As for the other thing, it is more convenient for many reasons not to have the carving done on the table; but aside from that, I imagine that in the first instance the custom was a matter of economy.
A] It is but justice to the manager in this instance to say, that some degree of disapprobation was manifested: but why are the implements of gaming allowed in a place devoted to the society of both sexes?
In 1795, at the instanceof his chief, Lord Grenville, he vacated his post, and by way of compensation was created a baronet with a sinecure post as Knight-Marshal of the Royal Household.
He was a favourite with the Prince Regent, at whoseinstance he was appointed a Master in Chancery in 1815.
This is the first instance of a confederacy with the North.
But though the feeble piety of Ethelwulph showed this especial instance of regard for his son, he altogether neglected his education, and the young prince in his twelfth year had not yet learned to read or write.
She had sympathized with his attitude when he had in the first instance mentioned his dislike of Nevis; and his willingness to side with the injured against the oppressor had certainly pleased her.
Here is probably the only instance in American history in which a single Indian chief was able to enforce his demands and make a great government back down.
A bill has recently been introduced, at the instance of the Society of American Indians, which is framed to permit Indian tribes to sue in the Court of Claims, without first obtaining the consent of Congress in each case.
It is a remarkable fact that there is not one instance on record of a scout betraying the cause he served, even though used against his own tribe and his own relatives.
It was a sad household because Mrs. Dorriman was missed by all, but as there is generally a bright spot somewhere, so in this instance Grace thought she had found it, and that now she had her opportunity.
It was outwardly a miracle, not a type, an exceptional instance of super natural power, not a significant exhibition of the regular course of things.
Supposing that there were only one instance and form of conscious life, with no possibility of conflicting claims within or without, then good would be to that life simply the fulfillment of the functions of its nature.
Watts exposes with well merited rebuke a gross instance of pious frail in Burnet, who advised preachers to teach the eternity of future punishment whether they believed it or not.
Many the Manichaans, for instance taught that human souls transmigrated not only through the lowest animal bodies but even through all forms of vegetable life.
Every signal instance of his providential intervention in their affairs they called a Day of the Lord, a Coming of Jehovah, a Judgment from heaven.
It deals with a most terrible modern instance of the scriptural warming as to the sins of the father being visited upon his children: an instance where the father himself shares the doom and the agony.
He could afford to give me only £10, but in thisinstance money was a matter of little importance.
In the instance of a poet, this vehicle is language emotioned to the white-heat of rhythm.
In its pages there will be found a free exposition of the myriad aspects of life, in each instance as adequately as possible reflective of the mind and literary temperament of the writer.
In a few textual changes in “Dalua” he has in one notable instance followed your suggestion about the too literary “lamentable elder voices.
I quote his own words: “It was in 1882 also that another friend, to whom Philip Marston had also become much attached—attracted in the first instance by the common bond of unhappiness—died under peculiarly distressing circumstances.
Florentina, who is an angel if ever there was one, was ready to adopt you as a friend and a sister; I never knew an instance of greater kindness and generosity.
Marriages usually took place at the instance of the parents, though often those of the young man were prompted by him.
An instance of this is the following, which occurred to my friend Young Bear Chief, and which he related to me.
There had been disputes; and, in one instance at least, the English and the Americans had made common cause to prevent a cruel pleasantry.
In order to keep my position, a good many things were required of me, and in every instance the thing required was against nature.
In that instance you were eager to flash out a hot rebuke and enjoy it.
I do not believe that it would be easy, or indeed possible, to produce an instance in which the law has been seriously studied in all its branches, except as a qualification for practice in the legal profession.
Poor old dying John of Gaunt volleying second-rate puns at his own name, is a pathetic instance of it.
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except towards the things which were sacred to other people.
One must go back about two thousand years to find an instance to put with this one.
For this instance of malignancy the whole party were arrested, and brought before the Governor.
On one stamp I made out an initial C; upon a second I got as far as CH; beyond which point, the postmark used was in every instance undecipherable.
If I may instance an example, I am acquainted to the last dime with what you made (or rather lost), and I know you have since cashed a considerable draft on London.
Have we any instance on record of the execution of a malefactor in front of the Royal Exchange?
This edition, which is without name of place or printer, and without date, was printed by Palmer for Osborne the bookseller; but, as soon as completed was seized at the instance of Dr.
It is said that it was the forced task of the very conspirators who had compelled the fight, an instance of grim justice!
I will instance a case in point, to show the fatal effects of delay in the matter of discharges of sick men.
Again and again, when crime has attained monstrous and threatening proportions, laws of barbarous severity have been applied for its repression; in not one solitary instance have they been successful.
However unjust your suspicion towards me, it may be understood, as an instance of extreme patriotism.
If the test is useful in the instanceof frivolous matters like verses, should it not be all the more useful when grave matters affecting our lives are concerned?
There was at least one instance early in the conflict of an official communiqué that had been issued by the French military authorities in Paris being bowdlerized before publication on this side of the Channel.
In the first instance I absolutely declined to oblige.
I can only recall one instance of it in my own experience.
I may illustrate by aninstance which has just come under my notice.
As a very clear and wholly typical instance I cite the cocks-combs (Celosia).
Curiously enough, no certain instance of a homosporous Palaeozoic Lycopod has yet been discovered, though well-preserved fructifications are numerous.
As an instance of this striking phenomenon I may mention the neurenteric canal of avine embryos, and the anterior neuropore of Ascidians.
For the cogency of the proof in everyinstance depended upon the absence of explanation.
Tendrils were not the only instance discovered by Darwin of delicacy of touch in plants.
Where is there an instance in this country of a road, once built, having been abandoned or obliterated?
The “Nickel Plate” road, paralleling the Lake Shore from Buffalo to Toledo, is another glaringinstance in point.
Reference has been made quite freely in this screed to the feminine employés of the government at the national capital, but only because this is the most prominent instance and illustration of the capacity of women to work.
This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, "He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.
She looked pale, but was never sick, and I give it as another instance on how small an income life and health may be supported.
Justice to that nation, though lately our enemies and hardly yet our cordial friends, obliges me, on this occasion, not to omit mentioning an instance of Spanish honour, which cannot but be still fresh in the memory of many yet living.
And this is not the only instance of patents taken out of my inventions by others, though not always with the same success; which I never contested, as having no desire of profiting by patents myself, and hating disputes.
Will it be permitted me to adduce, on this occasion, an instance of the like honour in a poor, unenlightened African negro.
The Spanish historians record with applause one famous instance of it.
No earlier instance of Mab as the name of the fairy-queen has been discovered, but S.
A marked instance of this rewriting--the only one of considerable length--is in ii.
I do not know a more wonderful instance of Shakespeare's mastery in playing a distinctly rememberable variation on the same remembered air than in the transporting love-confessions of Romeo and Juliet and Ferdinand and Miranda.
Cheerless, joyless; the one instanceof the word in S.
On the other hand, Coleridge considers it "a strong instance of the fineness of his insight into the nature of the passions.
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