Even the sharp-toothed locustfor in the days that bordered so close upon the mastodon, the locust could hardly have fallen to the tender greenling we know todayeven the locust that once spoiled the Egyptians could not now add to the grief of a coward.

Be it, therefore, Resolved, That the members of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, in session to-day, express their profound grief at the loss of their friend, associate and counsellor and extend to the members of his bereaved family their sincere sympathy in the great loss which they have sustained by his death.

If you show such a contempt of death, in deference to a custom founded in mere caprice, can it be wondered that a woman should show it, in the first paroxysms of her grief for the loss of him to whom was devoted every thought, word, and action of her life, and who, next to her God, was the object of her idolatry?

Class 2 came utterly to grief in their work; but Mr. Blake understood the cause, and set the same lessons over again for Monday.

Now, I call that one of the noblest things I ever heard of, for he is devotedly attached to his sister, and, naturally, it is a great grief to him to see her compelled to work for a living.

"He will be overcome with grief on knowin' that by lingerin' to speak once more with his father we were captured, an' I fear the lad may be led to some foolishly reckless move," I said, at the same moment trying to stifle a groan.

We want no grief over this, mind youeverything quietand sure.

Grief as a mantle is difficult to adjust to the shoulders of the young.

A very cleverly-written narrative, in smooth verse, detailing the experience of a bride who took to flirting early in her matrimonial career, but was saved from coming to grief by the decisive action of a stern husband.

"Yea, and when I have hearkened carefully, the words seemed cold and lifeless, and intended for another and a lesser grief than mine.

She could think of him, the one who loved her best, Of him who true had been if all the world deceived, Who felt all grief with her when she was grieved, And shared each joy that thrilled her girlish breast.

We every day expect your father here; and when he comes, and finds you so changed by grief from the paragon of beauty we reported you, he will think we have taken no care of you.

The lines in Coleridge's DejectionI was not then acquainted with themexactly describe my case: "A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word, or sigh, or tear.

He made up songs and put his grief into them.

The sorrows we have hid in silent weariness, As birds above a wounded, bleeding breast, Their bright plumes cast; The griefs like mourners in a dark array, That haunt our footsteps here, will flee away, And leave us to forget the sorrowful past, At last.

"Of course, I don't mean real troubles, like grief about any one you love.

"Last evening, as I was passing the railroad dépôt, I saw a large number of colored people gathered round one of the cars, and, from manifestations of grief among some of them, I was induced to draw near and ascertain the cause of it.

I too have grief beyond relief; Speak!

She firmly believed that Kershaw's murderer sat there in the dock, and she literally flaunted her grief before him.

Magdalen was crouched to the ground in a perfect frenzy of grief behind the Cross.

Before me begging did she stand, Pouring out sorrows like a sea; Grief after grief:on English Land Such woes I knew could never be; 1807.

Out of any hundred outlaws in the records of a hundred years, some ninety-nine had come to grief through the increasing numbers of their following and lack of discipline; he could think of a dozen who had been betrayed by paid informers of the government, posing as friendly brigands.

Not, indeed, as an outward show; Margaret Burnham was very brave, and hid her grief under a calm exterior, but there were times, in the quiet of her own chamber, when loneliness and sorrow came down upon her as a burden too great for her woman's heart to bear.

" Thus spake Beltane staring ever into the fire, joying bitterly to voice his grief unto this strange knight who had risen softly and now stood upon the other side of the fire.

The one grief above which she could not wholly rise, which at times smote her and bowed her down, was her sense of her loss in being childless.