11.  His opinion is always original, and to the purpose.

12.  To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added the advantage of having been born to a private and humble fortune.

13.  The water, like a witch’s oils,
     Burnt green and blue and white.

14.  We one day descried some shapeless object floating at a distance.

15.  Old Adam, the carrion crow,
      The old crow of Cairo;
     He sat in the shower, and let it flow
      Under his tail and over his crest.

16.  It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.

17.  It is easy to sugar to be sweet.

18.  At times the black volume of clouds overhead seemed rent asunder by flashes of lightning.

19.  The whole figure and air, good and amiable otherwise, might be called flabby and irresolute.

20.  I have heard Coleridge talk, with eager energy, two stricken hours, and communicate no meaning whatsoever to any individual.

21.  The word conscience has become almost confined, in popular use, to the moral sphere.

22.  You may ramble a whole day together, and every moment discover something new.

23.  She had grown up amidst the liberal culture of Henry’s court a bold horsewoman, a good shot, a graceful dancer, a skilled musician, an accomplished scholar.

24.  Her aims were simple and obvious,—­to preserve her throne, to keep England out of war, to restore civil and religious order.

25.  Fair name might he have handed down,
     Effacing many a stain of former crime.

26.  Of the same grandeur, in less heroic and poetic form, was the patriotism of Peel in recent history.

27.  Oxford, ancient mother! hoary with ancestral honors, time-honored, and, haply, time-shattered power—­I owe thee nothing!

28.  The villain, I hate him and myself, to be a reproach to such goodness.

29.  I dare this, upon my own ground, and in my own garden, to bid you leave the place now and forever.

30.  Upon this shore stood, ready to receive her, in front of all this mighty crowd, the prime minister of Spain, the same Conde Olivarez.

31.  Great was their surprise to see a young officer in uniform stretched within the bushes upon the ground.

32.  She had made a two days’ march, baggage far in the rear, and no provisions but wild berries.

33.  This amiable relative, an elderly man, had but one foible, or perhaps one virtue, in this world.

34.  Now, it would not have been filial or ladylike.

35.  Supposing this computation to be correct, it must have been in the latitude of Boston, the present capital of New England.

36.  The cry, “A strange vessel close aboard the frigate!” having already flown down the hatches, the ship was in an uproar.

37.  But yield, proud foe, thy fleet
     With the crews at England’s feet.