As I neared it, I heard a dull, rumbling sound, that grew quickly into a roar, split with deeper crashes, and up from the Pit drove a fresh volume of dust.

An elderly matron then approached, holding forth one trembling, palsied hand, with a small volume in the other.

But twice I caught the Nigger and Handy Solomon consulting together over the volume on alchemy.

I fancy that editors of this baser sort keep on their shelves one or two volumes for their readers' sport and mirth.

Not quite so much volume to your playing as sometimes, but still the tune could be recognized.

Chrysippus filled an entire volume with false or doubtful oracles.

Accordingly he commences his first volume by giving the 'Scène de la Fille de Chambre', where Harlequin, disguised as a woman, pretends to be seeking a place as waiting-maid to the DoctorEmperor of the Moon, Act ii, v. In the French, Pierrot, dressed as the Doctor's wife, interviews the applicant.

Then wind and rain descended in furious volume from the southeast.

Perhaps if all the Giants had an opportunity to read the volume before the recent game (with the Athletics) they might not have been so grievously outdone.

I did but even now open his sacred volume at hazard, and on what did my eye first fall? Trojaque nunc stares, Priamique arx alta maneres.

If you feel yourself uncertain in these details of usage, you should have access to such a volume as The Century Desk Book of Good English.

" Mr. Tutt surrendered the volume without apparent regret and Tutt retired to his own office and to the task of soothing the injured feelings of Mr. Sorg.

And she flung the pretty little blue covered volume into the fire.

And numerous Short Stories now collected in One Volume under the title of THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND A Series of books upon Social, Religious and Political questions: ANTICIPATIONS (1900) MANKIND IN THE MAKING

"Seen something of life, I reckon," said Trendon, as the captain turned the volume about slowly in his hands.

This good woman, you must know, is half blind, and never read a larger volume than a newspaper.

She said to a friend that the only remarkable thing which belonged to her as an author was that she had written eleven volumes after the age of sixty.

It is melancholy to have to record this fact in the pages of a respectable volume like the present; but factsas the orator who deals in fiction is ever ready to announcefacts cannot be ignored.

I gladly undertook this task, and it occupied nearly all my leisure for about a year, exclusive of the time afterwards spent in seeing the five large volumes through the press.

We make a few selections from various parts of the volume towards what may be termed a personal portrait of the illustrious emperor:] Above the ordinary height of man, Charlemagne was a giant in his stature as in his mind; but the graceful and easy proportion of all his limbs spoke the combination of wonderful activity with immense strength, and pleased while it astonished.

Just in the very heat and pressure of the doors openingthe rush, as they term itI deliberately held the volume over my head, open at the scene in which the young Roscius had been most cried up, and quietly read by the lamplight.

"What do you like?" "Select your own book," said Aunt Jane, pointing to a heap of volumes beside her.

By Francois Auguste Rene Chateaubriand, une bibliographie, des notes, etc., edition critique en 2 volumes avec un avant-propos by Emile Malakis.

He tells us that he "interspersed the contents of this volume among the Poems already arranged" by Wordsworth.

It would be tedious to enumerate here all the poems of Sir Charles Sedley; let it suffice to say, that they are printed in two small volumes along with his plays, and consist of translations of Virgil's Pastorals, original Pastorals, Prologues, Songs, Epilogues, and little occasional pieces.