...would, or might have the bad taste to want me always at his fireside, and to see my unlovely physiognomy the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night for the whole term of his or my natural life. Ah, well, if a barn-door chicken, of the good old race...

...good stomach and a bad heart." The Romans, it may be remarked, had another form of salutation, used the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night — the last, too, at a funeral, as in those lovely lines of Catullus to his brother's memory — Nunc...

...national afiair ; when tens of thousands of individuals, high and -low, meditated and brooded upon it, the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, until the great event was decided. But the time is past, and many people will say, thank God that it...

...is tangible." And now, the greater portion of Dr. Leicester's time was devoted to railway business. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night were his thoughts upon shares. He wrote for allotments to nearly all the announced schemes, and obtained,...

...Still it was in my mind all the day ; no matter where I was, in doors or out, it was ringing in my ears the first thing in. the morning, and the last thing at night—" Swear not at all." ' " ' I at last resolved to forsake the public house, and take my girl's advice....

...ground, in large night-rooms?" He said, " There, it is, Hail, fellows, ivell met; but here, it is prayers the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night, and silence by day and by night ; we see our comrades, and say nothing ; but think, think, think. I...

...pulpit, even in the vestry, pipe. Immediately after sermon, pipe ; and before and after supper, pipe ; the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night, pipe. I even thought he had his pipe in bed, for the odor of tobacco saluted my olfactory nerves long...

...a section-hand pure and simple. His duty was, in part, to walk over and inspect a section of track the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. He and his family had the West Cambridge' secret,' in a marked degree. It consisted of all sorts of...

...Still it was in my mind all the day ; no matter where I was, in doors or out, it was ringing in my ears the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night—" Swear not at all." ' " ' I at last resolved to forsake the public house, and take my girl's advice....

...attempt to mention them, except the corn-crake, which, with its monotonous cry, " Crake, crake," is heard the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. You hear rather than see ; for one can seldom find a corn-crake ; many a fruitless hunt have we had...