why sink, whene'er we meet? Soph.

While the preparation for war must be completed irrespectively of the political influences of the day, the military power of the probable opponents marks a limit below which the State cannot sink without jeopardizing the national safety.

" "I would fight with proadswords, and sink point on the first plood drawn- like a gentlemans.

they must instantly (on a fair comparison) sink many degrees below zero in the scale of contempt.

A few years since, a place was pointed out to the writer, on the borders of Scotland, which had been even within the "memory of the oldest inhabitant," used for the "trial" of witches; and a pool of water in an adjacent stream is still to be seen, where the poor old creatures were dragged to sink or swim; and our informant added, that a very great number had perished on that spot.

Well, let's sink dull care

Though this occurs but seldom, when the barometer falls low, the hearts of the owners of property and of the people who have experienced a disaster of this kind sink.

De owner he don't care if de vessel sink mit de insurance.

When the revised list was issued the response to the inquiry, "Hullo, is that Sink?" was met by a "No, this is Smack," that crashed through the thickest intellect.

But he had scarcely planted himself on it, had scarcely a moment to congratulate himself, on seeing, amid a wild chaos of cliffs and woods, the gloomy ruins of Geierstein, with smoke arising, and indicating something like a human habitation beside them, when, to his extreme terror, he felt the huge cliff on which he stood tremble, stoop slowly forward, and gradually sink from its position.

The vanquish'd fires withdraw from every place, Or, full with feeding, sink into a sleep: Each household genius shows again his face, And from the hearths the little Lares creep.

The "Swan" was knocked all to bits, and we saw the "Maid" sink.

'He's only swearing at us, sir, and asking what right we have to sink his ship.' 'Tell him he'd better inquire of Enver Bey,' was the grim reply, and Ken faithfully repeated the remark, only to hear a volley of curses called down on Enver's head as well as on his own.

And he said thisThat he would not have told us at all except for the fact that he thinks it brutal of Enver to send civilians into the firing line, and that he hopes, in case you find it necessary to sink the trooper, that you will allow the men to escape with their lives.

Commander Strang gave an order, and a little row of bunting ran up on the tiny mast of the submarine. '"Heave to, or I'll sink you," that means,' observed Ken's friend.

It's on the cards I might sink him and come back again and pick you up.'

In a trice G2 began to sink, and within an incredibly short space of time she had dipped out of sight beneath the sea, and the boat lay alone on the surface, rocking slightly to the send of the small gray waves.

'The safest way will be to haul off and sink them,' he said to a Turk who stood beside him.

'Zey would sink us.'

" "Tie a stone to it and sink it in the river," urged Wilbur.

"You'll sink up to your waist!

"How much farther down do you think we shall sink?"

The enemy's guns would sink in it.

"It's not surgery!" said one of the young surgeons, coming out of the operating-theatre and washing his hands at the kitchen sink; "it's butchery!" He told me that he had never seen such wounds or imagined them, and as for the conditions in which he workedhe raised his hands and laughed at the awfulness of them, because it is best to laugh when there is no remedy.

The sink was used as a wash-place by surgeons, chauffeurs, and stretcher-bearers.