He at once proceeded with the people to the office of the Shengcheng, who said, "The Frenchmen are indeed most aggressive and unreasonable.
We maintain that the Foreign Office [Japanese] officials should resolutely refuse to agree to the raising of the Chinese customs tariff.
He kept us waiting a few minutes in a shabby, dingy office, littered with papers and newspaper clippings, the regulation untidy office of a newspaper man.
The decision of the London Foreign Office is awaited with feverish interest, although it is considered doubtful whether any good result can be achieved.
In the ranks of the regiment there are those who have been at the university and public schools; there are also mechanics, miners, farm hands, and men who have known office life.
But then, after all, what is the destiny of the War Office unless to meddle and make muddle?
We take a keen interest in our artillery, although we never cease to deplore the fact that the War Officedid not think it necessary to send to Mafeking anything better than old muzzle-loading seven-pounders of the Crimean period.
The captain flatly denied it, even the War Office pensioner thought it improbable.
It was always quite delightful to watch these two cross swords; the elder invariably took refuge in his age when the sallies of the War Office could not be directly countered.
The shops are open, the post office has resumed its work, and now once more accepts telegrams and letters.
It may be, too, that the gentleman forgot to tell us that Luther himself gave consent to a person high in office to have two wives, but prudently suggested to him that he had better keep it as still as possible.
A man is not necessarily great because he holds office or wears a crown or talks in a pulpit.
Would you have Government clerks and officials appointed to office here given the franchise in the District?
Priests are ordained in a divinely appointed way--they do not get their office from man.
It was at his own law office in New York City that I had my talk with that very notable American, Col.
I am personally acquainted with several men who will agree, in consideration of being elected to the presidency, not to ask for another office during their natural lives.
The conception of the office of Christ's disciples contained in these words is a still bolder one than that expressed by the preceding metaphor, which we considered in the last sermon.
So I make no apology for taking the words before us as having their only real accomplishment in the office and working of Jesus Christ.
When settled in its own land, Israel's office was to teach the nations God; when dispersed among the Gentiles, its office ought to have been the same.
He sweeps through the northern regions, everywhere exercising the twofold office of teaching and healing, and everywhere followed by eager crowds.
Even with thoughts of His lovely human character let us blend thoughts of His Messianic office and of His divine nature.
There was no king among them, but they still possessed a representative of the priesthood, the other great office of divine appointment.
First, just a word about the great conception of a Christian man's office which is set forth in that metaphor, 'Ye are the light of the world.
The office of science is not to lead to Christ by a road discovered by itself, but to lead to the Word of God which guides to Him.
Then only shall we be able to discharge the office laid upon us, to be in the midst of many peoples as 'dew from the Lord.
There is not a hair of difference in that respect between hundreds and thousands of professing Christian men, and the irreligious man that has his office up the same staircase.
He was flattered by Dick's assumption that he was perfectly familiar with the theatre from box office to "gridiron.
We will call up the intelligence officeand see if Mrs. Bingle has been there yet.
Fiddler's office in town with an order to his assistant to send out a second nurse without delay.
I distinctly told you that at the intelligence office when I engaged you.
He refused to see me at first, but evidently thought it best to get the thing out of his system forever, so he changed his mind and told the office boy to let me in.
The day's circuit completed, he comes back to the shack, somewhat tired, but the possessor of an appetite that would make a dyspeptic toiler in a city office still paler with envy.
John did so without question, and soon they reached an office building, which Jimmy entered.
Horsham's place in history is unimportant: but indirectly it played its part in the fourteenth century, by supplying the War Office of that era with bolts for cross bows, excellent for slaying Scots and Frenchmen.
Flying beyond the Seas, he first fixed at Douay, and there commendably performed the office of Catechist, which he discharged to his commendation.
Westham has a vicar whose interest in his office might well be imitated by some of the other vicars of the county.
He stopped and gave her the letter, which he had brought all the way from the post-office at Muletown solely for excuse to see her.
Marguerite met Nick Ellhorn coming out of John Daniel's office with a broad smile curling his mustaches toward his eyes.
She had talked the matter over with her dearest friend, Mrs. Judge Harlin, whom she had sworn to secrecy, and she was on her way to the post-office to mail her invitations when she saw that the threatened storm was breaking.
The Republicans grimly said that they would not give up the office without the official order of the court if they had to kill every Democrat in the town to hold it.
I hope theoffice will bring you better luck than it has me.
Whittaker had spoken to a man in the doorway of an office bearing the sign, "Fillmore Cattle Company," and already several others had gathered around the two and all were listening eagerly.
The Republicans insisted that the Democrats were planning to seize the office by hook or by crook before the trial should begin in order that they might allow him to escape.
In the midst of this the clerk of the court came out of the post-office with the missing order, which had gone astray in the mails and had just come in on the train from El Paso.
In front of this saloon Emerson Mead halted as Tuttle and Ellhorn came out of a lawyer's officebeside it.
His father, Sergius, though a fervent Christian, held high office in the Syrian court.
Their office was to profess friendship and alliance to the new Pope.
The jurisdiction which the king of the Franks exercised in Rome as Patricius was not an overlordship; it was necessary for his office as Protector.
The other question which has been also proposed, whether the office of a teacher and bishop of the Christian community can be united with a secular administration, had been long before answered.
Adrian ordered a prayer for king Charles to be entered in the Roman liturgy, which thenceforward was made for the Roman emperors, who succeeded him in his officeof Protector of the Church.
Through the whole ten years of Paul's pontificate, this king Pipin discharged with fidelity his office of Roman Patricius, that is, the sworn defender of the Holy See.
To him the letter of the emperor was carried, and he discharged the office of confirming this Council, as St. Leo had confirmed that of Chalcedon, and of bringing it to the knowledge of the West.
Constantine, and by his office as "Christian prince and Roman Emperor" the first son and defender of the Church.
Omar ruled with absolute power as chalif of Mohammed, whose right to power of any kind, civil or religious, lay only in his office of prophet.
The works chiefly used in it are before and above all the letters of the Popes in their office of governing the Christian Commonwealth, which are contained in the great collection of Mansi, thirty-one volumes folio.
The Podesta Ambrosio had resigned his office and left the city: he meant to spend the rest of his life at Rome, for the sake of getting beyond the reach of his relations at Venice.
They predicted a great future for him, no small part of which was the ultimate alteration of an office shingle, the name of Rossiter going up in gilt, after that of Dickhut.
He leaped to his feet, dashed headlong to the telegraph office downstairs, and ten minutes later this message was flying to Grover & Dickhut: Get some one else for this job.
The Society is governed by a General who holds office for life.
The officeof a phylarch; government of a class or tribe.
Fishes move through the water chiefly by means of the caudal fin or tail, the principal office of the other fins being to balance or direct the body, though they are also, to a certain extent, employed in producing motion.
A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.
The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate.
During a vacancy in the office of high constable, the earl marshal has jurisdiction in the court of chivalry.
A paper containing the particulars of a writ, lodged in the office out of which the writ is to be issued.
To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.
Having every facility at hand in the office of the Surveyor-General, the error of the river Lynd was rectified, and a map compiled, shewing the route, from which that now presented to the reader has been reduced.
Imagine the surprise of the bewildered Principal, when, next morning bright and early, Mary Price, after a timid knock on the office door, came hesitatingly into the room.
Zu Pfeiffer sprawled in a swing chair before theoffice desk placed at an oblique angle to the wall, encumbered with books and papers.
Behind again marched Mungongo bearing a smouldering brand of the Sacred Fire; then Yabolo, reinstated in office for a reason that any politician will understand.
Solely the kingly office existed as a beneficent agent, a matter of self-preservation on the part of the tribe.
We think the franchise ought to be very considerably enlarged; at the same time we are free to accept office some day, when the House has listened to a few crack speeches from us, and the Administration perceives our merit.
The truth then came across the Major's mind, and he saw for what purpose Lady Rockminster had chosen to assume the office of ambassadress.
Pen was gone to the printing-office to see his proofs.
I can understand the reason, Major," he said, "why the fellow would not come to my office to ascertain the truth of the statements which you made him.
The duke before all those which had or charge Or office high, the letter read, and said: "See how the goodness of the Lord foreshows The secret purpose of our crafty foes.
The charge some deal thee haply honor may, That noble Dudon had while here he lived; But laid on him he would the office shame, Let it suffice, he durst desire the same.
Henry Fragg, 'Thusia's widowed father and agent for the steamers, seeing the committee awaiting David, came from his office and walked toward them.
The meeting that was to end his stay in Riverbank was to be held in Ned Long's office and David went early, not to be accused of cowardice.
Mary Wiggett went home from her father's officedeeply hurt because her father was uncompromisingly against David.
When he reached his office on the levee, he saw the little card "Back in five minutes" stuck in the door, just as he had left it when called to Mary Ann's bedside.
The house was on the other side of the town, and Lucille drove through the main street, stopping at the post office to let David get his mail.
It was so he came to the foot of Ned Long's office stairs and face to face with old Sam Wiggett standing in the dark of the entry.
Old Hinch issued from the post office one afternoon just as the postmaster was pasting the news of a Union victory on the board, and some jubilant reader, dancing and waving his cap, grasped old Hinch and shouted the news in his ear.
Lucille jingled into hisoffice one morning, rustled into a chair and leaned her arms on his desk.
Isn't there, Mr. Van Dusen, some newspaper or printing office in Derlingport that pays more than you pay!
He saw the small mob massed in front of the post office and men running toward it from across the street, and he too ran.
He smiled his way through school, graduated, and went into his father's printing office as a matter of course.
The door to the banker's private office opened, the customer came out, and the door closed again.
Mart Ware was one man, if there were any, who had been thrown out of office through David's part in the campaign.
Varajou, on leaving the train, had some one direct him to the house of his brother-in-law, whom he found in his office arguing with the Breton peasants of the neighborhood.
I arrived at the office at ten to get my advices, and that evening I took the express, which put me down in La Rochelle the next day, the 31st of December.
When he reached the professor’s office he found him sitting with a puzzled expression looking at some manuscript which Tim thought was his.
Hal ought not leave the University without first registering out at the office of the college.
I remember I wrote my name and home address on it and put it in my handkerchief pocket intending to leave it at the post office as a forwarding address for my mail.
He didn’t have to leave his office means, he didn’t have to move to get it.
The diamond studded Championship Medal was stolen from the safe of the University treasurer’s office yesterday between twelve and one o’clock.
Then when they introduced him to Hal, he said: “I’d just like to have been the office boy for about six months around the place where they teach that kind of baseball.
No one but students had called at theoffice during that hour.
He sent Crossley a note like the one he had sent Hal, asking him to come to the office at once, late though it was.
Larry loafed around the office door and they gave him a pass to the free lunch counter.
Priestly office and power are given to Job; his sacrifice and intercession mediate between the friends who traduced him and Eloah who hears His faithful servant's prayer.
The speaker has this justification, that he does not assume office as advocate for God.
The Queen of Hungary had resigned the office of Regent of the Netherlands, as has been seen, on the occasion of the Emperor's abdication.
The Bureau occupied a floor in a dwelling house uptown which had been remodeled into an office building.
In nearly everyoffice in Maiden Lane where gems and valuable jewelry are stored," explained McLear, "this electrical system of ours is installed.
From the front they looked like rows of little square compartments, tier on tier, about the size of ordinary post office boxes.
I shut the door to the office so that Miss Wallace could not see.
Crafts, in charge of the work, whom we found in a little office in front partitioned off by ground glass, was an old man with an alert, vigorous mind on whom the effects of plain living and high thinking showed plainly.
The rest of the office was not even wired, and it seemed to have been Schloss' idea that the few thousands of burglary insurance amply protected him against such loss.
A glass door, around the bend of a partition, opened from the hallway into the office and had apparently been designed with the object of making visible the safe so that anyone passing might see whether an intruder was tampering with it.
These instantly announce the most minute change in the working of the current, and each office has a distinct separate metallic circuit.
Without another word he was gone into the blackness of the noxious stifle which filled the Radium Corporation office since the cracksman had struck the unexpected pocket of rapidly evaporating stuff.
I told him that Baron Kreiger was at five hundred and one East Fifth, probably; to get the secret service office in New York by wire and have them raid the place, then to come and rescue us.
When I dropped into the office the next day as usual, I found that I had another assignment that would take me out on Long Island.
I want to make just one more stop, at the office of the water company, and I think I shall just about have time for it.
A couple of our trusted men from the central office hustle around there anyhow and they don't leave until they are satisfied that everything is right.
She had a key to the office so that it was not necessary to wait for Denison, if indeed we could have found him.
When the mail got in yesterday afternoon, he wrote a card with his instructions to Captain Blastblow on it, and sent it off to the Islander by Nick Boomsby, who happened to be talking to me in the post-office at the time.
You saw me write the card at the post-office last night, Captain Alick: and I sent it off by the young man who was with you.
It is seventy-four miles from St. Charles, which is the nearest post-office to my plantation.
In a few moments I was landed on Market Wharf, and walked up to the post-office to inquire if there were any letters for me.
