the same audience.

These may have been the sequence of agitations and wars, but not their animating cause,like the ideas of Rousseau on the French revolutionists.

It simply was the sequence of the revolution, of the appeal of both parties to the sword.

The second revolution of 1688 was the logical sequence of the first.

The gravest charge against them is that they "unknit the sequence of moral cause and effect."

Anything, to make the perspective, the sequence of that seem natural.

Nay, most people write only as though they were playing dominoes; and, as in this game, the pieces are arranged half by design, half by chance, so it is with the sequence and connection of their sentences.

It is his other great work, the sequence of sonnets entitled Astrophel and Stella, which concerns us here.

He analyses the sequence of his feelings with a vividness and minuteness which assure us of their truth.

" and earlier in the sequence "I now have learned love right and learned even so

Let any one who wishes to gauge the sincerity of the impulse of the Stella sequence compare any of the poems in it with those in the romance.