exclaimed Mrs. Hornby, leaning over the rail to address the usher as he stooped to pick up the Book, and discharging on to his back a stream of coins, buttons and folded bills from her open purse; "you will think me very awkward, I'm afraid.

After the trumpeters come four gentlemen ushers, and four pages, mounted on his spare horses, and habited in orange-coloured doublets and hose, with yellow plumes in their caps.

At length, when we had all returned to our places, he directed the usher to bring in the witnesses.

[I do not identify the usher.

This time he had given way; he had sacrificed the young usher; but he really could make nothing of this tale about a beggar.

I had a most ludicrous visit this morning from the midwife of the estaterather an important personage both to master and slave, as to her unassisted skill and science the ushering of all the young negroes into their existence of bondage is entrusted.

Proceedings were suspended while the judge sent an usher to ascertain the cause; but ere he returned, half a dozen men burst into the courtroom crying Dohai!

Page fourteen, number seventy-two," shouted the usher again, and as the witness was a Jew, his hat was sent for.

Other visions sketched the ushering in of the Messiah-Kingdom, in glowing pictures of lofty religious tone.

Yes, you see, expecting some rather great people, I thought it well to stand an usher at the blackthorn door.

The colonel never forgot that he was a gentleman, for he rose up, took off his hat to the colored women, and said: "You must excuse me, ladies, but I shall have to go and kill the scoundrel who sat me down with niggers," and he got down off the seats and struck the usher with his cane, and the usher yelled: "Hey, Rube!" and all the circus people made a rush for the colonel.

But this suited not the gold-laced Ushers of the royal tomb, Where the princely House of Weimar Slumbered in majestic gloom.

He is chained that woos the usher for his coming into the presence, where he becomes troublesome with the ill-managing of his rapier, and the wearing of his girdle of one fashion, and the hangers of another.