Notices and invitations were sent out in all directions.
The race was confined to amateurs, and those only were permitted to compete who had received invitations from the Secretary of the Ladies’ Committee.
Old Tom had been duly despatched with the important missives, and the invitations were frankly accepted.
Would not that be for him a life far more satisfactory than his present distractions--the gayeties and amusements--the invitations of strangers?
It is not known how many of these invitations were issued; Schindler's account goes only to the subscriptions received and even here it is not entirely accurate.
The date of this note is fixed by the circumstance that it is the one in which Beethoven asks Schindler to draw up a list of courts to which the invitations to subscribe to the Mass were to be sent.
The chief obstacle to Beethoven's acceptance of his brother's repeated invitations to visit him at Gneixendorf came from the presence there of the brother's wife.
Beethoven appears to have doubts or scruples on the score of the invitations sent to the sovereigns.
One of his first invitations was sent to Reynolds, but the painter did not see his way to join.
Invitations to dinner must of course be answered to the lady.
When the invitationswere written, Rose sat staring at them a little, pen in hand.
In acknowledgment of the honor done him, Will issued invitations for another of his unique American entertainments.
Depew, Murat Halstead, and other prominent Americans were in London at the time, and in their honor Will issued invitations to a rib-roast breakfast prepared in Indian style.
We issued invitations for a general reception, and the response was of the genuine Western kind--eighteen hundred guests assembling in the new Duluth Press Building to bid welcome and do honor to the world-famed Buffalo Bill.
Invitations crowded upon her,--often she grew tired and bewildered in the multiplicity of them all.
On the occasion which I will attempt to describe invitations were issued for 10 a.
A little feast is made for the child, to which its companions are invited, but the invitations seldom extend beyond a number that may be seated at table.
The invitations to luncheon are similar to those of a tea or reception, but the affair itself is even less formal.
Engraved invitations follow this formality, and they are issued about ten days previous to the event.
For a party or reception given in honor of another, the invitations should be engraved with a blank space left for the name of the invited guest; or, the form may be filled out, and the name of the guest appear on the envelope only.
If they are sent by mail, an extra outer envelope incloses all the invitations that are directed to one family.
With the invitations is sent a request for each guest to bring a penny, not for an admission fee, but for use.
Wedding invitations according to present custom are consigned to the post from two to three weeks preceding the date of the event.
The invitations for this should have a pen and ink sketch of a pipe and bubble.
It rather relieved her when invitations began to dwindle in number; she was thus saved the trouble of declining them.
She was punctiliously careful to invite Effie May to her house at frequent intervals, and always accepted such invitations as the other offered in return.
O may our hearts be so inclined to receive the invitations of his gospel!
The invitations of the gospel will be, to those who refuse them, the hottest coals in hell.
Consider the danger of slighting the words of the prophets or apostles, whether they be correction, reproof, admonition, forewarning, or the blessed invitations and promises contained in them.
Many of the incidents will bring, to the enlightened reader's recollection, the solemn and powerful impressions under which he struggled, when opposing the invitations of Emmanuel.
When a sinner begins to fly from destruction, carnal relations will strive to prevent him; but the sinner who is in earnest for salvation will be deaf to invitations to go back.
This was a love-letter, full of the love of Jesus, and the precious invitations of His loving heart to sinners to come unto Him as recorded in his blessed Word.
In the same way the pilgrims refused the invitations of Demas with his silver mine.
Christ, therefore, often insinuated the truth of a hell in his invitations to the sinners of this world to come to him; as where he tells them they shall be saved if they do, they shall be damned if they do not.
This largeness of the heart and mercy of God towards his people, is also signified by the spreading out of his hand to us in the invitations of the gospel.
Invitations are sometimes sent out a month or three weeks in advance, but ordinarily two weeks is sufficient time to secure the guests one wishes to entertain.
Verbal invitations or replies should never be given for formal entertainments.
I should give the invitations out on Monday," Josie said.
There were calls to make and invitations to tea, and a Christmas Eve party at one of her schoolmate's.
The cow was killed, and the partridges flew about with invitations to the jackals, who gathered in large numbers to the feast.
And in order that no time should be lost it was further agreed that each wolf should bear the invitations to the guests that lived nearest to him.
Then came invitations to a party and ball at Casa Gibilaro, the sons of the house, Cesare and Salvatore, coming to escort us up the steep street.
For in Green Valley Thanksgiving invitations begin to be exchanged and sent out to distant parts as early as July.
Invitations as usual had poured in on him but he had chosen to spend the day with Grandma Wentworth.
At every reception at the two Spanish embassies, "the famous painter Renovales and his charming wife" were present and these invitations had spread to the embassies of other countries.
Cotoner was away; the servant had gone to the countess's to take her some invitations which she had asked for, at the last minute, for some friends.
Their pity made them remember them, too, when they sent out invitations to birthday dinners, afternoon teas, and the like.
When the round of invitations was interrupted by illness or absence, and Cotoner lacked a place to dine, he stayed at Renovales' house without waiting for an invitation.
Those who had been favored by the Government with invitations to the State funeral began to assemble early at the Museum, where the body lay in state in the room that is now being used by the Commons.
Many were the invitations he received to be the honoured guest at more pretentious residences at the seaside and in the mountains, but these were nearly always rejected in favor of Arthabaskaville.
Hartzmann, the invitations are five dollars each, and you are to take one.
He wrote to me and invited me heartily, as did also Lady Murray, an influential lady of high rank there, who takes an extraordinary interest in music, not to mention the many invitations I have received from various parts of England.
Invitations I have in plenty, and cannot even go where I should like, for instance, to the Duchess of Argyll and Lady Belhaven, as the season is already too far advanced and too dangerous for my enfeebled health.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "invitations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
