To see these bright, blithe, sweet-speeched women moving about the well-ordered house in busyperformance of their duties was a boundless revelation to him.
Once more under the Flag life would become again what it should be, with proper objects of daily interest and the satisfactory performance of every-day duties.
The growth of private theatricals has been very large of late years, but the one cry has been: “How can we get up a home performance properly, and with as little expense as possible?
In this way only can a creditableperformance be brought about.
The possession of a faculty of vision carries with it the practical performance of seeing.
Man does not acquire consciousness, the faculty of understanding, until he knows something, and his power grows with the performance of this function.
Then breach of such labour contracts became simply a question of recovery of damages, unless both parties agreed that security for performance of the contract shall be given instead of damages.
It was clever, and indicated a mind of a high order, but was too playful; and the performance was severely criticised.
The avowedly Popish cathedral was crowded with worshippers; and, to the shame of Protestantism be it spoken, black and coloured people were there seen intermingled with the whites in the performance of their religious ceremonies!
As to the performancein a literary point of view, the Author will say nothing.
Every time a child is sick it is a reflection on either the intelligence or the performance of the parents.
The greatest contentment in life comes from the performance of good work.
The important operations now carrying on by General Washington depend so materially on the performance of my engagements, that the most fatal consequences may ensue from any breach of them.
Congress will know that the public credit cannot be restored without method, economy, and punctual performance of contracts.
The Ombudsman may be dismissed by the Court of Justice at the request at the request of the European Parliament if he no longer fulfils the conditions required for the performance of this duties or if he is guilty of serious misconduct.
The Governing Council shall adopt the guidelines and take the decisions necessary to ensure the performance of the tasks entrusted to the ESCB under this Treaty and this Statute.
Each Member State undertakes to respect this principle and not to seek to influence the members of the Commission in the performance of their tasks.
In the performanceof these duties, they shall neither seek nor take instructions from any government or from any other body.
A Governor may be relieved from office only if he no longer fulfils the conditions required for the performance of his duties or if he has been guilty of serious misconduct.
In the performance of those duties he shall neither seek nor take instructions form any body.
The members of the Commission shall, in the general interest of the Community, be completely independent in the performance of their duties.
The Ombudsman shall be completely independent in the performance of his duties.
During the performance he projected spirally-twisted playbills in my direction, and indulged in a running commentary on the supernumeraries as they entered.
The singular conflicting conditions of John Brown's body and soul we're at that time beginning to attract the attention of youth, and Melons's performance of that melody was always remarkable.
He joined the army at an early age, and soon attracted notice for his punctual performance of all duties, and his strictness in discipline.
His year of office he spent in Sicily, in theperformance of his duties.
If the governor misconducted himself in the performance of his official duties, the provincials might apply for redress to the Senate, and to influential Romans who were their patrons.
They assisted the Tribunes in the performance of their various duties, and also had special charge of the temple of Ceres.
He thinks, and with some reason, that from such a performance perfection cannot be expected; but he finds another reason for the severity of his censurers, which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished.
If the performance of a writer thus distressed is not perfect, its faults ought, surely, to be imputed to a cause very different from want of genius, and must rather excite pity than provoke censure.
His other historicalperformance is a defence of his relation, sir Richard Greenville, whom lord Clarendon has shown in a form very unamiable.
Nor was the publick much more favourable than his patron; for only seventy-two were sold, though the performance was much commended by some whose judgment in that kind of writing is generally allowed.
Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker's mind.
Hamerik's characterization of his flute-playing may be taken as the key to all his work: "The artist felt in his performance the superiority of the momentary inspiration to all the rules and shifts of mere technical scholarship.
Sometimes a character stands out with sharpness, but more often the tale impresses one as a performance rather than a bit of actual life.
As the performance is continuous, arriving or departing guests do not disturb the ceremony.
The ladies do considerable entertaining, wearing themselves out in the performance of their social duties.
Another definition of impotency in man is the non posse seminare in vase idoneo; three things being considered as indispensable to his due performance of the generative act.
Mr. Wingate was her tutor, and her love of the theatre was put to practical use by the performance of long masques and pastorals in English in which she took part.
The King, the Queen, Prince Charles, and the Elector Palatine, were present, and the performancewas a great success.
Soon after the Restoration, Charles on one occasion gave great umbrage to the English musicians by making them stop theirperformance and bidding the French music play instead.
The promise is great, but the performance shall not be less if this be acceptable to you.
I merely repeated my performanceof slipping through the passage.
We had witnessed the performance during the several preceding days, and it had given us no little glee.
At first I regarded the incident with amusement, but after we had been through the circus-like performance about a dozen times, it became distinctly irksome, especially as I was dog-tired.
Later there was a repetition of theperformance to admit three more Indian students.
The performance of these contracts was in such forwardness on the 1st instant as leaves no doubt of their being completely fulfilled by the first of March.
As soon as he opened his eyes the scene disappeared, but the music continued, for the orchestra played a magnificent march from Aladdin, and did not cease its magic performance for five hours.
They are bound, besides, to pledge themselves to the performance of a certain number of wicked works, which are distributed over the week, so that the first days are devoted to ordinary sins and the last to crimes of special horror.
To judge such it performance as if it professed to be an exhaustive Treatise in casuistry, is to subject it to tests which it was never designed to bear.
This performance had to be repeated many times before the whole rope was landed on the opposite bank.
But the most interesting performance of the whole day, and one in which they all manifested an absorbing interest, was the dinner.
An old ruinous building is said to have been the place where the Lady Mabel was condemned to render penance, by walking hither from Haighhall barefooted and barelegged for the performance of her devotions.
Grim, bitter, sickened with disappointment, yet masked in smiles, part of the committee watched her performance to the end.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "performance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
