In about an hour more we had the doors secured, and every thing arranged in its place, when, cutting the cords which fastened us to the ground, by means of small steel blades which worked in the ends of other screws, we rose from the earth with a whizzing sound, and a sensation at first of very rapid ascent: but after a short time, we were scarcely sensible of any motion in the machine, except when we changed our places.

The hollow-hearted Eustachio and the rapacious Leonardo, their virtual rulers, might indeed be little sensible to this enthusiasm, but they could not disregard the general drift of public opinion, which said clearly: "Mantua is trying a great experiment.

'Now, don't interrupt me in your impulsive way, but hear me outit would be far more kind and sensible in every way for you to sit right down at that little writing-table, take out your stylographic pen and write and tell my mother that I have a bad attack of influenza....

If a few, more sensible than the rest, see the doctor's miscarriages, and are not easily gulled at first sight, yet, when they see a man is never ashamed, in time, jump in to his assistance.

" "Why didn't you say anything as sensible as that out yonder?"

That's sensible at any rate.

It was remarked that, as this call was made from above, the great Master alone could guide his steps; he appeared fully sensible from whom his help must come.

Whatever faults he had, he'd be too sensible for that.

But here you are, free, with the whole world before you, and your last danger disappearing with the knowledge that I am ready to be your friend and am sensible about everything that has happened.

What the current was which flowed around me I know not; if it was thought which becomes sensible among spirits, if it was action, I cannot tell.

Look here, we'll give you till after dinner, and unless you find something sensible by then, we shall come and hunt for ourselves.

You're always so sensible like.

Most of these asserted that he had gone on a tour to Norway, a course which the 'Daily News' correspondent declared to be very sensible on M. Zola's part, given the tropical heat which then prevailed in the French metropolis.

He means well, and if we only had him for a while out West, where I came from, we might make something sensible out of him yet.

And even when the life is prolonged, one becomes a puckered, winking, doddering old thing, stiff and brittle, disgraceful and humiliated, and, what is worse than anything, feeling so young and sensible inside the crazy machine.

Finally, unless the writer has gracethe principle of Beauty I have named itenabling him to give some aesthetic charm to his presentation, were it only the charm of well-arranged material, and well-constructed sentences, a charm sensible through all the intricacies of COMPOSITION and of STYLE, he will not do justice to his powers, and will either fail to make his work acceptable, or will very seriously limit its success.

"Ross is sensible beyond his years," she said to herself sadly, "but youth is so romantic.