"If the facts not fitting their theories are little observed by authorities so popular as Mr. Huxley and Mr. Spencer; if instantiae contradictoriae are ignored by them, or left vague; if these things are done in the green tree, we may easily imagine what shall be done in the dry.

But as, in painting, Margheritone and Cimabue, standing between the old and the new styles, exhibit rather a vague striving than a fulfilled attainment, so is it with these poets.

And yet I, too, as I walk and bask, and bend to smell the hyacinth-blooms, feel that same vague and most unnamed yearninga delicate pain that he who has it would barter for no boisterous joy.

She gave a vague 'Perhaps'and he straightened himself aggressively.

" Years later she had grown vague in his memory, and he could only say, "I have forgot the colour of her hair; it was black I think.

Only the tragic figure of George Cannon hung vague in the far distance of memory, and the sight thereof constricted her heart.

le bassin semble plein de colère; Lui, si clair tout à l'heure, il est noir maintenant; Il a des vagues; c'est une mer bouillonnant; Toute la pauvre rose est éparse sur l'onde; Ses cent feuilles que noie et roule l'eau profonde, Tournoyant, naufrageant, s'en vont de tous côtés Sur mille petits flots par la brise irrités; On croit voir dans un gouffre une flotte qui sombre.

a statue in marble; "Loké," a statue; "Dans les Vagues," a marble bust; "Funeral Monument," in bronze, in Gefle, Sweden; and a great number of portrait busts and various subjects in bas-relief.

[And without noticing the vague, earliest tremour of daylight spreading through the air, he cries in a sob.]

Her slight, tall, white figure was the only barrier to prevent "la vague" from sweeping right over the hall to the stage.

" "Thus far it is clear, though there is an obscurity in the circumstance that the signet of the accused should be found with the accusation, which, being unexplained, renders the charge vague and uncertain.

For just a minute the face of Teresita showed vague to him before his wrathful eyes.

In his narratives he is like a brilliant talker in a sympathetic circle, skimming swiftly from point to point, taking for granted the intelligence of his audience, not afraid here and there to throw out a vague 'etc.' when the rest of the sentence is too obvious to state; always plain of speech, never self-assertive, and taking care above all things never to force the note.

Sometimes appeared in those documents the vague and imposing title of "the great Frison," applied to some popular leader.

Somewhere there Nothing is; and there lost Man Shall win what changeless vague of peace he can.