I had come now to within less than a quarter of a mile of the great structure, and still I was compelled forward.

I walked about a good deal in my quarter in the morning, and made acquaintance with many funny little old squares and shops, merceries, flower and toy shops which had not yet been swallowed up by the enormous establishments like the Louvre, the Bon Marche, and the big bazaars.

" "You may set down a quarter to my account," said Smith, "and Spalding shall take another."

They rode a short time together, and the next day he received an invitation from the officers of a smart Uhlan regiment to dine at their mess "in remembrance of the kind hospitality shown to some of their officers who had been quartered at his place in France during the war."

Two travellers were there, who had just left Benares, and had taken up their quarters for the night.

Strange to say, that from this ship at a quarter past one was fired a shot which struck him in the left shoulder, and proved fatal.

But being angry, and perhaps a little scared, I beat him to his quarters with a belaying pin.

I understood well enough their resentment at having a ship's officer quartered on them,the forec'stle they considered as their only liberty when at sea, and my presence as a curtailment to the freedom of speech.

But go some of you immediately, and take Officers along with you, and remove his Quarters from a Baudy-house to a Prison: charge him with the Murder of his Wife.

With Sir Herbert Nicholson, he had been in habits of intimacy, and on that gentleman's alluding in a conversation in the barracks at F to the lady brought into his quarters before Lisbon, he accidentally omitted mentioning the name of her rescuer.

Then she said she would take her leave of her, and walked from Mrs. Bargrave, in her view, till a turning interrupted the sight of her, which was three-quarters after one in the afternoon.

One boy tosses pennies, and loses his quarter by gambling.

" "Go ahead," said the Doctor, "I'll take a quarter as my share of the story, and you may cut it off of either end, or carve it out of the middle.

He says that "from the year 1773 to 1779 (he arrived in Barbadoes in 1780), his stock had been so much reduced by ill management and wasteful economy, that the annual average neat clearance was little more than one and a quarter per cent.

They were transferred to more comfortable quarters than the wretched inn of Mrs. Mahone.

The Duke of York and his partisans came thither with numerous retinues, and took up their quarters near each other for mutual security.

The reasonable probability was they composed merely a party of innocent fishermen, returning home after a day of sportplantation servants possibly, who having stolen away unobserved, were now endeavoring to beach their stolen boat, and reach quarters without being seen.

He halted for the winter in the territory of the Arverni, the modern Auvergne, and conciliated or purchased the goodwill of the Gauls in that region so far that he not only found friendly winter quarters among them, but great numbers of them enlisted under him, and, on the approach of spring, marched with him to invade Italy.

Because everything had been so suspiciously quiet in this last quarter during the night, I more than half expected to discover that they had withdrawn under cover of darkness; but the presence of the women and children told I was mistaken.

He duly came from his quarters into the courtyard accompanied by his Lieutenant.

The exhilarating effect of the genial Comic Paper man upon FLORA did not, indeed, pass away, until she and Miss CAROWTHERS were in their appointed quarters under the roof of Mrs. SKAMMERHORN, whither they went immediately upon the arrival of the elder spinster from Bumsteadville.

We found the whole country in a state of very great consternation, and not without cause; for in eight days' time they would scarce have been able to raise eight men-at-arms, and for other soldiers there were not in the whole country above one thousand five hundredreckoning horse and foot togetherthat had escaped from the battle in which the Duke of Burgundy was slain, and they were quartered about Namur and Hainault.

The periscope of the submarine was next sighted on the quarter within 200 or 300 yards, and she came slowly past the ship still submerged and evidently examining the vessel closely through the periscope.

Twice he quartered over the ground before he knew he had reached the place where the back-tracking ceased.

" "And if otherwise?" "A blow at north-west, or from any quarter off the land, will prove their ruin.