I fancied once that I saw a tear in his eye, but I thought I must have been mistaken.

'Thanking you most sincerely for all your efforts to let us know of our child's safety, 'I remain, yours very truly, 'EDWARD VILLIERS.' 'Now,' said the old gentleman, looking at me, and laughing, though I saw a tear in his eye, 'won't you let them have her?' 'Well, to be sure,' said my grandfather, 'what can one say after that?

Farewel for evermore; If you shall hear, that sorrow struck me dead, And after find me Loyal, let there be A tear shed from you in my memorie,

To bind whose better wounds, Queens ought to tear their hair, and with their tears, Bath 'em.

People will tear me when they find you true To such a wretch as I; I shall die loath'd.

Help me to tear myself from what I value more than existence, till Heaven can bless our union.

Convinced that present sufferings are rendered more acute by the bitter recollection of past pleasures, and that the passions gather strength in solitude, I resolved to tear my unfortunate friend from those scenes which recalled the remembrance of his loss, and to lead him to a more busy part of the island.

The night and the day, the calm of solitude, and the tumult of crowds, time itself, while it casts the shade of oblivion over so many other remembrances, in vain would tear that tender and sacred recollection from the heart, which, like the needle, when touched by the loadstone, however it may have been forced into agitation, it is no sooner left to repose, than it turns to the pole by which it is attracted.

If the scandal was of a darker kinda guilty wifethe mysterious disappearance of a husbandthe horror of the thing may have made a deeper impression on Lady Maulevrier than even her nearest and dearest dream of: and that superb calm which she wears like a royal mantle may be maintained at the cost of struggles which tear her heart-strings.

Mr. Grimm went to her suddenly, tore the hands from her face, and met the tear-stained eyes.

Ralph, having waited for this, now told about the food transaction, and she hastily pushed the last-coming tear back into her eye.

It was his custom to tear up to this house a dozen times a week, on his father's old horse or afoot; he was wont to yell for Champe as he approached, and quarrel joyously with her while he performed such errand as he had come upon; but he was gagged and hamstrung now by the hypnotism of Abner's scheme.

When a black bear has found an ant-hill it takes but a few minutes to tear up the hard, cemented clay and lay the deep galleries bare; then, putting its gutta-percha muzzle to the mouth of each, it draws such a blast of air through them that the industrious labourers are sucked into its gullet in drifts.

The beast, thinking only of its appetites, has evolved a delicate nose, a discriminating palate, three kinds of teeth to cut, tear, and grind its food, salivary glands to moisten the same, and a perfected apparatus of digestion.

[Illustration: "TEAR OUT THE HOUSE LIKE THE DOGS

But when he "tear out the house like the dogs wuz atter him," then they point straight back.

With no attempt to hide her tear-blurred face she answered: "I sent him away because I am married.

Cupid, tear off your bandage, new string your bow and tip your arrows with harder adamant.

No sad vicissitude of fate, no overwhelming catastrophe in nature deforms his page: but the dew-drop glitters on the bending flower, the tear collects in the glistening eye.

At that early period the dearest, the sweetest, the holiest link of human lovethe gold without the dross, the flower without the insect, the wine without the headache, the full fruition of the feelings without the wear and tear of the heart.

He was one of the most parsimonious of kings, and often averted war in order to prevent the wear and tear on the cannon.

How could they tear themselves away from famished millions kneeling at their feet in chains and begging for the bread of life, and roam afar to China or the South Sea Islands!

"Oftentimes a feeling, more vivid than memory, brings her before meI see her sit in her old elbow chairher arms folded upon her lapa tear upon her cheek, that seems to upbraid her unkind daughter for some inattentionI wipe it away and kiss her honored lips.

" And then her task she quicker plied, The starting tear repressed, And, "Oh, my God!"

Neither sigh or tear were unnoticed, or prayer unheard, by that God who careth for us, and numbereth the very hairs of our heads.

While yet the eagle preys, and growls the bear; While roars the lion; while the crow defies The lamb who raised our race above the skies; While yet the dove laments to the deaf air; While, mixed with goodly wheat, darnel and tare Within the field of human nature rise; Let that ungodly sect, profanely wise, That scorns our hope, feed, fatten, and beware!

Am I not buying?" A Jew, once purchasing oil from a poor Arab, carried his villainy so far as actually to make his tare and tret weigh more than the skin-bag when full of oil, and coolly told the amazed Arab he had no money to give him for the value received.

"Pitch" one easily gets from pix (Latin); "tar" as easily from the Saxon tare, tyr.

She tuk it up, and said with accents mild, "'Tare-and-agers, girls, which av yez owns the child?" His humorous rhymes were, however, more often quips and cranks at the expense of his contemporaries.

but the marchants accord is by so much the mana, and in the sayd place they bate the tare in all sorts of commodities, according to the order of Aleppo touching the tare.

but the marchants accord is by so much the mana, and in the sayd place they bate the tare in all sorts of commodities, according to the order of Aleppo touching the tare.

8. ounces, and so much is the sayd quintall, but the marchants bargaine at so much the mana or wolsene (which is all one) and they abate the tare in euery mana, as the sort of spice is, and the order taken therefore in that place.

Note that in Ormuz they abate tare of all sorts of commodities, by an order obserued of custome.

Note that in Goa they vse not to abate any tare of any goods, except of sacks or wraps, and therefore it requireth great aduisement in buying of the goods, especially in the muske of Tartaria which commeth by way of China in bladders, and so weigh it without any tare rebating.

Note that in Goa they vse not to abate any tare of any goods, except of sacks or wraps, and therefore it requireth great aduisement in buying of the goods, especially in the muske of Tartaria which commeth by way of China in bladders, and so weigh it without any tare rebating.

They abate a vsed tare of all marchandize, according to the sort of goods, and order taken for the same.

In Malacca they abate tare according to their distinction and agreement, for that there is no iust tare limited.

In Malacca they abate tare according to their distinction and agreement, for that there is no iust tare limited.

Discount N. discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio^, percentage; rebate, rebatement^; backwardation, contango^; salvage; tare and tret^. sale, bargain; half price; price war.

The tare, gross, and nett weights are printed legibly on the chests, along with the factory mark and number of the chest, and when all are ready, they are sent down to the brokers in Calcutta for sale.

What dragons children are!" "'Dragons of the prime, that tare each other in their slime,'" quoted Esther.

But, as I have said, he was a bad parishioner, a bunch of tare in the field of God, a scabby sheep in the flock of the Lord.

He was, however, a pioneer in the 1849 movement, and a vivid memory of this fact at times moves him to quit his bucolic labors and come in town for a real old-fashioned tare.

"Then the king arose, and tare his garments.

Wells retains it, but marks it as, "Obsolete;" as he does also the preterits bare, clave, drove, gat, slang, spake, span, spat, sware, tare, writ; and the participles hoven, loaden, rid from ride, spitten, stricken, and writ.

Allowing for tare, though, if he still nets ten I'll feel that he's a credit to the brand.

The mushroom is the elf of plants, At evening it is not; At morning in a truffled hut It stops upon a spot As if it tarried always; And yet its whole career Is shorter than a snake's delay, And fleeter than a tare.

TARE AND TRET, commercial terms, are deductions usually made from the gross weight of goods.

Tare is the weight of the case or covering, box, or such-like, containing the goods; deducting this the net weight is left.

Here a great rose and here a ragged tare; And here pale, scentless blossoms without name, Robbed to enrich this poppy formed of flame; Here springs some hearts'ease, scattered unaware; Here, hawthorn-bloom to show the way Love came; Here, asphodel, to image Love's despair!