And now to support my spirits, which indeed wanted it very much, I went to my little store, and took a small sup of rum; which, however, I did then, and always, very sparingly, knowing I could have no more when that was gone.

I 'ad another sup o' the skipper's whisky to clear my 'ead, and sat down to try and think wot tale I was to tell 'im. I sat for pretty near three hours without thinking of one, and then I 'eard the crew come on to the wharf.

By attending three or four houses in one afternoon one sups upon emotions and feeds without restraint upon rich, satisfying laughter.

" "Do you ever look at the unearthly beautiful, graceful and gloriously dressed young super-Americans who appear in the advertisements, riding in super-cars or wearing super-clothes or brushing super-teeth with super-toothbrushes?" "I suppose so," said the girl vaguely.

Already in her short experience she had seen enough of the women who sacrifice future security for immediate success, and she meant to lay solid foundations before she began to build up the light super-structure of enjoyment.

To him a spy had been just a spyhe had never envisaged in his simple honest mind such a super-spy as Trehayne.

Wait a bit," she says, "an' I'll fetch ye a sup o' the wather I'm afther bilin' the pitaties in, maybe that'll do ye good," she says. '

They gave him a sup of some spirituous liquor which happened to be at hand, by which he said he found a more sensible refreshment than he could remember from anything he had tasted either before or since.

"We're going on with 'em after they've 'ad sup-per," continued Mr. Thompson, as he and his wife rose to depart.

No stage manager ever handled his supers better; and here, be it remembered, there were uncountable thousands of supers, and for a stage the twisting, medieval convolutions of a strange city.

The administration of aloes in this case is extremely apt to induce a fatal super-purgation.

"Leave a sup of wine and a bit of bread for the Folk, and let us see if we cannot find some May-flowers.

THE FIRST VOICE And by the favour of thy prayers obtain The needful daily sup and crumb!

There are thus eight classes of persons, those entirely exempt, those paying only at the normal tax rate, and six different classes paying a super-tax.[10] A person with an income of $1,000,000 thus pays $60,020, this being the amount indicated, $25,020 for the first half million plus 7 per cent on the second half million.

"I suppose you won't stay and pick a bit o' sup-per with us?" said Mrs. Silk.

Piso commends frications, Andrew Borde a good draught of strong drink before one goes to bed; I say, a nutmeg and ale, or a good draught of Muscadine, with a toast and nutmeg, or a posset of the same, which many use in a morning, but methinks, for such as have dry brains, are much more proper at night; some prescribe a sup of vinegar as they go to bed, a spoonful, saith Aetius Tetrabib.

Yet, nevertheless, they were producing saints and martyrs, true super-men of morality.

The treaty system as applied after the War has divided Europe into two distinct parts: the losers, held under the military and economic control of the victors, are expected to produce not only enough for their own needs, but to provide a super-production in order to indemnify the winners for all the losses and damages sustained on account of the War.

[Footnote 1: Once when Allen was rehearsing the supers in the Church Scene in "Much Ado about Nothing," we overheard him show the sense in Shakespeare like this: "This 'Ero let me tell you is a perfect lady, a nice, innercent young thing, and when the feller she's engaged to calls 'er an 'approved wanton,' you naturally claps yer 'ands to yer swords.

A series of lonely and delightful lanes, difficult to follow without a good map (directions given by a rustic require a super-brain to remember their intricate details), lead down to the high road just short of the bridge over the Axe.

The march past the window of the apparently unending armythat good old trick which sends the supers flying round the back-cloth to cross the stage again and againcreated a superb effect.

Bill's conduct made me angry, and I told him that he must either stop shooting the "supers," or leave the company.

He who sleeps, sups.

So I ran and opened the door; and wha think ye I saw but Jean Graham, Mr. Napier's cook, with een like twa candles, and her mouth as wide as if she had been to swallow the biggest sup of porridge that ever crossed ploughman's craig?"

But act your parts like men, and tho' you all great sinners are, You're sure to act like men wherever Irving's dinners are!" J.H. Allen (our prompter): "Whatever be the play, I must have a hand in it, For won't I teach the supers how to stalk and stand in it?