Arre ye sayin' mate, or is an angel singin'?" "Now I know that man's a Christian," soliloquised Potts.

Mrs. GREEN!" soliloquised I, as I walked away, feelin' as rich as if I held a good fat goverment offis, "if you could only see your old man now, methinks you'd feel sorry that you hid all of his close one mornin' last spring, so he coulden't go and attend a barn raisin'.

"I certainly don't look half so well without my horns," he soliloquised, "and I am sure I shall miss my tail most grievously.

* "Upon my word, if I had known what a business this was going to be, I don't think I should have gone in for it," soliloquised the Devil, as, wearing his captive's semblance and installed in his apartments, he surveyed the effects to which he now had to administer.

[Soliloquising. ACADEMICO.

[Soliloquises.] MEN.

he soliloquised in an undertone as he relieved me of my horse.

The Scout Officer soliloquises: The lights begin to leap along the lines, Leap up and hang and swoop and sputter out; A bullet hits a wiring-post and whines; I wish to Heaven that I was not a Scout!

I soliloquise my meditations, and habitually speak dramatic blank verse without meaning it.

[Footnote 36: The fierce Hugh Capet, soliloquising about the Virgin in the tones of a lady in child-bed, is rather too ludicrous an association of ideas.

Then the Warwickshire man began soliloquising again, somewhat after this manner: "'In his brain He hath strange places crammed with observation, The which he vents in mangled forms.'"

Thus soliloquising he opened the letter, and was soon deeply absorbed in its contents.

he soliloquised; "on intimate terms too, apparently; it is very singular; I will wait Miss Ellstowe's return, and ask an explanation.

(While the rest are engaged in a wild kind of talk, John advances to the front of the stage and soliloquises.)

Whenever any of the characters is left alone on the stage, he begins to soliloquise in the stanza of Gray's Churchyard Elegy.

With the aid of a tin pail of water and a cracked queensware bowl, he made a hasty toilet, soliloquised an opinion of a dressing-room without a mirror, and descended the creaking stairs to the level below.

"While she admits no lover," Lord Townley soliloquises [for my lady is at least virtuous] "she thinks it a greater merit still, in her chastity, not to care for her husband; and while she herself is solacing in one continual round of cards and good company, he, poor wretch, is left at large to take care of his own contentment.

Passing the cabouse, I heard the negro steward soliloquising, and on looking in, perceived him cutting a hen's throat with the most heartfelt satisfaction, as he grinned and exclaimed, by way of answer to its screams, "Poor feller!

soliloquised Mistress Pauncefort; 'and what could he have to say to Miss Venetia!

' '"Plantagenet!"' soliloquised Herbert. '

Whilst on shore getting observations for the errors of the chronometers in the afternoon, I could not avoid soliloquising as I gazed on the ship lying surrounded by lofty rocky heights, that towered above her masts till they appeared mere sticks.

" "Young nieces," soliloquised Matilda, looking pensively at Bridget and Mary.

"He looks dull, decidedly dull, since Miss Graham left them," soliloquised John Mortimer.

Then "Master" (as the Sporting Times would irreverently speak of him) soliloquises over Master's father's coffin.

I do not say that Casey soliloquised in this manner while he was sweating there in the mud under hot midday.