Nell, busily plying her needle, repaired the tattered window-hangings, drew together the rents that time had worn in the threadbare scraps of carpet, and made them whole and decent.

He had a loyal following.

Unlasting passion, soon outworn conceit, Whereon I built, and on so dureless trust!

In Oxford there are some forty professors, of whom seven or eight are regius professors appointed by the Crown, and paid by revenues derived from the Crown.