Pepin gave the pope both the ex-archate and the republic of Rome; and this munificent gift is the world-famous "Donation of Pepin," on which rested the whole fabric of the temporal power of the popes (A.D. 755).

" "It would be wise, Señor," observed the amiable Colombian ex-diplomat.

This seriously offended the ex-Dictator's ex-colonel, who shortly after the tenth of March, put his sword at the disposition of the Commune.

"In one way thee was served quite right, for thee made all thy plans without ever asking the beautiful young ex-queen whether she would have thee or not.

They questioned his ex-ministers about Louis Bonaparte.

" FLOYD CO. (John I. Sturgill) Charlie Richmond: We are unable to interview ex-slaves in Floyd County, so far as anyone we are able to contact knows, there are no living ex-slaves in the County.

"That the way you manage a farm," he asked scornfully, "pottering about up in the hills looking for a fortune?" Brede apparently did not fancy being taken to task now by his former chief; he answered sharply, without any form of respect, treating the ex-Lensmand as an equal: "If you think I care what you say ..." "You've no more sense than you had before," said Geissler.

" "Sat on her box?" repeated the ex-constable, impressively.

Pursuant to the above order, Surgeon-General Lawson will immediately join the ex-President, and will accompany him as his medical attendant to Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, and, at his discretion, to the residence of the ex-President, at the Hermitage, near Nashville, in the State of Tennessee.

On that occasion (1711) he met two ex-pirates at the Cape, who had received pardons, and told him that the Madagascar settlements had dwindled to sixty or seventy men, "most of them very poor and despicable, even to the natives," and possessed of only one ship and a sloop.

In the event it was found that after placing the ex-Bashaw in possession of Derne, one of the most important cities and provinces of the country, where he had resided himself as governor, lie was totally unable to command any resources or to bear any part in cooperation with us.

You would have been sent to a penal institution to emerge years later an ex-convict, a marked man forever afterwards, while I would have been sent to a home where I would have been forced to associate with the most degraded wretches.

" "You kin ca'y 'em ef you don' keep 'em hid," explained the ex-soldier in a wooden voice.

" Polly eyed her ex-mistress shrewdly.

We found there an ex-barkeeper of a certain well-known New-York cockney coffee-house, promoted into a frontiersman, but mindful still of flesh-pots.

" The gaunt, grizzled ex-sheriff reached in his vest for a cigar.

" "He wasn't in the habit of discussin' his lady friends with me," growled the ex-valet surlily.

" Tom looked at him with the quaintest smile: a flush of mingled anger and contempt had been rising in him as he heard the ex-bottle-boy talking sentiment: but he only went on quietly, "No, sir; with your more delicate sensibilities, you may thank Heaven that you did not become a medical man; your life would have been one of torture, disgust, and agonising sense of responsibility.

These buildings were erected by whites who came into the southland to help the ex-slave.

For Shih Lo, after his destruction of Liu Yao, no longer hesitated: ex-slave as he was, and descended from one of the non-noble stocks of the Huns, he made himself emperor of the "Later Chao dynasty" (329-352).

They came to a large win-dow which o-pen-ed to the sea: the hand thrust the o-gress out, and held her ex-ten-ded over the roll-ing waves.

I do hope he's repaired his 'ex.'" "He walks better and complains less," the widow answered.

There were men with fans and alpaca coats curled up in splint chairs in the verandah of the one hotelamong them an ex-President of the United States.

" "Drunk?" inquired the ex-manager.

Miss Pigchalke had always made the fatal mistake of keeping her ex-pupil too much to herself.