We didn't have any of our toadies or robbins cooked, as those "spoils of ocean," although interesting as marine curiosities, are not considered good to eat, but each man had a Broil, as the Sun was very hot, and as CHOWLES remarked, "brought out the Gravy."

Her rich imagination and slender purse were open to all beggars, but for herself she asked nothing, and was constantly a willing sufferer from her own inability to toady a patron or to make a good bargain with a publisher.

There are no bugle blares to make me jump, But just the jodler calling to his kine; A few good Teuton toadies, loud and plump, More than suffice me in the levée line; And, when poor ALEXANDER, there in Greece, Writes of your "agents" rounded up and sacked, I am content with privacy and peace, Having, at worst, retained my head intact.

It enables me to tell, in the same breath, what I think of both of you, and I am very anxious to tell you, fully and completely, for I suppose you have been surrounded all your lives by toadies who were afraid to tell you the truth about yourselves, or who were so like you that they couldn't see the truthproducts of the same code of moralsa code truly European!

Who could do without Bozzy by his bedsidedear, garrulous old Bozzy, most splendid of toadies, most miraculous of reporters?

He had received an account by express, dispatched by a correspondent in London, who watched the progress of art On Toady's behalf, with a general commission to send off a special express, at whatever cost, in the event of any estimable works appearinghow much more upon occasion of a ne plus ultra in art!

VASILÍSA PEREGRÍNOVNA, a toady of MADAM ULANBÉKOV'S, an old maid of forty.

There he built his Villa Ambrogiana, which became the seat of an anti-Francesco cabal and the headquarters of an elaborate system of paid spies and toadies.

So I lie, and toady, and write drivelling talks about things I don't understand, for drivelling women to listen to, and I still have the creature comforts of life.

You could have plenty of flatterers, toadies, sycophantsanything, in fine, but friends.

We must toady to them a bit, Margaret, whether we want to or not.

'No doubt the man is clever; all adventurers are clever; and you have sense enough to see that this man is an adventurera mere sponge and toady of Maulevrier's.' 'There is nothing of the sponge or the toady in his manner,' protested Lady Lesbia, with a still deeper blush, the warm glow of angry feeling.

'No doubt the man is clever; all adventurers are clever; and you have sense enough to see that this man is an adventurera mere sponge and toady of Maulevrier's.' 'There is nothing of the sponge or the toady in his manner,' protested Lady Lesbia, with a still deeper blush, the warm glow of angry feeling.

The sponge and toady of to-day is not the clumsy fawning wretch you have read about in old-fashioned novels.

As Miss Bruce, with nothing to depend on but her own good looks and conquering manners, she had wrested a large share of admiration from an unwilling public; now, as a peeress, and a rich one, the same public of both sexes courted, toadied, and flattered her, till she grew tired of hearing herself praised.

"That's where I agree with you, Godfrey," said Ben Travers, who made himself rather a toady of Godfrey's.

" "If anybody has insulted Godfrey," remarked Ben Travers, his toady, "he had better look out for himself.

" "He's rather spunky, the master is," said Ben, who, toady as he was, understood the character of Mr. Stone considerably better than Godfrey did.

She especially toadies to Miss Alscrip "the heiress," flattering her vanity, fostering her conceit, and encouraging her vulgar affectations.

Most cringing to the aristocracy, whom he toadies and courts.

Not that it is impossible for opulence to have genuine friends, but rich people, I fear, must ever have at their heart cankering suspicion to hint that the friendship and love lavished upon them is merely self-interestedness and sham, the implements of trade used by the fawning toadies who swarm around wealth.

That they had complete disposal of their property is proved furthermore by the numerous complaints in Roman authors about the sycophants who flattered and toadied the wealthy ladies with an eye to being remembered in their wills.

Nobili was constantly assured by those ready flatterers who lived upon himthose toadies who, like a mildew, dim and deface the virtues of the richthat "he could do what he pleased.

Where, now, is your boasted consistency?" "Evelyn, you know very well that is the way to rule and toady papa.

He had lived a long lifetime among men who did not care to be toadied, and there was a freedom and ready wit in the old man that pleased everybody who was worth pleasing.