Sometimes hope suggested that a mistake might have been made in the horoscope, or that the astrologer might have overlooked some sign which made the circumstance conditional; and in unison with the latter idea he determined to erect a strong building, where, during the year in which his doom was to be consumated, Walter might remain in solitude.

Anxious to see their modes of proceeding in court, I pushed through the crowd, followed by the Brahmin, and on entering the building, found myself in a spacious amphitheatre, in the middle of which I beheld, with surprise, several men engaged, hand to hand, in single combat.

" "And then you left the building?"

With what different emotions both Bob and Betty had seen the beautiful, brilliantly lighted building on the occasion of their first trip to Washington!

" At the further end of the pauper burial-ground, and in the rear of the former Alms-House, once stood a building used successively as a cider-mill, a barn, and a kind of chapel for paupers.

Viterbo is a large and handsome city and contains several striking buildings.

The store still occupies the same building, and Mr. Brush continued at the head of the business until his death.

The French had burned down all the buildings, but the half-finished trenches could yet be seen, and the logs which were to have made the breastwork still littered the ground.

Diggory waited until he thought they must have reached the school buildings, and then prepared to follow.

You will stand back to back in the center of the block and then, at my word, you will each march to the end of the block and pass around the buildings to the lane.

Strong rails, intended to prevent people from approaching the building too closely on week-days, surround the chapel.

" Mary began mixing the mud and doing the other work that was necessary for building a building in Africa.

The subtle odour of stale incense hung heavily in the atmosphere which seemed to vibrate as if the deeper notes of the organ shook the building in their vain search for an exit.

The directors then purchased a lot on which they constructed a building the following year.

One was lying on one's back in the woods, where the birds were astir and eager to begin their house-building, and twittered hysterically over the potentialities of straws and broken twigs.

The grey reek of the pipes filled the building, and the air was pungent with the acrid smell of cheap, strong tobacco.

We will rent Linnet's house this summeror board with her, and superintend the building of our own, Do you agree to that?"

High Flier was taken before the superintendent, who charged him with setting fires to destroy government buildings and found him guilty.

'At this period, had a rush been made at the officers' quarters by one half (they were more than 200 in number), and the other half surrounded the building, not one could have escaped.

These inspectors, however, cannot tear the old buildings down to see if they are safe, and paint and plaster cover a multitude of sins of unscrupulous builders.

After leaving church, I went up to Columbia Heights, the most aristocratic section of Brooklyn, where I enjoyed myself in contemplating the beautiful and magnificent buildings which constitute the quiet and charming homes of those wealthy people living there.

He passed from court and study to plan buildings and instruct craftsmen in gold work, to teach even falconers and dog-keepers their business.

On great and crowded thoroughfares one may find buildings in plenty that have only two, or at most three, stories, and their windows small, with panes of glass scarcely more than eight by ten.

It was making its way, cumbrously 'round the building, stopping as it came to each window to peer in and shake at the bars, with whichas in this housethey were protected; and whenever it came to a door, it would push at it, fingering the fastening stealthily.

And when the gentle silence had fallen once more Mathieu and Marianne again found themselves in front of the bright fire, while the children completed the building of their village with a great consumption of paste, and Gervais continued sleeping soundly.