She made her debut at the Bouffes du Nord, then played at the Varietes, and in 1890 she received a regular engagement at the Eldorado to sing a couple of songs at the beginning of the performance.
This means keeping strictly as to time by any engagement we make either with ourselves or with others.
If we enter into an engagement with others for a certain time, we should be precise in keeping it.
It was a great surprise and disappointment to me when Janet, the only child of my brother, Duncan Wright, wrote announcing her engagement to the Honourable Stephen Vandeleur.
Instead of that, in six months or so, Janet wrote announcing her engagement to the Honourable Stephen Vandeleur.
But more than that, the friendship with the attractive cousin, Margaret Wilson, developed into something warmer, and an engagement was finally formed, which culminated in his marriage in 1837.
When the engagementwas being formed, Aytoun somewhat demurred to interviewing the father of the lady, and she herself undertook the mission.
To-day, I confided to my mother our mutual engagement ; she has listened to the voice of her only, her beloved son, and is prepared to receive you as a daughter.
I was thus reminded of my engagement with a friend, and was thankful for the admonition.
The engagement thus strangely brought to a crisis, was not entered into without much serious forethought and prayer.
Cartwright commanded the regiment in this severeengagement and was wounded.
A desperate engagement ensued; the Irish commanders gave orders to grapple with the enemy's vessels.
She thought rather of Herbert Penfold, her first love, now ill, if not dying, of the days of their engagement and its rupture, than of the fact that her son was to inherit half the Penfold estates.
They had no shadow of regret for the part they had played in breaking off his engagement with Mary Vernon.
I have often told you about his engagement to the lad's mother, and how the breaking it off has affected his whole life.
The announcement of his engagement came like a thunder-clap upon his sisters, who had agreed that it would be in all respects desirable that Herbert should not marry for some years.
No other engagement ring ever existed half as lovely and splendid as my betrothal ring.
Will you remember that you have anengagement to-night?
Doubtless, too, as long as there was no guest, Elena would prefer to lunch alone in her own quarters, unless she had an engagement to lunch at the Ritz or elsewhere.
Only could I be excused for marrying you if our engagement had been openly announced and you had found it in you to withstand and forgive whatever ill you heard of me.
And the various engagement gifts are all put away.
That is to be my own particular engagement gift to all my friends.
Ruth," said Bettina, "I know now what I will give you for an engagement present since Fred likes tea, too.
I've told Ruth that she might write a magazine article on 'Engagement Presents' using her own for illustrations.
It seems to me that after a long engagement like ours, it is better to have a simple wedding and no parties.
Makes me 'most wish I'd kept my engagement a secret, and announced it with ceremony as Alice is doing.
Wounded and made a prisoner in the course of the engagement of that day, he was taken pinioned to St. Yrieix and locked up in a dark cellar.
There was no battle, mademoiselle, only a lively engagement of outposts.
The ranking officer, William Thomas Sampson, was miles away when the engagement began.
The two vessels were remarkably well-matched, but the engagement was decisive evidence of the superior qualities of northern marksmanship.
The engagement lasted two hours and a half, the Essex finally surrendering when reduced to a helpless wreck.
Swartwout was under engagement to join Burr at Nashville, and he pressed for a letter which he might deliver to his chief.
Keep every engagement with Burr, and join him at the mouth of the Cumberland at the appointed time.
None, sir, but what I have already stated--my attachment and engagement to another person.
Mr Forster immediately stated his wish that an engagement should be formed between his nephew and Julie de Fontanges.
How you could venture to form an engagement without consulting me is quite astonishing!
It appears that this young woman has entered into an engagement on board ship, without consulting her friends.
Just then, in came Lady Scattercash, attended by Mr. Orlando Bugles, the ladies' attractions having caused that distinguished performer to forfeit his engagement at the Surrey Theatre.
These had been augmented by Leather's, the trusty groom's, overnight visit, in fulfilment of his engagement to sup with the servants.
He said that "he would not make a blind attack on Springfield," and "would order the whole army back to Cassville rather than bring on an engagement with an unknown enemy.
It was in the disastrous engagementof Prestonpans, in the year 1745.
The only engagement which that wily tyrant accounted binding upon him was an oath by the Holy Cross of Saint Lo d'Angers, which contained a portion of the True Cross.
But, says Comines, the king replied, he would never again pledge that engagement to mortal man, though he was willing to take any other oath which could be devised.
I had a dinner engagement that day with a friend in the Haymarket, and finding myself a little too early for it, I stood to watch the fountains playing in Trafalgar Square.
We were announced to open in Dunedin in 'Jim the Penman,' and our missing man was to have played the part of Baron Hardfeldt The town was billed, seats were booked; there was no going back from the engagement without disaster.
A Desperate Plot and Engagementof the Bloody Cavaliers!
In the year following, his engagement with Parigi ended, and he became his own master.
Wyverne felt neither wrath nor despair when the news of Helen's engagement came; he had quite made up his mind that she would marry soon; but he was sad and pensive.
Before this news came, he had asked him and Bertie Grenvil to come here for the early part of September; but if you don't wish the engagement to stand, you have only to let him know at once.
The lawyer had heard of Lord Clydesdale's engagement to Miss Vavasour, and thought it just possible that under the circumstances some compromise might be attempted.
It is unnecessary to say that the probable engagement of the cousins formed the prominent subject of discussion that night in the steward's room, though of the circumstances of the fiancailles everybody was profoundly ignorant.
The engagement lasted for months after those wretched anonymous things were written, and I am sure I did all I could to set matters straight.
Will you believe, that no one regretted it, and felt for you more than I did, when I heard your engagement was broken off?
Helen comes out next season, you know; and even if your engagement is announced, nothing will prevent half the 'eligibles' in London going wild about her.
Things were now come to a crisis, and it being useless to delay our engagement with the enemy any longer, I turned to my first lieutenant, and said, "I suppose you are all ready for action?
A day or two before the engagementbetween the Alabama and the Kearsarge, a steam yacht, under British colors, was reported to me, as having anchored in the harbor.
One of your correspondents opens his letter, by expressing a desire, to bring to the notice of the yacht clubs of England, the conduct of the commander of the Deerhound, which followed the engagement of the Alabama and Kearsarge.
He had greatly the speed of me, and could have laid me alongside, at any moment, but, so far from doing so, he was shy of me even after the engagement had ended.
The relation of this engagementis as follows:-- "At eleven A.
I cannot forbear giving to the reader, the names of the ships, that participated in this great naval victory, with their loss in killed and wounded, after an engagement that lasted four mortal hours.
When evening came, mindful of his engagement with Michel, he returned to the tavern of the Point du Jour.
You are free not to keep the engagement which binds you to my sister: free to reject the prayer I make to you on my knees; it will be only another wound and shame inflicted on two poor girls already unjustly treated by the world.
The day of the engagement at Maisdon Petit-Pierre, in accordance with the promise she had given to her friends, made ready to join them and share in the fight itself.
And yet, by ten o'clock that morning, a rather numerous body of insurgents had already fought an engagement with the regular army.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "engagement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
