"It was a Providence, for which we all ought to be thankful," Dr. Tusher said, "that my lady and her son were spared, while death carried off the poor domestics of the house;" and he rebuked Harry for asking in his simply way, for which we ought to be thankful; that the servants were killed or the gentlefolk were saved?

The number of the male domestics in a family varies according to the wealth and position of the master, from the owner of the ducal mansion, with a retinue of attendants, at the head of which is the chamberlain and house-steward, to the occupier of the humbler house, where a single footman, or even the odd man-of-all-work, is the only male retainer.

Armenia and Syria to be erected into protectorates of such Government or Governments as seems expedient from a domestic as well as an international point of view; the guaranty being that both countries will be given self-government as soon as possible and that an 'Open-Door' policy as to commerce and industrial development will be rigidly observed.

The guest is domestic to you as your good cat, or household bird; the visitant is your fly, that flaps in at your window, and out again, leaving nothing but a sense of disturbance, and victuals spoiled.

He struck one of the domestics with such force that he broke his stick in pieces, and one of the fragments flew into the lady's eye and put it out.

Hastily calling Janet, who was the only domestic at home, she committed Ludovico to her care; and taking Edith by the hand, she hurried from the garden, scarcely knowing whither she bent her steps, but in the vague hope of meeting some of the settlers returning from their labors in the fields, and inducing them to go to the rescue of her boy.

Friend Hopper explained that these men had been watching his house, supposing a fugitive slave to be secreted there; and that they had mistaken one of his domestics for the person they were in search of.

Can't you imagine him standing there in his ragsthe Weary Willy of the comic supplementsgazing about him at the objets d'art, the old masters, the onyx tables, the statuarywondering where the pantry was and whether the housekeeper would be more likely to feed him or kick him out?" "Weren't any of the domestics about?" inquired Tutt.

The myth-spirits of the North were more homely and domestic than those of the South, and had a broader humor and livelier fancies.

Aun' Patsy neber did 'tend to have a shroud o' bleached domestic like common folks.

Templeton was receiveda report set abroad that he had gone to Franceand all proper measures were taken within the house to prevent any domestic from letting out the secret.

The writer has also been careful to point out, that from these opinions no justification can be derived for any protecting duty, or other preference given to domestic over foreign industry.

How few, it is often said, will do their own housework, if they can possibly get a train of domestics around them; even though the care and oversight of the domestics themselves gear them out more rapidly than bodily labor would.

Many slave-owners among us, not satisfied with ministering to the wants of their domestics by all the comforts of abundant food and excellent clothing, with a misguided benevolence have not only permitted their instruction, but lent to such efforts their approbation and applause.

This attitude of the domestic towards his superior is not infrequent in the comedies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

In her dealings with the various tradesmen, and in her behaviour to the domestics under her, the demeanour and conduct of the housekeeper should be such as, in neither case, to diminish, by an undue familiarity, her authority or influence.

I now earnestly entreated him to receive me and my domestics into his society for the remainder of the journey, to which he very readily agreed.