My dear man, I think one would have to take some good photographs and send them to various trades-people and to the museums in the United States.
Dear sister, I am one of the few sane men that go stumbling around this insane asylum let loose we call the earth.
You are not taking it into account, my dear Cæsar, that the Church is still powerful and that it doesn't pardon people who impose upon it.
What comes after all those Privy Cape-and-Sword Chamberlains, my dear Abbe?
Yes, dear man; it is only at such long intervals that I see a person with ingenuousness and enthusiasm, that when I do meet one, I get a real joy from it.
My dear man, I have never taken any part in political affairs.
Like animals, and like some illustrious philosophers, dear sister," he replied.
It read thus: "Dear Sir: We have read in the newspaper from the Capital the announcement that you are thinking of retiring from politics.
And here the Moslem writers relate a miracle, dear to the minds of all true believers.
The piracy of our fathers had thus brought them to the shores of a land which, dear as it is now to Englishmen, had not as yet been trodden by English feet.
I should have loved to make it the dear simple kind of wedding which mother would have wanted.
You have been sodear and sensible and I do so love you for it.
What a dear you've been to me, dad," she murmured.
We're never sure, my dear old boy," said Allan very tenderly.
She was just as dear as she could be--and lonely, as though she were feeling her age.
And Roger colored angrily, for the glint of amusement in Laura's mischievous black eyes revealed quite unmistakably that she regarded both her father and his feeling for the Sabbath as very dear and quaint and old.
She even thought her liberty purchased at too dear a price.
Suffice it to say that the dear secrets of the Queen's unhappy love were profaned by the coarse lips of these hirelings.
My dear countrymen, it cannot be, and until we have a certainty of guilt, believe it not, though an angel from Copenhagen should affirm it.
When he asked her when it would please her to sail, she exclaimed: "Ah, my dear children!
I done, that my dear and faithful subjects should hate me so?
Illustration] See the Mother, Good and mild, How she plays With her dear Child.
Prone, on the lowly grave of the dear man She drops; whilst busy meddling Memory, In barbarous succession, musters up The past endearments of their softer hours Tenacious of its theme.
O, you dear merry grig, how nicely you're prancing; Then she held up the wig, and he began dancing.
From the white blossomed sloe, My dear Chloe requested, A sprig her fair breast to adorn; No by heavens I exclaimed, may I perish If ever I plant in that bosom a thorn.
Dear Sir, I am sorry I have not answered your letter before, but I have been very ill.
I went into her father's house the 18th day of May, Saying, my dear Maria, we will fix the wedding day.
I little thought, my dear parents kind, I should leave this earth with a troubled mind.
And how he went back again to dear old Monmouth Court, which is in the Seven Dials aforesaid.
Farewell thou dear and Gallant Sailor, Since thou and I have parted been, Be thou constant and true hearted, And I will be the same to thee.
While in my lonely cell I lie, the time draws on apace, The dreadful deeds that I have done appear before my face; While lying on my dreadful couch, those horrid visions rise, The ghastly form of my dear wife appears before my eyes.
But Newton did not live to know of some good fortune that came to me and to feel my gratitude to him, as dear old John Mahoney did.
On the contrary, though I have been always called a Democrat, I have many near and dear friends among the Republicans.
She took great pains with me and mothered me in the absence of my own mother, who had long been her very dear friend.
To his familiars Mr. Tilden was a dear old bachelor who lived in a fine old mansion in Gramercy Park.
A few days later the dear old lady said to me: "I suppose, my son, you are rather a picked bird after your adventures in the South.
He never quitted his dear one's beside until the last pulsebeat, and then he sank beneath the load of grief.
But, rest his dearold soul, he died and his successors refused to see the transcendent merit of that performance, a view which my own maturing sense of belles-lettres values subsequently came to verify.
Man picked up letter number 1 and said to the Blonde Stenographer, "Dear Sir.
I gather from the somewhat technical Character of your Conversation, my dear sir, that you are associated with the Drama," said the Author.
But they gave a Yelp of Joy when they spotted a dear little Cantata about a Coon who earned a Razor and had trouble with his Wife.
MORAL: A Friend who is very Near andDear may in Time become as useless as a Relative.
Man repeated "Dear Sir" and a Voice came to him, remarking on the Beauty of the Weather.
Then, if any one gets Pinched, we tear down the Jail, thereby preserving the Traditions of dear old Alma Mater.
Or is there anything more, my dear Timaeus, which has been omitted?
We knew that serpents murdered young parrots and ate them, for only the day before we had heard a neighbor telling mamma that one of these monsters had eaten six little parrots, children of a dearfriend of hers, for his breakfast.
But I'm glad I grew there; for my heart is filled with happiness when I think that through me and mine dear little Polly has become a better girl, made a happier home, and gained in the pretty flower lady a lovely friend.
I can look at my dear Father, and that section of the Past which he has made alive for me, in a certain sacred, sanctified light, and give way to what thoughts rise in me without feeling that they are weak and useless.
A month or two later, Carlyle writes: 'Think not hardly of me, dear Jeannie.
In the mutual misery we often are in, we do not know how dear we are to one another.
My dear young lady," he said, "I have been searching my pack for a present for your father, and found nothing suitable.
And you must really take care, my dear daughter; for you ought now to become a tribal priestess, and be hurled from a high place into the sea the first season that the herring fail.
You dear creature," she said, and caught it up quickly before it could wriggle away.
The girl lingered, with her satchel in her hand; thedear old home was a hard place to leave; without the cloud of Aunt Rody's presence it was peace and sunshine.
The shortest way to her forgiveness he believed to be to ask her to come to England, not to be his housekeeper, but to be his wife's dear little friend and cousin, as well as his own.
If it hadn't been for that I should have brought your dear mother back here years ago to stay, but Rody wouldn't hear of it.
Every night in her prayer she gave thanks for the blessings that widened and brightened her life through "the dear Shut-In Society.
Our dear Cousin Don," was the reply with loving intonation.
I want my little girl to grow up in the dear old house, with not a stain of the world upon her; I want to think of my little girl there with Uncle Cephas and Aunt Affy.
Had I not just this experience, and a few days later brought the tidings of the sudden death of one very dear to me?
And thedear old mother in the little cottage in the country lived in the sweet consciousness that her son was a great physician up in the great London.
And the old eyes behind the spectacles beamed, and the dear old wrinkled face glowed.
And the dear old soul, in her fine simplicity, did not think into what this would mean, nor of the difference that had grown up with the years, in manner of life, between her son and herself.
In the fall of '61 my dear mother died, and my father who had a great desire to make possibilities out of improbabilities, and believing a farm the proper place to bring up a family of boys, bought one away in the interior of Maine.
Soldiers were shouting and running in every direction, artillery was galloping here and there, on every side it seemed they were fighting for dear life.
My mother, pale and sorrowful, told us that our dear grandfather was dead.
These details are intended particularly for my children, my brothers and sisters, and the dear ones connected with our family by ties of blood and friendship, but I see no reason for not making them also accessible to wider circles.
I could understand the decrees of Providence before I was a parent,' said this dear old Colonel Heddon.
The night before I was to take him away, she gave me her hand with a 'good-bye, dear Harry.
My dear Janet, you call Riversley my home, don't you?
With much ado I deciphered another letter which began with, "My dear, dear wife.
Dear Madam, I am forever yours, My most humble services to Mr. Wortley.
There is no example of any one that has died in it; and you may believe that I am well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son.
Ah My Dear Brother, it is impossible for me to forget you.
Dear old thing: of course they had and a great deal more than adumbrated.
Why, my dear lady," I replied, "Life and Habit was another Erewhon.
It is not a case of being able to live happily with either were t'other dear charmer away; it is indispensable that we should embrace both, and embrace them with equal cordiality at the same time, though each annihilates the other.
And I am dreadfully sorry for those dearlittle babies.
Babs stood as still as could be, but Don and Dot danced a frenzied dance and shouted with joy to find dear old Santa really there with them.
The ladies and the other children had been called to the exhibition by Don, after Mike went to the kitchen, and all of them were delighted over the dear little fur-balls.
