He was verycivil to Mr. Leslie, but he would not speak a word that could be taken as a proposal for Marian.
It would not be civil of me not to go there," he said to his aunt.
Arkroyd," she took very little notice of Mary; only to Mr. Naylor was she clumsily civil and even rather cringing; it was clear that in him she acknowledged the gentleman.
The gentlemanly stranger paused at the bar to pay for the brandy, and after bidding the landlord a civil good-evening, with the compliments of the season, followed the Sergeant into the village street.
Assyria, however, was aided bycivil war in Elam itself; the country was wasted with fire and sword, and its capital Susa or Shushan levelled with the ground.
A civil administration was then established, the provinces not being attached to either half of the empire, but placed under the control of the joint minister of finance.
In 1838 he opposed the interference in civil matters of the Roman Catholic Church, to which he belonged, and in consequence was, during the last three years of his life, interdicted from lecturing on the philosophy of religion.
Professor ofCivil and Mechanical Engineering at the City and Guilds of London Institute Central Technical College, South Kensington.
The state had even resigned to the Church all authority over some departments of civil life, and restored the authority of the canon law.
Through the latter years of the first civil war, Ayscue seems to have acted as one of the senior officers of the fleet.
The amelu was a patrician, the man of family, whose birth, marriage and death were registered, of ancestral estates and full civil rights.
It often appears in the history of the civil wars, owing to its strong position.
In the old days German ascendancy had been secured by the common army, the civil service and the court.
The military and civil escort were still on parade before the house, waiting for the governor-elect.
We were met at the depot by a great crowd, and by the committee with carriages, and we were escorted to this house by a military and civil procession with a band of music.
Meanwhile, for family peace and good feeling, she would be civil to Rose Stillwater.
It isn't a civil question, but I'll answer it all the same.
And what brought you here, if it is a civil question?
Beginners should deal with things, not theories; hence, the abstract treatment ofcivil government is deferred until the pupil's mind is able to grasp it.
The civil law is the law that prevailed among the ancient Romans.
Why does the government of the civil district concern its people directly and others remotely?
It is certainly strange that every State in the Union maintains a system of public schools for the purpose of training citizens, and that the course of study in so many States omits civil government, the science of citizenship.
As a rule, the township possesses more extensive governmental functions in the Eastern than in the Western States, and in the West it possesses functions much more extensive than those of the civil district in the South.
In New England the county has less power than the town; in the Western States it has more than the township; and in the Southern States it has far more than the civil district, being there the unit of political influence.
But little was heard of him until the breaking out of the late civil war, when he entered the Confederate army as a chaplain, and served in that capacity up to the close of the civil war.
I promised to becivil and cautious; and, to smooth the good woman, I slipped the promised piece into her hand.
Is not the foundation of our municipal law the ancient code of the Roman Empire, devised at a time when it was so much renowned for its civil polity, sir, and wisdom?
This civil war and its remarkable events were remembered by the existing generation without any degree of the bitterness of spirit which seldom fails to attend internal dissension.
Cristal Nixon may say his worst on thee; but thou art a civil gentleman for all him; and a quoit man wi' woman folk loike.
Fairford now thought it civil to say, 'that he had often heard of Mr. Maxwell's wonderful escape, and that nothing could be more agreeable to him than to hear the right version of it.
It is generally understood that members of congress are not "civil officers" within the meaning of this provision.
The nature of this responsibility may be understood when we remember the efforts made by the confederate states to secure recognition of their agents at the courts of London and Paris, during the civil war.
Even the severe shock ofcivil war has been endured, and our system is more strongly intrenched in the confidence of the world than ever before.
It embodies the principle of the Civil Rights Bill, and is intended to guarantee to the negroes the protection implied in citizenship.
This court has original jurisdiction in all civil and criminal cases within the district which do not come within the jurisdiction of the justice courts.
After the joining of issue, and before the court proceeds to the examination of the merits of the case, a jury is impaneled as in a civil action.
This amendment, one of the "first fruits" of the Civil War, put an end to slavery in the United States.
It applies not only to the late Civil War but to all future wars of the same kind.
Upon their importance as related to civil liberty, consult Lieber's Civil Liberty and Self-Government.
What is meant by the military being subordinate to the civil power?
A justice of the peace has jurisdiction within the county in most civil actions when the amount in controversy does not exceed a certain sum, usually one hundred dollars.
The study of Civil Government will have been pursued to little purpose if respect for law be not one of its fruits.
He decided he would make good by being a civil engineer.
He did some work as a civil engineer in the neighborhood of Glasgow, but soon gave up all other employment, and devoted himself entirely to mechanics.
At about this time--perhaps in 1793--Fulton gave up painting as a profession, and became a civil engineer.
Fortunately for the United States, it happened, at that time, that we had in Great Britain both civil and naval representatives of greater intelligence, or of greater boldness and enterprise.
Immediately there began a revolution in bothcivil and naval ship-building, which progressed with great rapidity.
A person who acts in the king's name; and there are various sorts of officers, naval officers, military officers, and civil officers.
But, if after this civil request, you do not act like a man of honour, and deny us our request, you may immediately expect such military treatment as we are with ease able to give you.
Sidenote: The civil behaviour of our men to Spanish ladies we had taken prisoners.
You find it easy to speak comfortably to your inferiors; you are too haughty, too ambitious, too jealous to be civil to those above you.
And civil he tried to be; and his attempts being well received, he grew presently very civil and quite himself again.
It signifies, he intimated, bloodshed and civil conflict.
T' curates can hardly bide to speak a civil word to them they think beneath them; we can hardly bide to tak an uncivil word fro' them that thinks themseln aboon us.
And if I speak the truth, I must assure you that he was justcivil to me last night--that was all.
Originally the Uncovenanted Service consisted of Natives of India, who were employed, without covenant, to do subordinate official work, under the direction of the Covenanted Civil Service.
Are the members of the other Indian Services, Civiland Military, treated in like manner?
Punch 'em with your bayonet a little if they get unruly; that will put life into them, and keep them civil at the same time.
If I live, however, I'm going to see this war settled before I come back to civil life again.
The first of Tishri is a new year for civil years, for years of release, and for jubilees, also for planting of trees(283) and herbs.
Only tell them what you told me--that if you are being tried, it is only for not having committed suicide: that is, for not doing what is considered a crime both bycivil and ecclesiastical law.
The first is to enter the civil or military service, to earn money and increase the abominations amid which we live.
The opinions of examining surgeons during the civil war are quoted which quite unanimously show that the Mulatto is strongly inclined to consumption, scrofula, and vicious taints of blood.
Peter Akers has convinced me that American slavery will go down with the crash of civil war.
In the present civilwar it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to affect His purpose.
Was it an illumination of the Spirit forecasting the Civil War?
His sermon lasted three hours and he showed that a great civil war would put an end to human bondage.
Before the Civil War Jacquess was a mathematician, a Greek and Latin scholar, a college president, and one of the most forcible Methodist preachers of the age.
The President had to go more than half way through the Civil War before the real Lincoln became manifest to observing critics.
He runs around to the side where the Kid is and shuts down the gas and I seen half of Frisco lookin' in the door, figurin' the Japs had got started at last, or else somebody was puttin' on a dress rehearsal of the Civil War.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
