Imagine for an instant the drudgery of working a long division sum with leaden type and raised, figures; think of all the difficulty of placing the figures, and the chances of doing the sum wrong; and then it will not cause surprise that the blind girl could never enjoy arithmetic, although in mental calculation she showed herself later on to be very clever.

Now and then a blast exploded, for what purpose he could not imagine in this school of mining.

Over this story the little Pilgrim had shed many tears; for she knew well, being enlightened in her great simplicity by the heavenly wisdom, that it was pain and grief to the Father to turn away His face; and that no one who has but the little heart of a man can imagine to himself what that sorrow is in the being of the great God.

You may imagine with what awe we looked on him even though he now went on crutches.

The outer rails are literally on the edge of the wood, and no more secluded spot can be imagined than thisthe favourite residence of their Majesties.

They were but little more than rowboats, as may be easily imagined from the fact that Cicero instances for its uncommon magnitude a ship of only fifty-six tons!

an expression we are to imagine of surprise at the arrival of the stream.

Little did the captain imagine at that time that the success of the man whose cause he espoused would so soon be the means of his untimely death.

" "That is," said he, "because they contend as vehemently for what they imagine as for what they see; and perhaps more so, as their perceptions are like those of other men, while their reveries are more exclusively their own.

" Joe remembered all his own adventures which he had imagined on land and sea, and nodded.

Does any one imagine by chance that the latter will forever relinquish New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico?

He was amazed at the continual noise it made, and the motion of the minute-hand, which he could easily discern; for their sight is much more acute than ours: and asked the opinions of his learned men about him, which were various and remote, as the reader may well imagine without my repeating; although, indeed, I could not perfectly understand them.

To speak in a word, there is nothing so vain, absurd, ridiculous, extravagant, impossible, incredible, so monstrous a chimera, so prodigious and strange, such as painters and poets durst not attempt, which they will not really fear, feign, suspect and imagine unto themselves: and that which Lod.

In either form of it, two nominatives are idly imagined between as and its verb; and, I ask, of what is the first one the subject?

" As Schlegel goes on to say, we can easily imagine into what direction the tastes of the English people drifted under such auspices.

I dreamed of a unique, an unheard-of idyll with a woman far from the one with whom I had hitherto lost all my time, a woman whose features I did not see, but whose shadow I imagined beside my own as we walked along the road together.

It is evident the internal constitution, whereon their properties depend, is unknown to us: for to go no further than the grossest and most obvious we can imagine amongst them, What is that texture of parts, that real essence, that makes lead and antimony fusible, wood and stones not?

Now she was very pretty, with dancing blue eyes and a profusion of golden curls; she had, too, a most winning manner, hard for any one to resist; and these personal attractions, added to style of dress that had never been seen or imagined among the simple country-folk, rendered her a most important person, so that no "tea-fight" or merry-making was complete without Nelly Curtis.

You cannot imagine through what a crisis I have just passeda veritable tempest of emotions, surrounded by darkness from out of which I have but just found my way.

Some blushed as he passed by, imagining against their will what an embrace from this hideous and restless Colossus must be.

" "And what did Miss Robson say to that?" "Oh, she was more self-contained than one would imagine under the circumstances.

I had imagined until this moment that you and she were married.

Yet the absolute's constitution, if imagined at all, has to be imagined after the analogy of some bit of finite experience.

Mr. Overtop had been educated for the law, but, finding the profession uncomfortably crowded when he came into it, had not yet achieved those brilliant triumphs which he once fondly imagined within his reach.

They followed in imagination Gabriel's description, but their narrowed minds wished to place a term to the infinite, and in their simplicity they imagined beyond these incalculable distances a vault of firm matter millions of leagues thick.