It was funny to see them stumbling over the ice with a man supporting them on each side.

You'll never catch me supporting a man I have once abused.

" The fellows must have believed that we were acting under orders from their general, for, with many a laugh and good-natured quip, they obeyed the sergeant's order as promptly as a party of small boys would have done, and, still supporting each other, moved toward the fort, we two following directly in the rear.

All round him were trees with straight, tall grey trunks, and behind and beyond them yet other treestrees everywhere that stood motionless like pillars of stone supporting the dim green roof of foliage far above.

The dependencies of the Hungarian crown, Servia and Wallachiaon whose recovery he had spent so much blood and treasureinstead of supporting him, as might be expected of Christian countries, threw themselves in a suicidal manner into the arms of the Turks.

Affairs did not immediately proceed to the last extremities; the nation was kept some time in suspense; the vigor and spirit of Queen Margaret, supporting her small power, still proved a balance to the great authority of Richard, which was checked by his irresolute temper.

The Protector then assailed the fidelity of Buckingham by all the arguments capable of swaying a vicious mind, and he easily obtained from him a promise of supporting him in all his enterprises.

"In the churchyard of this village," writes Gilbert White in "The Antiquities of Selborne," "is a yew-tree whose aspect bespeaks it to be of great age; it seems to have seen several centuries and is probably co-eval with the church, and therefore may be deemed an antiquity; the body is squat, short and thick, and measures twenty-three feet in the girth, supporting a head of suitable extent to its bulk.

What are our views in supporting the queen of Hungary?

The queen, amidst all the schemes which her unbounded ambition forms for the exaltation of her family, finds her own son, after having received a kingdom from her kindness, restrained from supporting her, and reduced to preserve those territories which she has bestowed upon him, by abandoning her from whom he received them.

Some of the arches of the supporting arcade are still visible.]

He has fallen with one knee on the ground, one hand up, with the other he is supporting himself.

Some were denied on the ground that proof was lacking that the slaves concerned were natives of the state or that they would be self-supporting in freedom; others were granted.

But far more touching than these mementoes of her love of Nature are the passages in this diary of her last year on earth, that express her love to Christ and testify to His presence and supporting grace in what she describes as "the fathomless abyss of misery" in which she was plunged.

A six weeks' vacation was passed in the discussion of this subject, when the Doctor yielded to his son's importunities, probably foreseeing he should have his hands full to educate his other children, and not unwilling to put this child, as early as possible, in the way of supporting himself.

The men have gone on as a supporting party, as directed.

The first supporting party can only go on a fortnight from this date and so forth.

The supporting party not in very high spirits, they have not managed matters well for themselves.

We are camped opposite our lunch cairn of the 4th, only half a day's march from the point at which the last supporting party left us.

Some time before lunch we picked up the return track of the supporting party, so that there are now three distinct sledge impressions.

Return of the second supporting party.

The Upper Glacier Depôt, under Mount Darwin, where the first supporting party turned back.

By these means any degree of pressure may be given which the containing vessel is capable of supporting, and it has been found that, by employing such a method, the thickest hides may be tanned in six weeks or two months.

"By a stroke of the pen," said Blair, "Missouri, eastern Tennessee, western Maryland, loyal Kentucky, now loyally supporting the cause of the nation, will be thrown into the arms of the Confederacy."

At once a large number of fields that had been supposed to be self-supporting was brought forward, and their respective representatives were so successful in setting forth their feeble and helpless condition, that many of them were entered upon the list by the Committee as Missions.