My riches being now considerable, I turned my attention to the little house of Auchencairn, which I enlarged and beautified, so that if we have the wish we may take up our dwelling there.

Come now, take up thy sword and I will teach thee all my strokes and show thee how 'tis done.

We shall take up the subject again in our next number, and by extracts justify both our commendation and our criticisms of Mr. White.

And then who could say that he had died in vain, troubled and weary, his hopes concerning the injections unrealizedother workers would come, young, ardent, confident, who would take up the idea, elucidate it, expand it.

I'll tell you this, that if I were younger, I'd take up and study for Tatyána Danílovna.

Ia. Give me the apple to take up Iack, because my name is Iack.

When wounded men go by there will be cheering, and some of the women are sure to raise the song of Die Wacht am Rhein; and within the cars the crippled soldiers will take up the chorus feebly.

instead, there was the full, round face of Pat, who, having been left to take up his night's lodging with the creatures, in the apology for a barn, had espied the light, and not being able to resist the temptation of getting one more glimpse at the "swate Biddy," he had ventured to look in, and catching a glimpse of her woebegone face from among the shining tins, he exclaimed: "Och, honey dear, and has it come to this?

I have found by experience that this invention possesses a decided advantage over the other, as they always remain perpendicular and parallel to each other, take up less room, and are more easily put out of the way, and the children cannot knock them down; they should be numbered in front as represented in the figure, so that the teacher may always put the proper post in its own place.

Most earnestly did she wish, that she could shield that child from the disappointments and mistakes and self-reproach from which the mother was then suffering; that the little one might take up life where she could give it to herall mended by her own experience.

One thing only appeared certain, that whatever opinion he chose to take up, he was able to make good either by the foils or the cudgels, by gross banter or nice distinctions, by a well-timed mixture of paradox and common-place, by an appeal to vulgar prejudices or startling scepticism.

"I am not come to take up your time, Mr. Lilly," said Wyvil, "but simply to ask your judgment in a matter in which I am much interested.

As the brasses wear you can take up this wear by forcing the key down, which brings the two halves nearer together.

I am sure it is good for us to have God take up the rod, even if He lays it down again without inflicting a blow.

Then, without offering further consolation, the three foremen made ready to take up the remaining chests.

Another humorist would take up the cue.

We take up the book after years of neglect, and the odour, which is not that of sanctity, is still perceptiblea potent reminder of the past.

If I should go back and take up the Anselmic theory and attempt to show how an infinite debt must be paid by infinite suffering, you would say: "Stop, you are converting God into a Shylock, who is demanding His pound of flesh.

I did not take up my novel-reading in a light spirit or for mere diversion.

Then he caused it to be proclaimed by sound of trumpet throughout the streets that none of his people should be so bold, on pain of hanging, as to take up quarters in the house of any burgher against his will, or to use any reproach whatever, or do the least displeasure to any.

They did so in Schönhausen, the pleasure-palace of the consort of Frederick the Great, who had left it a few days previous, by express command of the king, to take up her residence in Magdeburg.

SIR, There were other Gentlemen nearer, and I know no Necessity you were under to take up that flippant Creatures Fan last Night; but you shall never touch a Stick of mine more, that's pos.

Regulus was, indeed, in so great poverty that he did not readily consent, on that account, to take up the command; and it was voted that his wife and children should be furnished their support from the public treasury.

One cannot take up a newspaper without finding notice after notice, reading, "Must be sold to pay the mortgage.

First a fortified city gate, standing in a correspondingly fortified wall, it became a dilapidated granary and storehouse in the Middle Ages, when one of the archbishops gave leave to Simeon, a wandering hermit from Syracuse in Sicily, to take up his abode there; and another turned it into a church dedicated to this saint, tho of this change few traces remain.