President Jackson appointed him Secretary of the legation at Paris, sending his appointment enclosed in a note to Cora, that she might have the pleasure of presenting it to him with her own hands.
Her beauty was not less appreciated by the artistic eye of the French people, and Mr. James Edward MacFarland, who was secretary of the American legation at the time of her visit to the family of Mr. John Y.
She was able to buy a very nice lot of furniture from a member of the Legation who was leaving the country for a post in Rome, and she got a nice bright chintz from Shanghai to make loose covers with.
By the time we reached Legation street or, as the natives egotistically call it, "The Street of the Foreign Dependencies," night had veiled our haggard features and ragged garments.
It was also rumored that this would take place at dusk, and that under cover of the darkness the legation would be fired by the foe.
The legation was safe, but for the rest it was a melancholy tale which the minister and his suite returned to hear.
Such of these as took alarm first hastened to the legation for protection.
Meanwhile, the Japanese lay imprisoned within their legation buildings, closely besieged by the Koreans.
A shrewd observation in view of the fact that hardly a year passed before there was bloodshed between the adherents of China and Japan in the government, when the Japanese legation was attacked and fought its way to the sea.
Still they pushed steadily forward, though utterly uncertain what they might find at their journey’s end; for they had not been able to hear from the legationsince the attack on the palace, and were in grave fear for its safety.
The position practically amounts to his having complete charge and control of the most important legation from a new country that has visited the U.
Legation here and accepted the position of Foreign Secretary and General Counsellor to the Embassy sent from Korea to the U.
That the legation was yet safe was not due to any neglect or forbearance on the part of the Koreans.
All the confidential dispatches and other private documents belonging to the legation were then burned.
The German Legation was located directly across the street from the British Legation, and the Austrian secret police kept close watch on the persons who entered the German Legation.
When I did call on Von Papen in the German Legation, he greeted me with ‘Now you are in my Legation and I can control the conversation.
PS) The anti-Jewish campaign became furious in Germany following the assassination in Paris of the German Legation Councillor Von Rath.
He was, the Queen believes, long Secretary to the Legationat Paris.
I have therefore recalled Mr. Donelson and directed the archives of the legation at Frankfort to be transferred to the American legation at Berlin.
A copy of the correspondence between the Department of State and the legation of the United States at Constantinople on the subject is also herewith communicated.
It was straightway invested and bombarded by the Boxers, and as the days and weeks went on the other Legation buildings were burned, and the refugees in the British Legationhad to look death at all hours in the face.
One of them, however, the German Minister, Freiherr von Ketteler, ventured from his Legationand was killed in broad daylight on his way to the Chinese Foreign Office.
Only one of the Minister's party escaped, to stagger, hacked and bloody, into the British Legation with the news.
Because--well, the American Legation is a very lonely place.
He edged along the curb, hoping to gain the legation door by a rush.
Never since I came here has it been so charming," said the legation representative, with a smiling bow.
Dearest," she added, with one of her swift swoops of thought, "what was that funny title the British Secretary of Legation had?
X THE FOLLY OF PERK Of the comprehensive superiority of the American Legation over the Gran Hotel Kast there could be no shadow of a doubt.
Sir Willet thinks that your party ought to be ready to move into the American Legation on instant notice, if you can't get away to sea to-morrow.
What's the use, if the legation has no official existence?
That signal released their activities and terminated the battle of the American Legation most ingloriously for the forces of Urgante.
At least the Hochwald Legation wouldn't shed any tears over a demonstration against us," said Carroll.
Not only was this request complied with, but a British frigate was detailed to carry the two men to Shimonoseki, and, pending her departure, the British legation assisted them to lie perdu.
They furnish all the legation and consular dragomans, a class whose corruptibility has passed into a maxim.
Such, then, was the state of events when Norvins received his nomination as secretary of legation at Stuttgart.
Gibbon, in his History of Christianity, pointedly alludes to the author of The Divine Legation of Moses, and satirically styles the omission of the doctrine of immortality from the law of Moses, as "a mysterious dispensation of providence.
Next the British Legation building was visited and a similar hostile demonstration was made.
On the 12th a military fête had been held at the Stadium, at which members of the British Legation were present, including the military attaché and Admiral Palmer, the new chief of the British Naval Mission.
The Peruvian Legation at the same time was publishing letters in the London Press actually denying that such occurrences had taken place.
The ignorance or hypocrisy of the Peruvian Legation in this connection was fully brought forward in Truth.
Mr. O'Hara and Chrysos and Jack Lacy were there, so in spite of your conspicuous absence theLegation maintained its gay reputation and covered itself with immortal blarney.
And as soon as Dick Quarren and I are sufficiently solvent to warrant it, the Legation is going to give a series of brilliant banquets; will you come, Mrs. Leeds?
The May night was hot; a sickly breeze stirred the curtains at the open windows of Westguard's living room where the Legation was entertaining informally.
La veuve Isaac Toldano et 8 autres personnes appartiennent a la famille de Joseph Toldano, Interprete de la Legation d'Italie, famille qui jusqu'a present a joui de la protection hereditaire comme la famille Benchimol, protegee par la France.
If the old Living Buddha be still alive, the name of his successor is kept a deep secret; if the Spirit of Buddha has already gone out from the body of Bogdo Khan, a special legation appears from Tibet with the new Living Buddha.
Then she sent us some of her newspaper articles and a lot of clippings from German journals, requesting us to transmit them in theLegation pouch to America.
It would have been impossible to hold on and keep going but for the devotion and industry of the entire Legation staff, and the splendid aid of the volunteers who came to help us through.
Having found out that he was lodged at a certain hotel I sent him a courteous invitation to call at the Legation on business of importance.
They came to the Legation at The Hague and told simply what they knew.
It came to me from the Imperial German Legation at The Hague.
The reader may have gathered from the tenor of these chapters that the work at the legation was hard and that the situation was trying to a man with strong convictions and the habit of expressing them frankly.
In the automobile of the legation we raced to the Hôtel de Ville.
Not taking any chances, for my own use I reserved a green leather sofa in the legation itself.
It is a pity that to the legation in Brussels no military attaché was accredited.
On a straight tip from the legation the English correspondents were going to motor to Diest.
She applied to Whitlock to aid her to return home; instead, much to her delight, he made her one of the legation staff.
Please come quick, or send some one in thelegation automobile.
But that morning when he left the Hôtel de Ville he hung the American flag over his legation and over that of the British.
Bourrienne had been appointed in 1792 as secretary of the Legation at Stuttgart, and had, probably wisely, disobeyed the orders given him to return, thus escaping the dangers of the Revolution.
The impassive countenances of these bland young Secretaries of Legation seemed to acquiesce far too much as a matter of course in the idea that there was no society except in the old world.
Not only was Lord Skye obliged to turn the Legation into an hotel, but in the full enthusiasm of his loyalty he felt himself called upon to give a ball.
For simple, childlike vanity and self-consciousness nothing equals an Italian Secretary of Legation at twenty-five.
It appeared that, before the Lafayette sailed for Havana, the French legation in Washington was instructed to communicate with the State Department.
Guards about the United States legationin Madrid were trebled.
Have turned the legation over to the British embassy, and leave for Paris this afternoon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
