I have seen this billing and cooing between these different interests for some time past; I informed my private friends of the political party with which I have heretofore acted, during the first week of this session, that these powers were forming a union to overthrow the present administration; and I warned them of the folly and mischief they were doing in their abuse of those who were opposed to slavery.

I can imagine your feelings when you overheard Mrs. Duncan say to a caller that she was going to leave your house and take rooms elsewhere, as she could not endure your "billing and cooing.

His position was very difficult,that of hearing the billing and cooing of these lovers.

Had I beheld you billing and cooing, truly I had counselled a judicial separation!'

Perhaps they were foreigners recently married, perhaps fugitive lovers, realizing in this picturesque spot the billing and cooing so many times anticipated in their distant courtship.

Father told Billings all about Little Gray, and his great fault of running away.

If they saw me, which sometimes seemed doubtful,for love is blind,they evidently thought me too sensible, or too old, to mind a little billing and cooing.