The subject requires a gloomy apartment, which a ray through a Gothic window might just enlighten, throwing its force chiefly on the principal figure, and dying away on the rest.

This we were not to receive for three long weeks; and by that time she was to have returned home, consulted her father on the subject of our attachment, and return us a definitive reply.

You have seen the Radiant Boy; and it is an omen of prosperous fortunes;I would rather that this subject should no more be mentioned.

in 1762, there are three upon this subject.

Sir,Since my last communication to you on the subject of the works, so commonly spoken of as by the "Great Unknown""the Wizard of the North," and other equally novel cognomina, the veil has been withdrawn; we now have the open avowal, both from his own lips, and under his own hand, of the authorship from the individual himself, who has so long, and, as it now appears, so justly, enjoyed the reputation of having written them.

Such is the question put by Middlemas to his friend Hartley, when speaking together on the subject of the interesting Menic Grey, and his projected Indian trip.

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A DUEL WITH AUTOMOBILES WITH HIS MIND ON THE SUBJECT OF EXTRAVAGANCE "SEVEN DOLLARS A BARREL" "I WANTED YE TO TELL MR.

He sat with his feet on his desk and his mind on the subject of extravagance.

[Illustration: With his mind on the subject of extravagance.

Never said another word to me on the subject, but came again to ask about the money.

Why, they're so subject to sickness and accident and death,' said Mrs. Bill.

"'An' they're subject, also, to health an' life an' safety,' I answered.

yet I never hear them make it a subject of comment or boasting.

" This, however, does not throw much light on the subject.

[Illustration: THE ABOVE GENTLEMAN IS SUPERSTITIOUS ON THE SUBJECT OF WALKING UNDER LADDERS.]

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On this subject he enters a protest in the Preface to his revised edition of the "Essay of Dramatic Poesy" in 1684:"I confess, I find many things in this discourse which I do not now approve; my judgment being not a little altered since the writing of it; but whether for the better or the worse, I know not: neither indeed is it much material, in an essay, where all I have said is problematical.

Your lordship has been long acquainted with my design; the subject of which you know is great, the story English, and neither too far distant from the present age, nor too near approaching it.

" Dr. Johnson and Mr. Malone remark, that Dryden observes a mystery concerning the subject of his intended epic, to prevent the risk of being anticipated, as he finally was by Sir Richard Blackmore on the topic of Arthur.

Having offered some observations elsewhere upon this play, and the mode in which its celebrated theme has been treated by the dramatists of different nations, I need not here resume the subject.

Sahwah realized that she was figure-skating on thin ice when she mentioned that subject and forebore to make any further remarks.

I would avoid the subject of nationality as much as possible, and not speak so freely about your father's having been in the Austrian army.

We wouldn't divulge it for worlds, would we, Oh-Pshaw?" Agony chatted on gaily, entertainingly, flitting from subject to subject, and the rest listened from sheer pleasure of hearing her rich voice.

We wouldn't divulge it for worlds, would we, Oh-Pshaw?" Agony chatted on gaily, entertainingly, flitting from subject to subject, and the rest listened from sheer pleasure of hearing her rich voice.

Say that you can never love me; say that I have lived too long to share your young life; say that sorrow has left nothing in me for Love to find his pleasure in; but do not mock me with the hope of a new affection for some unknown object.

But he had called just at the lucky moment for Mr. Peckham's object.

No sooner was Kitty alighted, than she ran to her grandmother, Marble following, while I hastened to the point where was to be found the great object of my interest.

I was about to object to the project, on account of Grace, but Lucy begged me to let him have his way; such convives as my late guardian and my own mate were not likely to be very boisterous; and she fancied that the conversation, or such parts of it as should be heard through the bulk-head, might serve to divert the invalid's mind from dwelling too intently on the accidental rencontre of the morning.

I owe it to myself to add that not a selfish thought mingled with my reluctance, which proceeded purely from the distaste I felt to seeing Lucy's brother, and a man for whom I had once entertained a boyish regard, making himself so thoroughly an object of contempt.

"Farewell, RupertI do not say, farewell Emily; for I think this letter, as well as its object, had better remain a secret between you and me, and my brotherbut I wish your future wife all earthly happiness, and an end as full of hope as that which attends the death-bed of your affectionate "Grace Wallingford.

I held my way along the road, with no other view but to escape from the scene I had just quitted, and entered the very little wood which might be said to have been the last object of the external world that had attracted my sister's attention.

And why should I be feared?I, who had never dared to say a word to the object nearest my heart, that might induce her to draw the ordinary distinction between passion and esteemlove, and a brotherly regard?

I acknowledge its reception, unless you object to my proposition.

" But, Neb, contrary to his habits, stood upright on the yard, holding on by the lift, and looking over the weather leach of the top-sail, apparently at some object that either was just then visible, or which had just before been visible.

" I cared little who commanded or officered the Speedy, but I felt all the degradation of submitting to have my crew mustered by a foreign officer, and this, too, with the avowed object of carrying away such portions of them as he might see fit to decide were British subjects.

Marble had been kept in the ship by me, expressly with this object.

One could ask for a cook, or a mate, or a servant like Neb, but to ask for an able seaman or two would have been to declare our object.

I knew there were too many motives for such a bribe, connected with our treatment, the care of our private property, and other things of that nature, to feel any apprehension that the true object of this liberality would be suspected by those who were to reap its advantages.

He was at my elbow, having sought me with the same object.

Magwitch, the "warmint" who "grew up took up," whose memory extended only to that period of his childhood when he was "a-thieving turnips for his living" down in Essex, but in whom a life of crime had only intensified the feeling of gratitude for the one kind action of which he was the object, is hardly equalled in grotesque grandeur by anything which Dickens has previously done.

"My dear, she has had it, she told me, some months in her pocket secretly, for the purpose you mention, but she cannot ever satisfy herself that Aurora has got the spirit of real industry in her, and to bribe her to earn the thimble is not her object, so you see it has accidentally fallen to your share.

There is no crime so malignant, no scene of blood so horrible, in which that object cannot engage me.

2. Get the object, or subject you design to copy, into the best point of view.

[Footnote 7: The artist, however, cannot produce his tints from those simple colours entirely, but the advice once given to the writer, by a painter, was:"Never fancy that many colours will effect your object; a few well chosen will better succeed, and be more easily managed; half-a-dozen would, for me, answer every purpose."

What is as when it is made the subject or the object of a verb?

"Every object appears less than when viewed separately and independent of the series.

"On the other hand, the degrading or vilifying an object, is done successfully by ranking it with one that is really low.

"Who have no other object in view, but, to make a show of their supposed talents.

"To enliven it into a passion, no more is required but the real or ideal presence of the object.