"Well, it so happened, one hot day, while cruising in the Gulf of Mexico, that the news came to us that old Sadler was dead; and sure enough it was so, for the old fellow had quietly slipped his moorings, and, as we all hoped, had at last gone to where the sweet little cherub sits up aloft who looks out for the soul of poor Jack.

The mistress of the house chides a servant, rebukes or comforts a child, sits with her embroidery, chaffers with an itinerant merchant or with the clerk from a store, all in plain sight and hearing of the passer-by.

There is that jewel of his race, whom I have called for convenience the Koh-i-noor, (you understand it is quite out of the question for me to use the family names of our boarders, unless I want to get into trouble,)I say, the gentleman with the diamond is looking very often and very intently, it seems to me, down toward the farther corner of the table, where sits our amber-eyed blonde.

Two divine cherubs look up from below, and in her arms sits the sacred child.

Her countenance, unearthly in its loveliness, expresses the tenderness of a young mother, as she sits with one finger pressed on her rosy lip, watching his slumber.

On one side sits History, writing on a tablet; on the other, stand the two brother-angels, Death and Immortality.

It sits at the base of the rock, on the water's edge, and can be seen far over the waves.

Opposite there sits a woman, weary and wan, draped from neck to foot in the thin raiment Botticelli loved.

Hard is the heart that does not melt with ruth, When care sits, cloudy, on the brow of youth; When bitter griefs the female bosom swell, And Beauty meditates a fond farewell To her lov'd native land, prepar'd to roam, And seek in climes afar the peace denied at home.

(Walks about in great agitation,recovering his calmness a little, sits down.)

Proud Maisie is in the wood Walking so early; Sweet Robin sits on the bush Singing so rarely.

When an English clergyman sits at his breakfast-table reading his Times or Mail, his attitude towards the news of the day is conditioned not by his belief or doubt that he who uttered certain commandments about non-resistance and poverty was God Himself, but by the degree to which he has been trained to watch the causation of his opinions.

The examination and cross-examination of the witnesses are carried on under rules of evidence which are the result of centuries of experience, and which give many a man as he sits on a jury his first lesson in the fallibility of the unobserved and uncontrolled inferences of the human brain.

By the fire sits the PIPER, on a tree-stump seat, stitching at a bit of red leather.

Left, sits a group of three forlorn Strollers.

[The PIPER looks at him and backs away; sits down helplessly and looks at him again.

BARBARA sits up, plainly bewildered; then she sees the PIPER, and says happily: BARBARA Oh!you have come to save me.

[MICHAEL watches, with jealous wistfulness, from the road (left rear).BARBARA half fearfully sits up, on the bank by the well.

She looks about her, holds up the bell and shakes it once softly, covering it with her fingers again; then she sits wearily down at the foot of the ruined shrine and covers her face, with a sharp breath.

swinging Sits a bird, with joyful-swelling throat; Only to the eye and heart he's singing; Through the roar below I hear no note.

He sits patiently, like an angler, on a post at the head of a wharf, or on a branch of a tree that extends over the bank, and, leaning obliquely, with extended head and beak, he watches for his finny prey.

The little Irish beggar that comes barefoot to my door; the mouse that steals out of the cranny in the wainscot; the bird that in frost and snow pecks at my window for a crumb; the dog that licks my hand and sits beside my knee.

My father sits in the dark.

He comes in here and sits all alone; drawing with caption.

And within two years, according to the law of the headsman, must you not also don the Red and the Black and stand at the Duke's left hand, as your father at his right, when he sits in judgment?