Now, it must, I think, be admitted, that the experience of the last few years is such, as to modify very considerably the answer to be given to this question.
You are aware, of course, that it was not till the last Revision in 1662 that this rubric was removed.
Do you not recall your own words, Yaro, uttered during the last hours of darkness?
With a frantic tenacity that sapped the last vestige of his fast vanishing strength he dragged his weary body onto the rock and lay down, cushioning his great head upon his forepaws.
He had at last found his quarry and would lay a neat trap that the shadowy one would all unsuspectingly enter.
Oomah was destined to be robbed of his prize and the sorcerer had beheld the youth for the last time.
The twigs snapped from the undergrowth by the hunter as he walked along guided him unfailingly to the last camping site and from there a beaten trail led to the village.
That effort had cost Oomah his last particle of strength.
His exertions only tired him so at last he was compelled to stop to rest.
Pausing only long enough to shake the glistening drops from her shivering body she began the long journey westward for at last Suma was forced, reluctantly, to admit the truth.
He strayed further and further from Suma's protection and at last came the day when the two drifted so far apart that the beginning of a permanent separation had most assuredly arrived.
And, when at last the shrieking parrot flocks overhead and the dull, gray light in front of her, bravely struggling through the mist, foretold the coming of day she stopped and carefully deposited her burden on the leaves.
He had at last learned that, at least for the present, he was no match for the ant-eater.
The last thing the watchers saw was the tuft of white feathers which had been inserted in his head-band.
It was Suma, the Jaguar, but she acknowledged no relationship between herself and Warruk, her cub of last year.
As a last resort, at such times, there were always the grasshoppers to fall back on even if he had lost his earlier liking for these insects.
Once, exactly seven years before, while the world writhed and baked in the throes of the last great drought she had been compelled to venture into the unknown land.
And so we went on, till the big guns had fired their quota and the Maxims ran out in one last fiends' flurry, and target-practice for the month was over.
I saw the setting of such a picture one blood-red evening when the hulls of the fleet showed black on olive-green water, and the yellow of the masts turned raw-meat colours in the last light.
We had worked in a little extra deck under the forebridge, so that now the signalman had a place to stand in, which I would remember was not the case last year.
That last was impossible, but I accepted the offer.
At a pinch he can wring the last ounce out of his subordinates by appeals unbefitting for an officer to make, by thrusts at pride and vanity, which he has studied more intimately than any one else.
They turned the hose on the display, and at last knocked the guard sideways, and it fell down somewhere under the shaft, so that they were at liberty to devote their attention to the starboard thrust-block, which was a trifle loose.
I say, did you see that last shrapnel of mine burst over the target?
We had accumulated all sorts of small improvements since last year.
Our first boat ought to be away in fifteen seconds' (it was quite thirty before the last drew clear).
Manners' voice had become husky toward the last of the sentence, and perhaps not husky so much as hungry.
Then Aladdin laughed aloud, for he knew that his last walk upon earth had been in the form of a silly circle.
It was the last sentence which bleeding hearts supply to lips at moments of farewell: "Write to me.
Then white smoke burst from the wall, and they were cut down to the last man.
There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last for ever.
The Maxims are printed from the edition of 1678, the last published during the author's life, and the last which received his corrections.
This was the last edition revised by the author, and published in his lifetime.
After there depicting a man who fancied himself one of the most lovely in the world, and who complained he always found all mirrors untrustworthy, at last discovered his real image reflected in the water.
We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves.
So much was this the case, that Maxims which had been rejected by Rochefoucauld in his last edition, were still retained in the body of the work.
The sixth duke, the friend of Condorcet, was the last of the long line of noble lords who bore that distinguished name.
I am melancholy, and I have hardly been seen for the last three or four years to laugh above three or four times.
These last are very rare, for to speak generally, there is no one who has not some falseness in some corner of his mind or his taste.
In this last edition we first meet with the introductory maxim, "Our virtues are generally but disguised vices.
The first is common enough, the last I think always feigned.
Can age itself forget that you are now in the last act of life?
AT LAST EACH race has died and lived and fought for the "true" gods of that poor race, Unconsciously, divinest thought of each race gilding its god's face.
We had a bet that you would not last out another month.
Many of the boys had sworn not to be taken prisoners, and though they knew they were cut off, they fought on until every last one of them was killed.
At last to me was to fall the good fortune of capturing a spy--perhaps to end the leakage of information of our plans that we knew the Germans were getting.
Nearly every one wrote home those nights, as it might be for the last time.
Tea was the last thing I was wanting, but, as others were eating, I had to put up a bluff, though I felt it would be a sinful waste if I were to be killed immediately afterward.
The increase in artillery last year may be judged from the fact that in the last six months of 1917 one million tons of shells were used by the British on the western front.
All the time more were falling, and soon it seemed that every last man must be massacred.
At last the Medical Board sat on my case and their decision left me gasping for breath, for they recommended that I be discharged as permanently unfit for further military service.
It was a pleasant surprise to be able to greet again these comrades, who but a few minutes before we had commiserated on their hard luck; for they came off in the last boats, there being no wounded to require their services.
Had we not thought that we were destined for immediate embarkation we might have been better disposed to appreciate Broadmeadows, but as it was it seemed to us about the last place made--and not yet finished.
The officers were ordered to stop these "races with death" for there were some killed, but they would break out now and again when the last man who was killed had been forgotten.
The aim of the abandoned monarch and his advisers was manifestly total extermination, and journalism appeared to be at its last gasp.
This at lastwill be their song: 'One forever, free, and strong.
At lastshe deliberately stooped down and applied her eye to the key-hole.
If so, he bears up manfully (if one may say so) against the rushing force, and at last scrambles up the least steep peak of the opposite bank, bearing you more dizzy than he is.
If this last character was satisfied, then an interview could be had with the great man himself.
Their hands will give the last touch; they will reap the glory; their names will be remembered when his is forgotten.
About the same time appeared the Scots Courant, in 1708 the Edinburgh Flying Post, and in the following year the Scots Postman, the two last being tri-weekily.
Perhaps it will show you another reason why you met with so little success, last Monday.
I can tell without looking, uncle, for that was our last Sabbath School lesson.
Now, what are you doing for the next, the life that is to last always?
Sue, when the horses’ heads were at last turned homeward.
She’s never been well sence, but she kept up till last week.
There wasn’t a finer young man anywhere round when he graduated last fall; talented, too.
Tom, strolling around by the deacon’s that night, and finding Will on the steps, using the lastbit of daylight for his book.
I said that last Sabbath to my teacher; isn’t that right, uncle?
I was real badlast week, but I’ve been forgived,” sobbed Maybee.
That affair last week may open her eyes to the mischief their wines are working.
That “last seam” was in a night-dress for Lauretta Luella.
His new friend tormented him almost to death, pulling his ears, pinching his nose, and punching him with sharp sticks, and at last he grew so thin he managed to squeeze through between his prison bars.
This was the establishment of the Honourable Mr. Batulcar, a sort of Barnum, a director of a troupe of acrobats and jugglers, who were giving their last representations, prior to their departure to the United States.
He appeared to have lost his last hope, when he perceived a small screw-steamer moored off the battery; the funnel was pouring forth black smoke, and everything looked like a speedy departure.
This last exploit of his master delighted him above everything; he was the life and soul of the crew, and his good spirits were infectious.
He was the lastman in the world to hurry himself, but he always arrived in time.
The long procession wended its way slowly amongst the trees, and before long the last of it disappeared in the depths of the forest.
The moon, then in her last quarter, appeared scarcely above the horizon, and was covered frequently by thick clouds.
Hong Kong, in fact, was English territory, but the last British territory which they would see on the route.
This last observation was uttered by Phileas Fogg, whose head rose up from the sea of papers surrounding him, and then Phileas got up and exchanged greetings with his acquaintances.
But after consideration of the circumstances, it did not appear improbable that the young man had gone on board the Carnatic at the last moment.
Passe-partout longed to ask the man if the Yokohama steamer had sailed, but he preferred to nurse his hopes till the last moment.
Even those who look forward with apprehension to the last moment, and who when it approaches, cling desperately to life, are prudent enough to hold their peace.
The death penalty is the last lingering vestige of the Lex Talionis, of the law which attempts to equalize the penalty with the crime, a conception of justice which in all other respects we have happily outgrown.
Impelled by his longing, he at last went out into the world to find his brother, and if possible to redeem him.
Everything that is beautiful in the world will still be beautiful; he will thankfully accept the last draught of the joy which nature has poured into his goblet.
Who of us would take into his own house, his own bedchamber, a dying consumptive, a mere acquaintance, in order that the last days of the sufferer might be soothed by friendly nursing?
What power of self-sacrifice is displayed by these poor people, whom sometimes in our wicked moods we are disposed to despise; what readiness to share the last crust with those who are, I will not say hungry, but hungrier!
And so we may pass on at once to the last and chief element in the process of the reclamation of the evildoer, namely, forgiveness.
At a Leeds Board School last week, the master said to his class, "There is to be a meeting of the British Association in Leeds.
This is a matter of common observation, as one can see a distant woodchopper lift his axe again before one hears the sound of his last stroke.
This last as well as the other phenomena of which I have spoken is very suggestive.
The last of them between centripetal force on a body moving in a curved path, and torque or moment on a rotating body is the simple key to all gyrostatic or top calculation.
The last two statements come to this:--When the forces acting on a spinning body tend to make the angle of precession greater, the precession is in the same direction as the spinning, and vice versa.
The Colombian Congress after a lengthy debate rejected the treaty and adjourned on the last day of October, 1902.
Fourth--Property has secured a claim on income that is, in the last analysis, prior to the claim of the worker.
The lesson which Bismarck, Palmerston and Gray learned in the last century is now being taught by economic pressure to the ruling class of the United States.
He said, "A friend of mine in this city bought in Illinois last fall about two thousand acres of this refuse land at the minimum price, for which he has lately refused six dollars per acre.
Last winter we estimated that the United States has been cutting about 50 per cent of the total world's supply of lumber.
For many years after the organization of the Federal Government men spoke of the public domain as if it were to last indefinitely.
The spirit of competition ruled the American business world at the beginning of the last century, the forces of combination dominated at its close.
The lastdetailed estimate of the wealth of the United States was made by the Census Bureau for the year 1912.
The corporation, as a means of organizing and directing business enterprise is a product of the last hundred years.
For the imperialist, the lastcentury and a half of American history is a fairyland come true.
In addition to these six great wars there were the numerous wars with the Indians, the last of which (with the Chippewa) occurred in 1898.
I felt like the spectator of the last act of a terrible tragedy, I was longing wildly for the end.
On our last Sunday in the country she took me aside, talked in flattering terms of my generosity, appealed to my kind heart and begged me to cancel Miss Amy's debt to us, pleading her very small means.
I've been quarrelling with the Baroness for the last hour!
The last phrase: "Since the Baron did not scruple to keep my wife's furniture," caused me lively satisfaction.
This scene, "The Last Moments of the Condemned," was renewed every six months during the next three years.
A pair of eyes familiar last year--how dull they were!
Everybody had left; we were the last guests in the modest hotel.
Should he invest his last shilling in the payment of the toll and go on to meet the unknown fate awaiting him?
She arrived at the last moment, in a cab, drawn by a mare which the driver was leading by the bridle.
I was ready to make my exit, disappear from ken, killed by the woman whom I forgave with my last breath.
I implied by a gesture that this was a lastfarewell greeting brought by the wind from the steamer.
One morning, for the first time in the last six years of our marriage, she appeared fully dressed in my bedroom before I was up.
But she turned away and disappeared in a little side-street, leaving me with a last impression of her bewitching figure, her little feet, which I had allowed to trample on me for ten years without a murmur.
I never said a word about your weakness for chicken potpie, although you did appropriate my dish the last day at college.
Since mylast birthday I've been wonderfully grown up.
She spoke the last words in a curiously quiet voice.
Well, I guess that will hold," remarked Walter as he put the last knot in the rope.
That's all I know about it," answered Jack calmly as he finished the last candy.
I meant to say, have you any of those fish with you that we caught last time?
I heard last night that they were going to have another investigation on new lines.
Secretly Cora was thinking of his last transgression, and it afforded her no small consolation to note that her particular friends had not heard of the stolen ride.
He added the last word below his breath, and there was a mean smile on his face.
Three such pretty girls in it all alone are an unequal division of beauty and talent--the last for myself, of course.
But oh, Cora, you cannot imagine what I have gone through with in the last month!
The last words came out jerkily, for Cora was pulling on the brake handle with all her force.
Starting at the center she traveled from left to right, passing the thread through the claw of one of the last pair of legs.
One supremely mellow day the last of October, there came a pair of hermits to a secluded spot, flitting into a white oak, where they remained regarding me with round bright eyes.
From the first fragrant spicebush to the last witch-hazel, no cultivated shrub is to be compared with them, for the virtue of the wild is not to be transplanted and is never imprisoned in flower-beds.
From the first flowering shrubs to the last goldenrod there is the hum of industry.
The last is hardly gone before the advance guard of skunk-cabbage appears again.
How it rises and falls on the currents, like a ship riding the long swells of the sea; again it drives free before the wind to settle down at last in some pasture.
Think of her retiring under the moss and leaves at the approach of winter, the last of her race; or, rather, do they all resign themselves to a sleep from which she alone is to awaken.
And now atlast branches are bare and leaves rustle underfoot.
In the last gale it was next to impossible to keep one's feet in the full force of the wind, but the gulls sustained themselves with ease.
Here were a great number of little spinners, making for themselves garments of silk, and at last spinning themselves out of sight.
I have stood beside Mordaunt's tomb: his will had directed that he should sleep not in the vaults of his haughty line; and his last dwelling is surrounded by a green and pleasant spot.
A little, unknown man, who had been sitting at the bar for the last two hours sipping brandy and water, and who from his extreme taciturnity and quiet had been scarcely observed, now rose.
It was the last time that the cheek of the young and predestined orphan was ever pressed by a father's kiss or moistened by a father's tear!
In his extreme old age, the ex-king took a journey to Scotland, to see the Author of "The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
Do you suppose I have been amusing myself with sleeping away the last eight days, brothers?
Their prodigies of courage, intelligence, and craft during the last seven years would take us too long to record, and, moreover, we shall find specimens in the course of this narrative.
Pedrito saw that he was lost; he kissed for the last time the pale brow of his unconscious sister, laid her behind him, crossed himself, and prepared to die as a brave man should.
Dona Concha, who had heard the last words, was not mistress of her terror.
To the last drop of our blood, Excellency," the two gauchos said.
By the bye, Don Sylvio, I have a large packet of papers addressed to you, which arrived last night from Buenos Aires by express.
Their home, twice plundered by the Aucas Indians, had been utterly destroyed by fire in the last invasion.
At our last interview, my father announced rather suddenly, both to you and me, my approaching marriage with Don Sylvio d'Arenal.
But before my last hour arrives, listen to me, for I wish to relieve my heart.
Don Sylvio, whose heart was contracted, though he knew not the cause, gave a last signal to his betrothed, and soon disappeared among the trees.
Nor can we do that either, my friend; for we must be the laston the breach.
Several chiefs flying before Pedrito the capataz and Don Sylvio rushed to the platform as a last refuge.
The 8th battalion of chasseurs, "the battalion of Sidi Brahim" was outflanked on the wings and fought with three fronts, determined to hold on till the lastman fell.
After a second bombardment the enemy again attacked, overwhelming the defenders, one company of whom resisted to the last man.
The Germans, unwilling to risk a frontal attack, turned the position on the right flank, and finally took the trench, but only after the gallant defenders had fired their last cartridges.
As a county, it was governed under the feudal system by the hereditary counts, the last of whom was Godefroy de Bouillon, and later by the episcopal counts and bishops.
A cemetery in front of thelast house on the right on the road to Tresauvaux.
German communique announced the capture of the fort, the heroic defenders were at last overpowered, the unwounded among them not having tasted a drop of water for two days.
The table-lands of Verdun where the battle was to be fought are the last of the series of heights which form the top of the basin in which Paris lies.
In the redoubt to the west of the fort a handful of foot-soldiers of the 101st died fighting to the last man.
Thiaumont redoubt, Froideterre hill, Fleury and Souville fort formed the last powerful barrier which the enemy, in June 1916, wanted to break through in order to get an uninterrupted view of the basin of Verdun.
On the afternoon of the 4th, the last pigeon was released.
The 2nd regiment of Zouaves and the Colonial regiment of Morocco made a last effort on the morning of the 8th to relieve the garrison.
On April 5th, started the last big attack which the 12th Division was to carry on day and night until the 9th.
In the foreground, the last train to run at the foot of Poivre Hill in February 1916.
Simultaneously Verdun was systematically bombarded, the last residents being evacuated by the military authority at midday on the 25th.
She symbolises, in her deep affection for her Mother country, Lorraine, at last wholly restored as a French province.
I hope I'm not wrong and that you really have such a theory, for it has cheered me up quite a lot, because I don't believe any one ever took a more vivid interest in clothes than I have done for the last ten days.
Shaking a puzzled and resentful head, he at last sought his chief; with a hang-dog air he handed over his statement, and with heavy heart he waited for the President to speak.
She suggests one, in that gown she wore in the last act--or would, except for the color.
And the fact that at last we have begun to defend ourselves will not endear us to him the more--on the contrary it will make him even more vicious toward us.
He was good enough to offer me a job as conductor on one of his street cars, the last time I mentioned the subject," the other responded cheerfully.
She stood still a moment, and when at last she withdrew her hand, she spoke in a voice so low that he could barely catch the words.
I heard a speech last week," said Mr. Griswold, "by some man who wanted to reduce the fire waste of the whole country.
Bit by bit, fragment by fragment, he gathered the makings of a Story, until at last, on the Saturday morning before the fateful Wednesday, he happened into the office of Silas Osgood and gained the last link in his chain.
The grim and terrible anguish of twisted steel girders that lay writhen like petrified snakes among the ashes, or lifted their tortured length to reach some last hold on sanity at the wall which they had once helped maintain.
I'll wager you a box of roses against anything you like that you had a proposal no later than last week.
It was from this last building that the City Hall stood in jeopardy.
This was the common last analysis, the degree of qualifying favor being measured in each case by the comparative pause between the last two words and the accent and inflection upon the ultimate.
The natural consequence of the period of excessive rococo with its superabundance of curves and ornament, was that, during the last years of Louis's reign, the reaction slowly began to make itself felt.
Oriental rugs, a fire screen, ornaments, and pictures, but these last should not be of the modern impressionistic school.
The chair backs remained high and narrow, but the carving slowly grew simpler and the caning at last went entirely across the back.
The transition from Chippendale to Hepplewhite was not sudden, as the last style of Chippendale was simpler and had more of the classic feeling in it.
During the last years of Louis XIV's life the court had resented more or less the gloom cast over it by the influence of Madame de Maintenon, and turned with avidity to the new ruler.
His books were not financially successful, and at lasthe gave up his workshop and ceased to make the furniture he designed.
Then came a change in the general shape, a drawer being added at the bottom, and at last it turned into a complete chest of drawers.
There were also many square, round, octagonal and oval salons, these last being among the most beautiful.
The style was easily overdone and did not last a great while.
All kinds of furniture were decorated in this way--sedan chairs and even snuff-boxes, until at last the supply became so great that the fashion died.
The very best reproductions are made with as much care and knowledge and skill as the originals, and will last as long, and become treasured heirlooms like those handed down to us.
The period of Chippendale was contemporaneous with that of Louis XV, and the second part included the other three men and corresponded with the last years of Louis XV, when the transition to Louis XVI was beginning, and the time of Louis XVI.
The information had to be obtained, by a process like mental thumb-screwing, from the old man who tended Evelina's garden, but at last they knew.
When Evelina was fifteen years old this single woman died, and the village women went to her funeral, and bent over her lying in a last helpless dignity in her coffin, and stared with awed freedom at her cold face.
Last night I watered the roses with boiling water and salt, and I pulled the other flowers up by their roots.
Still, it was considered that she was not very intimate with these last relatives.
She stood with her little hands clasped, and her eyes cast down before him, but not a quiver stirred her pale face, which seemed turned to marble by this last effort of her maiden pride.
Thomas Merriam heard this last with a satisfaction which he did not try to disguise from himself, because he never dreamed of there being any selfish element in it.
He would have maintained his equality with his last breath to an opponent; in his heart of hearts he felt himself below the scion of the one old gentle family of his native village.
Evelina, shining in the sun like a silver lily, went up the street, her father stalking beside her with stately swings of his cane, and that was the last time she was ever seen at meeting.
She is only ten years old, but many a grown-up person is not so upright or so capable as I have found her during these last few miserable days.
Only last evening I caught one of the slaves just as he was going to work on the branches; but how could I get at the black rascal through the thorns?
Not the most reckless of criminals could mock at the curse hurled at him by a beloved father in his last moments.
Grant me the last favor I have to ask of you--I demand it in my father's name.
It may be about four hundred years since that last took place, but to this day--draw your kerchiefs more closely round your heads and come with me to the river--to this day Christians degrade themselves by similar rites.
Even the Moslem viceroy, the great general Amru, came over from the other side of the Nile, with his chief military and civil officers, to pay the last honors to the just and revered governor.
The father supposed that his boy was lost, and wandered around in the woods for many days, and at last found the dead child, and mourned his loss for a long time.
