Is [verb]

"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

She was very angry with Crozier, for it was absurd, that look of deprecating homage, that "Hush-she-is-coming" in his eyes.

This has not been the case; our soldiers have been received as enemies, our military honor is-engaged.

Oh, misery!Is wedlock treason to that purity,Which is the jewel and the soul of wedlock?Elizabeth!

Thus they encamped near the conifer, and called the place Toha-a-muk-is after the spruce they were afraid to touch.

Can't you divide your mail between the two towns, and make them both third or fourth class or whatever-it-is postoffice towns?

Abiogenesis, ab-i-o-jen′es-is, n. the origination of living by not-living matter, spontaneous generation.

This is the one which we long ago named Ki-nuk′-si Is-si-sak′-ta.

Armistice, rm′ist-is, n. a short suspension of hostilities: a truce.

And the dinner—that, too, tells the difference between the "depend-on-the-cook" establishment and the "wife-who-is-the-boss" home.