"Mon maître, lui dit-il, vient de faire un héritage et va donner force festins aux parents et aux amis; je ne saurais manquer d'engraisser pendant cette période, et vous aurez alors plus de plaisir à me manger."

Les Hollandois disent qu'elles sont bonnes à manger; et qu'en certaine saison, elles valent bien nos bécasses.

He came to inform his master that the stranger's horse had gone mad, and was kicking and tearing at every thing around, as if he would break his manger in pieces.

Je désire quelque chose à manger.

Glancing through it just now I came across this: "'Kate, avez-vous soupé avant le spectacle?' 'Non, je n'avais guère le coeur à manger.'

Hence the practice in Italy of decking mangers at Christmas time with moss, sow-thistle, cypress, and holly.

They have eaten up their mangers and are now, (though wanted for immediate use,) scarcely able to stand.

The clock of the Millard was striking eleven as I entered the salle à manger for a late breakfast after my night-journey from New York by steamboat.

" Then there is "Our Lady's bed-straw," which filled the manger on which the infant Jesus was laid; while of the plant said to have formed the Virgin's bed may be mentioned the thyme, woodroof, and groundsel.

Party fitting up mangers, etc.

The off-donkey felt the hot breath of the car on his hocks and gained the salle-à-manger (viâ the window) in one bound, taking master and mate along with him.

III We went through the life of Jesus in symbolical procession, journeyed to Bethlehem and kissed the manger where the baby Jesus was laid, that first cradle as opposed to the second, the hollow in the rock.

"The manger," they joyfully murmured, "the manger!

Step by step she neared the manger, knelt, and placed a rose in the Baby's hand.

The publication of these spurious guides to knowledge infuriated the Academy, until in 1674 the dog permanently occupied the manger by inducing the King to issue a decree "forbidding all printers and publishers to print any new dictionary of the French language, under any title whatsoever, until the publication of that of the French Academy, or until twenty years have expired since the proclamation of the present decree."

While placing the little manger he happened to remember the figure of the Christ Child still in his blouse pocket; this he timidly took out and showed the little girl, who was charmed, and still more so when he drew forth a small wooden sheep and a dog, which were also in the same pocket.

[Illustration: The Presbytery] It was with a sincere thrill of pity that at déjeûner we glanced round the salle-à-manger and found all the Ogams filling their accustomed solitary places.

His whip is a torch, and each spur is a match, And over the horse's left eye is a patch, To keep it from scorching the manger.

At Bethlehem, which I visited this morning, the Latin monk who showed us the manger, the pit where 12,000 innocents were buried, and other things, had much less to say of the sacredness or authenticity of the place, than of the injustice of allowing the Greeks a share in its possession.

See, Trade stocks the manger, and there is the pail Full set by the imp Illegality! That fierce fiery Pegasus thus to regale, When he's danger and death from hot head to flame-tail, Is cruelly callous brutality.