Besides these, there are the talking members who take part in every debate, often without knowing anything of the question, save what they learn while the debate is proceeding, and the idle members, who do nothing but votegenerally I believe, without knowing anything of the question whatever; but to neither of these classes did Verplanck belong.

" "It simply means that I am taking seven days' holiday," Philip explained gaily, "seven days during which I have passed my word to myself to neither talk business nor think business.

To neither the right nor the left did we swerve, but moved on, the chapel being directly is front of us; but in a few moments afterwards we found ourselves surrounded by myriads of pots and a mighty cordon of cratesit was the pot fair.

It amounted to neither more nor less, than the deacon's perfect consciousness that the youth had, again and again, given him his time and his services gratuitously; and that too, more than once, under circumstances when it would have been quite proper that he should look for a remuneration.

Sea Lions, Sea Elephants, huge, clumsy, fierce-looking and revolting creatures, belonging properly to neither sea nor land.

Directly their arms clashed at the first encounter, and their glittering swords flashed, a mighty horror thrilled the spectators; and, as hope inclined to neither side, voice and breath alike were numbed.

A violent contest was at hand; had not Fabius compromised the matter by a suggestion disagreeable to neither party.

The last I saw, said Sir ROGER, was the Committee, which I should not have gone to neither, had not I been told before-hand that it was a good Church-of-England Comedy.

Your Mistress will bring Sorrow, and your Bottle Madness: Go to neither.

Dr. Schmidt, however, was determined to yield to neither.

They loved one another so well that the prospect of six weeks' close companionship was irksome to neither; but Emilie had not a holiday of it altogether.

2. War along the Canadian frontier resulted in a gain to neither side.

Yet the professional and little-fortune people cried trade, and thus our bookseller belonged to neither class.

"You have sailed long in company, my lads," he carelessly continued, addressing his words to neither of them in particular.

But thou unamiable object, Dear to neither prince, nor subject; Veriest, meanest scab, for pelf Fastning on the skin of Guelph, Thou, thou must, surely, loathe thyself.

To neither, corresponds nor; as, "John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine.

"All objects, which belong to neither the male nor female kind, are said to be of the neuter gender.

I congratulate to your nation the just honour ascribed to it by its neighbours and more distant countries, in having bred two such excellent poets as your Buchanan and Johnston, whom to name is to commend; but am concerned for their honour at home, who being committed together, seem to me both to suffer a diminution, whilst justice is done to neither.

For some time he gave thought to neither of them; he was engrossed in what he had been reading, and it turned him into a fine and magnanimous character.

No; were a census of true friendship possible, the census taker should be required to report: Here are indeed two friends; but here is also the ideal and yet, in some higher sense, real life of their united personality present,a life which belongs to neither of them alone, and which also does not exist merely as a parcel of fragments, partly in one, partly in the other of them.

The last I saw, said Sir ROGER, was the Committee, which I should not have gone to neither, had not I been told before-hand that it was a good Church-of-England Comedy.

But open justice bends to neither side.

" "Ah, home to America!" said Emily, betraying to neither John nor Valentine the pleasure this news gave her.

AYLMER, JOHN, tutor to Lady Jane Grey, bishop of London, a highly arbitrary man, and a friend to neither Papist nor Puritan; he is satirised by Spenser in the "Shepherd's Calendar" (1521-1594).

The last I saw, said Sir Roger, was the Committee, which I should not have gone to neither, had not I been told beforehand that it was a good Church-of-England Comedy.