'Four morning papersnever mind their namesfour evening papers; five Sunday papers: The Academy, The Saturday Review, The Bookman, The World, The English Review.' 'Well, I think it's wicked of you to encourage all this frivolity.

I do not defend either of them; they are unimaginative and selfish, and I do not care how severely they are dealt with; but I do say that the majority of them are not wicked in intention.

I had been under the impression that Ozma was as wicked as the Witch.

The two plots, therefore, to overthrow the minister and to weaken the influence of the dauphiness, went hand-in-hand, and, as might have been expected from the character of the patroness of both, no means were too vile or wicked for the intriguers who had set them on foot.

He said that 'annihilation was better for the wicked than everlasting punishment,' and to that I assented.

Dancing is wicked to a Methodist and "good" to an Episcopalian.

Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation; who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.

" "The vengeance of the Lord hangeth over the wicked by a burnt thread," said Aminadab.

"As wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked at the presence of God."

13.In some instances, two prepositions come directly together, so as jointly to express a sort of compound relation between what precedes the one and what follows the other: as, "And they shall sever the wicked from among the just.

The earth has become wicked among its inhabitants, therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they who dwelt in it make expiation."

This traffic in coins and metals naturally led to the business of moneylending and finance, and the centuries of practice, imposed on them by Christianity, have given them a skill in this trade, which is now the envy of Christians who have in the meantime found out that there is nothing wicked about moneylending, when it is honestly done.

Fiends are pulling the wicked out of their coffins, and others are throwing the condemned into the wide-opened jaws of a frightful monster.

at length reckoned three in number, Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megara; they were conceived of as haunting the wicked on earth and scourging them in hell; they were of the court of Pluto, and the executioners of his wrath.