... of bodies of women, boys, girls, and infants; all these were likewise head- less. But the most horrible spectacle was near the gate of the fifth camp. Here was a pile of the bodies of women, children, and infants about nine feet high and containing at ...

... theological discussions, mental analyses, or any of those things which lie the way of madness, so are there certain books whose mortality or immortality is a matter of great indiffer- ence to us, but whose companionship for the moment is everything. Mr. Frank ...

... collar, long satin vest, silk stockings, buckled shoes, and a sword. The whole dress may be of satin, at pleasure. LONDON MORTALITY has declined to the lowest rate recorded this year. During the, last two weeks the deaths numbered 1,451 and 1,411, being ...

... a wearied smile. It's the Infants that are so tiring. They wear one out. They don't mean to be worries, poor little souls, of course ; but they do distract one a bit sometimes. I wish you was well quit of them Infants, Mrs. Gascoyne remarked, and ...

... ain't no reason as I can see wy Faith mightn't be let go up to Oxford. H'Ow about the Infants ? Mrs. Gascoynfe interposed. answered Infants bebiowed! Drat them infants! her husband asee energetically,. Ift'sallvery well drattin' em, as far as that'll ...

... the seven Imperial Mosques, you may observe that the turbans affixed to certain of the coffins-some of them those of mere infants-are slightly inclined to the left. This means, it seems, that the body beneath is that of a Prince who has died a violent ...

... TH E SCA LLY WAG By GRANT ALLEN,' AUTHOR OF THE TENTS OF SHEM. 'IN ALL SHADES.- THIS MORTAL COIL, &CO ILLUSTRATED BY JACOMB HOOD, [Copyright SSg9 by GRANT ALLEN] CHAPTER XS. BEHIND THE SCENES HREE days _ later, Paul and his ceimpan on turned their ...

... and often absorbing, they are but an excuse for a panorama of Imperial Rome, and of the real struggle between Paganism and infant Christianity. Let me, as a specimen of the vividness and realism of the style, give an extract from the description of a banquet ...

... Aaced boldly round her shately waist' TH E SCALLY WAG By GRANT ALLEN, AUTHOR Or THE TENTS OF SHEM, IN ALL SHADES, THIS MORTAL COIL, &C. ILLIUSTRATED By JACOMB HOOD. [Copyright 1893 by GRANT ALLEN] CHAPfER XXI. COTNCUDENCES. N ANOTHER PART of the fields ...

... mountains, and risk the loss of his life in the depth of winter by venturing to cross from the sea to the Milk River, as the infant Missouri is called at its Rocky Mountain nursery. Nobody had asked him to explore the country. He was no surveyor, nor had ...

... being separated from Lord Shrewsbury, he wrote, and transfcrred to the charge of a wicked Puritan, a mere Leicestrian, a mortal enemy to ?? Majesty and the States Catholic, he had despaired of his country, and intended to leave it. He had been on the ...

... TH E SCA LLYWAG By GRANT ALLEN, AUTHOR OF THE TENTS OF SHEM.H IN ALL SHADES, THIS MORTAL COIL, &C. ILLUSTRATED BY JACOMB HOOD. ?? 1893 by GA.NT ALLEN3 I j CHAPTER XIX. IDYLS OF YOUTH o FAITH those ten delicious days at Oxford were a dream fulfilled-pure ...