I think it did expire by its own express limitation.
It seemed destined to sleep undisturbed upon the table to the end of the session, and then to expire quietly upon lapse of time.
The first of these periods is the year 1811, when the first national bank had run its career of twenty years, and was permitted by Congress to expire upon its own limitation.
To add to its titles to infamy, the repeal of the State tax which it assumed to make, took the air of a bamboozle, the tax being a temporary imposition, and to expire within a few days upon its own limitation.
Through this sorrow and this joy of thine, obtain for us that, all vices having been taken from us during life, we may expire in exultation with the most holy name of Jesus in our hearts and upon our lips.
I ask it by that heroic sacrifice of thy will and best affection by which thou didst offer up to the eternal Father the last awful moment when the Man-God was to expire for our salvation.
And, though it appears now as though the Evangel were about to be spread abroad, I fear it will suddenly expire and the Last Day come.
The reason is that we now see the last effort of the Evangel; this resembles a light; when a light is about to expire it sends up at the last a sudden flame as though it were going to burn for quite a long while and thereupon goes out.
The Constitution provides only for vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, and empowers the President to fill all such by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of its next session.
The first bill had no definite time limit; the second would expire in two years from the date of its passage.
He simply allowed the session to expire without signing it.
I recommend that the Congress extend the Small Business Act of 1953 which is due to expire next June.
I strongly recommend extension of the Reorganization Act and the law establishing the Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, both of which expire this spring.
This price-support legislation will expire at the end of 1954.
The company must pay dividends on an inflated capital; its licence would expire in 1911, and the Government was hardly likely to pay the company at that date for goodwill.
Licences were also granted to establish telephone exchanges in the provincial towns within a radius of one or two miles, all the licences to expire in 1911.
All banks, except national banks, are subject to examination by a public official, and their charters expire within twenty years of their issue.
Some vice- admiralty courts which were created for prize purposes in the last century were suffered to expire after 1815.
The terms of all city officers, not so elected, shall expire as provided in the charters of the several cities, or as may be provided by law.
The term of the office of Adjutant-General shall expire March the first, nineteen hundred and six.
But I am so glad to see you, even if I am not going to expire about it.
Don't tell me she is near here, for I should expire with joy; simply expire!
Meanwhile his aunt had spread herself comfortably out in his only arm-chair, and was untying her bonnet-strings, while she beamed at him until he was ready to expire with embarrassment.
By the terms of the original national banking act, banks organized under it continued for but twenty years, which would expire within two years.
His audience felt the point well made when he declared the President allowed the internal improvement bill to expire by a pocket veto because it contained a $5,000 provision for the Hennepin Canal.
You, Monsieur de Condorcet, will expire stretched on the floor of a dungeon; you will die of the poison you take to escape the executioner, of the poison which the felicity of that era will compel you always to carry about your person!
The term of the legislature would expire in the following June; and the Tilley government had decided to dissolve and present the Quebec resolutions to a newly elected legislature, a blunder in tactics due, it may be, to over-confidence.
Place the left foot upon the right thigh, and the right foot upon the left thigh; straighten the neck and back; make the palms of the hands rest upon the knees; shut the mouth; and expire forcibly through both nostrils.
Next, inspire and expire quickly until you are fatigued.
Then expire through the left nostril, and next, inspiring through the left nostril, suspend the breath.
When threatened that he should expire in torments, he said: "I do not fear to die, because my country will avenge my murder, while my God receives my soul.
Let all suspected traitors expire by the sword or by fire; continue to march upon that revolutionary line so well delineated by you.
At these words the prince was ready to expire through grief, affliction, and fear.
When thou, O Bhishma, wilt leave this world for that, all Knowledge, O hero, will expire with thee.
The right of redemption doesn't expire for another week.
Could I soar with the phoenix on pinions of flame, With him I would wish to expire in the blaze.
Bids me live but to hope for posterity's praise; Could I soar with the phoenix on pinions of flame, With him I could wish to expire in the blaze.
