"Hast thou undergone the seven probations?"

The Grand Lodge of New Hampshire requires a greater probation for its candidates; its constitution prescribes the following regulation: "All Entered Apprentices must work five months as such, before they can be admitted to the degree of Fellow Craft.

He that needs a probation to convince him that two are not three, that white is not black, that a triangle is not a circle, &c., or

"He said to keep in condition, so that in case I got off probation I could go right back to work.

I have witnessed relapse after relapse into vice, under circumstances which seemed like the most heartless ingratitude to him; but he joyfully hailed the first symptom of repentance, and was always ready to grant a new probation.

I sometimes wonder, how I have passed my probation with so little discredit in the world, as I have done, upon so meagre a stock.

She was the only woman I ever loved, and though she has now been dead ten years I feel her loss as keenly as on the first day, and seek only to make myself worthy of rejoining her in a better world after I have completed my probation here.

The method which is adopted in passing Apprentices and raising Fellow Craftsthe probation which they are required to serve in each degree before advancing to a higherand the instructions which they receive in their progress, often materially affect the estimation which is entertained of the institution by its initiates.

He says you have sent him into banishment for a year, Miriama long probation truly!" "Our engagement was to have been for that length of time from the first," I said, evasively; "my father was not willing for me to marry before I had attained my seventeenth year, you remember, and it still wants some months of that period.

The Norway school teachers must be graduates of normal schools, of which there are twelve in the kingdom; they must pass examinations and serve a probation of three months before they are definitely engaged, but when they have once received an appointment, they are settled for life and sure of a pension at the end of the long term of faithful service.

It would stand probation in the Dict of the Emperor.

How little that one learned then has persisted, has survived the probation of time and necessity.

She had not avoided him during these weeks of purifying probation, as he feared she would.

At the very beginning it endured its mighty probation, and was not tamed by thirty years of humility, discomfort, and sorrow; it could neither be diverted from its path, nor blunted by adversity.

I am very infirm, and am affected by an internal malady, which, through the past winter, has confined me to my college rooms, but I have to thank my Maker for thousands of little comforts to mind and body, by which I am hourly surrounded, and for His long-suffering in extending my probation till I have entered on my 88th year.