Nothing was wanting to enable him to enter upon the immediate execution of this plan, but the death of Mr Allworthy; in calculating which he had employed much of his own algebra, besides purchasing every bookextant that treats of the value of lives, reversions, &c.

There are some laws of his concerning murders and heiressesextant, but these contain nothing that any one can say is new and his own.

In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon, says an old writer --of whose works I possess the only copyextant -- it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.

He thanked Providence for having sent this happy idea to him; but, as he was preparing to cross the Place, in order to reach the tortuous labyrinth of the city, where meander all those old sister streets, the Rues de la Barillerie, de la Vielle-Draperie, de la Savaterie, de la Juiverie, etc., stillextant to-day, with their nine-story houses, he saw the procession of the Pope of the Fools, which was also emerging from the court house, and rushing across the courtyard, with great cries, a great flashing of torches, and the music which belonged to him, Gringoire.

For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography,extant in the literature of any age or country.

In one instance a considerable and characteristic section can be traced fromextant fragments and notices: Salmoneus, son of Aeolus, had a daughter Tyro who bore to Poseidon two sons, Pelias and Neleus; the latter of these, king of Pylos, refused Heracles purification for the murder of Iphitus, whereupon Heracles attacked and sacked Pylos, killing amongst the other sons of Neleus Periclymenus, who had the power of changing himself into all manner of shapes.

The English were preceded in the whale fishery by the Hollanders, Zealanders, and Danes; from whom they derived many terms stillextant in the fishery; and what is yet more, their fat old fashions, touching plenty to eat and drink.

"Tell me, brother squire," asked the duchess (whose title, however, is not known), "this master of yours, is he not one of whom there is a historyextant in print, called 'The Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha,' who has for the lady of his heart a certain Dulcinea del Toboso?"

"There are traditions stillextant among the people of Slavs of the true faith suffering under the yoke of the 'unclean sons of Hagar.' The people have heard of the sufferings of their brethren and have spoken."

This was a large wooden house, built in a fashion of which there are specimens stillextant in the streets of our older towns now moss -- grown, crumbling to decay, and melancholy at heart with the many sorrowful or joyful occurrences, remembered or forgotten, that have happened and passed away within their dusky chambers.

This going to hunt up her shiftless husband at the inn was one of Mrs Durbeyfield's stillextant enjoyments in the muck and muddle of rearing children.

That intimate friend of Dryden, Tillatson, Pope, who executed a copy of the actor's portrait by Kneller which is stillextant, was worthy of their friendship; his career brings out the best elements in stage life.