It was while the greater number of their school-fellows were gathered in numerous little groups, whiling away the free time before preparation discussing the various rumours that were current respecting Mr. Grice's encounters with Oaks and Allingford, that the same five conspirators assembled for another secret "confab" in the den beneath the pavilion.

The two teams, after hanging about dismally, and whiling the time away with stump-cricket in the changing rooms, lunched in the pavilion at one o'clock.

But in new efforts our regrets to-day To stillness whiling, Let us in some pure purpose find the way To future smiling.

In the second place the musical instruments may have belonged to the refugees, who might have enjoyed whiling away their exile with melancholy twanging.

] TABLET IIICOLUMN I HEABANI'S WISDOMSONG OF THE KHAU-IK-I The dark-eyed maids are dancing in the halls Of Erech's palace: music fills the walls Of splendor where the Sar-dan-nu enthroned, His hours is whiling by the maidens zoned; A whirling garland chanting forth a song.

But the surprise reached its acme, when I found him whiling away a part of the tedium of his long winter evenings in relating tales and legends for the amusement of the lodge circle.

And while the world was perishing, 'Tis pleasing to observe, The loving-kindness of the Lord, Who did the good preserve.

I answered; while she retreated to her bed, all the rest standing in the attitudes into which passion had thrown them.

I had felt, from the first, that her life might do what my words never could: namely, inspire women with faith to try their own experiments; give them a dignity, which should refuse to look forward to marriage as an end, while it would lead them to accept it gladly as a providential help.

With them I was merry, frank, and self-possessed; while with the girls I was quiet, shy, and awkward.

Though educated apart from the male students while studying the theory of midwifery, they attend the accouchement-ward together, and receive clinical or practical instruction in the same class, from the same professor.

now we know the reason why Miss Marie ate her breakfast so calmly, while her sister danced for joy.

Some I took into my house; for others I found work, and made myself a sort of guardian; while to others I gave friendship to keep them morally alive.

I went, therefore, to Mr. G., and proposed to establish a business with him, in which he should manufacture these coiffures, while I would sell them by wholesale to the merchants with whom I was acquainted.

And producing a magnifying glass, the detective made a long and careful examination of the holes while Papa Tignol watched him with unqualified disgust.

Sometimes half a dozen of them would pass in a row, the drivers walking together and whiling away the time with stories and songs.

of time, is from the first participle of an old verb dure, to last, formerly in use; as, "While the world may dure.

The two women were in Naples, whiling away their tedious waiting with trips to neighboring places of interest, when they met the sailor.

They were the notes of a deep, ringing, bass voice rising from the glen beneath the castle wallssomething between humming and singinglistlessly unequal and intermittent, like the melody of a man whiling away the hours over his work.

He was a keen sportsman and had brought a fowling-piece with him in his gig, with a half-formed design of landing and whiling away the time, until the westerly wind came, among some marshes that he saw near the shore, but had been persuaded by Griffin not to venture.

It is wonderful, that Men guilty this Way, could never have observed, that the whiling Time, the gathering together, and waiting a little before Dinner, is the most awkwardly passed away of any Part in the four and twenty Hours.

They are immediately sated with Possession, and must necessarily fly to new Acquisitions of Beauty, to pass away the whiling Moments and Intervals of Life; for with them every Hour is heavy that is not joyful.

Here I got down and changed to an omnibus bound for Kensington; on which I travelled westward pleasantly enough, looking down into the teeming streets and whiling away the time by meditating upon the very agreeable afternoon that I promised myself, and considering how far my new arrangement with Thorndyke would justify me in entering into certain domestic engagements of a highly interesting kind.

Near the centre of the north side of the block stood a house in which three men, who have much to do in this story, were whiling away an hour before dinner, at the edge of evening, in the month of December, 185-.

In an adjoining township, on the same day, ex-President Cleveland, who was whiling away time in the philosophic pursuit of fishing, was charged with catching and retaining longer than the law allowed a bass which was a quarter of an inch under the legal limit of eight inches.