Do I understand thee, nephew, to refuse service to His Majesty, and to prefer thy stinking parchments and musty folios to the sword and pistol?
If you want to understand the ups and downs of life, there's nothing like the parchments of an estate.
Though piles ofparchments and papers cover the numerous tables, and in many parts intrude upon the Turkey carpet, an air of order, of comfort, and of taste, pervades the chamber.
The old parchments had been locked up and probably had never been looked at since.
At our meal my uncle asked me what I had seen that day and I replied--naught but figures and crabbed writing--and handed him the parchments which he compared item by item.
In due course the parchments were signed and delivered, and the money in good gold was paid over on my behalf, after which the great household at Westminster became more prodigal than before.
After a while, when Cecil had sufficiently admired the stones, she put them back into the casket and took it and the parchments away.
The parchments were covered with strange characters, in a language entirely unknown to him.
That some old parchments had been seen by him in his mother's house is nearly certain; nor is it at all improbable that they might have been discovered in a neglected coffer in the church, according to the account he gave of them.
They are flapping on the furze-bushes of Hankley, for I sent his papers and parchmentsdown wind as fast as ever falcon flew.
This is the linguist that will find 'tongues in trees,' and crowd out from the halls of learning the lore of ancient parchments with their verdant classics, their 'truth in beauty dyed.
No need," said De Aquila, and he laid his hand on theparchments which Gilbert had written.
I have it somewhere in my pouch amid the bills of exchange," and he began to hunt through the parchmentswhich he carried in a bag within his robe.
When the parchments are engrossed my officer here will read them to you and explain aught that may need it.
I cannot, Dick; the parchmentsare not written out, and his Grace is bent upon this pleasure match.
Once possessed of this wonderful art of reading that Aimery had while yet a lad, he could delve into the wonderful parchments of romances which told him of the brave deeds done of old.
Nevertheless, the abbey contains many parchmentswidening to one's knowledge of the world.
There are a couple of tents where notaries are ready with wax and parchments to draw up and seal contracts and bargains.
It is true that many seigneurs cannot read a word on the parchmentswhich their scriveners interpret, draw up, or seal for them,[56] but this is really very inconvenient.
I hereby again enclose you my parchments of ordination.
Parchments are venerable: but they ought at all times to represent, as near as they by possibility can, the writing of the Adamant Tablets; otherwise they are not so venerable!
The Working Aristocracy steeped in ignoble Mammonism: The Idle Aristocracy, with its yellow parchments and pretentious futilities.
The box contained another tin-lined case, in which the parchments had lain securely, and though damaged in appearance, they were as legible as the day on which they were first written.
That evening Mr. Olsheffsky started for Moscow, carrying the parchments with him.
He returned to his seat, and again sitting down with his chin on the top of his umbrella, surveyed the parchments that lay upon the ground.
There was, however, one such box open, on the middle of the floor, and sundry of the parchments which had been taken from it were lying around it.
It was selected of necessity, because the old man guarded his parchments with tender solicitude, and would by no means allow them to go out of his dwelling, except when carried forth by his own hand.
He tore open his breast and brought out quickly a couple of dirty yellow parchments and some slips of paper, roughly bound in a little leather folio.
The "three of Gruyère" whose acts are recorded in the dry and unpoetic parchments of the time, were united in a paternal and pacific rule under which people and country reached a legendary height of arcadian prosperity.
Walpole, entertaining suspicions, submitted the parchments to Gray, who unhesitatingly pronounced them forgeries.
The parchments were of no especial value, and they remained undisturbed, till Chatterton's father used some of them as covers for schoolbooks.
Then,' said the Ambassador, 'you may hold it as certain that those parchments give you some advantage which he hears, since he is willing to purchase it at so heavy a price.
Meantime Berenger had received a greater shock than she or her father understood in the looking over of some of the family parchments kept in store at the castle.
You may remember, sir, the parchments with our contract of marriage had been taken away from Chateau Leurre, and I have never seen them.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchmentsor musty records.
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