Parade, indeed, is a well-chosen name for the principal street, along which the population of the idle town draws itself out for daily review and display.

N. B.My single affection is not so singly wedded to snipes; but the curious and epicurean eye would also take a pleasure in beholding a delicate and well-chosen assortment of teals, ortolans, the unctuous and palate-soothing flesh, of geese wild and tame, nightingales' brains, the sensorium of a young sucking-pig, or any other Christmas dish, which I leave to the judgment of you and the cook of Gonville.

On the night of December 5 the British strengthened their line by abandoning certain untenable positions near Cambrai, falling back deliberately and successfully, unknown to the enemy, upon a well-chosen line which ruled out the dangerous salient made by Bourlon Wood.

The Gauls had reckoned on this very result: their infantry, which had rested and was drawn up in order, awaited on a well-chosen battlefield the Roman militia, which came up from its forced march fatigued and disordered.

S. japonica pendula is one of the most constant of weeping trees, and valuable for planting in certain well-chosen spots on the lawn or in the park.

All these well-chosen characters are made to serve the author's purpose as channels for poetic utterance that might otherwise seem irrelevant.

Some years ago the breed seemed to be on the down grade, requiring fresh blood from a well-chosen outcross.

Other Pictures are made for the Eyes only, as Rattles are made for Children's Ears; and certainly that Picture that only pleases the Eye, without representing some well-chosen Part of Nature or other, does but shew what fine Colours are to be sold at the Colour-shop, and mocks the Works of the Creator.

These Hours were usually passed in Rooms adorned for that purpose, and set out in such a manner, as the Objects all around the Company gladdened their Hearts; which, joined to the cheerful Looks of well-chosen and agreeable Friends, gave new Vigour to the Airy, produced the latent Fire of the Modest, and gave Grace to the slow Humour of the Reserved.

It struck him as a particularly well-chosen dinner, and the longer he sat and thought about it the more he wished he were to test its excellence.

He was bidden welcome by an eleven-year-old pupil in well-chosen and significant words.

[Footnote 1: A well-chosen collection of aphorisms from the philosophy of history is given by M. Schasler under the title Hegel: Populäre Gedanken aus seinen Werken, 2d.

All the well-chosen words of her sophisticated friend were imbedded in the tissue of her brain like grains of sand in an eyeball.

Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.

Here is a man, who, in the well-chosen words of his epitaph, "converted a rude and inconsiderable manufacture into an elegant art, and an important branch of national commerce."

A person, who thoroughly understood the well-chosen subjects, and was qualified to explain them to a stranger, could not be devoid of knowledge, nor could his mind want food for constant contemplation.

He came in on Joe jovial, happy, sparkling, and fired a broadside of well-chosen questions.

And then you can, well, make a few well-chosen remarks you know, and drop the whole damned subject forever.

What has fate Not given to thee in thy well-chosen mate?

The dressing Part of our Sex, whose Minds are the same with the sillyer Part of the other, are exactly in the like uneasy Condition to be regarded for a well-tied Cravat, an Hat cocked with an unusual Briskness, a very well-chosen Coat, or other Instances of Merit, which they are impatient to see unobserved.

This is brought to pass in a well-chosen Fable, by the Account of such things as have really happened, or at least of such things as have happened according to the received Opinions of Mankind.

" She moved by her well-chosen phrases; they were like rules set in a copybook for her guidance.

Alvarado made one also, five sentences of plain well-chosen words, to which the bridegroom listened with scorn.

The Sam Adams Regiments, sent on the mission of warring against the republican idea, were proudly borne to Boston by fifteen British men-of-war, which were moored (September 29) in well-chosen fighting positions around the north end of the quiet, but glorious town.

" The sindacoalthough better off than many, painfully conscious of long arrears of unpaid rentwaxing a little bolder at the sound of his own voice and his well-chosen phrases, continues: "I am glad to hear it, Signora Marchesa."