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Many new words are coined, but old ones are rarely demonetised; they remain in circulation, defaced and worn, till the precise image and superscription are barely recognizable. We multiply negatives in order to get fine shades. If, then, the critic knows the truth he is aware that he has no means of conveying it to the reader. Wherefore some make little effort and indulge merely in fine writing.

First, when you offer a bottle so singular for eighty odd dollars, people suppose you to be jesting. And second but there is no hurry about that and I need not go into it. Only remember it must be coined money that you sell it for." "How am I to know that this is all true?" asked Keawe. "Some of it you can try at once," replied the man.

The statement that Sterne coined the wordsentimentalis undoubtedly incorrect, but no one seems to have discovered and corrected the error till Nicolai’s article on Sterne in the Berlinische Monatsschrift for February, 1795, in which it is shown that the word had been used in older English novels, inSir Charles Grandisonindeed.

Fancy had caught up the inarticulate and vehement cries with which Fenella was wont to express resistance or displeasure had coined them into language, and given them the accents of Alice Bridgenorth. Our imagination plays wilder tricks with us almost every night.

"He just worshiped that poor little woman." Beyond that, neither of them attempted to put into speech the tragedy; it was beyond the poor words we have thus far coined for our needs, like many another thing that happens in these lives we live. They waited a little while longer, wondering what they could or should do. Mrs. Jerry lay easily where she had been placed by the man who loved her.

They actually refused my coined money when freely offered, a tale seldom to be told in a Christian land." "I admit," said Montrose, after a moment's reflection, "that their conduct towards you is good evidence of their fidelity; but how to secure against the breaking out of this feud?"

It raised another storm of laughter that faltering, ingenuous reason of hers and Barbara hastened to explain that the phrase was a relic of her own childhood, which she had once coined in extenuation of conduct to which her mother had objected. She still employed it, she explained, in particularly irresponsible moments.

If in defence or in extenuation of the policy of the majority it shall be said that the United States has not remonetized silver, and that, therefore, the policy of the majority has not been tested, a partial rejoinder, if not, indeed, a satisfactory reply, may be deduced from the facts that between the years 1878 and the year 1893 the Government coined more than 400,000,000 silver dollars, and yet, in that period of time, silver bullion fell from 1.15 plus per ounce to .65 plus per ounce.

If ever a girl deserved it, choked, and flourished her white handkerchief; Frampton saluted like my Lord and Louis XIV. rolled into one; and Warren and Gervas privately agreed that they did not know what was coming of the world, since Marksedge poachers had only to go to foreign parts to be coined goold in the silver mines. Mrs. Madison's pretty face was all blushes, smiles, and tears. Mr.

'If I threw it?" This last more softly. Dennitson shook his head. "'Your price is high, she said. 'For how many sovereigns would you go? "'There are not enough coined to get me overside, was his answer. "She debated a moment, the boy forgotten in her tilt with Dennitson. "'For me? she said very softly. "'To save your life yes. But not otherwise. "She turned back to the boy.