"Well," said the mate, as they proceeded to drag the machine out of the ditch, "I should think, Jack, you've celebrated your birthday about enough; now you'd better give over, or we shall all be sent home in a sack.

The Countess had only just passed her thirty-ninth birthday when this last great sorrow came upon her.

The doctor, beguiled by professional vanity, feeling what a feather she was in his cap, quite confident that she would reach her hundredth birthday, and with an ecstatic hope that even, by grace of his admirable treatment and her own beautiful constitution, she might (almost) solve the problem and live forever, gave up troubling about the will which at a former period he had taken so much interest in.

Nicolas, the youngest but one of their boys, who was approaching his twentieth birthday, and thus nigh the cross-roads of life, had not yet decided which one he would follow.

It sort of rests me, and seein' the pictures in that book made me buy ita birthday present for my affectionate self" "Your birthday!"

I remembered the card you sent on my last birthdayyou've never forgotten my birthdays, though it's years since we metwith your new address hereand your 'Doctor,' and all the letters after your name!

The latter gave a grand dinner in the chateau of Antwerp, which he occupied, on the 18th of March, the birthday of the duke of Anjou; and, as he was quitting the dining-room, on his way to his private chamber, a young man stepped forward and offered a pretended petition, William being at all times of easy access for such an object.

Swift, it is true, kept his birthday as a day of mourning; but no man who hates humanity can hope to find life endurable, for the measure of our sympathies is the measure of our joy in living.

Grandpa Kennedy, although nearing his ninetieth birthday, was still a man of affairs, and what was still more important on this occasion, a lifelong Conservative.

One day in the spring of the year that brought her thirteenth birthday, Elizabeth ran down through the morning mist, and plucked the first spring flower.

Mr. Hutchinson made a few remarks to the friends who had called upon him, in the course of which he said: 'I never spent a more enjoyable birthday than this, except upon the occasion of my seventy-fifth, which I spent in New York and was tendered a reception by the American Temperance union, of which I was the organizer.

After they have served as quæstors and ædiles, or tribunes, let them be prætors, when they have attained their thirtieth birthday.

I remember only four birthdays.

Indeed, some old people of rank who were there she succeeded in completely winning over to herself, by having contrived to find out their birthdays or christening days, and marking them with some particular celebration.

[Footnote 1: Queen Anne's birthday.

On the Christmas following my eighteenth birthday, a little Mission Church in which Minnie was much interested, was opened near Albert Square.

"Mother dear, I've got another birthday present for you.

Thus he did not reach the place of his destination till noon, on the day preceding his birthday.

So, in a fashion, she had during the past three years come to regard her twenty-fifth birthday as a milestone in her life.

Each returning bright birthday, Like the mile-stones by the way, Will remind you as you go Though at first they pass so slow That behind there is one more

In New York, where she had gone to lecture, she was struck down by paralysis, and a few weeks before she had seen her forty-second birthday she died in a charitable institution, joining fervently in the prayers of the clergyman who was summoned to her death-bed.

"I'm sending a small birthday token to the boysa little printing-press.

He is twenty-four years of age; an' I often think it strange that his father's birthday and his own fall on the same day of the monththe 10th of October.

If you do not like sentiment and symbolism, you do not like Christmas; go away and celebrate something else; I should suggest the birthday of Mr. M'Cabe.

It is Spring, it is chorussing Spring; 'tis the birthday of Earth, and for you!