What was the process I had no opportunity of inquiring, nor do I wish to improve the art of making poison pleasant.'

" Do you find collecting coins a pleasant ? <Pacify, appease, placate, propitiate, conciliate, mollify>.

A poem will please more people if it combines the pleasant with the profitable.

My business at this time was to make love to Katrin, so that I might banish the ill impression which Helene had formed concerning that pleasant, harmless little Christian's Elsa over there.

But, thanks to the romantic folly of Mariannewho, because she fancied she could see Combe Magna, Willoughby's place, from Cleveland, must needs take two evening walks in the grounds just where the grass was the longest and the wettestthe house-party enjoyed not the pleasantest of times.

" That her society was sought by very good men is evidenced by the grave theologians who found her companionship pleasant, perhaps salutary.

There is a vat of royal bronze, Whence flows the pleasant; nice of malt; An apple-tree stands over the vat, With abundance of weighty fruit.

She quite grew used to seeing him, a tall, distinguished figure, sitting at ease in a far corner, and giving to the scene a pleasant though not remarkably respectful attention.

"The view which identifies the pleasant and the just and the good and the noble has an excellent moral and religious tendency."

Like that disappointing book in Patmos; or, like the comings on of melancholy, described by Burton, doth music make her first insinuating approaches:"Most pleasant it is to such as are melancholy given, to walk alone in some solitary grove, betwixt wood and water, by some brook side, and to meditate upon some delightsome and pleasant subject, which shall affect him most, amabilis insania, and mentis gratissimus error.

Seeing I was the only occupant, he laughed the pleasantest of laughs, disclosing two wide rows of perfect teeth, and turning to the driver, said, "Is that your only passenger?

Europeans in Teherán lead a pleasant though somewhat monotonous life.

Of the numerous, and more or less accomplished young men from other places, who had met and admired her, two had somewhat singled themselves out, as her admirers, both of whom, I fear, had a good way passed the pleasant, though dangerous, line of admiration.

But nex' day he up an' went back to Mr. Clark's schoolwalked in thess ez pleasant an' kind, an' taken his seat an' said his lessonsnever th'owed it up to teacher at all.

Far, far away, a little dim cloud upon the water stood for the land where I had spent my daysthe pleasant, homely land which will always rank next to my own in my affections.

"We'll take it I'm right," pursued Lanpher, lapping his tongue round the words as though they possessed taste and that taste pleasant.

But above all, 'tis pleasantest to get The top of high philosophy, and sit On the calm, peaceful, flourishing head of it: Whence we may view, deep, wondrous deep below, How poor mistaken mortals wand'ring go, Seeking the path to happiness: some aim At learning, wit, nobility, or fame: Others with cares and dangers vex each hour To reach the top of wealth, and sov'reign pow'r: Blind wretched man!

They are but intended as guide-posts, which may direct him in his journey should he undertake the pleasant although difficult task of instituting an inquiry into the origin and progress of Freemasonry from its birth to its present state of full-grown manhood.

" "No, I suppose he'll try and make believe that death's uncommon pleasant," answered Mr. Whitelaw with a bitter laugh; "as if it could be pleasant to any man to leave such a place as Wyncomb, after doing as much for the land, and spending as much labour and money upon it, as I have done.

* Nothing could be more attractive than the central idea of The Love Spinner (METHUEN), which is to tell the war-time adventures of a little old ladythe good fairy of her circlewhose interest in the heart-affairs of her friends wins her this pleasant if slightly sentimental title.