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I can not too strongly recommend this subject to your consideration and do not hesitate to express my entire conviction of its great importance.

These tales flew from mouth to mouth, and all listened to them with such an eager interest, that none thought it worth while to challenge their inconsistencies, or to express a doubt of their truth, because they had not been mentioned before.

God will never forsake a family that trust in Him as thou dost. So I gave him four other shillings, and bid him go lay them on the stone and call his wife. I have not words to express the poor man's thankfulness, neither could he express it himself but by tears running down his face.

Many ladies employed him also to carry messages, from which he made much money. After having for some time carried on the business of a messenger and gained thereby great wealth, he went home to his father, and it is impossible to express the joy of his family.

I said to her: "How is it that you are delivering telegrams in a khaki suit and a soldier cap?" She replied: "Because I could get nothing else to do. I lived down there in the mountains just as long as I could. I had to get to the city where I could express myself and develop my finer qualities. When I got to Washington there was nothing that I could do.

The populace desired to have the delightful news confirmed, and to express, by a public demonstration, the grateful joy which filled every heart.

A grammaticus is what the French express by the word litterateur.

Prince Comnenus and his son were inconsolable; I excused myself by saying that it was at the express desire of our royal visitor, and my lord admitted that at last he recollected his features, and recognised him by his grand and courtly address.

"We cannot expect the young people themselves to cling to conventions which are totally unsuited to modern city conditions, nor yet to be equal to the task of forming new conventions through which this more agglomerate social life may express itself.

It might seem, at first view, that a symbolical mode of writing must be more simple in its character than the system now in use, inasmuch as by that plan each idea or object would be expressed by one character alone, whereas, by our mode of writing, several characters, sometimes as many as eight or ten, are required to express a word, which word, after all, represents only one single object or idea.