He spoke of my travels in the East, of the de Bunsens, of the Emperor's health (the old man is much better and decidedly recovering)and of his great wish for peace."

Yielding now to the wishes of my anxious parents, I consented to travel.

I sympathise with that feeling of wishing to keepanything of that sortto oneself.'

What he wishes in place of the idol is a right conception.

Just fancy yourself, Mr PUNCHINELLO, in such a costume, taking a seemingly interminable walk in a hot sun, down ever so many steps, encased in those nasty articles of gear, in the company of several other helpless unfortunates, wishing with all your might yon were already there!"

I complied with her wish on condition that I slept in the room next hers, and that on the smallest emergency I should be summoned to her aid.

I jumped to the ground, knowing that he would not leave meit must be remembered that I had been riding him without bridle, reins or saddleand turning round as the party of astonished officers rode up, I said to them: "Now, gentlemen, allow me to present to you all the tongues and tender-loins you wish from these buffaloes.

"We make our crosses, dear child, when we put our wishes at right angles to God's will.

Quiet and a seeming deference to his wishes as the present head of the house.

The President listened attentively, and with the expression, half sad and half droll, with which he softened the asperities of official life, said, humorously: "I wish by such simple means as courts-martial we could find out more such soldiers as this; we need all of that sort we can get."

" 'Before publishing the Lusiad, I sent Mr. Hoole a proof of that part of the introduction, in which I make mention of Dr. Johnson, yourself, and other well-wishers to the work, begging it might be shewn to Dr. Johnson.

We may suppose he is a microcosm, with complete ideas and wishes about the state and the world, or we may suppose that he isn't.

Hunyady, who meanwhile had been living retired in one of his castles, now complied with the King's wish without difficulty or hesitation, and again assumed the highest military command.

A reason for the new arrangement of double feasts in the Pian Breviary is the general one, that the Pope wished above all things the weekly recitation of the Psalter, and to bring about this weekly recitation and the restoration of the Sunday Office a mere rearrangement of the Psalms was quite insufficient, and a rearrangement of the gradation of feasts of concurrence and of occurrence was necessary.

As one who has enjoyed a certain measure of your Excellency's confidence, and as one who claims to be a devoted well-wisher of the British Empire, I owe it to your Excellency, and through your Excellency to His Majesty's Ministers, to explain my connection with and my conduct in the Khilafat question.

Until the present moment it had been my custom to frequent churches, gardens, festivals, and seaside resorts, without other wish than the companionship of young friends of my own sex; now, I sought the aforesaid places with a new desire, believing that both to see and be seen would bring me great delectation.

But now they will have time to send whatever force they wish into the Ohio valley, and rouse all the Indian tribes for a hundred miles around.

I shall never express a wish before you again, for if I wanted the moon you'd rashly try to get it, I know.

Although he had seen this man but once before in his life, and had never before exchanged so much as a word with him, he felt a degree of confidence and a subtle sense of safety and well-being in his presence that were the most healing influences he could possibly have wished after the experience he had been through.

You can get anything you wish through the Customsboxes of lamps, iron, copper, glassware, Mexican pesosyou furnish arms to the conventos, don't you?" The Chinese nodded affirmation, but remarked that he had to do a good deal of bribing.

He says to me, 'Joost imachin, Percy, you are all-alone-on-a-desert-island placed; and that you will sit on those sands and wish within yourself all you would buy to be comfortable.

ccasion, however, that supervision had been carelessly performed, and the offensive passages were left standing, though, when the Emperor learned the indignation which they had excited even among his well-wishers in England, he instructed his ambassador to apologize for their retention and publication, as an act of inadvertence on the part of the officials whose duty it had been to revise such documents.

A little later, on occasion of the death of Lady Noel, he expresses himself with natural bitterness on hearing that she had in her will recorded a wish against his daughter Ada seeing his portrait.

But even a fast-sailing schooner will scarcely equal our wishes under such circumstances.

My only regret is that inasmuch as Mr. Montagu admits my past services, he might have perceived that there must be something exceptionally bad in the Government if a well-wisher like me could no longer give his affection to it.