The debating society was a source of great interest and nearly every "talk" turned on some aspect of the possible war.
This was Warren's evening for the debating society, which even then was a great entertainment for the young men.
Warren was going to the house of a friend to supper, as the debating society met there, and it saved him a long walk.
She and Matthias King had been neighbors and played as children, went to church and to singing school together, and on visitors' night at the debating society she was sure to be the visitor.
There seemed to be a spring somewhere near, for the stalls were oozy and wet, and unfit for use, and the fellow was debating in his mind which was the worst or the best one, I could not tell which.
While debating between a joke and an observation on the weather, however, the door opened again, and Jo and Mateel stood before me.
While debating the question I saw that a large, boyish-looking young man was pitching hay near the barn, and, noticing that he had stopped his work and was looking at me, I motioned for him to come out.
For a day or two previous to the conversation of the brothers about Alec's decision, Alec had been debating in his own mind what, after all, that decision had better be.
They were interested, debating loudly among themselves, and when they saw who was coming up the steps, they said to each other and the landlord, "Put it to the Principal.
That the politic casuists of the Coffee Club in Bow Street [had the Rota adjourned thither, or was this some other debating Club?
One was to contain about 300 members, and was to have the power of debating and propounding laws; the other was to be much larger, and was to pass or reject the laws so propounded.
The Harringtonians set up their famous debating club, called The Rota.
At one time they had been joint leaders of Liberalism in the schooldebating society (they had one follower in a house of thirty), but now, to the great joy of the Tories, they turned to Socialism and lashed their former supporter.
He had worked hard in search of votes and had addressed, carefully and capably, nearly every debating society in Oxford.
At five minutes past eight the debating hall of the Union Society was not merely full: it was crammed with an unparalleled audience.
The paradox pleased him and he wondered whether it was the sort of remark he would make to his collegedebating society next October.
I doubt not, read before one or other of his debating societies.
The debating club formed among these young friends at {p.
He was debating why Price had suddenly evinced this desire to be with him, for he felt sure that Vickers disliked him.
The other night he had kissed her for the first time, that is, really kissed her in unequivocal fashion, and she had been debating since whether she should mention the matter to Percy.
The Colonel looked at him as if he were debating whether he should ask his son to stop at a barber shop and sacrifice his pointed beard,--but he refrained.
He was debating a question with himself, one he had thought over a good deal since Wednesday night.
She wasdebating the question, how she could prevent his coming?
Eight days were passed in debating a matter so important to himself and to posterity, and at the end of that time he resolved to call himself Don Quixote.
Literary societies and lecture and debating societies, formed by various railway staffs, are another outcome of the aspirations of railwaymen for wider knowledge and increased efficiency.
She was evidently debating the question in her own mind.
But the evening previous to the marriage day, Lionel appeared strangely troubled; indecisive, anxious, as if he were debating some question with himself.
She listened to him with a somewhat preoccupied manner; in point of fact, she was debating a question with herself.
He debating as a moral question a matter of business routine!
There had been a time when such a menace from a source so near his career would have alarmed him, would have set him to debating conciliation.
Darkness was not far in the offing, and Urb was inwardly debating on ordering the men to the trees for the night, when Tolb, at the rear of the column, voiced a low note that arrested the others in mid-stride.
As they stood debating their next step, a shower of spears, arrows and clubs fell suddenly upon them from above, killing several before Tharn could give the order to withdraw.
Is it proper to use the following expression, which was made in our colored debating society three weeks ago?
I will withhold my opinion till your debating society puts in an evening devoted to the discussion of this question.
I was yet debating this in my mind when, roused by a sound behind me, I turned to find Resolution scowling on me and pistol in hand.
Here he soon became a good workman, developed a passion for politics and especially for political statistics, came to be depended upon for more or less of the editing of the paper, and was a figure in the village debating society.
The Green Ribbon Club served both as a debating society and an intelligence department for the Whig faction.
Fillmore was a fluent young man, once a power in his collegedebating society, and it was for that reason that she had insisted on his coming here tonight.
