The props had been severely tried in the two previous attacks, and I was sorely afraid that this would prove too much for them.

It was very trying for Mrs. Grant.

I think that this same abominable stillness was more trying to me than anything that I had so far seen or imagined.

She took off her own hat, and touched up her hair with her fingers, and tried on the other.

They tried at first to preserve this equality; but finding it impracticable, they abandoned it.

I tried with more success to beguile the time by making notes in my journal, and after having devoted about an hour to this object, I returned to the telescope, and now took occasion to examine the figure of the earth near the Poles, with a view of discovering whether its form favoured Captain Symmes's theory of an aperture existing there, and I am convinced that that ingenious gentleman is mistaken.

Now, the special purpose of this talk is this: The men caught at Rosedale three weeks ago are to be tried before a military court.

Tried by scourging, by stripes, by poverty, by imprisonment, by all manner of danger and trial, they yet remain true.

But I don't think the rest of us can be quite as trying as Isabelle.

John Sammons was sent to bring up the new member of the company, and Sergeant Corney said, grimly, as he tried without avail to pucker his wrinkled face into a frown: "At this rate you'll soon lose the right to call yourselves Minute Boys, because this 'ere company is fast becomin' a refuge for the aged and outcast.

The line of foremost battle is less terrifying, less trying than this inner way of Golgotha, and the four are well-nigh unnerved when they reach a group where the commanding officer has been pointed out.

Let's make a try of it.

I have studied some of the cases tried under it, and I know that some of the most loved of India's patriots have been convicted under it.

Out of that chilling dream of a dead universe ungoverned by an absent God, the human mind, in Germany especially, tried during the early part of this century to escape by strange roads; roads by which there was no escape, because they were not laid down on the firm ground of scientific facts.

Innocent men were tried through mock-tribunals and imprisoned for life.

One must return their hospitality.' CHAPTER VI The Visit The following afternoon Edith was standing by the piano in her condensed white drawing-room, trying over a song, which she was accompanying with one hand, when to her surprise the maid announced 'Mr Aylmer Ross.'

But when I try from my conning-tower in this office, to read the signs in the political skies, I am full of confidence.

It is only in the present day that Thomas Mann, Jacob Wassermann, and Ricarda Huch are trying along different lines, but with equal zeal, to form a fixed individual style for the German prose-epic.

The criminal was even tried after death, that his memory might become infamous; and this barbarous practice was perpetuated in France and Scotland as late as the beginning of the seventeenth century.

Take halfe a pint of Sack, a pint of Ale, some Ale-yeast, nine Eggs, yolks and whites, beat them very well, the Egg first, then altogether, put in some Ginger, and Salt, and fine flower, then let it stand an houre or two; then shred in the Apples; when you are ready to fry them, your suet must be all Beef-suet, or halfe Beef, and halfe Hoggs-suet tryed out of the leafe.

Though she was trying against her will to hold aloof from Walter Murie, yet she loved him with all her heart and soul.

You'll try like the devil to win, of course, but you'll learn not to wish for it.

A similar play with Wills as the runner was tried around the other end and netted a yard and a half.

" The question having been asked of him, "Such a way of living must lead the mind continually to think whence food, clothes, etc., are to come, with no benefit for spiritual exercise," he replies: "Our minds are very little tried about the necessaries of life; just because the care respecting them is laid upon our Father, who, because we are his children, not only allows us to do so, but will have us to do so.

The layers in tubs will vary greatly, the butter being made at different times; so, to try if the whole tub be good, the cask should be unhooped, and the butter tried between the staves.