A number of the choicest spirits of the neighborhood, some in work, some out of it, but one and all fired with real enthusiasm for a noble game, gathered with a football about a quarter past twelve.
She was set, it seemed, on having some of the choicest passages read aloud by the author when there was no one in the shop.
Comprising Pleasures Books of Literature produced in the Choicest Style as Companionable Volumes at Home and Abroad.
Agrippina herself handed him the choicest mushroom in the dish, and the poison at once reduced him to silence.
And as far as they made any distinction between Jews and Christians, it was for the latter that they reserved their choicest and most concentrated epithets of hatred and abuse.
The cooks prepared their savory messes on large, clean tables, and the scene of their labors, which, though enclosed by cords was open to public gaze was surrounded by a small market, where however only the choicest of wares were displayed.
Antinous signed to him to be silent, impressed on him in a few hasty words that he was to be discreet and to pick out the very choicest flowers, and then betook himself into the hall of the Muses to seek Pollux.
The choicest ebony and ivory, the most precious woods and delicate strings were sought out by him; the best scholars supplied him with Greek and Latin epigrams to be inscribed upon his organs and clavichords.
The speech was concluded with the following impressive exhortation: "The several subjects to which I have now referred, open a wide range to your deliberations and involve some of the choicest interests of our common country.
The most ardent patriot could not maintain the choicest rights of his country with more zeal than was manifested in supporting all the claims of the French republic upon the United States.
To Stewart, as to Cadwallader, Washington was most warmly attached; indeed, those officers were among the very choicest of the contributions of Pennsylvania to the army and cause of independence.
Surrounded from their earliest years with living pictures of Nature's choicest forms and colouring, they need no popular fiction to cultivate their imagination, no schools of design to educate their taste.
And, as the pears were just ripe again, he laid the choicest of the year's stock in another Krattle, and sent him on his way.
They now arrayed him in an entirely new suit of superb attire; and then, to the sound of hushed music, led him and his host through the arched corridors to a banqueting-hall, where every thing of the choicestwas ready laid.
For when its noblest blessings Heaven poured into his lap, he spurned them from him; Where was his sense and spirit when enclosed He found the choicest prey, nor deigned to draw it?
Now Bologna had brought all his antiques into this gallery, wrought with great beauty in bronze, and had placed them in a handsome row upon their pedestals; and they were, as I have said, the choicest of the Roman antiquities.
During this time he enjoyed the same adoration as was given to the god: he was set upon a raised place, presented with flowers, and fed on the choicest viands.
In Zentipac and Acaponeta the stars were honored with offerings of the choicest fruit and flowers.
In spite of his protests they insisted on his occupying those which were obviously the choicest of the house, declaring that nothing could be too good for him.
He pointed to a splendid bowlful of blossoms on a stand behind Louis, such blossoms as even in June grow only in the choicest of gardens.
People are just beginning to realize Oregon's value as a walnut center and her destiny as the source of supply for the choicest markets of the future.
The choicest ones will sell at top market prices, and the culls a little under.
However, in all of Oregon, throughout the vast domain that seems to have been providentially created to furnish the world with its choicest nut fruit, there are, perhaps, not more than 200 acres in bearing at the present time.
He swore a round oath to that effect, and looking at the sleeping maiden, again swore that she was the choicest piece of goods ever confided to him, and that he knew better than let such an article arrive damaged.
I feel myself a man of the world again, since this amiable young lady has conned the papers on my behalf, and given herself the trouble of learning the choicest passages of the poets to repeat to me.
There they lay in blankets, their choicest valuables by their sides, and the soldiers kept watch and order.
Founded by Henry George, the world-famous single tax advocate, when he was an impecunious scribbler on the San Francisco Post, it grew to be the choicest place of resort in the Pacific metropolis.
Then he dispatched Enrique on the mission, bidding him carry the choicest compliments of Las Palomas to every Don and Doña of Santa Maria.
The choicest mint which grew in the inclosures about the wells was none too good for the juleps which were concocted by Miss Jean.
For we vow, by the honour of our blood, to recompense any man that bringeth his head, with twenty thousand double pistolets, and the endearing of our choicest love.
We vow, by the honour of our birth, to recompense any man that bringeth Andrugio's head, with twenty thousand double pistolets, and the endearing to our choicest love.
The monument is enclosed in a small garden, planted with the choicest flowers and shrubs: it is of white marble, of large dimensions, and approached by an allée verte.
The proprietors sell the flowers to the distillers for making rose water and essences, and the flower market is supplied with the choicest bouquets; it is likewise celebrated for its produce of the finest strawberries and peaches.
At Hector's hand, of bulls andchoicest goats Receiv'd your off'rings meet?
But Roger was in the drawing-room awaiting Molly, with a large bunch of the choicest flowers.
Association with his daughters seemed to awaken his noblest and most refined impulses, and to reveal the choicest fruit of his reading and experience.
I congratulate you on our darling's birth-day; and join my prayers to yours that Heaven may bestow on him its choicest blessings.
My fervent vows were very early offered, my best love, for Heaven's choicest blessings to attend you, with many, many returns of your natal day.
But where (replied I) is the statue of this heroic collector, to whom your library is probably indebted for its choicest treasures?
The choicest table at Paris or at London could not boast of finer specimens of the fruit in question.
The shelves of the front repository were almost wholly filled with English books, in the choicest bindings; and dressed out to catch and captivate the susceptible bibliomaniac, in a manner the most adroit imaginable.
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