What with the flats, where everything on earth is done for them, and the kindness of friendsjust think how bachelors are spoilt by their married friends!and their clubs, and the frightful expense of everything, it seems to me, as a general rule, that the average man must be madly unselfish or a perfect idiot to marry at allthat's what it seems to medon't you?

Suddenly a warm nose was thrust against his shoulder and, with the assurance of a spoilt beauty, the cow laid her head upon his arm.

'Note,' continues the record, 'In this play, Mr. Otway the poet having an inclination to turn actor; Mrs. Behn gave him the King in this play for a probation part, but he being not us'd to the stage, the full house put him to such a sweat and tremendous agony, being dash'd, spoilt him for an actor.' To quote Mr. Gosse's excellent and classic essay on Otway:'The choice of the part showed the kindly tact of the shrewd Mrs. Behn.

He begged to know what was amiss, and she told him that all her pleasure in the hall was spoilt for the want of a roc's egg hanging from the dome.

HENRY LORD BROUGHAM (1779-1868) Brougham was intimately associated with Jeffrey in the foundation of the Edinburgh Review: he is said to have written eighty articles in the first twenty numbers, though like all his work, the criticism was spoilt by egotism and vanity.

They attacked the laced soldier, chattering furiously, grumbling at him, intimidating him with the charming gestures of spoilt and pouting children.

I had spoilt her.

'Now that you've nearly killed me,' I said, 'and spoilt my dress, perhaps you'll explain.' He produced the silk-bound book of manuscript from his pocket and put it in my unoccupied hand.

One evening, which had been partly spoilt for them by a tedious visit, Edward proposed that they should not separate so earlyhe felt inclined for musiche would take his flute, which he had not done for many days past.

Radipole is spoilt by an ugly railway bridge and some sidings belonging to the joint railways that lie along the eastern bank for some distance.

" Sutton Poyntz, in a charming situation between spurs of the hills, has been spoilt by the erection of the Weymouth Waterworks.

Gillingham church was spoilt by a drastic early nineteenth-century restoration.

'Lizzie is a good-hearted girl, if she is spoilt.

Every spoilt woman stands for a fool-man.

"'That would have been easy,' he answered, 'but Lizzie has spoilt the market for luxuries.

" "But you spoilt it all, Abdul," I protested.

They camped two nights at this place and dried some of their powder, but most of it was caked and spoilt.

*** Sugar is to be omitted from a number of medical preparations from December 1st, and children are complaining that the decision has quite spoilt their Christmas prospects.

" "The pert little mess is spoilt enough as it is, Heaven knows.

They're spoilt, and why shouldn't we be?" Lewisham having selected the bishops as scapegoats for his turpitude, was inclined to ascribe even the nail in his boot to their agency.

To a stranger it would appear to be almost entirely destroyed, but when M. de Polignac visited it recently he simply remarked that it was "less spoilt than he had imagined."

He was more than thirty years old when he inherited from his father two thousand souls,[A] all in excellent condition; but he soon began to squander his property, a part of which he disposed of by sale, and he spoilt his household.

It spoilt their evening, and owing to 'aving only about 'arf wot they was accustomed to they all got up very disagreeable next morning.

Bill groaned and hid 'is face in his 'ands, and then Peter Russet went and spoilt things by saying that the safest place for a murderer to 'ide in was London.

She must spoil her man, as well as make a poet out of himspoil him as the reed is spoilt.