The Doctor was fond of his wife, a sprightly, would-be fashionable, still very pretty woman.

A would-be Waac goes to the center in her county for examination, and then is assigned to work at home or "somewhere in France" according to training and capacity.

And then the would-be poet continued: "The wind is dead, there is no breeze To stir the bushes or the trees.

" "I'll make it an hour by the watch," answered the would-be poet.

"No spooning with Minnie till six." "Huh! I don't spoon," grumbled the would-be poet.

"I was going to, sir," answered the would-be poet cheerily.

Fanny heard from Mary of Maria's fine house in Wimpole Street, of the splendours of the first party, and of the attentions paid to Julia by that would-be amateur actor, the Honourable John Yates; while from Edmund she gathered that his hopes of securing Mary were weaker than those he had cherished when he had left Mansfield, and that he was more satisfied with all that he saw and heard of Harry Crawford.

Trissino, a very great man in his day, and the would-be restorer of the ancient epic, had the face, in return for the poet's too honourable mention of him, to speak, in his own absurd verses, of "Ariosto, with that Furioso of his, which pleases the vulgar:" "L' Ariosto Con

Especially when that other party has so many hungry would-be 'tax eaters' clamoring to enter the 'land of milk and honey.'

It was enough if his client purported to be oppressed; it did not matter if the victim had been a would-be oppressor himself.

Pete Leddy's gun had dropped to his side and his would-be victim had a hand on Pete's shoulder.

Many of those of Philadelphia were of the most ambitious kind, men who had purchased their freedom or had developed sufficient intelligence to delude their would-be captors and conquer the institution of slavery.

But all such feelings are poor and weak when compared with the sinking of the heart, and the trembling of the knees, which, seize upon the unhappy lecturer as he advances towards his first audience, and as before his eyes rises a ghastly vision of a tongue-tied would-be speaker facing rows of listening faces, listening tosilence.

The would-be nun of the English convent walking the streets in male attire, and even, as you tell us, with your hands in your pockets!

He is the would-be murderer of Edmée de Mauprat, and his name is Antony Mauprat.

"We don't want a pottery on the street any more than you do," they added, and expressed a wish that their brother might be able to convince the persistent would-be purchaser of the utter hopelessness of his wishes.

A sudden order from General Gallièni, the Military Governor of Paris, had been issued to each driver, who immediately ignored the upraised hands of would-be passengers and the shouts of people desperate to get to one of the railway stations with household goods and a hope of escape.

* In connection with the offers for Drury Lane Theatre it appears that one of the would-be purchasers declares that he was more syndicate than sinning.

Success having attended the first efforts, let the would-be orator assimilate these rules, and his power will be doubled, aye increased a hundredfold.

And whether he meant to kill me, or only to cripple me, I don't know; but the bullet went through my left knee, at the lower edge of the knee-cap, and the next thing I knew I was sprawling on all-fours on the earth, and the nextand it was in the succeeding second, before even I felt a smartI was staring up from that position to see the vengeance that fell on my would-be murderer in the very instant of his attempt on me.

This was considered as depriving these would-be lords of their just rights, but had the best consequences, by consolidating and securing the authority of government.

" One of the would-be poets of our day has translated the above most elegantly and literally, as follows: "What mischiefs through this love arise!

The First Telephone ExchangeThe Bell Telephone AssociationTheodore N. VailThe Fight with the Western UnionEdison and Blake Invent TransmittersLast Effort of the Western UnionMushroom Companies and Would-be InventorsThe Controversy with GrayDolbear's ClaimsThe Drawbaugh CaseOn a Firm Footing.

And would they say 'Canossa?'" A would-be Competitor sends this, "Here lies BISMARCK He made his mark.

" A grouchy butcher, who had watched the price of porterhouse steak climb the ladder of fame, was deep in the throes of an unusually bad grouch when a would-be customer, eight years old, approached him and handed him a penny.