He dealt largely in the stock of the tax-companies; he lent money to cities in several provinces; he lent money to Ptolemy Auletes, King of Egypt, both before he was expelled from his kingdom by sedition, and afterwards when he was in Rome in 59 and 58, intriguing to induce the senate to have him restored.

Stoicism then was in several ways congenial to the Roman spirit, but in one direction it had an inspiring influence which has been of lasting moment to the world.

Cicero had one boy, and for several years two, to look after, one his own son Marcus, born in 65 B.C., and the other Quintus, the son of his brother, a year older.

Aemilius Paullus had several teachers in his house for this purpose, under his own superintendence.

Nancy has sat up several nights to make it.

At the edge of the road where Mr. Taynton sat, there were standing several thick bushes.

Several other magazine rifles have the box central magazine, but placed in different positions as regards the shoe and the axis of the bore.

In this way several castings have been made from one carbonized material.

In Scotland, no doubt, our chief purifying material is lime, although I know that several of our friends have for some time been using oxide of iron, and perhaps they will favor us with their experience and a statement of the relative cost of lime and oxide.

Ordinarily, brickwork may be divided into brickwork in mortar and in cement; but there are many qualities of mortar and several sorts of cement.

"The material, the vegetable, and the animal world, receive this influence according to their several capacities.

JOH. appar. suggests wrongly the class; its true class according to its several relations No, or an other independent negative, repeated, its effect No, adv., not to be used with reference to a verb or part.

Only, derivation of; class and meaning of, in its several different relations strictures on the instructions of grammarians respecting the classification and placing of ambiguous use of, (as also of but,) use of, for but, or except that, not approved of by BROWN Not only, not merely but, &c., correspondents.

of the term; several innovators (as BULL., BUTL., et al.) have been fain to discard it, Plural number, of nouns, how formed, of most nouns in Eng., is simple and regular, of nouns ending in a vowel preceded by a vowel, of do.

of, when several persons of the same name are spoken of ("The Stuarts,") of prop.

the terms of relation of, what may be; both usually expressed position of, with respect to the governed word Prepositions, several, dependent on one anteced.

Several vessels, in widely different regions of the seas, had met a long and rapidly moving object, much larger than a whale, and capable of almost incredible speed.

There was no doubt whatever as to the reality of this unknown terror of the deep, for several vessels had been struck by it, and particularly the Cunard steamer Scotia, homeward bound for Liverpool.

Gervaise lasted in this state several months.

"It isn't much work at any one time but it takes several days to get it done.

" "They certainly are bully good," remarked James, taking several more pieces.

The Club was indeed incomplete without the Watkinses, but the members nevertheless were sufficiently amused by several of the "Does"things to dothat one or another suggested.

He said that a ridge like this was one of the best places for planting because it has several exposures to the sun and you can find a spot to suit the fancy of about every plant there is.

"Never mind; Shakspere spelled his name in several different ways," she said encouragingly, "Anyway, we can't tell how this is spelled when Aunt Louise sings it.

He was a person of medium size, with a heavy mustache, and a face darkened by a beard of several days' growth.