When Cai had folded thedraft of his letter, bestowed it in his breast-pocket, and taken his departure, Mr Benny drew out his watch.
Cai smiled tolerantly, and felt for the rough draft in his pocket.
Seldom did the centaurs drink wine; a draft of it made them wild, and so they stored it away, leaving it in the charge of one of their band.
That chilling draft was from the breathing of the monster.
From its mouth and nostrils came a draftthat covered him with a chilling slime.
Heracles begged Pholus to give him a draft of wine; after he had begged again and again the centaur opened one of his great jars.
As it did Theseus felt around him a chilling draft of air.
Enclosed, I send you a draft for one thousand dollars, which I have raised with great difficulty; I wish, for your sake, that it were ten times the amount.
I have no doubt as to my success," I replied, "if you will present to the empress the petition I shall draft for you.
This draft he was desired to acknowledge, and generally to keep himself in touch with the trustees, and to consult them before taking any step of importance, also as to his future career.
The Raad appointed a commission and on the 8th of September received its report, together with a draft law which had not before seen the light of day.
We read to him,' said that gentleman when reporting to his comrades the result of his visit, 'the draft of our declaration of rights.
Mr. Burgers read me, too, the draft of his protest, and asked me if I saw any objection to it, or thought it too strong.
I read to him the draft of my Proclamation, and he proposed the alteration of two words only, to which I agreed.
Greene, Resolved that the delegates appointed to attend the State Rail Road Convention form themselves into a Rail Road Association and draft articles of said association for the advancement of the Dubuque & Keokuk Rail Road.
I made out a regular bill for the contribution, drew a draft on G.
Either this topic was too pathetic for Thoreau to finish the letter, or perchance he thought it not likely to interest his friend; for he threw aside this draft for three days, and then, with the same beginning, wrote a very different letter.
It is a little draftof an Essay, which occurs, in Mrs. Shelley's handwriting, as an insertion in her Journal for the Italian period.
Sister Helen was written somewhat later than The Blessed Damozel and the first draft of Jenny, and probably belonged to the poet's twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth year.
A first draft of Jenny was struck off when the poet was scarcely more than a boy, and taken up again years afterwards, and almost entirely re-written--the only notable passage of the early poem that now remains being the passage on lust.
New York seethed with unrest as time for the enforcement of the draft drew near.
Indignant that rich men could avoid the draft by buying a substitute, workingmen were easily incited to riot, and the city was soon overrun by mobs bent on destruction.
She also made it clear that although she worked for the amendment long and hard, she did not draft it.
Meanwhile a new convention for the framing of a new Constitution had been called by the regularly constituted authorities, and a new draft submitted to the people.
The General Court possessed, also, the power of originating laws, by recommending a draft of law to the towns, upon whose approval the draft obtained the force of law till the next meeting of the General Assembly.
In 1863, in the city of New York, when the famous draft riots took place, no American dared to display the flag of his country without running the risk of having his house burned and destroyed.
We must bear in mind that we can no longer draft off our social failures to other countries.
The agreement had never been formally completed, and thedraft could not be found.
A second draft for L100 followed quick on it, and early in the next year, still worse news.
The thing was settled accordingly, not without another draft for a hundred and odd pounds to enable the son to leave for Algiers.
You forget, Ralston, that such a wholesale draft will raise suspicion at the bank.
Such a declaration was proposed in the draft of the Constitution of Connecticut, reported to the convention which framed it in 1818; but on objection it was struck out.
Still more often the draft opinion is altered in material points to meet criticisms and avoid dissent.
Going to my Lord's I met with Mr. Shepley, and so he and I to the Sun, and I did give him a morning draft of Muscadine.
To Westminster, and it being very cold upon the water I went all alone to the Sun and drank a draft of mulled white wine, and so to Mr. de Cretz, whither I sent for J.
She was not satisfied till I spelt out the draft of the cable word by word; and then she rather resented my remarks about the incurable sloppiness of the female mind.
When I was climbing with him in Trans-Caucasia, I asked how the young draft was shaping.
She wanted to know what I had wired to the Seraph, and as husbands and wives in posse should have no secrets from each other, I showed her the draft of my cable.
In this case, the sale of a few draft saurians could be quite profitable.
Stretching across the landscape was a thin line of draft saurians, each with its driver straddling its neck.
He swung about in his cushions and looked back at the line of draft beasts.
I may be able to show you some worthwhile goods, as well as a few good draft beasts to carry them.
I believe you said you might need some more draft beasts.
He much preferred to do business with those few who handled their pseudomen as they did their draft beasts--quietly, and with the dignity befitting the true race.
At school he preserved all his composition exercises, and from that time to the close of his life it may well be doubted if he ever wrote a note or document of any kind of which he did not preserve the draft or a copy.
To preparing another draft of the assignment of contract to obviate objections made to executing same $15 " 28.
The draft of a general act which I send contains provisions which ought to be considered as consulted upon.
I should like to have a copy of the draft of such an act as Mr. Stanbery and Mr. Hunter propose.
After much reflection, it seems to me that there are two or three modes of raising the legal question; and I take it for granted that the State authorities, if the draft is pressed, will act only in support of their own judicial process.
DEAR SIR,--We appeal to your generous kindness and well-known liberality in all public concerns to aid us in the effort to avoid the necessity of having the draft enforced in this ward.
In the first section of a draft of a general law which I have hastily made at a suggestion, I have tried to avoid the first of these two objections by limiting the cases to which the law applies.
The fourth letter was an urgent appeal for the lady to come to him without delay, and he would send a draft to pay her expenses.
Only a portion of the money which she had received from the draft was left; but with this she paid for a steerage passage to Melbourne, arrived there safe, and with barely sufficient funds to pay her board for a week.
