"Aha!" twitted the apparition, "then you have some heart left, JOHN BUMSTEAD?" "Heart!"

''You should have thought of that before you twitted me,' says I, 'before all this company.

" Seguin laughed and twitted Santerre on his obsequiousness towards women.

" Mathieu began to laugh, and twitted the Angelins on having no child of their own.

There was a singular circumstance in the defence of this case, one which I have never heard before or since, and that was a complaint that the counsel for the prisoner was "twitted" by the Crown because he had not called evidence for the defence.

Looking for recruits on Court Day, he was twitted about the rout of the army by Hence Sturgill, whose long-coveted chance to redeem himself had come.

Residents in the older States of the East are frequently twitted with their ignorance concerning the newer States of the West, and of the habits and customs of those who, having taken Horace Greeley's advice at various times, turned their faces toward the setting sun, determined to take advantage of the fertility of the soil, and grow up with the country of which they knew but little.

Another twitted him with the deposition of Octavius.

Ought I to have twitted him about his wife?

" said she, "after all my bragging that I'd be married first, and the times I've twitted her of being too homely to get a beau, that she should step out and get married right under my very nose, and I not know anything about it, or even who she's married.

Verily, with all these wedding-bells sounding, Betty began to feel that she was likely to be left alone, but who only laughed gayly when twitted with her fancy for maidenhood, and danced as merrily at Sally's wedding as if her heart had lain light in her bosom instead of aching bitterly for one whom she began to fear she should never see more.

Occasionally the corners of his large humorous mouth twitched as Carroll touched on one or two of the lighter phases of his investigationand once Leverage even twitted him about becoming "one of these here butterfly

"I thought we had given up war," interjected Mr. HOGGE; and other Members twitted the Minister with having left out of his account the League of Nations.

"What do you know about the war?" they twitted him.

It was nice to live in comfort, and among ladies and gentlemenpeople who knew how to conduct themselves properly, and who paid one every attention without a bit of fear of being twitted with "laying the jam on".

Having twitted her husband with his lack of power, she had been altogether powerless herself; and now she was driven to confess to herself that no further step could be taken.

Lord Palmerston, in last August, twitted the Ministry with Lord Ellenborough's supposed intention to retire from beyond the Indus, and congratulated the country on the frustration of that intention, as having saved us "from the eternal disgrace."

He thought they preferred him, and twitted David about it; but Grizel knew that David had sometimes to order them to prefer the old man.

They actually twitted me this afternoon with being sore at them because I didn't get my patrolas if I really wanted one.

By this time I had worked up quite a case, and was looking like a man injured in his finest feelings and twitted of his poverty.

CANNÆ, ancient town in Apulia, near the mouth of the Aufidus, where Hannibal, in a great battle, defeated the Romans in 216 B.C., but failing to follow up his success by a march on Rome, was twitted by Maherbal, one of his officers, who addressing him said, "You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but not how to profit by your victory.

Katy Brown invited her to her next party on the spot; Mary Kingsley insisted on lending her her watch till recess; and Jenny Snow, a satirical young lady who had basely twitted Amy upon her limeless state, promptly buried the hatchet, and offered to furnish answers to certain appalling sums.

Many and many a time have I been twitted by my wife and sister for having forgotten this dedication of myself to the stern law-giver.

You did burn my finger, and begged me not to tell Constance or papa afterward, and I never told them, because I never break my word if I can help it, and I wouldn't have told Mrs. Austin (but I didn't promise about her, you know), only you twitted me so meanly, and made me so madand it all came out.

When moving off with the money, he was twitted at as a "mean beggarly Scot," doing for money what no Englishman would.