Not much!" Up came the signal quartermaster to get his orders, and there ensued a one-sided conversation in the pregnant language of the sea.

There were endless discussions and speeches and very violent language in the Chambers.

It would be infamousinfamous without power in the language for comparisonif we should requite their humanity by stirring up servile strife.

In another half century, they will extend the Christian religion and the English language to the Pacific Ocean.

What a linking of language with life you discover when you learn the original signification of presently, of idiot, of rival, of sandwich, of pocket handkerchief!

Paris for me and a little gal to learn the language from.

The commands, of course, were given to them in their own language by Major North, who could talk it as well as any full-blooded Pawnee.

Even such masters of classical prose as Francis Parkman, perhaps the greatest historian who has used the English language as his vehicle, are almost unknown to the average reader.

There is no more hateful word in the English language than 'darling.'

But this much | | he does not hesitate to claim, that, after a study of less | | than two weeks, he was able to sustain conversation in the | | newly-acquired language on a great variety of subjects."

She made a rule that we should use only one language at mealsshe didn't care which one, but we must keep to it.

It is the same with the greater number of fairy tales, whose first inventors, the Arabs, commenced with the "Thousand and One Nights," and presented us with "The Languages of the Beasts," and also with funny stories.

He wrote with great elegance and dignity of style, and had the peculiar felicity of readiness and facility in every thing that he undertook, being able, without premeditation, to translate one language into another.

Whatever may be the prognosis given to friends, in all febrile cases, the most confident and consoling language about the ultimate recovery should be used to the sick, as prophecies not unfrequently contribute to bring about the event foretold, by making people feel, or think, or act, differently from what they otherwise would have done.

We found seven different languages among them, each of which was not understood by those who spoke the others.

"I shall soon feel that I can reel off the language like a native of Crabtown," she confided laughingly to Dare.

" Shelley, on the other hand, is most satisfying and original when his individual spirit forms in night, cloud, skylark, and wind are made to sing, not as a reflection of his own mood, but as these spirit forces might themselves be supposed to sing, if they could express their song in human language without the aid of a poet.

They were personally cowardly, as their own chronicles declare; querulous, passionate, prone to unmanly tears; prone, as their writings abundantly testify, to scold, to use the most virulent language against all who differed from them; they were, at times, fearfully cruel, as evil women will be; cruel with that worst cruelty which springs from cowardice.

And this difference is not more marked than the difference in style and language between this and her earlier novels.

Occasionally a light case or bale would fall off, and quantities of small boys who seemed always on the spot would precipitate themselves, tumbling over each other to pick up what fell, and there would be protestations and explanations in every language under the sun.

The Teaching of Modern Foreign Languages in School and University.

The same spirit which enabled him to inflict a sore punishment on that wicked wretch, did prompt him to use that sharp language towards him; unquestionably deserved, and seasonably pronounced.

"Why, sir," said Vanbraam at last, "I have managed to pick up the fag ends of a good many languages during my life, and I can jabber French a little.

Born in Oosterhout, Holland, in 1857, he studied Theology and Oriental Languages at the University of Leiden and continued his studies at the University of Strassburg.

"I am impatient to hear good sense pronounced in my native tongue; having only heard my language out of the mouths of boys and governors for these five months" (she complained to Lady Pomfret).