" "It is he who never prayed upon the earth and is now making amends.

With a low cry of joy closer she crept, And on his bosom hid a face that glowed, Seeking amends for terror while he slept.

But I cannot accept his amends.

Lanyard's laugh offered amends for the rudeness, as if he said: "Sorrybut you asked for it, you know."

I thought I owed her some amends.

The word amends is represented by Murray and others, as being singular as well as plural; but Webster's late dictionaries exhibit amend as singular, and amends as plural, with definitions that needlessly differ, though not much.

'Tis poor amends to national honour to know, that if a printer is set in the pillory, his country wishes it was my Lord This, or Mr. That.

" "Ill-mannered art thou, nephew, And never wilt amend; The sweetest sleep I ever slept, Thou bringest to an end.

I, these, and all must pay amends; But you I will admonish in cool terms, Let not promotion's hope be as a string, To tie your tongue, or let it loose to sting.

"I dare say, you receive amends for all your sufferings, when the purser gives forth the spoils.

States, like powerful individuals in private life, usually feel themselves too strong to allow any considerations of the direct consequences of departures from the right to influence their policy; and a nation is apt to fancy its power of such a character, as to despise all worldly amends, while its moral responsibility is divided among too many to make it a matter of much concern to its particular citizens.

but I'll hae amends, although it costs me twenty pounds!"

I judge "an amends" to be bad English; and prefer the regular singular, an amend.