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My assiduities expose me rather to her scorn...than to the treatment due to a man.–Richardson.

One worthy gentleman, who is, perhaps, better known than popular in City restaurants, is never known to have lavished even the humblest copper coin on a waiter.–Titbits.

Its hands require strengthening and its resources increased.–Times.

Diderot presented a bouquet which was neither well or ill received.–Morley.

Like the Persian noble of old, I ask, 'that I may neither command or obey'.–Emerson.

She would hear nothing of a declaration of war, or give any judgment on...–J. R. Green.

It appears, then, that neither the mixed and incomplete empiricism considered in the third chapter, still less the pure empiricism considered in the second chapter, affords us...–Balfour.

Scarcely was the nice new drain finished than several of the children sickened with diphtheria.–Spectator.

Which differs from that and who in being used both as an adjective as well as a noun.–H. Sweet.

M. Shipoff in one and the same breath denounces innovations, yet bases the whole electoral system on the greatest innovation in Russian history.–Times.

It would be equally absurd to attend to all the other parts of an engine and to neglect the principal source of its energy—the firebox—as it is ridiculous to pay particular attention to the cleanliness of the body and to neglect the mouth and teeth.–Advertisement.

The conception of God in their minds was not that of a Father, but as a dealer out of rewards and punishments.–Daily Telegraph.

Dr. Dillon, than whom no Englishman has a profounder and more accurate acquaintance with the seamy side—as, indeed, of all aspects of Russian life—assumes...–Times.

Sir,—In view of the controversy which has arisen concerning the 12 in. Mark VIII guns in the Navy, and especially to the suggestion which might give rise to some doubt as to the efficiency of the wire system of construction...—Times.