Also David, pleading many pressing engagementsin town, came no more to Riverscourt.
He had been too honest to express regret to his bride, that his engagements took him elsewhere on his wedding evening; and too kind, to show relief.
But, does an oath strengthen our obligation to fulfil the engagements contracted?
How can the odd and capricious conduct, which theologians ascribe to God, be reconciled with religion, which supposes a covenant, or mutual engagements between God and men?
But our being thus and thus; men of gifts and parts: placed in such callings; qualified with such endowments: interested in such privileges: these are engagements indeed.
Christians, besides the vows in baptism, have many personal and national engagements unto God by covenant, which are nothing else but the renovations and particular applications of that first vow in baptism.
God hath laid engagements upon Scotland," said Argyle on the scaffold, "we are tied by Covenants to religion and Reformation; and it passeth the power of all the magistrates under heaven to absolve from the oath of God.
Such was that covenant that Jehoiada established, after their engagements for spirituals to God.
This composition was the author's relaxation on evenings and in his summer vacations, from his ordinary engagements in London.
Saving our engagements to Prayer Book and Articles, we might breathe and live and act and speak, in the atmosphere and climate of Henry III.
When I gave up the Editorship, I had various engagements with friends for separate Lives remaining on my hands.
Our resident gunners took up their positions at our only gun, a four-inch, designed I imagine for naval engagements and probably unable to elevate sufficiently to engage an aircraft.
Jackie was very solicitous for her charges and she meticulously recorded the dates and times of their social engagements together with the names of their escorts.
The furniture is much the same as elsewhere, with the addition of one or two models of ships, and some old prints of naval engagements in still older frames.
He used to talk politics to papas, flatter the vanity of mammas, do the amiable to their daughters, make pleasure engagementswith their sons, and romp with the younger branches.
All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the confederation.
The loss of the British in these engagements was trifling.
The treaty of commerce and navigation of 1848 has been terminated by the Mexican Government, and in the absence of conventional engagements the rights of our citizens in Mexico now depend upon the domestic statutes of that Republic.
It is desirable that our cordial relations with Russia should be strengthened by proper engagements assuring to peaceable Americans who visit the Empire the consideration which is due to them as citizens of a friendly state.
How will it be able to avoid a frequent sacrifice of itsengagements to immediate necessity?
To consider all debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, as being no less valid against the United States, under this Constitution, than under the Confederation.
Are there engagements to the performance of which we are held by every tie respectable among men?
They will tell you, that there is not a single instance in which the whites have not violated the engagements that they had made at treaties.
But these engagements are very solemn things with girls like Isaura, and hers was no ordinary obligation of woman-honour.
The last book closed with the success of the Parisian sortie on the 30th of November, to be followed by the terrible engagements no less honourable to French valour, on the 2nd of December.
By the way, I told Fascinating Fergus that I can hear him telephoning his dinner engagementsin the next room.
I have got some engagements for the next day or two where I could not very well show myself with a black eye or a swelled nose; you have given me a good many of both.
Thus Mark Thorndyke's lessons lasted but two or three hours a day, and the school term was a movable period, according to the season of the year and the engagements of the Squire and Mark.
A few days later, the Prince sent for the builder and said: "I find that you are right, and so I have burned my copy of the contract.
They appreciated his devotion, and all the more because they could do nothing for him.
After the housekeeping was once fully in her own hands, there was little more of the irregular, negligent management that had formerly prevailed.
An attempt on the part of the Americans to cut the cables was frustrated by the Spanish, who in this and in other engagements proved that a few, at least, of those who garrisoned the island were efficient.
It came just in time to stop the campaign in Puerto Rico, where some brisk engagements had taken place; but the news arrived too late, alas!
Neither Hal nor Gerald objected, for it was already known that no active engagements would take place till re-enforcements arrived, so that if they went to sea for a day or two, they would lose none of the fun.
Occasionally trifling engagements took place, and the Dons, looking from their forts, seldom failed to spy one or more of the blockading fleet in the offing.
At one point on the Yser where the Germans were beaten back, they left 2,000 dead on the field, but this was only a small percentage of the total losses during this series of engagements in May.
In the northern engagements the Belgians gave a good account of themselves, but were everywhere forced to give way before the innumerable hosts of the Kaiser, though not without inflicting tremendous losses on the invaders.
During the various engagements in which they participated in the last days of April and the first week of May they acquitted themselves with great credit.
German war office announces capture of 100, Russian prisoners in engagements in Mazurian lake region; American steamer Carib sunk by mine in North sea.
This affair was typical of the numerous rearguardengagements fought by both the British and the French forces during their retirement.
In the terrible battle of Ypres in Flanders, following the prolongedengagements along the Yser river, the Allies succeeded in repulsing the desperate German onslaught, and the German offensive was brought to a full stop.
A series of engagements on Russian soil followed, in which the advantage lay as a rule with the Germans.
The Servian losses in this and other engagements were claimed to have been small in comparison with those of the enemy.
When an officer received distinctions in more than three engagements he was awarded the Peninsular Cross instead of the foregoing circular medals.
Here we heard that our commandoes had invaded the enemy's territory in every direction, and news of the preliminary engagements was awaited with breathless interest.
He agreed to cancel the rest of my engagements in a friendly way.
I shall cancel my engagements when I have finished singing here.
Now, from these engagements of honour the Governor-General should, by one universal act (applicable to the three Presidencies) have absolved them.
He, too, wishes to cancel his engagements for the graduating ball, and thinks something ought to be done to those young idiots of yearlings who set off the torpedo.
One is Mr. McKay, whose absence is alleged to be because of confinements he has to serve; the other is Philip Stanley, still in close arrest, and the latter has cancelled his engagementsfor the ball.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "engagements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
