Then again the ship sailed across seas and bore sad tidings to some family of Gordons in Aberdeenshire.

The boys had gone far on the hills that crested the village, to meet the huntersbut no tidings of them.

Often in times that followed Washington was to receive tidings of his friend's triumphs and perilous adventures amid the bloody turmoil of the French Revolution, was to entertain his son at Mount Vernon when the father lay in the dark dungeons of Olmütz, but was never again to look into his face.

Their coming was announced by a servant, who had recognised his lord at a distance, and had ran on before with the tidings.

" SECTION LXXIII "Vrihadaswa said, 'After Rituparna of prowess incapable of being baffled had, in the evening, arrived at the city of the Vidarbhas, the people brought unto king Bhima the tidings (of his arrival).

Then another chapter is all scented with the breath of roses, that stole into my windows on a still summer evening; at another point the page is almost streaked and stained for me with the sorrowful tidings which came to me in the middle of a sentence; when I took up my writing again some days after, it seemed as though there was a deep trench between me and my former self.

He looked old, and worn, and shabby; and was at once the surest and the saddest corroboration of his own tidings.

The time of his departure is at hand; tidings have reached us that he is expected to sail in the 'Royal George,' on the first of October.

The tidings are affecting, and strongly exhibit the guardian care of Providence.

She brings pleasing tidings from my son.

"1855.A letter reached us from my beloved Richard, bringing tidings of health, both of body and soul, and of his intended removal to Auckland; but holding out little prospect of his return to England, by the words 'if ever.'

For ten days more he rode over the bad winter roads, reaching Philadelphia with the evil tidings on the evening of December 19th.

Washington was at dinner, with some guests, and was called from the table to listen to the tidings of ill fortune.

Wherever there were ears to hear, we lifted up our voices, and, on the wings of the wind, the glad tidings were carried to the remote corners of the State, and the votes of forty thousand men, on election day, in favor of the amendment were so many testimonials to the value of the educational work accomplished.

If his father would die,such had been his first thought,he could settle with the creditors immediately, before any tidings should be heard of his brother.

But tidings had come.

There came to the rectory some tidings of the meeting which had taken place at the Hall between his uncle and Miss Thoroughbung.

But in the mean time tidings came across from the Hall that Mr. Prosper was ill.

He would not see his coachman or his groom, because some tidings would have reached them about that pair of ponies.

Then Mrs. Annesley did go, and rejoiced them all up at the rectory by these latest tidings from the Hall.

The bell within the steeple wild The flying tidings whirled.

Was this intelligence received with unmixed joy and thankfulness, or were there some in the city to whom it came as anything but pleasant tidings?

My other friend in woman's clothes got among the good wives at an inn, where she set up her horse, and there she heard the same sad and dreadful tidings; and that this party was so strong, none of the neighbouring garrisons durst stir out; but that they had sent expresses to York, for a party of horse to come to their assistance.

Oh, Señor, it will make you strong again to see these fields all cane and the long rows of negroes and negresses cutting it, while they sing their song of those droll African numerals, counting the canes they cut," and the bearer of good tidings sang them for very joy: [Illustration: music] An-o-qué, An-o-bia, Bia-tail-la, Qué-re-qué, Nal-le-oua, Au-mon-dé, Au-tap-o-té, Au-pé-to-té, Au-qué-ré-qué, Bo.

"I have some good tidings, too," he said; "my beloved lady has borne me a son.