One thing I remarked which I thought very strange; this was that, from the greatest to the least, all men rode their horses without bridle or stirrups.

You may imagine that I was no unmoved spectator of these proceedings; to all the others it was a thing to which they had been accustomed from their youth up; but I was so horrified that I could not help telling the King how it struck me.

The first thing our captain did was to divide equally amongst us all the food we possessed, and then the length of each man's life depended on the time he could make his portion last.

The following night exactly the same thing happened, and next morning, on the princess's refusing to speak, the Sultan threatened to cut off her head.

There is only one thing that surprises me.

And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!

The maid is a little, demure thing, very young for such a position, and positively homely and common in appearance.

Maggie had assured her hostess that she had every thing that she could wish, and that she did not desire the services of Catrina's maid.

Maggie was looking straight in front of her in the direction of the fire, but not with eyes focussed to see any thing so near at hand.

Why do you sit staring into the fire with your lips so close together?" "Because I do not think that we shall gain any thing by discussing Paul and his wife.

"Have you every thing you want?" asked Catrina.

You are my slave, despite your brave title; my thing, my plaything, despite your servants, and your great houses, and your husband!

She was wondering whether the friendship he had offeredthe solid thing as he called itwas not better than the love of this man.

"If you have any thing to say, please say it.

She was on her own territory at this work, playing her own game; and she was more alarmed by De Chauxville's imperturbability than by any thing he had said.

"Is there any thing wrong?"

It was no new thing to her now to come upon the press censor's handiwork in the columns of such periodicals and newspapers as Paul received from England.

God knows it is difficult for men to do always the right thing.

But why deal in description, when the thing itself confronts us?

" A common exclamation from the young men proclaimed their disapprobation; and that night three of them actually repeated the thing, as a well established truth, and two of the three, failing of something better to talk about, also announced that Eve was actually engaged to be married.

"I never heard of such a thing among the right sort!" said Mr. Mosely.

" "Nothing is easier, nor any thing more common, than for whole communities to be mistaken, and more particularly when they commence with excitement.

"Aye, the intolerable arrogance to suppose that his own is his own; and this he dares to affirm, without having had the politeness to send his title-deeds, and private papers, round to those who have been so short a time in the place, that they might well know every thing that has occurred in it for the last half century.

There is one thing you yourself must admit; the public is a little too apt to neglect the duties it ought to discharge, and to assume duties it has no right to fulfil.

It was purely because I was not a thief; because, in helping men, women and children, claimed as chattels, to escape, I bore my testimony against robbing human beings of their liberty; this was the very thing that excited the slave-holders against me, just as a strong anti-slavery speech excites them against Mr. Hale, or Mr. Giddings, or Mr. Mann, or Mr. Stunner.