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The new see was closely dependent on Canterbury, and till 1148 the archbishop had the appointmentto this bishopric.
An appointment as light-house keeper, with a thousand a year!
Whether Lincoln solicited the appointment himself, or whether it was given him without the asking, I do not know; but certain it is his "administration" gave general satisfaction.
They could only account for the appointment by the fact that he was the son of a duke.
I frankly owned that, while I regarded the appointment as an ill-considered one, I took for granted that Mr. Rawlings was suited for the place.
With animated voice and gesture, he poured forth apologies for his failure to keep theappointment of six or seven weeks ago.
The friends made anappointment to meet near the Madeleine, and Earwaker hastened to escape the sound of Mrs. Jacox's voice.
The appointment was a poor one, and seemed unlikely to be a step to anything better, but his resources would not last more than another half year, and employment of whatever kind came as welcome relief to the tedium of his existence.
After a year of waiting upon Providence, Earwaker had received the offer of a substantial appointment much more to his taste than those he had previously held.
At Staple Inn a pile of letters awaited him, among them a note from Christian Moxey, asking for an appointment as soon as possible after the journalist's return.
She kept an excellent table, and every appointment about the house was in good style--a favourite phrase with her.
And he made you swear to say nothing about your appointment with Sir Charles?
You acknowledge then that you made an appointment with Sir Charles at the very hour and place at which he met his death, but you deny that you kept the appointment.
Mrs. Lyons knew neither of these things, but had been impressed by the death occurring at the time of an uncancelled appointment which was only known to him.
He scribbled theappointment on his shirt-cuff and hurried off in his strange, peering, absent-minded fashion.
So the regiment came in for its honor at last, and General Kautz, when the news of the second appointment reached him, exclaimed, "Well!
A vacancy occurred about this time in the Quartermaster's Department, and the appointment was eagerly sought for by many Lieutenants of the army.
One of Chauliac's fellow-students at Montpellier was John of Gaddesden, the first English Royal Physician by official appointment of whom we have any account.
Important as it was to him to be employed, he must have refused the appointment if Miss Fosbrook had been discontented, or had not had the children so well in hand.
And as she opened her eyes at this holiday amusement, he added, "Papa has got the appointment after all, and means me to have it.
He would not then have believed anyone who had told him that he would really hear of his appointment and be so little glad.
The general went personally to the War Department, and solicited an appointment for him in the Regular Army.
In order to get a vacancy for his sweetheart, he had to await the discharge of some other soldier from the company, whose wife held the appointment of laundress.
Had he only asked for an infantry appointment for the already tired out man, it would have been a far easier life for him, but it had not occurred to the general.
On the following morning, she was too much indisposed to attend her appointment with the abbess, and, before the day concluded, she heard, that sister Agnes was no more.
As the hour of appointment drew near, her impatience increased.
That evening at dress parade theappointment was read, and I felt elated.
The incident alluded to was my appointmentas corporal of my company.
The appointment came to me like a stroke of paralysis.
Mr. Wythan thought an appointment unnecessary which conveyed the sufficient assurance of audience granted.
And has been calling at Livia's door twice a day, inquiring anxiously; begs the first appointment possible.
I must now go forth, having an appointment by which I hope to make money.
And now, if you are going away, do so quickly; I have an appointment with Annette, and must make myself fit to appear before her.
For some unknown reason the Coromandel appointment was withdrawn, and failure in an examination as a hospital-mate left no hope except in literature.
Milner secured for him the promise of an appointment as medical officer to one of the East India Company's factories on the coast of Coromandel.
This proceeding on the part of Bellomont, combined with the appointment to office of prominent Leislerians and the dismissal of some of their opponents, arrayed at once a formidable body of important citizens against him.
Wouter Van Twiller, nephew of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, must have owed his appointment as Director to family influence, since neither his career nor his reputation justified the choice.
The hopes of the colonists rose again with the coming of a new governor; but the appointment of Kieft reflected as little credit as that of Van Twiller upon the sagacity of the West India Company.
Nevertheless Ingoldesby at once announced the appointment of Sloughter and demanded the surrender of the fort.
At the time of his appointment Dongan received instructions from the Duke of York to call a representative Assembly of not more than eighteen members to be chosen by the {148} freeholders of the province.
We heartily wished that we could have made an appointment with the shade of old Pepys, and, returning to the library in the stillness of midnight, have found him ready to show off his collections.
Ten days after his appointment to office, Secretary Hamilton was required by Congress to report a plan for the support of the public credit.
The obvious remedy is to give him only a few officers to vote for and to require the remaining offices to be filled by appointment instead of election.
I've got an appointment in the City, and not much time to spare if I walk it.
He had an appointment in the City, and was rather pressed for time; so he could not stay to take leave of you.
This appointment of a woman of low origin to so high a position in the court gave offence to many of the highborn ladies there, and none could understand the reason for it all.
No husband outside a honeymoon could be expected to perform all these functions: he, therefore, appointed or agreed upon the appointment of somebody else to act as his substitute.
After completing his studies he received a governmentappointment in the provincial capital of Westphalia, Muenster.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appointment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
