No one from the Strangers, however wealthy or highly endowed, was eligible to the highest office, nor could he own the soil.
This Method, much used in Paris, seems a safe and eligible one.
Now if I were an eligible young bachelor, I should sweep all these hideosities away and substitute a row of photographs of fair ladies.
Unfortunately," said the girl lightly, "I am not eligible for such a post.
The cost of membership is so slight that almost any eligible young man can easily afford it.
It seems that in 1901 a constitutional convention was held, at which it was enacted that, in order to be eligible for life to vote, citizens must register during the next two years.
The Americans have contrived in every way to make the common people eligible to the jury, and to render the service as little onerous as possible.
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
It appears to be the most eligibleof the three as a stomachic; and is likewise recommended by some in dropsies.
They are either drilled, broad-cast sown, or put in by the dibble, which is considered not only the most eligible mode but in ge-neral affording the best crops.
The truth was that eligible men were not numerous in Framsby or the neighbourhood; and this was, socially speaking, rather a pity, considering what a number of eligible women there were.
But, in my opinion, different circumstances may at one time render it eligible to pass through the streight, and to keep to the eastward of Staten Land at another.
A little to the eastward of Cape Quod, lies Island Bay, where the Swallow lay some time, but it is by no means an eligible situation.
But supposing it more eligible to go round the cape, than through the Streight of Magellan, it may still be questioned, whether it is better to go through the Streight of Le Maire, or stand to the eastward, and go round to Staten Land.
Boulanger therefore would be eligible for election only in the district in which he was domiciled.
He was quietly re-elected by the joint vote of the two Chambers, not so much because he was popular as because there seemed no one more eligible for the position.
But they were far from being serfs; most of them were eligible for the position of head of a family, if, when a vacancy occurred, the choice of the family fell upon them.
The twins themselves are eligible for the same office.
According to a regulation of 1421 no man was so eligible unless he, his father, or grandfather, had been regular in paying his taxes for thirty years.
The select few, invested thus with discretionary power, nominated a second group to the task of naming citizens eligible for office.
Bernardo had not been eligible because he owed taxes, but Rinaldo cancelled the debt, and made him his tool.
She bade Alice go to Matching Priory, simply because she loved her niece, and therefore wished her to live in the best and most eligible way within her reach.
Another would not have secured an eligible sitting, and been at home in Yarmouth church, till half the period of her sojourn there was over.
They advertised classes for both sexes, under the most eligible professors, for instruction in French, mathematics, and natural science.
The first on the list was a widow, an intimate friend of his first wife and who, on many accounts, appeared a most eligible match.
One of the Censors brought me to-day five names; but in their minds it was plain that they thought your son on the whole the most eligible for the College.
I have now, for nearly twenty years, not given a Studentship to any friend of my own, unless there was no very eligible person in the College.
But I meant if Lovell could beeligible to succeed me in the adjutancy.
