It largely was in a private capacity that Judge Priest figured in the various phases relating to the Millsap case, with which now we are about to deal.
You and me are aboutto be accused of pernicious activity.
I have a growing conviction,' I says, 'that we are about to partake of refreshment.
But the kindness of Providence allowed them to enjoy their meals, as you and I are about to do.
I conclude," said Kenelm, evading any direct notice of that playful taunt, "I conclude from your remark that it is in marriage you are about to settle down.
Such, in brief, was the state of Rome at the period we are about to examine.
Had we lived all through the Past, since Time was, our profoundest experience of a thousand ages could not give us a guess of the events that wait the very moment we are aboutto enter!
When, thirty-eight years before the date of the events we are about to witness, a Frenchman, under the name of Clement V.
I am certainly pledged to Russia, but I hope that the negotiations into which we are about to enter will end in peace.
It grieves me to think that we are about to abandon an unhappy nation to the oppression of that woman, who stops at nothing to compass her wicked designs.
You see," said he to Binder, as the door closed upon the servant, "we are about to begin in earnest with the Porte.
We are about to do a wicked deed, and we shall answer for it before Heaven!
At Berlin, and all places where members of the house of Hohenzollern, the descendants of the Burgraves of Nuremberg, are about to die.
I do not want it now, Christian; we are about to charge the enemy.
They may all go to the mischief, for one never knows what they are about!
The question which we are about to discuss in the concluding chapter of this volume is one to which we ought to be able to offer a definite answer.
The volcanic formations of this tract are, however, much more recent than those which occupy the high plateaux of Central and Southern Abyssinia of which we are about to speak.
To recur again to the centennial year, it would seem as though now, as we are about to begin the second century of our national existence, would be a most fitting time for these reforms.
We are about to give order and organization to this peace not only for ourselves but for the other peoples of the world as well, so far as they will suffer us to serve them.
From receipts for the year 1836, in each of the British islands, it appears that the contributions from Antigua and Bermuda, the only two islands which adopted entire emancipation, are about double those from any other two islands.
What weare about to relate will answer these questions.
It is thus that happiness flies just as we are about to seize it.
But if you feel inclined to leave it off for a while, and take a part in an expedition that we are about to set on foot, I can promise to fill your caps with gold dust.
The work on which we are about to make some remarks, is one of those productions which do especial honour to the English aristocracy.
The epoch which we are about to treat of, accomplished that last and great revolution; and popular constitutions, although still ill assured, at last ruled over all Gaul at the commencement of the first age.
That we are in earnest in what we are about; though I wish I could feel the poor fellows we are slaughtering deserved their fate more than I think they do," answered Murray.
Don't let us think of the past, but keep our thoughts fixed on the future world we are about to enter, and think how very unfit we are of ourselves for the glorious place we would wish to go to.
It was therefore an impious act wantonly to destroy a tree, and in some aggravated cases were severely punished, as in the instance of Erisichthon, which we are about to record.
Then Sir Maleagans said to the queen, "Madam, yeare about to betray me, but I shall arrange for Sir Launcelot that he shall not come lightly at you.
The accounts which we are about to give are taken chiefly from the Penny Cyclopedia.
We have a very considerable respect for the writer of the Tour of which we are about to give extracts in the following pages.
And now," said the professor, as they were nearing a bold rocky headland on their starboard bow, "we are about to be introduced to one of the sights par excellence of the Arctic regions.
Advance, therefore, and listen to the commands which we are about to lay upon you!
The best thing we can now do is to make our way back to the ship with all speed, when we can renew the pursuit, unless, as seems only too probable, we are about to have our hands full with the coming storm.
But the passage we are about to quote in proof of this has a worse quality than its discrepancy with fact.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "are about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
