It is chiefly in houses where the trade is inadequate to the support of the establishment that the greatest disorders prevail, as in such cases every lure is held out to invite customers, and to entice them to expend money.
And see you not--I will argue as coldly as you can desire--see you not that you are breaking your own word, and recalling the hope which yourself held outto me?
Your place is held out as a bait to five or six influential men, and you have been enabled to keep it solely by the force of my arguments.
Hortense, with a blush, held out to the young man a pretty Algerine purse containing sixty gold pieces.
While she spoke, I had slipped the pistol into my pocket, and now I held out my hands to her, and drew her near, and gazed into the troubled depths of her eyes.
Sighing, I rose, and took the cudgel he held out to me, wiping the blood from my eyes as I did so.
This trip, which he held out as a possibility in the event of our missing the last steamer out from Rigolet, seemed to appeal to him immensely.
We thought of the lake ahead with its old wigwams, and the promise it held out of an easy trail to Michikamau made us feel sure that the worst part of our journey was ended.
I produced my pipe, and he held out to me a plug of tobacco.
I collected myself as best I could, and, turning to Hubbard, held out my hand.
I held out my hand for the medicine in silence: I was afraid I should fail in respect if I trusted myself to answer him.
It was I who offended," I said; and I held out my hand with a look of appeal that somehow touched her, for she gave me hers at once, and even eagerly.
He held outto me a hand, long, thin, and disagreeably hairy.
He held out a considerable time, but at last yielded himself up for want of water, and divine power immediately intimated its agency in the matter.
And as I spoke I held out to him the letter upon which tears were dripping and one of my hands I clasped trembling at my breast that shook under that stylish cheviot bag of a coat I had that morning put upon me for the first time.
I thought him to be a great statue of Succor as he held out both of his strong hands to the smaller man who had come from a stricken land for his help.
And as I spoke I held out my arms to him and began to hum the music of that remarkable Chin-Chin fox dance that I had been dancing below with Mr. William Raines and which the band had just begun to play again.
Monsieur," said the Lieutenant, Count de Bourdon, with another bow and then a quick recovery as he saw that he must take the hand of Buzz, held out to him in great cordiality.
He held out to me a small tumbler filled with the sparkling volatile liquid he had poured from the flask.
I rose from the organ, closed it gently, and, moved by a sudden impulse, held out both my hands to Heliobas.
It held out, resisted, measured itself with the stars.
She took the letter he held out in exchange for the cup she proffered him, and, returning to her seat, broke the seal with the languid gesture of the reader whose interests are all inclosed in the circle of one cherished presence.
But after a moment he gave up the search, and pulled from his pocket an envelope which he held out to his employer.
He held out an envelope stamped with the words: "Dead Letter Office.
He conducted in person a naval war against the Veneti, the inhabitants of the modern Brittany, and, by means of his lieutenants, conquered the remaining tribes who still held out.
The war in Italy, and Antony's indolence at Alexandria, held out a favorable opportunity for the invasion of the Roman provinces.
The war in Italy was now virtually at an end, for the few towns which still held out had no prospect of offering any effectual opposition, and were reduced soon afterward.
The inconsistency in our principles, with which we are justly charged should be done away, that we may show by our actions the pure beneficence of the doctrine we held out to the world in our Declaration of Independence.
The inconsistency in our principles, with which we are justly charged, should be done away; that we may shew by our actions the pure beneficence of the doctrine we held out to the world in our declaration of independence.
I held out my hand to him, then without a word took my parcels and started on a run for home.
He approached Cyrus, and, grinning, held out an envelope.
I held out to him the page from La Barre's letter.
In spite of his strange, uncouth appearance there was that in his face which won my favor, and I held out my hand.
I held out my hand to him, and he helped me to my feet.
I'll do the right thing by you, Anna;" and I held out my hand.
He stuck at that point a long time; and lest he should think even that sum suspicious, I held out at the five marks to which I had increased my offer during the bargaining.
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