Shortly after this we came upon the hugestapt that we had seen.

To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are mostapt to get out of order.

But leaving these curiosities (though not unworthy to be thought on, in fit place), we will handle, what persons areapt to envy others; what persons are most subject to be envied themselves; and what is the difference between public and private envy.

The peculiarities of his father and mother were very irksome to him, now they were laid bare of all the softening accompaniments of an easy, prosperous home; for Tom had very clear, prosaic eyes, notapt to be dimmed by mists of feeling or imagination.

Being naturally great mimics of men's actions, they showed themselves mostapt pupils, and when arrayed in their rich clothes and masks, they danced as well as any of the courtiers.

Saintsbury rightly points out, in correction of an imperfectly informed French critic of our literature) the radical distinction between poetry and prose has ever been recognized by its students, yet the imaginative impulse, which is perhaps the richest of our purely intellectual gifts, has beenapt to invade the province of that tact and good judgment, alike as to matter and manner, in which we are not richer than other people.

We had been very happy at Columbus, as we wereapt to be anywhere, but none of us liked the narrowness of city streets, even so near to the woods as those were, and we were eager for the country again.

Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, areapt to operate as well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question.

As the night air in these elevated regions isapt to be cold, a blazing fire was soon made, that would have done credit to a Christmas dinner, instead of a midsummer banquet.

"But I don't know that I amapt at tending fowls," said the dubious Tess.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is soapt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind.

This somewhat may be indeed resembled to the famous trunk-maker in the playhouse; for, whenever the person who is possessed of it doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is soapt to hiss and explode him.