"Why, my hands are as black as a sip," sighed she; as if she could have expected anything else.

If she was slight, however, she was endowed with unconquerable tenacity and courage, and she would have killed herself with hard work to provide him with the coffee and cognac which he liked to sip after each repast.

Now let me take another instance, and suppose that you were sent for the milk in the morning, and took just a little sip while you were carrying it home; how would that be as regards your future state?" "Hell fire!" repeated the boy.

" "And that in the end he'll get his hair cut?" Mr. Tutt took a sip from the tumbler of malt and relit his stogy.

A sip of water taken at convenient intervals, and held in the mouth for a moment or two, will relieve the dryness of the throat during the use of the voice.

On Saturdays I never left to wander far away I hovered near the kitchen door on Mother's baking day; The fragrant smell of cooking seemed to hold me in its grip, And naught cared I for other sports while there were sweets to sip; I little cared that all my chums had sought the brook to fish; I chose to wait that moment glad when I could scrape the dish.

Where the jackass laughs in the old gum tree, And our quart-pot tea we sip; The saddle was our childhood’s home, Our heritage the whip.

I watched both men take a sip, and saw them set down their glasses with a thoroughly satisfied air.

"Couldn't we go into Papasito's garden one little minute, and take one sip from the fountain, and just one little walk round the orange-grove?"

The townspeople will sit about at small, white tables and listen to the music while they sip their beer or drink their coffee.

With love the finest particle is rife, And deftly woven in the woof of life, In throbbing dust or clasping grains of sand, In globes of glistening dew that shining stand On each pure petal, Love's own legacies Of flowering verdure, Earth's sweet panoplies; By love those atoms sip their sweets and pass To other atoms, join and keep the mass With mighty forces moving through all space, Tis thus on earth all life has found its place.

Once more, once more, my heart, to sit With Aline's smile and Harry's wit, To sit and sip the cloudy green, With dreamy hints of speech between; Or, may be, flashing all intent At call of some stern argument, When the New Woman fain would be, Like the Old Male, her husband, free.

Besides, 'tis farther observable that the delicate Spirits among us, who declare against these nauseous proceedings, sip Tea, and put up for Critic and Amour, profess likewise an equal Abhorrency for Punning, the ancient innocent Diversion of this Society.

Mr. Stevens remained quiet for a few moments, whilst his ragged visitor continued to leisurely sip his brandy and contemplate the soles of his boots as they were reflected in the mirror abovethey were a sorry pair of boots, and looked as if there would soon be a general outbreak of his toesso thin and dilapidated did the soles appear.

In richness and variety it is quite equal to any of its predecessors; and we promise our readers an occasional sip of its original sweets.

Wine, sparkling like the ruby bright, Neither too sweet, nor yet too light; One draught from purple wine we'll sip, And one from beauty's rosy lip!

Take a sip of it.'

Come, and sip it as you go, And let my not-too-gouty toe Join the dance with them and thee In sweet unrationed revelry; While the grocer, free of care, Bustles blithe and debonair, And the milkman lilts his lay, And the butcher beams all day, And every warrior tells his tale Over the spicy nut-brown ale.

For my own part "I took a little sip first.

The old gentleman here rested, and refreshed himself with a sip of the cordial.

Miss Wilkeson giggled, and took a fly's sip from the brim of her glass.

"'This funeral,' said he, 'is over.' "'Yes, yes,' I stammered, and choked over a sip of sherry.

A very grateful sip of sweet the laugh was to the all but friendless apothecary, and the embarrassment that rushed in after it may have arisen in part from a conscious casting about in his mind for somethinganythingthat might prolong her stay an instant.

The meeting was opened in the usual order, by passing to each a crumb of bread and a sip of water, in token of Christian regard.

There's fellowship In every sip Of friendship's brew.