Upon relating this incident to an old hunter, I was told by him that he once, while out in the woods, came upon the skeletons of two large bucks, that, in fighting, had got their horns so interlocked and wedged together, that they could not separate them, and thus, locked in the death grapple, they had starved and died.

" J.W. had not remembered the Institute incident.

" As all these things pass through my memory, I recall another little incident with much satisfaction, because I was retained in the case.

He never mentioned the incident afterward.

" He made me tell every incident of the story, and he cried out, impassive though he was, at the sword-play in the neck of the gorge.

It must be enregistered, not to the man's credit, but rather as a simple fact, that it was never within Colonel Musgrave's power to forget the incident immediately recorded.

It would be impossible to describe in detail all the alarming incidents which happened during the outward passage.

He now proposed to narrate the principal incidents of that poemhaving thoroughly mastered the argument and fairly forgotten the wordsin the current vernacular of Sandy Bar.

Byron never wrote anything more sincere than the Curse of Minerva; and he has recorded few incidents more pathetic than that of the old Greek who, when the last stone was removed for exportation, shed tears, and said "[Greek: telos]!"

At Töplitz, which they revisited before leaving Bohemia, occurred the interesting incident of the Bohemian soldier, which is related under that title in John Yeardley's series of tracts, No. 4.

The sight whereof did make us both to dread, But specially your daughter Amadine, Who for I saw no succour incident, But in Segasto's valour, I grew desperate, And he most coward-like began to fly.

She recounted, in a low but rapid voice, the incidents of the evening, and Annina's construction of the conduct of the females whom she had left behind in the prison.

And, therefore, he never saw a man sitting quietly behind the curiously wrought railings, smoking a cigarettea man who had witnessed the whole incident from beginning to end.

Thus the treatise praises the ode by Sappho which it quotes, because the poet has taken the emotions incident to the frenzy of love from the attendant symptoms, from actuality, and first selected and then closely combined those which were conspicuous and intense.[30]

In the feeding narrative of the child, one finds not occasional incidents or episodes, but continued trouble, difficulties, adventures.

Along the emerald walls ran a series of friezes wrought in gold, representing various scenes of peace and war, agricultural, judicial, and political; as well as incidents which, I afterwards learnt, preserved the memory of the long struggles wherein the Communists were finally overthrown.

I report this incident fully because the behavior of Jimmie was in marked contrast with the usual behavior of the monkeys.

Nearly frozen, very tired, 'fed up' with the weather, as all of them were, they were always cheerful, and the man who missed his footing and floundered in the mud regarded the incident as light-heartedly as his fellows.

The first two or three weeks of a new boy's life at a big school are, as a rule, a dull and uneventful period, which does not furnish many incidents that are of sufficient interest to be worth recording.

It is to be observed, moreover, that the trance of Adonis attended by Cupids forms an incident in Keats's own poem of Endymion, book ii 'For on a silken couch of rosy pride, In midst of all, there lay a sleeping youth Of fondest beauty; fonder, in fair sooth, Than sighs could fathom or contentment reach.

In the first edition of Mrs. Leicester's School, 1809, is this announcement: "Likewise, the following elegant and approved Publications, containing each of them the Incidents of an agreeable Tale, exhibited in a Series of Engravings, Price 1s.

[In illustration of this Mr. Cecil A. Coward has given an incident that occurred in an action for slander tried at the Guildhall many years ago, in which Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., was for the defendant, and Mr. Joseph Brown, Q.C., for the plaintiff.

Two days after that, while his mother and I sat discussing the incident, and the child was at play upon the floor, he suddenly threw himself at full length, writhing with pain, and begging to "have them pulled out quick!" "Have what pulled out?" exclaimed his terrified mother.

Crowther could but take the extended hand, and, in silent astonishment, treat the incident as closed.

Those well-remembered tones, in like manner, brought before my imagination numberless incidents and personages no longer important, or no longer in existence.