if, after so many lessons from proficients in the art, who drive the business by wholesale, they should not occasionally copy their betters, fall into the fashion, and try their hand in a small way, at a practice which is the only permanent and universal business carried on around them!

For one that's willing to recognize his betters, the service is a good place, Miss Jones.

Persons in humble class of life will often ape their betters, dressing after them, and absolutely going without necessary food in order to get some piece of finery.

But he chided himself immediately for thus daring to criticize his betters.

There is good authority to say that Ben Burnley fired the mine to destroy his betters, and he has done it; for Mr. Hope and Miss Hope that is, Miss Bartley that was, are both there."

* * There are, who to my person pay their court: I cough like Horace, and, though lean, am short, Ammon's great son one shoulder had too high, Such Ovid's nose, and 'Sir! you have an eye' Go on, obliging creatures, make me see All that disgraced my betters, met in me.

When you are called to Downing Street to discuss what you want of your betters with the Prime Minister he won't be suspicious, not as far as you can see; but remember the atmosphere of generations you are in, and when he passes you the toast-rack say to yourselves, if you would be in the mode, 'Now, I wonder what he means by that.' Even without striking out in the way I suggest, you are already disturbing your betters considerably.

In the May weather, the doors of low dwellings were open, and the black and white pigs wandered unhindered from the filthy street without to the misery within, fattening on the poor waste of the desperately poor, fattening in the sun that drove their wretched betters to the daily fight with starvation, fattening in the vile filth to which starvation was dully indifferent, since cleanliness meant labour that brought no bread.

According to all rational probabilities we had no right to expect the war that befell; according to all the human indications as we saw them revealed amongst the Allies we had a right to expect a better peace; according to our abiding and abounding faith we had a right to expect a great bettering of life after the war, and even in spite of the peace.

Now imagine Christ to reappear on earth, with that perfect outward beauty of characterwith what Greeks and Romans, and our own ancestors, would have called those perfect mannerswhich, if we are to believe the Gospels, He shewed in Judea of old, which won then so many hearts, especially of the common people, sounder judges often of true nobility than many who fancy themselves their betters.

He lamented that he was not sent to college, where if a young man receives no other discipline at least he meets his equals in society and assuredly finds his betters; whereas in Mr. Gandish's studio our young gentleman scarcely found a comrade that was not in one way or other his flatterer, his inferior, his honest or dishonest admirer.

You must cultivate this light-heartedness if you are to hang your betters on your watch-chains.

This seemed to help the Leader to put up with cramp and confinement, just as one great discomfort will help his betters to forget several little ones.

In the former, Death has assumed the mitre and the crosier of his victim, and drags him off with such an expression of fun and burlesque pomp as we sometimes see in the face of a mischievous boy who mocks his betters.

To order myself lowly 'n rev'rently t'all my betters" Presently it became evident that the effect of the growing giant on unaccustomed horses was like that of a camel, and he was told to keep off the highroad, not only near the shrubbery (where the oafish smile over the wall had exasperated her ladyship extremely), but altogether.

After some years she became a convert to that strange new faith ... of the people who call themselves 'Friends' ... who salute no one with the hat, and who talk so strangely, saying: 'thee' and 'thou' even when addressing their betters.

In a man of weakish literary vanityJeffrey was evidently full of itthere may well be a constant itch to set his betters right in trifles, as Gifford thought that he could mend Southey's adjectives.

" "And do you imagine on evidence as slight as this we have seen, that such a man has actually absconded?" "Why, it is a calamity that has befallen his betters!"

The League of Nations is a very fine thing, but it cannot save you, because it will be run by us. Beware your betters bringing presents.