she had chosen at last between himself and this young fellow, a workman born of workmen, who went about the world building bridges and canals and tunnels and such, in those far countries which were to Colonel Musgrave just so many gray or pink or fawn-colored splotches on the map.

" "Oh! we don't feel at all bored, we have so many things to talk about.

The money was to be returned to-day, but I did not expect to see it, so many previous contracts of that nature having been vacated, as the lawyers call it.

swore pro virginitate regno me donaturum, I should have all he had, house, goods, and lauds, pro concubitu solo; neither was there ever any conjuror, I think, to charm his spirits that used such attention, or mighty words, as he did exquisite phrases, or general of any army so many stratagems to win a city, as he did tricks and devices to get the love of me.

They seemed like so many brilliant meteors rushing through the heavens, or like lightning-flashes during a storm, and this being my first experience of the sort, no words can paint my awe and admiration.

Strangers had not completely overrun her as has since happened; and New York names were honoured; New York feelings had some place among us; life, homes, firesides, and the graves of our fathers, not yet being treated as so many incidents in some new speculation.

Such was the death of him who had been so highly favoured by God in the method by which he was brought back to him after so long and so great an estrangement, and in the progress of so many years, during which (in the expressive phrase of the most ancient of writers,) "he had walked with him;"to fall, as God threatened the people of his wrath that they should do, "with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet."

During the twenty-two years of the existence of that Society, not so many slaves have been emancipated and given to it for expatriation, as are born in a single week.

It was but a little craft, some seventy tons burden, but at a time when so many were putting out to sea in open boats, preferring the wrath of Nature to that of the king, it was a refuge indeed.

There are then so many traits in common, to combine and to reinforce one another, that they prevail to the exclusion of the rest.

To-day I have organised a series of lectures for the winter; the people seem keen and it ought to be exceedingly interesting to discuss so many diverse subjects with experts.

Do you know, now that so many weeks have gone by since they took Jacob away, sometimes I feel that he is true to me somewhere, and that she, that woman, was the one who led him on to do wrong.

She came up to her husband to ask his permission to go out, which he granted, insisting only that she should wrap herself up warm; she turned to me and said with a roguish smile, "You will let Aniela go, will you not?" That Aniela should blush furiously was only natural, but that I, an old stager, a razor sharpened against the strops of so many experiences, should have betrayed so much confusion, I cannot forgive myself.

He'd just like to see this establishment where his name had been uttered so many times!

Individuality of character is most marked, and, varying an old saw, it might be said, so many farmers so many minds.

To say, as so many do in this matter: "Let other nations do it first" is, of course, to condemn us all to impotencefor the other nations use the same language.

Buddha taught that all sin is ignorance, and this teaching has escaped oblivion because its truth has echoed in so many human hearts.

Our Children have been trained up from their Infancy with so many Accounts of their Mothers Family, that they know the Stories of all the great Men and Women it has produced.

So many hindrances may obstruct the acquisition of knowledge, that there is little reason for wondering that it is in a few hands.

It was the dress nuisance which caused nuns to have the preference in so many cases; but I could not see or hear that they ever did anything but make converts to the church and take care of clothing and jellies.

At last, however, encouraged by seeing so many of their own countrymen, two or three of the more courageous ventured to draw near.

They could bring no considerable reinforcement of money, credit, or arms to the rebels; they could at best but add so many mouths to an army whose commissariat was already dangerously embarrassed.

"You see," he explained, "we sell so many lots, from so many different places, that we can hardly keep the run of them.

He had dragged down so many," "And you thinkGuymight have been different but for him?"

Though the vast estuary, which receives the Hudson and so many minor streams, is chiefly made by an indentation of the continent, that portion of it which forms the port of New-York is separated from the ocean by the happy position of its islands.