The sittings of the assembly were very interesting in that wonderful year when everything was being discussed.

The sitting in the Reichstag was a solemn event.

Mr. Lethbridge replied with a nod, and the accused was formally committed for trial at the next sittings at the Old Bailey.

The Committee held yet another sitting on Saturday, the 6th, at eleven o'clock at night.

On the afternoon of that day, I had a long sitting with the Japanese Plenipotentiaries, and we went over the clauses of the Treaty which we had not reached on the previous day.

This torture was an actual penance, like the sitting for years on top of a pillar, the wearing of a hair shirt, or fasting in Lent.

After mother's more practical service had been rendered the little ones, and they were cosily 'tucked in,' then came 'father's turn,' which consisted of his sitting by their bedsideOwen and Geoffrey on one hand, and little queen Phyllis, maidenlike in solitary cot, on the otherand crooning to them a little evening song.

Uniform as they are, and unhistorify'd, I read them thro' at two sittings without one sensation approaching to tedium.

It was expected, therefore, that the National Assembly would immediately transfer its sittings to Paris.

The Chambers raised their sitting as a mark of respect to the head of the church, and again there was a great attendance at the cathedral.

"He's not man enough, I think; and lives on his slops, and his coffee, and his tapioca; and how's he ever to have any appetite, always a sitting about, heaped up together over his books, with his ribs growing into his backbone?If he'd only go and take his walk, or get a spade and dig in the garden, or anything but them everlasting papers, which I hates the sight of;" and so forth.

* "Do you mind my sitting beside you if I keep quiet?

The Assembly met for the first time in May, and continued their sittings until September, at which period their demands and grievances were despatched to the Court, the dismissal of Sully being indicated as one of the latter.

The members of the committee were to take an oath to do justice similar to that taken by jurymen in the courts of law; and the committee was to have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, to examine them on oath, and to enforce the production of all necessary papers; it was also to commence its sittings within twenty-four hours of its appointment, and to sit from day to day till it should be prepared to present its report.

After a long conversation with him on the spiritual nature of worship, he took us to see some of his flock, with whom we had family sittings from house to house.

It will accommodate about 900 people; but, as at Wesley Chapel, so herethere are more sittings than sitters.

We do not know all the localities wherein the Vehmic tribunal sat; but the most celebrated of them, and the one which served as a model for all the rest, held its sittings under a lime-tree, in front of the castle-gate of Dortmund (Fig. 321).