That you may learn what were his own words about me, take and read the missives which he sent me with his own hand.

" He took the missive from his pocket, and again perused it.

Boabdil immediately sent missives to King Ferdinand, apprising him of these events, and of his fears lest further delay should produce new tumults.

Nick drew the missive from a fold of his garment, and placed it in the hand of Mrs. Willoughby, with a quiet grace that a courtier might have wished to equal, in vain.

"Lettah f'um Kuhnal Washin'ton, sah," he said, and handed me the missive.

Thus for a time matters remainedlittle Imtiazan wearing her delicate fingers out at home, he plying his pen in the street, until one day a dancing-girl from Lucknow called him to her house to write an important missive on her behalf.

And as I quitted the palace bearing the missive, I came upon a great procession.

An unconscious motive, perhaps it was childish curiosity, prompted her to examine the missive.

Very much surprised at receiving such a missive, Lawrence opened the envelope.

The mail had just come in, bringing missives to Blake and Joe.

Thence he proceeded to the apartments of Madame Elisabeth, where he delivered the missives of the Prince of Spain; after which he was conducted to the presence of the other Children of France; and finally, having paid his respects to every member of the royal family, he was attended by a brilliant retinue of nobles to the residence which had been appropriated to his use during his sojourn in the capital.

It was a womanish, spiteful thing to do, and he regretted it, but later when he greeted the husband he lied circumstantially and declared he had given the missive into the hands of the mail-carrier on the very hour of his departure.

Abdul glanced down the missive, reading it in silence to himself.

Martha held forth the missive.

I stamped and addressed these missives, and put them by till a chance of posting should arise.

Some her younger fingers had tied with violet ribbon; some they had bound with pink; others she had fastened together with white silk cord; and there were more and more bundles, both slim and stout, which Blossy had distinguished by some special hue of ribbon in the long ago, each tint marking a different suitor's missives.

" I sat for a while staring at this good man's letter, then opened the next missive.

Appalled at the sudden change which had swept over him like a deadly sirocco, the principal rushed to the fallen boy, picked up the missive that lay beside him, and immediately rang for help and dispatched for the doctor.

" In this very clumsy way he at last reached the desk, and presented his missive.

Had my son reached Boston before you came away?" "Here he be"answered the Indian, producing another missive, from the folds of his calico shirt.

The knight removed the missive from the messenger's neck.

The Rajah, so ran the regal missive, had been suddenly and mysteriously attacked by a dangerous malady, but confidently anticipated relief from Ananda's merits and incantations.

Are you going to send that note?" Collins sealed the missive.

The Colonel secures the missive, tears the envelope to shreds, runs his eye over the trivial contents, and curses the War.

I seized the welcome missives from my far home, with a beating heart, and hastening back, read till the words became indistinct in the twilight.