As a historical record it is one of those volumes which will go further to straighten some disputed points than all of the arguments which could be advanced in good natured disputes which might last for months.

However, they roused from their despondent attitudes when they heard a familiar whistle in the distance, and began automatically to straighten their hats.

He asked me to straighten the matter out.

But I am expecting a representative of the Armands to call very soon to straighten things out.

"Straighten Rogers out and let him lie there," I gasped, and sat dizzily down upon the floor.

No doubt he can straighten the matter out.

It can't straighten my back, I know, but it may make me stronger for all that, and fitter for the general business.

" "Come with me to the telegraph office and I'll see what I can do to straighten this out," said Mr. Merrick briskly.

Then her quicker intuition abandoned the mystery of the present meeting to straighten out the past.

"We've begun at the wrong end, I know, but we'll soon straighten it out, and I hope that you will see your way to falling in with our views.

A step in the garden made him straighten himself abruptly.

She found it next to impossible to straighten out the muddle, and she came at length reluctantly to the conclusion that it was beyond her powers.

"Straighten up.

Not that I make a business of prying into the affairs of other gents, but I figure I might be able to help you straighten things out with this Cartwright.

He served a second term, and made himself popular by advocating schemes to "gridiron" every county with railroads, straighten out the courses of rivers, dig canals, and cut up the State into towns, cities, and house-lots.

He turned his papers over to Prather, giving Prather full power to act for him in securing the partners' surrender of their claims and straighten out everything with the Territory and get a bonafide concession.

Why won't you let me straighten things out for you?" Her colour rose again, and she looked him quickly and consciously in the eye.

It does not alter the much graver fact, the fact that darkens all my outlook upon the future, that we have never yet produced evidence of any general disposition at any time to straighten out or even suspend these fumbling intricacies and ineptitudes.

Never so far has there appeared in British affairs that divine passion to do things in the clearest, cleanest, least wasteful, most thorough manner that is needed to straighten out, for example, these universal local tangles.

Even religion does not all at once straighten out all the twists in human nature, nor rub down all its hard angularities.

I've messed up considerable, this little game of yours; now I'm going to do what I can to straighten it out.

Every night I had suffered a little less and slept a little better, and every morning I had less and less of a struggle to get up and straighten out.

" "I know that my surname is Berwick, but I know nothing of Private Berwick," said I. "Well," said Captain Haskell, "if you have got your name reversed, that is a small matter which will straighten itself out when you recover your memory.

He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees, Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow, By fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten, Your brain to bubble cool, Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.

" The old man strove to straighten my short queue, but found it hopeless, so tied it close and dusted on the French powder.

But yet in an hour, I did have the cloak about her, again; and so did straiten matters, as you shall conceive.

ness of the poor man to be able to bear this; and remembering what he had done for me, how he had taken me up at sea, and how generously he had used me on all occasions, and particularly how sincere a friend he was now to me, I could hardly refrain weeping at what he had said to me; therefore I asked him if his circumstances admitted him to spare so much money at that time, and if it would not straiten him?

He told me he could not say but it might straiten him a little; but, however, it was my money, and I might want it more than he.

But really when I saw so much goodness, generosity, tenderness, and real honesty, I had not the heart to accept it, for fear he should straiten himself upon my account.

Truly, it is sad and dispiriting to the artist to find that all modern aesthetical writings limit and straiten the free walks of highest Art with strict laws deduced from rigid science, with mathematical proportions and the formal restrictions of fixed lines and curves, nicely adapted from the frigidities of Euclid.