"Don't you remember how fond he was of quoting, 'Praise to the face is open disgrace'?" The late Sir Timothy, like many middle-class people, had taken a compliment almost as a personal offence; and regarded the utterer, however gracious or sincere, with suspicion.

"Really, my dear Mr. Westcote," she protested at length, being a chartered utterer of indiscretions which (as she delighted to prove)

She treated his insinuations with the dignity which became herself, and the scorn which they and their utterers deserved; and he found that his conduct had created such general disgust among all people who made the slightest pretense to decency, that he feared to lose his popularity if he did not disconnect himself from the plotters.

It has been claimed that "all admit" that there is no impropriety in using any available means for the decoying of fish or of beasts to their death, or in saving one's self from an enraged animal; hence that a lie is not to be counted as a sin per se, but depends for its moral value on the relation subsisting between its utterer and the one toward whom it is uttered.

And as he uttered that truth, not his own race onlynot the Magyars only, but every nationality of Hungary, all the fifteen or twenty millions within its limitsall cried out that he was the representative of their convictionsthat he was the man of their affections, that he was the utterer of truths on which they relied.

It appeared that the elder prisoner had long been known to be a common utterer of base coin, in which she dealt very largely with those individuals who are agents in London to the manufacturers of the spurious commodity in Birmingham.

Enough this for the bank, who had in the first place only to do with the utterer, against whom their evidence as yet only lay.

They are generally in the humorous line and frequently make an impression that was not anticipated by the utterer.

CALI´NO, a famous French utterer of bulls.

The people sometimes catch up a remarkable word when uttered on a remarkable occasion by one of their number, and turn the utterer into ridicule, by attaching it to him as a nickname; and it is some consolation to think that this monster was therefore treated with the sobriquet of 'Stumpie,' and of course carried it about with him to his grave.

Talleyrand.(The following bon mot is worthy of extract from the Literary Gazette, and smacks of the raciest days of the noble utterer.)

It was impossible even to cry for help; or, if a cry could be uttered, it might reach, in deafening reverberation, the ear of the utterer, but it would not travel twelve inches farther in any direction.

His poet and painter are living men, and not mere utterers of so many words.

And surrounded by those utterers of Brahma, the king shone resplendent in their midst.

And he asked those personages thus suspended in that hole, saying, "What is the matter with you?" Thus questioned those utterers of Brahma replied, "It is even for offspring."

Utterers of base metal Smashers.

The growing form, moreover, kept pace exactly, and most beautifully, with the increasing tide of sonorous vibration that flooded himself, its utterer and the whole room.

"And if any one of us fails," he said, "and pronounces falsely, will the result affect all of us, or only the utterer?" "The utterer only," replied the clergyman.

"And if any one of us fails," he said, "and pronounces falsely, will the result affect all of us, or only the utterer?" "The utterer only," replied the clergyman.

"She knows all about that," said Virginia; "and when she sees you making a home for some one else, how happy it will make her!" Virginia was the older of the two, now, the utterer of words of comfort; and I was the child.

This is the fatal defect of almost all Disraeli's aphorisms: they are dead words, whilst the words of a true aphorism have veins filled with the life of their utterer.

Not that I ever saw him rough or uncourteous with the most exasperating fool that ever rubbed a man's nervous system the wrong way; but there was a quiet, lurking smile which, supported by very few words, used to seem to have the singular property of making the utterers of platitudes and the mistakers of non-sequiturs for sequiturs, uncomfortably aware of the nature of their words within a very few minutes after they had uttered them.