She was chosen by him to be a member of the order of St. John of Jerusalem.

he exclaimed later in the day, as he stood beside John in the carpenter's shop, watching the curling strips of wood which his plane was tossing off with sweeping strokes.

"Whether it be right," said Peter and John to the great men and judges of the Jews, "to hearken to God more than to you, judge ye.

What mad thing will you be doing next, I wonder?" "The next thing will be to go back again," said John with a smile, while Nan clung fast to his neck and peeped shyly through her curls at her brother.

"Thee would'st not set John at that!" "Lincoln split rails," said John with a smile, "why should not I pile them?

Then on the bank above me I saw the fellow who had run into me and hindered my catching Muckle John on dry land.

But at the same time they looked at Little John from out the corners of their eyes.

She loved John as her own son, but no one ever dreamed of disputing the tyrannical dictates of the master of Hollywood, however unjust they might be.

She was rejoiced to hear he had returned with John for a fowling-piece, and together they had gone in pursuit of game, although she saw in it a convincing proof that a desire to avoid Mrs. Fitzgerald, and not indisposition, had induced him to leave her.

He followed Uncle John into the tatter's room and smoked one of the newly-discovered cigars while the elder man lay back in an easy chair and silently puffed his pipe.

For most men's religion has a touch of self-interest in it; and therefore when people discovered that they could get nothing out of St Peter or St John by praying to them, they began to forget the very memory, many of them, of St Peter, St John, and other saints and apostles.

I was a-goin' to call the baby John after hit's pappy.

He had some talk with Lord John before accepting the Queen's commission, which persuaded him that he could rely upon Lord John's consent; but it is clear that at that time Lord John did not consider the matter decided.

The name of rebel John against his father?

'Well; no,unless it's necessary.' 'There ain't another John about the place, as I know.

Seeing Sir John among his admirals and guests one had a glimpse of the life of a sort of mysterious, busy brotherhood.

Saunders began to climb the narrow stairs, with John behind him.

"On which account," said the Major, grasping the little man's hand most cordially, "I'll love Uncle John like my own brother.

A scream from the women brought Muckle John out of his rhapsodies.

He remarks upon it as curious, that more traces should indeed be found 'both in Celsus and his contemporary Tatian of John than of his two nearest predecessors' [Endnote 307:2].

The feelings of King John towards Prince Arthur, of Henry IV. towards the Earl of March, of Mary towards Lady Jane Grey, of Elizabeth towards Mary Stuart, of King James towards Lady Arabella Stuart, resembled, but probably by no means equalled in intensity, those of Nero towards his kinsman and adoptive brother.

John up an lived an' married!

Bordering on the "Big Black" and "Little Black" rivers the growth of pine is large and apparently of good quality, and it is believed that most of the smaller streams falling into the St. John below the "Seven Islands" will be found fringed with pine, but it is quite certain that very little will be found included between the lines of boundary and the highlands as claimed by the United States to the westward of St. Francis River.

Seizing John around the waist, she dragged him back, and flung him to the ground, exclaiming, "Oh, my sons!

Sir John Hepburn sent his man presently to me to come up, which I did; and Sir John without any ceremony carries me directly up to the king, who was leaning on his elbow in the window.