* An Irish gentleman, whose lady had absconded from him, cautioned the public against trusting her in these words:"My wife has eloped from me without rhyme or reason, and I desire no one will trust her on my account, for I am not married to her.

He had hung them there the night before, and now they had absconded with a pair of red braces just entering their teens.

The truth is that they are breaking up the whole house of the human intellect, that they may abscond in any direction.

In 1796, apropos of a girl who had absconded to New England, he excused his desire to recapture her on the ground that as long as slavery was in existence it was hardly fair to allow some to escape and to hold others.

On the 25th of November the Princess Anne had declared against her unfortunate father, by absconding at night by a back staircase from her lodgings in the Cockpit, as the northwestern angle of the palace was called, which looked on St. James's Park.

I knew a man that was under misfortunes, being guilty of misdemeanors against the goverment; when, absconding for fear of his ruin, all his friends advising him not to put himself in the hands of the law, one morning as he awaked, he felt a strong impulse darting into his mind thus, Write a letter to them; and this was repeated several times to his mind, and at last he answered to it, as if it had been a voice, Whom shall I write to?

They are sometimes allowed to abscond without their owners troubling themselves about them, their master's being unable either to feed or sell them.

We intend here no assent to the early theory, or, at any rate, practice, of Wordsworth, who confounded plebeian modes of thought with rustic forms of phrase, and then atoned for his blunder by absconding into a diction more Latinized than that of any poet of his century.

On inquiring for Mary Strugnell, we found that she had absconded on the evening of the trial.