He offered me ten thousand dollars for my interest once, but this morning when I went to accept that offer he would only give me this five thousand.
He offered this suggestion with reluctance, for he had no mind to enter transactions of any sort with Silas Trimmer.
The item, wherein the head-line took up more space than the news, wound up with the climax statement that Brightlight stock was being freely offered at around forty, with no takers.
Bobby, aghast at the size of the contract that was offered him.
I shall be glad to serve you with any legal advice that you may need," offered Mr. Barrister, patting his finger-tips gently together.
Let's go back down to the hotel and talk 'turkey,'" offered Shepherd briskly.
Mr. Stone," inquired Bobby, "how does it come that the Brightlight Electric Company was not offered a chance to come into this new consolidation?
Through Monsieur Noire, at rehearsal that afternoon, he declared his intention of closing the season, and offeredthem each two weeks' advance pay and their fare to New York.
His very name became a red rag to every member of Stone's crowd; but up to this point no violence had been offered him.
The best thing that has turned up so far is an interest in the Brightlight Electric Company offered me to-day by Frank L.
I'll give you ten to one the lights will flicker," heoffered to bet.
The opportunity Sharpe offered me is a splendid one.
The power of endurance was tried to its utmost strength, when he was offered a situation in an iron-store, to handle iron, and occasionally perform the duties of a clerk.
But he did not venture to ask for it, and, of course, it was not offered to him.
His master, being well pleased with him for his industry and sobriety, offered him a small interest in his business, shortly after he was free, which soon enabled him to marry, and settle himself in life.
I have offered to stay; so do you go for the wine as quickly as you can, for Edward needs it very much.
Perceiving, however, at once, that to make the money out of any property in her possession was impossible, he changed his manner, and offered to befriend her in any way that lay in his power.
Brief explanations were made, and Mrs. Williams offered a faint apology for her harsh treatment.
It happened that the Bishop of the Diocese came to visit Y--a week before Mr. Carroll intended taking his departure with his motherless children, for his old home, where a church had been offered him in connexion with a school.
She found her kind neighbours ready to give her all the instruction she needed, and they also kindly offered to introduce her to the shops whenever she should determine to take in work.
Evenly felt well satisfied that if Gordon went into business for himself, his own would be ruined, and therefore, finding all efforts to dissuade him from his purpose of no avail, he offered to take him in as a partner.
They offered him three hundred a year and the parsonage.
Alfred eagerly seized the pen that was offered to him, and instantly subscribed the total abstinence pledge.
It was night when the boat arrived, and no chance offered for writing before retiring to bed.
He was constantly grumbling about his expensive family, and could not afford to send his two oldest children to a school just opened in the neighbourhood, although the master offered to take them both for five dollars a quarter.
He must then have a vivid appreciation that Christ out of pure love had died for him, and that on this ground alone God offered him pardon and salvation.
For the emotional and ethical needs of man, he offered "the religion of humanity," with the service of mankind as its worship and woman as its priestess.
Study and thought may help a little, and so such essays as the present are offered for whatever they may afford.
Two prime causes worked to this elevation,--the spiritual estimate of man and the economic conditions which offeredindependence to every one on the condition "work and save.
It left the mysteries of earth's sorrow and sin unexplained; but it offered the assurance, under a most living figure, that the author and final disposer of the whole was one whose nature was love itself.
Now Christianity offered a sort of knowledge as the proper training to produce virtue.
This was offered as a basis for the whole appeal which the church made to the world.
I offered him funds for the trip abroad, but he told me that he was well supplied with money.
When his mother smilingly turned over to him the reward she had offered for the recovery of her necklace, he devoted the whole sum to this charitable work.
Extraordinary rewards were offered for its recovery, and detectives big and small hunted high and low for the gems.
Off to the right of the small bay upon which the house was built, a tangled mass of evergreen shrubs offered a vivid note in the color scheme.
As she went, Ethel offered a silent and most devout prayer of gratitude for her preservation and for the kindness she had received from Doctor Garnet and these strangers, whom just now she was very near to loving.
It's a legally posted reward offered for the discovery of Ethel Marion," Van Dusen explained, "and there is no question as to its being rightfully yours.
At the point where the ship was making the distress signals, the coast offered only a narrow strip of sand, running from the Cape to Ocracoke Inlet--many miles to the northeast.
It is very possible that he might have offered himself to her years ago, had it not been for a conscientious scruple as to his jilted self being unworthy.
There was only a short struggle, for the beach-combers offered no resistance, except at being separated from the precious barrel.
When the opportunity offered he seized on it with pleased promptness.
Ichabod was all a-tremble with happiness and pride, as the spinster coyly offered her cheek to his kiss.
The conscious purposes have been expressed in the tangible ingots, the wages they have offered them in their hot hands, and the profits.
Your mother has very kindly offered to drive me over.
Bryan Marie Corelli Was there ever a galaxy of names representing such authors offered to the public before?
She had not offered him a single caress, such as one so young might have done; she had not even seated herself near him.
Sometimes she said to herself that she would not have minded kissing him now, as Maud and Edith did every morning; but, since the day when she promised to marry him, and then rejected his kiss, he had never offered another.
Now, no more for me," he said, pressing back the little hand that offered the second glass.
Bertram carefully measured his own conduct by that of his host, and seemed rather to receive his offered kindness with gratitude and pleasure than to press for it with solicitation.
I am so well known in the country that I scarce think any outrage will be offered in my presence, and I shall keep at such a cautious distance as not to appear to watch Meg, or interrupt any communication which she may make.
Bertram, in astonishment, receiving a pair of pistols which she offered him, and which, upon examining, he found loaded and locked.
She then offered each a single glass of spirits, which Bertram drank diluted, and his companion plain.
A large glass of claret was offeredto Mannering, who drank it to the health of the reigning prince.
The clerk would have offered some remonstrances to his patron on the danger of remaining alone with such a desperate character, although ironed beyond the possibility of active exertion, but Glossin waved him off impatiently.
The wide-open window offered a view over the garden at the back of the house, and on the lawn he saw a little group of ladies.
And we may also assume that no explanationoffered by you or Jacks will affect the natural course of gossip.
To Olga, of course, he had offered lordly presents, until the day when she firmly refused to take anything more from him.
My husband has been having money from me; perhaps if we offered him more?
Her hand was offered first to Otway, who pressed it without speaking; their eyes met, and to Piers it seemed that she made an appeal for his forbearance, his generosity.
One or two admirable landscapes offered solace to the street-wearied imagination, but upon these Piers Otway did not fix his eye; it was drawn irresistibly to the faces and forms of beautiful women set forth with varied allurement.
Piers, with his indifferent appetite, could do but scanty justice to the dainties offered him, and the sense of luxury added a strangeness to his new relations with Mrs. Hannaford and her daughter.
He offered his services to the overworked couple of doctors and was welcomed.
Such interest was not difficult to excite; there needed only an agreeable woman's face of a type not familiar to him, in circumstances which offered the chance of intimacy.
On receiving it back again, he took his penknife, carefully cut out the great man's signature, and offered it for Irene's acceptance.
Piers offered proof of this attainment, by replying in a few Russian sentences.
No--or rather yes, heoffered them," Piers smiled bitterly.
In this luckie time also, no lesse occasion of victorie wasoffered to the Englishmen in an other part, if they could haue vsed it with such circumspect warinesse as had beene expedient.
Bachofen, on the contrary, grounding his opinion upon more or less reliable information from the old writers, holds that the women offered strong resistance to this social transformation.
Augustus issued the so-called Julian Law,[21] which offered prizes for the birth of children, and imposed penalties for celibacy upon the Roman citizens and patricians.
But once fallen into prostitution, only to very few is the opportunity ever offered to escape.
Such is the consolation offered in bourgeois society to the wife, who, under the present order of society, is miserably going to pieces.
The Reformation offered the Princes the desired pretext to appropriate the rich Church estates, which they swallowed in innumerable acres of land.
Another and at present inexhaustable source of fertilizers is offered by the deposits of potash in the province of Saxony and contiguous regions.
Nothing fit offered itself quickly, and she decided to accept the first job that came along, whatever it was.
A different picture is offeredby the German ocean steamship navigation.
Le Sage, who had been locked up for a brief space in La Force, was, on his release, informed by his sister of the chances offered by the Renaud establishment in the Temple.
The purchaser very civilly offered him the accommodation of his stables for the night and a bed at his house, so that the purchase might be completed next morning.
The facilities offered to medical practitioners for the administration of lethal drugs have often tempted doctors to commit murder when greedy for gain.
It is hardly necessary to quote the numerous instances in which women of all classes have taken advantage of facilities so freely offered to those constantly concerned in domestic affairs.
A last obstacle offered in the person of an officious custom-house officer, but he was quickly satisfied, and the frontier was passed in safety.
Thieving at the bagne was greatly encouraged by the facilities that offered for getting rid of the plunder.
The most favorable opportunity is offered by the intimacy of cell association, and it is seldom that the spy fails to come upon the secret, however carefully concealed.
It was now well known that Gaillard was wanted, and assistance was offered by another inmate of La Force, Avril by name, who declared that if let out for a week he would put Gaillard into the hands of the police.
At another time a watch was stolen from one of the visitors, who was examining the articles which the convicts offered for sale.
And they had offered their magic ever since, year after year--even as they offered it tonight--to a heart that was too old and too broken to care.
Once Avery offered him more brandy, but he refused it impatiently, and she desisted.
Lennox Tudor, she saw, offered his hand, and after the briefest pause, Piers took it.
He himself removed coat, waistcoat, and collar, all of which he handed to the farmer who had offered to assist him in making good his escape.
I do know," Crowther made steadfast reply; but he offered no explanation for his confidence.
He might haveoffered to post them for her, but such a course did not apparently occur to him.
The words were spoken, and with them she offered all she had, freely, generously, with a quick love that was greater possibly than even she realized.
She did not offer her hand, but she did not refuse it when very quietly Avery offered her own.
She offered him the letter with the words, and after the faintest hesitation Tudor took it.
She took the cup he offeredher with a hand that was perfectly steady, though she was conscious of the fact that her face was pale.
Kindly and practical, he offered her the consolation of immediate action; and the crushing sense of loss began gradually to lose its hold upon her.
He offered no explanation of his presence, although quite obviously he was waiting.
Besides, he has offered no explanation, no excuse, no denial.
She was like a prayer offered up in the homeliest beauty of one's mother-tongue.
They have been offered to seventeen publishers," says the hero of that sketch in regard to a pile of his own lucubrations.
He never stirred in the matter himself, but his friends strongly urged that something should be done; and when he accepted the post of consul at Liverpool there was not a word of reasonable criticism to be offered on the matter.
Then Myra was there all the time above where he stood; and in the silence and darkness which surrounded him Stratton sank upon his knees, and buried his face in his hands as he offered up a prayer for the safety of his lost love.
My new companion was to have a sovereign for his pains, so he found no cause to object; and when I offered to help laughingly put me aside.
Then, stopping short by the ebbing sea, he drew out his cigar case and offered it; but it was waved aside.
Two hundred and fifty dollars I can give you easily, and freely and willingly," and advancing to the captain he offered him a number of twenty-dollar gold pieces.
For some little time the two men conversed pleasantly, and then the Frenchman, who so far had avoided all allusion to the treasure, offered to conduct his guest a part of the way back to the native village.
Then, as if ashamed of the formal manner of her greeting, she rose again, and a smile lit up her beautiful face, as she offered her hand to him.
They told me another story of a man in the Royal Scots who was sunk in mud up to his shoulders, and the officer offered a canteen of rum and a sovereign to the first man who could get him out.
The monks kept alive learning of all kinds: they encouraged painting: they were discoverers and inventors in science: they were the chief agriculturists and gardeners: they offered an asylum to the poor and the oppressed.
But, wicked as Caffie may be, I believe that I shall accept the concours that he offered me.
Even that impudent editor offered to turn out of the wretched cupboard of a room at the back of his office where he lives, and sleep on a printing press if we liked to go stay there.
As the victims were left penniless, Dave Hastie, proprietor of the Grand Hotel, offered them gratuitous hospitality for the approaching night, a kindness that was accepted only too gladly.
Why, as his head waiter is off on a spree, Mr. Hastie has offered me the place--three hundred dollars a month and tips!
Even the bank people, while officially they were insulting me, in the name of their wives and sisters offered to put up my party in some sort of fashion till we get settled.
After remaining several hours beneath that hospitable roof, she determined to resume her journey; but first she took one of the gold pieces from her little bag and offered it to the young woman.
Every male villager cordially offered him a jacket to replace his cloak, and urged him to make his house his home for a few days.
The dumb girl, realizing that her stay among them must be long, offered them the purse that the old gentleman had given her just before he went away; but they would take nothing from her.
She knew that the sight of money smooths all obstacles; so she took a coin from her little bag, and offered it with an air of entreaty to one of the ruffians.
To be sure, they offered to take me back a little later, as a substitute, but I felt that I was unworthy of such an honor.
He, enraged by their cowardly conduct in abandoning him, was still holding out against his adversaries, when Frederic espoused his quarrel and offered to act as his second.
Menard, respectfully putting out his hand to take a pinch of snuff from the King of Prussia's snuff-box, which Dubourg offered him.
Dubourg; and he added in an undertone, as he offered the lady his hand: "All the ruins in the world could not prevail against you!
Everybody rose; Dubourg offered his hand to Madame Chambertin, Frossard to Madame Bidault, and the others followed, Monsieur Fondant bringing up the rear.
But here again the benighted Southerner found himself brought up sharply against an unexpected phase of Scottish character, for Mrs Forsyth was distinctly on her high horse at the thought of being offered more than her due.
If I had told her I was going into the Park, she would have offeredstale bread for the ducks!
Here was the opportunity for which she had longed, offered to her without any preliminary effort or contriving on her own part!
