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Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes.

Meserve, "and they do say she'd 'a' come out first, 'stead o' fourth, if her subject had been dif'rent.

On the third of November following, he expressly revokes this will, and leaves another in its stead, in which his widow is never once mentioned, and in which the whole residue of his estate, after payment of one comparatively trifling legacy, is left to a friend.

And then Chance carried a little leather ball beneath the window where the old man stood; and as the child ran, laughing, to recover it, De Vac's eyes fell upon him, and his former plan for revenge melted as the fog before the noonday sun; and in its stead there opened to him the whole hideous plot of fearsome vengeance as clearly as it were writ upon the leaves of a great book that had been thrown wide before him.

Suppose Sir Walter, in- stead of putting the conversations into the mouths of his characters, had allowed the characters to speak for themselves?

"Keep her for yourself," I said to the steward, "and if you have a fat calf, bring that in her stead."

At midnight, people again knocked at the gate of the jail, or rather at the barricade which served in its stead: it was Cornelius van Baerle whom they were bringing.

With this alone a writer may sometimes do tolerably well; and, indeed, without this, all the other learning in the world will stand him in little stead.

"Well," says I, "I think they are a pack of flat- heads for not keeping the palace themselves 'stead of fooling them away like that.

Tidings presently reached them, of how he had met his death in a foreign land, and how John reigned as King in his stead. The proof of these events followed soon after, when there came striding through the glade the big, familiar form of Little John.

"Truly," replied I, "your sense of hearing serves you in good stead, and fills up many of your deficiencies.

General Gage, an officer of the old French War, and since commander-in- chief of the British forces in America, was appointed governor in his stead. One of his first acts was to make Salem, instead of Boston, the metropolis of Massachusetts, by summoning the General Court to meet there.