I sat one December morning in the library of the Speculative; a very humble-minded youth, though it was a virtue I never had much credit for; yet proud of my privileges as a member of the Spec.; proud of the pipe I was smoking in the teeth of the Senatus; and in particular, proud of being in the next room to three very distinguished students, who were then conversing beside the corridor fire.

"The hours of the day and night," says Steele, (Spec.

I spec' dey mus' be mos' here by dis time, so I 'll git outen de way, fer I don' want nobody fer ter think I wuz mix' up in dis business."

I 'spec' she's lookin' at the picture on the opposite wall, suh.

I didn't spec' no in-trus', but I don' never 'fuse gol' w'en

I can assure you, Mr. SPEC, I was very near being qualify'd to have given you a faithful and painful Account of this walking Bagnio, if I may so call it, my self: For going the other night along Fleet-street, and having, out of curiosity, just enter'd into Discourse with a wandring Female who was travelling the same Way, a couple of Fellows advanced towards us, drew their Swords, and cry out to each other, A Sweat!

He seem'd at first a little uneasy under the Operation, and was going in all haste to take the Numbers of their Coaches; but at length by the Mediation of the worthy Gentleman in the Coach, his Wrath was asswaged, and he prevail'd upon to pursue his Journey; tho' indeed I thought they had clapt such a Spoke in his Wheel, as had disabled him from being a Coachman for that Day at least: For I am only mistaken, Mr. SPEC.

Dear SPEC.

'I cannot conclude my Letter, Dear SPEC., without telling thee one very odd Whim in this my Dream, I saw, methoughts, a dozen Women employed in bringing off one Man; I could not guess who it should be, till upon his nearer approach I discover'd thy short Phiz.

If thou thinkest this Dream will make a tolerable one, it is at thy Service, from, 'Dear SPEC.

'Quis non invenit turbâ quod amaret in illâ?' Ovid, Dear SPEC. 'Finding that my last Letter took, I do intend to continue my epistolary Correspondence with thee, on those dear confounded Creatures, Women.

But now you must know, SPEC.

I say, two or three Touches with your own Pen; for I have really observed, Mr. SPEC, that those Spectators which are so prettily laced down the sides with little c's, how instructive soever they may be, do not carry with them that Authority as the others.

I am, Dear SPEC.

I must confess I suspected something more than ordinary, when upon opening the Letter I found that Will was fallen off from his former Gayety, having changed Dear Spec.

Pray deliver us out of this Perplexity, and among the Multitude of your Readers you will particularly oblige Your most Sincere Friend and Servant, Philo-Spec.

I spec' he was a two faced Yankee or carpetbagger.

I 'spec' nice white folks talked 'bout 'em an' wouldn' have nothin' to do wid 'em.

"Slaves didn' know what to 'spec from freedom, but a lot of 'em hoped dey would be fed an' kep' by de gov'ment.

De white folks say, 'Old Jim is de las' leaf on de tree,' an' I 'spec dey's 'bout right.

Mr. Chisolm send de Kloo Kluxes' names to de Gov'nor an' spec' him to do somethin' 'bout runnin' 'em out.

"I didn' spec nothin' out of freedom 'ceptin' peace an' happiness an' the right to go my way as I pleased.

I spec' its all right.

An' min' what you're about; Or I'll send you to de debil Faster dan you 'spec to go.

'No, missis, me go to hospital; me almost dead and sick so long, 'spec Driver Bran him forgot 'bout de flogging.'

" I remember reading in one of those historical novels once about a chapa buck he would have been, no doubt, or a macaroni or some such bird as thatwho, when people said the wrong thing, merely laughed down from lazy eyelids and flicked a speck of dust from the irreproachable Mechlin lace at his wrists.

"I know you did, Jeeves," I said, laughing down from lazy eyelids and nicking a speck of dust from the irreproachable Mechlin lace at my wrists.

" Jack presently tired of staring at the little speck far down below.

They'll hardly be looking up so as to discover a speck floating past.

"It's takin' mo' at one time an' de white folks 'speck you to take," defined the woman.

Not a speck of dust was allowed anywhere, for Miss Emily's eye was sharp, and woe betide the maid if a mere suspicion of dirt were discovered!

The primness of the whatnot decorated with pieces of treasured china, the big gilt-framed overmantel, and the old punch-bowl filled with pot-pourri, all spoke mutely of the thin-nosed old spinster to whom the veriest speck of dust was an abomination.

She does not take their ploughs and waggons contemptuously, but rather makes every hovel and every sheepfold, every railed bridge or fallen tree-trunk an agreeably noticeable incident; not a mere speck in the midst of unmeasured vastness, but a piece of our social history in pictorial writing.

Now he was the universe, a vast thing loathsome with agony, now he was a speck of dust, an atom whose infinite torment was imperceptible even to God.

This being the case, how is it possible that it should not in some degree affect our feelings towards every one we meet,that it should not leave some speck of leaven on each impression, which shall impregnate it with something that we admire and love, or else with that which we hate and despise?

When I looked again at the reef I espied a small boat, almost a speck outside the coral barrier.

The grim countenances of the seamen in the pinnace soon became confused and indistinct; and then the boat itself began to lessen on the eye, until it seemed no more than a dark and distant speck, rising and falling with the flow and reflux of the blue waters.

The little speck of white, which had first been seen on the margin of the sea, resembling some gull floating on the summit of a wave, had gradually arisen during the last half hour, until a tall pyramid of canvas was reared on the water.

I was too small to notice much change then I speck.

"I been down sickI been right low and they didn't speck me to live.

Dr. Reed Williams and he live at Kew London (SE part of Union County) or ah speck ah bettuh say near New London caise he live on de Mere-Saline Road, de way de soldiers went and come.

Newton looking round and observing neither clouds nor speck on the horizon, jogged on, taking very little notice of the rustic's information.

They took two fine carriage horses weighed 2,000 pounds apiece I speck.

"I couldn't guarantee you about the eight younger children, but there ain't a speck of no kind of blood about me and Lulu Violet but African.

Miss Mai Liza say, 'I don't know; she's one of em, I speck she knows em.'

Now and again there would be a few days of the raging wind before mentioned, which carried the dry grass off the paddocks and piled it against the fences, darkened the air with dust, and seemed to promise rain, but ever it dispersed whence it came, taking with it the few clouds it had gathered up; and for weeks and weeks at a stretch, from horizon to horizon, was never a speck to mar the cruel dazzling brilliance of the metal sky.

The larger of the two, a mere speck of red, was already blending into the green of the first orchards on the plain ...

But all of us have a little speck of fight underneath our peace and goodwill to men,just a speck, for revolutions and great emergencies, you know,so that we should not submit to be trodden quite flat by the first heavy-heeled aggressor that came along.

But all of us have a little speck of fight underneath our peace and goodwill to men,just a speck, for revolutions and great emergencies, you know,so that we should not submit to be trodden quite flat by the first heavy-heeled aggressor that came along.

As he bit the end off and felt for a match, he saw a black speck wavering in the distance.