He may cultivate his lands, improve his mind, educate his children; these are his serious occupations, affording every day some employment that is, at once, new and interesting: and, by way of relaxation, he has music, painting, and sculpture; sailing, riding, conversation, storytelling, and reading the news of what is passing, both in the valley and out of it.

He was glad to see us, inquired the news from the outer world, talked about York State, Vermont, the Bay State, and then, after an hour's converse, as if his social instincts and sympathies had been satisfied, he shouldered his rifle and started off across the plain, towards a belt of timber lying dim and shadowy, like a low cloud, upon the distant horizon.

It is hard to me to break the news to you, but it must be done.

Abruptly from the crow's-nest came startling news for those desolate seas: "Lightho!

Miss Diana received the news in absolute silence.

That is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the good news about the Saviour.

" Morriston did not receive the news with any appearance of satisfaction.

It was not, however, until after the boys had swarmed out of the dining-hall that the reason of this subdued commotion became generally known; and then, like the sudden report of an explosion, every one seemed to become acquainted with the news at the same moment.

We don't get much news on the coast, so I sort of lost track of the folks back east, and I reckon they lost track of me, for the same reason.

" "There's no such good news as that," Jacob said, with a laugh; "but I'm puzzled to make out why they're so quiet.

Rumors of war from Europe must always be expected, for how can we get Pacific news by Atlantic Telegraph?

The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran.

He has made a fortune out of his papers on the theory that the people care more for news than for politics.

It's straight I've come from the House of Commons to bring you the news without an hour's delay.

Hetty, at Miss Briggs' desk, attended the telegraph instrument and long-distance telephone, receiving news over both wires, and still found time to draw her daily cartoons and additional humorous sketches which she "worked in" whenever the mood seized her.

He was to bring me news after the theatre at my house, about midnight.

He had learned that Kazan, like the lynx, could not fight water and he spread the news among the members of his colony.

The rest brought news into the camp that Siccius, while fighting bravely, had fallen into an ambush, and that some soldiers had been lost with him.

From time to time she obtained some hearsay news through Polly; but Polly's chief interest now lay in her approaching marriage.

But Ordeal was out of breath, and although Jenny shook him, as if to shake the news out of him, and Mrs. Abbott actually shook her fist, in her impatience to be enlightened, nothing could induce the child to speak, until he had recovered his wind.

As I stood on the platform last Saturday evening devouring the latest war news under the dim oil lamp, a voice behind me said, in broad rural accent, "Bill, I say, W.G. is dead."

They state facts without padding or comment, and manage to bring the daily allowance of news within ten or twelve columns.

" "We hear also, my lord," said the Italian, "that King Edward of England is marshalling an army, presumably for the invasion of France and, because of the close union that is soon to be between King Louis and Burgundy, I have thought proper to lay the news before Your Grace.

At a moment when they were flashing the wireless news throughout the world that their Caporetto victory meant the driving of Italy out of the war they did not want the icy blast of Jerusalem's fall to tell of disaster to their hopes in the East.

Also Massinger's The Virgin Martyr, ii, II: Courtiers have flies That buzz all news unto them.