Captain Owen, at an early hour, went on board the steam-vessel to commence his intended survey of the island, and did me the honour of inviting me to accompany him.
Finding himself somewhat embarrassed in the conversation, he made an apology for leaving the vessel, saying he would go on shore and see what could be done, inviting us at the same time to finish the palaver at his house.
Having spent a short time with the chief, partaking of his palm-wine, and inviting him to return the visit on the following Tuesday, Captain Owen took his leave.
Are you thinking of inviting us all to go for a trip in the Sphinx?
I don't think I remember invitingyou for to-night," he said slowly.
I wasn't thinking ofinviting you all," he returned coolly.
Altogether the Gorge was not aninviting spot with its hot marshy valleys and fat stinging flies.
The resolute spirit that drove them to emigrate across the seas has served to make their township there, though perhaps not particularly inviting to look at, a flourishing one in its quiet pastoral way.
The room did not look a quarter so inviting as the night before, though it was left in precisely a similar state.
It was the last scoundrel who had sent letters in advance of us into the mountains, inviting them to murder us--and this, all for the sake of making a little impression on the government at Mosul.
As we halted the Indians all raised their hands to their foreheads, saluting the distant river, and inviting the Spirit of the locality to be propitious to our undertaking, as to the issue of which there was great uncertainty.
The inviting appearance of the pasture determined us to remain for a couple of days to rest the horses, after the unusually long marches of the preceding days.
From that day forth he gave up all pretensions to Miss Chaworth's love, and, forgiving them both with equal magnanimity, he even continued inviting his rival to Newstead.
The other evinces his ambition by inviting you to prefer him to his benefactor, and proves his ability by the excuses he makes for ingratitude.
But, Squills, that title would not have been inviting nor appropriate, and would have been exposed to comparison with Scarron, who being dead is inimitable.
A little further progress conducts him to the inviting field of special adaptation and mutual relation of things.
The landlord rose lazily from his bench, yawned and approached the table leaving to his wife the charge ofinviting the stranger to partake of their meal.
But what a fool I am, inviting you to supper without considering that this scanty meal is in no way fit for such charming visitors.
Two chairs stood beside each other in the background, inviting to repose, but only one of them was occupied.
The conversation was here interrupted by a young man, who hesitatingly approached the embrasure of the window, with the intention of inviting the lady to dance.
The idea of your inviting that horde here every Monday.
This idea of inviting the boys, socially, I had from her.
For instance, she reminded herself that she had mentally assented promptly to the suggestion ofinviting the doctor to this room to talk this strange scheme over; she had recognized the fitness of the act.
Teddy, the cub, was standing with his back to the hole of a giant tree inviting the dog to a boxing match.
Seeing the dog still watching him, he gave him a vicious kick and came near inviting a repetition of the attack.
What's this I hear about all the Millses a-swarming down from Green River, and about you're inviting them to dinner?
For of course we can't give the tea without inviting old lady Gordon.
And I am sure that I merely express your views, when I say that we could not be so discourteous as to invite old lady Gordon without also inviting her grandson, when he is a guest at her house.
There were excellent reasons why Miss Judy thus begged Miss Sophia to come out instead of inviting the gentlemen to come in, but neither of the sisters then or ever spoke of these, nor of any other merely sordid things.
Miss Judy thought Uncle Watty's offer most kind, so very kind, indeed, that she straightway began to be troubled about inviting him to the tea-party.
The Peguers being much addicted to sodomy, a queen of that country named Canane, ordered the women to wear bells and open garments, by way of inviting the men to abandon that abominable vice.
The rough-skinned giant peaches of the garden of Kalaichumb are of unsurpassed lusciousness and aroma, and mostinviting bloom (tinting of the cheeks).
The king and queen, swayed by the feelings of the people, loudly blamed the conduct of the commander, and addressed an affectionate letter to Columbus, inviting him to present himself at court.
Scarcely were the anchors dropped when four boats came off from the shore, performing evolutions around the fleet, and apparently inviting the sailors to disembark.
Conrad wakened early and an inviting image came to him of that pool, lying still and clear in the dim gray light, untroubled by the miring hoofs of the cattle.
The future opened before him as easy and inviting as the stairs down which he went to breakfast.
With an inviting smile she made room for him beside her.
Waggons and mail-carts passed along before the old gateways; in every village there were taverns inviting the wayfarer to rest, and blacksmiths sought for custom on the road.
B'lindy's lunch was tucked away in the back; ahead stretched miles of smooth inviting highway, winding through pleasant green meadows.
For my own part, I hoped to reward myself in the next quadrille by inviting the seductive Armantine.
She had thrown her door wide open, and she stood at one side, apparently inviting me to go.
Jo, with perfect faith in her own powers and a friendly desire to make up the quarrel, immediately put a note in the office, inviting Laurie to dinner.
Sallie Moffat renewed her friendship, was always running out for a dish of gossip at the little house, or inviting 'that poor dear' to come in and spend the day at the big house.
The commander in chief and his aides soon spread the tablecloth with an inviting array of eatables and drinkables, prettily decorated with green leaves.
And Mr. Brooke laid his book on her lap with an inviting smile.
