] Captain Graham, for such I soon learned was his name, replied: "Well, I never saw the like before.

I shall never hear its like again.

"Had I known the like of that, little would I have campaigned in yer company!

"A drop of my whisky'll do you no harmthat's some I got down from home, and you'll not find its like everywhere.

It would be more true to say, they separate as oil from water, as children from old people, without love or hatred in the matter, each seeking his like; and any interference with the affinities would produce constraint and suffocation.

In a flash she had crossed the wide hallwhich was as it happened empty, although she would not have slackened her pace for all the assembled companyand was darting arrow-like up the stairs, her torn scarf flying behind her like a banner.

Why, Misther Ould Nick, Madam Willoughby wouldn't let the likes of ye touch the ind of her garments.

" The small boy scrambled over nimbly, ran squirrel-like across the transverse fence, dipped, swarmed over the iron railing and stood on guard.

We were not long in finding that she and her parents, with a serving-man or two, made all my aunt's household; and that she did very much work with her own hands, and would expect the like of us; a thing which displeased Althea not a little, but she said nothing of it, only to me, when we were got to our own chamber.

There was a twinkle of mischief that he had to go back-five years, anyhow, to remember the like of.

And now, being already close on the dolorous moment, which was fated to be the occasion either of a most assured death or of a life of such anguish that none before me has ever endured the like, prompted by I know not what spirit, I raised my eyes with decent gravity, and surveyed with penetrating look the crowds of young men who were standing near me.

He looked up into eyes that gleamed hawk-like through glasses, and a throb of recognition went through his heart.

The memory of this deceased colonel is such, that in no age to come but it will more and more be had in honour and esteem;a man so religious, and of that prudence, judgment, temper, valour, and integrity, that he hath left few his like behind him,' "He had indeed left none his like behind him.

It passes over fallen logs with long, noiseless leaps; it creeps serpent-like beneath the wreck left by a summer "cyclone"; it crosses the barren reaches of oak openings, where the shadows cast by huge pines adjacent mingle in fantastic figures; it casts a shifting shadow itself as it sweeps across some lighter spot, where faint moonbeams find their way to the ground through overhanging branches.

Presently it came again, the sound,a very peculiar sound the like of which Bellew had never heard before, which, as he listened, gradually evolved itself into a kind of monotonous chant, intoned by a voice deep, and harsh, yet withal, not unmusical.

In a wriggle that looked flash-like to the breathless beholders, Darrin was through.

And yet they glide, like happiness, away; Reflecting far and fairy-like from high The immortal lights that live along the sky; Its banks are fringed with many a goodly tree, And flowers the fairest that may feast the bee: Such in her chaplet infant Dian wove, And innocence would offer to her love; These deck the shore, the waves their channel make In windings bright and mazy, like the snake.

Jim, his face the color of a pork rind, followed dog-like at the heels of his boss.

Charred stumps, standing sentinel-like between the rock ledges, bore witness that once there had been a fine forest here; but no fresh roots sprang from the ground.

The Highland "wee folk" are not so diminutive as the fairies of Englandat least that type of fairy, beloved of the poet, which hovers bee-like over flowers and feeds on honey-dew.

Adam and Peter had gone and he had loved them both; he knew he would not meet their like again.

I sobbed, wept, and took it to heart so grievously that I think I never suffered the like; and I was right.

Do you not feel the like when you look at many little matters, and then look into the Future Years?

And then go unto Brother Silvester and tell the like to him."

'Tis a damn shame to have the poor rate payers supportin' the likes of him.