had got some good wine; I, by talking lies, was hunting after empty praise.

His schoolfellow, Mr. Hector, has assured me that he never knew him corrected at school but for talking and diverting other boys from their business.

My friend seemed now not much to relish talking of this edition; it had been arranged by the forty chief booksellers of London, and Johnson had named his own terms for the "Lives," namely, two hundred guineas.

But upon a day the good providence of God took me to Bedford, to work on my calling, and in that town I came on three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun and talking about the things of God.

The theatre is filled, people talking in confusion, some arriving, etc. FISCHER, MÜLLER, SCHLOSSER, BÖTTICHER, in the pit FISCHER.

The cat is talking?

But now, you see, I am talking to you merely as an actor to the spectators.

I woke up several times during the night, however, and heard the old woman coughing and talking to the dog, and occasionally I heard the bird, which seemed to be dreaming and sang only a few isolated words of its song.

Still looking, he became convinced that it was nobody but Walther himself who was talking with the old man.

" Eckbert was delirious as he breathed his last; dazed and confused he heard the old woman talking, the dog barking, and the bird repeating its song.

He did not understand what the Squire was talking about, and whether it was Peter or Paul, or the shepherd in Wilsdruf, who had owned them before the swineherd in Hainichen, was all one to him so long as they had not been stolen; and with this he went off, with his whip across his broad back, to a public house which stood in the square, with the intention of getting some breakfast, as he was very hungry.

With this object in view, we endeavored, by much talking, to consume time.

If there is pathos as well as humour, and deepening the humour, in the figure of the distraught knight-errant talking so hopelessly over the head of his attached squire's morality, so too there is pathos, giving depth to the humour of the eccentric philosopher, shooting so hopelessly wide of the intellectual appreciation of the most affectionate of brothers.

We have been talking about shooting him, and then I shall have his bones, which I am going to set up as a skeleton, and it is my opinion that you ought to have the skin.

As soon as she heard your name mentionedand that was bound to happen, for this family has been talking about you ever since they first knew youshe began to ask questions.

While these two women had been talking and thinking, a lazy Indian servant had been lounging up the stairway.

"What is the matter?" asked Clara at once, taking hold of his sleeve with the tips of her fingers, in a caressing, appealing way, which was common with her when talking to those she liked.

But there was not much talking.

When she came to herself everybody was talking of the calamity.

"But I am talking trifles," he said at last, fairly catching his breath.

This planter was quite advanced in life, but in his earlier days he had spent much of his time in talking politics in his State and National capitals in winter, and in visiting pleasure resorts and watering places in summer.

And Tom told me he heard them talking about it last night, at his house.

But arter dese white folks is done fussin' and beatin' de cullud folks, I don't want 'em to come talking religion to me.

It's no use talking, I won't leave her to be run over by everybody.

Robert asked him one day, as they were talking together.