"Your brother was not a member of the Hunt, and it seemed to uscurious.

This right of the first European possessour was not disputed, till it became the interest of the French to question it.

The moon was rising broad, and yellow, but it was low as yet, and "King Arthur" stood in impenetrable gloom,as any other thorough-going, self-respecting conspirator should; and now, all at once, from this particular patch of shadow, there came a sudden sound,a rushing sound,a chinking, clinking, metallic sound, and, thereafter, a crisp rustling that was not the rustling of ordinary paper.

There was no vice which was not rampant throughout the land,adultery, oppression of foreigners, venality in judges, falsehood, dishonesty in trade, usury, cruelty to debtors, robbery and murder, the loosing of the ties of kindred, general suspicion of neighbors,all the crimes enumerated by the Apostle Paul among the Romans.

I was not to be kept long in suspense, for the new day was scarcely three minutes old, when a hansom drove up to the other side of the church, and a man alighted.

He observed he was the only person there who was not a Privy Councillor, and expressed a wish to be one.

At last McCurdie unbent his black brows and said hoarsely: "It was not the Angel of Death, Doyne, but another Messenger that drew us here.

Upon explaining our circumstances as well as our small knowledge of the tongue allowed us, he makes us a gesture of his open hands, as if he would have us examine his house for ourselves, to see that she was not hid away there for any reason, and then calling his servants, he bids them seek through all the town, promising them a rich reward if they bring any tidings of Lala Mollah.

During the tenth century, indeed, if not impossible, it was at least difficult to find a single inhabitant of the kingdom of France who was not "the man" of some one, and who was either tied by rules of a liberal order, or else was under the most servile obligations.

My brokenhearted wife was not long in following her; and now you have made me the murderer of my son.

I went up to see her very often; I was not altogether satisfied about her, though outwardly she went on much as of old, going to see her friends, writing, and not even wearing black.

There was but very little money in Virginia at that time, and, indeed, there was not much use for it.

The lamps and candles had not been lighted, as it was not yet quite dark, but the firelight was bright, and they could plainly see the anxiety on every face.

This was not through any fear: he understood well enough that Caesar would have been very ready to spare him for the sake of that reputation for humaneness: but it was because he was passionately in love with freedom, and would not brook defeat in aught at the hands of any man, and regarded pity emanating from Caesar as more hateful than death.

In the House,for he had quite got the ear of the House,a certain impressive good sense, a habit of saying nothing that was not necessary to the occasion, had chiefly made for him the high character he enjoyed; but in the law courts it was perhaps his complaisance, his peculiar courtesy, of which they who praised him talked the most.

He spent the entire day with a magnifying-glass in his hand;but as Curlydown was also always armed in the same fashion, that was not peculiar.

Very fortunately, also, the stowage had been well attended to, so that, notwithstanding the terrible tossing of the vessel, her cargo was not moved about.

I was glad to know that he was not loose, and that it was only my phantom which crouched in every available place, ready to spring.

About $512,000,000 in public benefactions were given in the United States by private donors in the year 1915, and in this respect that year was not exceptional.

" Then Mr. Grey went to bed, as did also Dolly; but she was not at all surprised at being summoned to his couch after she had been an hour in her own bed.

The constrained introduction was very painful to Mr. Prosper, but was not at all disagreeable to the lady.

So this house was not so alien to me as all else I had seen in London; and perhaps the cosmopolitanism of this charming Jew, his Hellenism, in fact, was a sort of plank whereon I might pass and enter again into English life.

A little later Mrs. Adams writes her husband that there has been a conspiracy among the negroes, though it has been kept quiet, "I wish most sincerely," she adds, "that there was not a slave in the province.

Bell desired to give lectures in New York City, but was not certain that his apparatus would operate at that distance over the lines available.

He entered as a pensioner at St. John's, and although professing to be a reading man, he was not eminently satisfied with the effects of the society into which he fell upon his habits and accomplishments.