This is according to all past history: and do not, therefore, count upon an exception in your favour, that would be little short of the miraculous.

When very shallow they become dry toward the end of summer; but because their basins are ground out of seamless stone they suffer no loss save from evaporation alone; and the great depth of snow that falls, lasting into June, makes their dry season short in any case.

These spring rivers of the north are of course shorter than those of the south whose tributaries extend up to the tops of the mountains.

ACT II.Scenethe whiskey shop of the REASONING ANIMAL.LIONEL asleep on a bed evidently borrowed from some boarding-housesince it is several feet too short for him.

" The colonel raised his faultless right handand oddly enough his great corpulence did not extend in the slightest degree to his hand, but stopped short at the wristsand stroked his immense chin.

"Sorry, old chap, if I was a bit short with you just now;" (just now, indeed!

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

" "The wife ain't so short on looks, is she?" "Blutch!"

" "It's a good bit shorter by rail," mused Diggory, "if we could walk along the line.

The longest, how short to eternity!

A fine was imposed on every woman wearing her hair cut short like a man's; all gaming for amusement or gain was forbidden, and cards and dice were not permitted in the colony.

" While monarch and man embraced, while the aged noble's tears fell like rain, Marmion seized the moment to restore himself to favor with both, and whispered half aloud to the King: "'Oh! let such tears unwonted plead For respite short from dubious deed!

They were beaten, starved, tortured, murdered at discretion: they were dead in a civil sense; they had neither name nor tribe; were incapable of a judicial process; were in short without appeal.

In the appalling stillness of the long Arctic night, any passer-by was hailed with enthusiasm, and although the food-supply in the Big Cabin was plainly going to run short before spring, no travellerwhite, Indian, or Esquimauxwas allowed to go by without being warmed and fed, and made to tell where he came from and whither he was boundquestions to tax the sage.

To turn short about is not always the best way of getting off a wrong road, though it may be the quickest way.

Not only did wages increase and the hours of labor grow shorter between 1840 and 1860, but the field of labor was enormously expanded.

He had slipped off his coat, that he might escape more easily from the hands of his enemies, and kept nothing on but a short under garment without sleeves, and the long band which the Jews usually wore, and which was wrapped round his neck, head, and arms.

The roof was arched indeed, but so low, that the shortest among them could scarce stand upright:no kind of furniture, not even straw to cover the damp earthen floor, which served them for a seat by day and bed at night.

He was dressed in a huge thick fustian jacket, scratched, stained, and patched, with bulging, greasy pockets; a cast of flies round a battered hat, riddled with shot-holes, a dog- whistle at his button-hole, and an old gun cut short over his arm, bespoke his business.

She was a brig, but her mainmast had been snapped short off some 10ft. above the deck, and no effort seemed to have been made to cut away the wreckage, which floated, sails and yards, like the broken wing of a wounded gull upon the water beside her.

Most of them were young, seemingly not above thirty years of age, of a good stature, with very thick black lank hair, mostly cut short above their ears, though some had it down to their shoulders, tied

With shortened oars the men still urged the boat ahead, now turning short into some new channel, now glancing beneath a low bridge, and now uttering, in the sweet shrill tones of the country and their craft, the well known warning to those who were darting in an opposite direction.

The remaining bateau, with the engineer, arrived the next evening, having ascended the rapids of the St. John in a time short beyond precedent.

The boy looked in wonder at a tall man who looked short beside Little John, as he came up in coat of green with brown belt, a sword by his side, quiver of arrows hung on his back, and longbow in his hand.

Above this ledge, and between it and the rocky point, was a narrow path, only three or four feet wide, that turned short around the end of the hill.