he exclaimed, "the heathen poet, to have the see of Panopolis, of which I was promised the reversion!" "My dear sir," suggested Apollo, "it is all very well to enliven the reverend eremite; but don't you think it is rather a liberty to make such jokes at the expense of my good friend Nonnus?" "There is no liberty," said the demon, "for there is no joke.

But about 1080 William de Braose seems to have repented of what he had done, for he then granted to the Abbey of St Florent in Saumur the reversion of the church of St Nicholas here, when the last of the canons then living in his college at Beeding should have died.

It represents a reversion from the idea of State rights, and balanced indestructible powers and an attempt at organic union by which the constituent parts are to be more and more merged in the consolidated political unit which they combine to form.

From his Holiness he obtained a reversion of the title in perpetuity for his descendants.

Its introduction to the stage was the work of Cibber; and Cibber, assisted by Chesterfield, labored zealously to secure the author a reversion of the laurel upon his own lamented demise.

Men are forever and gloriously struggling onward towards better things, but there is always the gravitational pull of original sin which scientists denominate "reversion to type."

He has two strings to his bow:he by no means neglects his worldly interests, while he expects a bright reversion in the skies.

Upon seeing her audacious smile and her calm eyes fixed upon him, he felt within him a shameful reversion.

By these the British interest in the Straits was guaranteed by an arrangement which gave to Spain the reversion of the coast opposite Gibraltar and a strip on the north-west coast, while leaving the rest of the country to fall to France.

When any of the furies of hell die, this Cacodeemon hath the reversion of his place.

I have seen human noses of a pattern not unlike this, but they are not considered aristocratic: perhaps they indicate a reversion to the ancestral type.

In this play, which marks the author's last reversion to the East, we are more arrested by the majesty of the theme

This means a reversion to the boundary defined under Russian arbitration at Petrograd in January 1913except outside the fortress of Silistria, where strategic reasons demand its rectification.

We have observed that he outlived the reversion of his place, after which he fell into great distress, and as he had all his life been making enemies, by the ungovernable fury of his temper, he found few persons disposed to relieve him.

Upon the death of our author's grandfather, he enjoyed the place of paymaster to the band of gentlemen-pensioners, in conjunction with his younger brother, Arthur More; of this place his mother procured the reversion from his late Majesty during his father's lifetime.

" "The money which I brought into the family, sir," Lady George cried out "You purchased a contingent reversion with it," the marquis said, darkly.

A few days afterwards Fabrice resigned his reversion to the Archbishopric, and retired to the Chartreuse of Parma.

Lord North has since accepted the sealsand the reversion of his father's pension.

Dialstone Lane, when it became known that Captain Bowers had waived his claim to a share, was besieged by people seeking the reversion, and even Mint Street was not overlooked.

On Henry's going away, the three girls had promptly bespoken the reversion of his study as a little sitting-room for themselves.

He looked at her with such a merry face as the restrained laughter came so visibly out of his eyes, that the sight brought a complete reversion in Sally's feelings, and

This will compel a reversion to tactical methods which made a fleet action a series of duels between pairs of combatants, anda thing to be pondered on seriouslynever enabled anyone to win a decisive victory on the sea.

Cardinal No. 6, an Englishman, demanded the reversion of the Archbishoprics of Canterbury and York, with the faculty of holding them together, and of unlimited non-residence.