The bushes were matted, and the trees overhung us, so that the place was disagreeably gloomy; though not dark enough to hide from me the fact that many of the trees were fruit trees, and that, here and there, one could trace indistinctly, signs of a long departed cultivation.

" "It is already known there," replied he, "and has been long practised by many in the east: but in the present state of society with you, it might do more harm than good to be made public, by removing one of the checks of licentiousness, where women are so unrestrained as they are with you.

If the door gave, I would, at least, slay as many as possible.

IIfear the complexity of your system is one too many for me.

But in the three voyages I have made to the moon, I have acquired so many new facts, and imparted so many to the learned men of that planet, that it is, without doubt, the subject of their active speculations at this time, and will, probably, assume a regular form long before the new science of phrenology of which you tell me, and which it must, in time, supersede.

" To his astonishment the advertisements arrived, a great many from very prominent firms, who accepted his proposal with amusement at his originality and a desire to help the new venture along.

There is one button too many on the front of the Colonel's coat.

Within one group of children there might be many with different aims.

He that is not coward, let him follow me!" "Aye," cried a score of harsh voices, "but whitherwhither?" Quoth Beltane: "Be there many among ye that know Sir Pertolepe the Red?" Now went there up a roar, deep-lunged and ominous; brawny fists were shaken and weapons flashed and glittered.

If the waiters would drive a few flies out of the dining-room, we wouldn't sit down quite so many at table.

The government of the many by the few is the rule, and not the exception, in the politics of the times that have been and of those that now are.

I hope there are not many like her in the world.

Though he confiscated the estates of Harold, and of those who had fought in the battle of Hastings on the side of that prince, whom he represented as an usurper, he seemed willing to admit of every plausible excuse for past opposition to his pretensions, and he received many into favour who had carried arms against him.

They have, perhaps, from external circumstances, experienced deeper baptisms, and have made greater sacrifices, than many amongst us have been called upon to make; and we know that ease and outward prosperity have not been favorable to the interests of the true Church: but, without doubt, they are exposed to similar dangers to those in this land whose minds have been awakened to the importance of religious truth.

Many about the King were again more hot than ever to have the King take him forth and hang him.

"The door is giving, and there be many without: and, since to-night we must die, so let us slay the white fox first.

The naming the very spot in a country where a funeral comes a long way, and the very people as bearers, when there are so many out of whom a choice may be made, seems extraordinary.

If I own this property, the public, or that portion of it which is connected with this affair, are aggressors; and so much more in the wrong that they are many against one; if they own the property, I am not only wrong, but very indiscreet.

There be many before thee, Who have suffered and had patience.

These considerations and the like, of which fear presented many unto them, caused the people of Rome to wait upon their consuls out of the town, like a pensive train of mourners, thinking upon Marcellus and Crispinus, upon whom, in the like sort, they had given attendance the last year, but saw neither of them return alive from a less dangerous war.

She had never been to Dellmere, but she had heard from Miss Fewbanks that her father's place was reached from a station called Horleydene, on the main line to Wennesden, and that though there were many through trains, comparatively few stopped at Horleydene.

Thus, on the 24th of September, Allen found himself alone at Long Point with a hundred and twenty men in face of three times as many under the redoubtable Major Carden, a skilled veteran who had won Wolfe's admiration years before.

The hostility on the part of many within the Established Church of the eighteenth century, to true New Testament ministry and practice, on the one hand expelled the Wesleyans from the National Church, and on the other compelled Lady Huntingdon to add one more to the dissenting bodies.

" "Not too many around here that haven't had a drink on Richard," Mark said.

Our assailants were massed half way back, so blended together I could not judge their number, many between us and the light with faces darkened by shadow.