He was at home, busily gleaning his breakfast among the pebbles of a shallow portion of the margin, apparently unaware of anything extraordinary in the weather.

Dr. Johnson gave a shilling extraordinary to the clerk, saying, 'He belongs to an honest church.'

If it were said, Miss Clarissa Harlowe has a wit and penetration beyond her years; we, instead of disallowing it, would addand a judgment no less extraordinary than her wit.

In many ways he is, or was, the most extraordinary of my many acquaintances.

I can't say that I had a comfortable night, but I slept, and was not disturbed by anything extraordinary for the remaining hours of the night.

This case isn't as extraordinary as those.

Nothing extraordinary about him in that respect.

But it is not very extraordinary at the best of times; and if even a preacher happened to have a complete houseful of children, if his quiver were absolutely full of them, he would not be pecuniarly rich.

Herewith I transmit copies of the documents authorizing Mr. Pinckney, the envoy extraordinary from the United States to the Court of Spain, to conclude the negotiation agreeably to the original instructions above mentioned, and to adjust the claims of the United States for the spoliations committed by the armed vessels of His Catholic Majesty on the commerce of our citizens.

And yet did not they form coalitions, equally extraordinary with that which is now under consideration?

Their conduct, indeed, seemed extraordinary on this occasion.

But there is nothing more extraordinary among the virtues attributed to music by the ancients, than what Aristotle relates in its supposed power of softening the rigour of punishment.

But, as he grew towards manhood, he could not remain insensible to her extraordinary beautyfor extraordinary it was, and such as to attract admiration wherever she went, so that the "Grocer's Daughter" became the toast among the ruffling gallants of the town, many of whom sought to obtain speech with her.

These sudden and apparently remarkable exclamations may probably appear mysterious and without reason to the respected readers who do us the honor to peruse our history; but they were in reality not at all extraordinary under the circumstances, and were, indeed, just what might have been expected, on the generally accepted theories of cause and effect.

They still secretly think it would also be possible to produce something extraordinary by their own foolish methods.

Those that have good Voices may be taught to sing the newest Opera-Airs, and, if requir'd, to speak either Italian or French, paying something extraordinary above the common Rates.

"Of course," he said to Gianluca, "the whole situation is extraordinary beyond anything I ever knew.

But just now two merry eyes were searchingly raised to the castle from the meadow below, as if they might discover something extraordinary behind the fast-closed shutters.